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WCC General Secretary's Visit to China
Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, was on a week visit to China. The main purpose of the visit in the enlargement of religious rights and freedom, especially for the Christian community. The visit comes only a few days after US State Department listed China among the countries violating religious freedom. Samuel Kobia offered WCC's assistance in reaching for a dialogue between different faiths present in China (...)

The Nativity Story: A Small Controversy
The film scheduled to have its premiere in Vatican (the first film to be granted this honor), has a certain feature that made Pope Benedict XVI to decide not to participate to the premiere. The reason is that Keisha Castle Hughes (16 years old), the actress playing Mary, is pregnant without being married (...)

Anglican-Catholic High-Level Meeting
Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams have met in Rome celebrating 40 years of close relations, after Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Arthur Michael Ramsey have collaborated for the first time in a concrete manner. Today's two heads of the two major Christian communities have drawn conclusions about their future collaboration on issues like poverty,
Middle-East peace and environment. They also concluded they are divided by historical issues, like gay and female ordination (...)

Relics Sold on the Internet
Ebay, one of the greatest auction sites on the Internet received complaints from Christian groups. These were caused by some cases of illegal human remains sells, banned by the site's managers, but avoided by the smugglers. The interest for these articles had grown up after "The Da Vinci Code" and other Christian controversies had happened (...)

"Turkishness" Insulted by Two Turks
In Turkey, just days before the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, two Christian converts are to be trialed because they formulated insults to "turkishness". Authorities say they have spoken against Islam and its bad influence on the Turkish social, political and cultural environment. They answered they cannot be anti-Turkish, as long as they are citizens of this country. They face 9 years of imprisonment if found guilty (...)

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