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Pope Emeritus Benedict to move back to Vatican on Thursday
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will move back to the Vatican on Thursday to live out his retirement in a restored convent close to where his successor now leads the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said. Benedict has been living at the papal summer residence south of Rome since February 28 when he became the first pope in modern times to abdicate. He stayed there while work was being done on the convent inside the Vatican where he is expected to live out the rest of his days. #United States #China #Business #Japan #Technology #NewsTracker #United Kingdom #Entertainment #Church #lifestyle
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Pope Francis now has huge following of 6 mn on Twitter
The Spanish version is reported to be the fastest-growing of the account's nine languages, with 2.046 million followers. #NewsTracker #Vatican Church #Pope Francis
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Indian among eight cardinals to advise Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in his first major decision, on Saturday set up an advisory board of cardinals from around the world to help him govern the Catholic Church and reform its troubled central administration. #United States #Japan #Brazil #Arabic #NewsTracker #Italy #Argentina #Latin America #Church #lifestyle
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Have Bandra's xenophobes forgotten their own history?
Cultural mixing, despite its Catholic image, has always been characteristic of Bandra. Now some Catholics in the queen of Mumbai's suburbs are beginning to resent that very fact. #InThisCorner #Bandra #Castella de Aguada #St. Andrew's Church #catholics
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Guardian UnlimitedChurch of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers
The church's ruling general assembly voted to allow congregations to admit gay ministers but only if they specifically elect to do so, in a radical departure from more than 450 years of orthodoxy set in train by the protestant reformer John Knox. The vot #Scotland #Church of England #Glasgow
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Bromsgrove AdvertiserSecond oldest Bromsgrove church to close to the public next month
The United Reformed Church, Bromsgrove's second oldest church, is closing to the public on June 9. Ref:s THE second oldest church in Bromsgrove will be closing its doors next month. The United Reformed Church, which has been serving the community for jus #John Davies
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Worcester NewsFuture of Ronkswood church discussed
THE cost of demolishing an iconic church at the heart of Ronkswood could be up to £40,000, a public meeting was told. Reverend Fran Binding told the meeting at Perrywood Primary School that it would be a long journey before a permanent solution was found #