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Marzo 2003por Thomas Basil

Thomas Basil es un convertido al catolicismo desde 1996. Su trabajo lo lleva frecuentemente a Europa. Para ayudar a los católicos rusos, escriba a Aid to the Church in Russia, P.O. Box 1077, Great Falls VA 22066 o visite aidrussia.org. La documentación sobre los mártires católicos rusos es una cortesía de catholicmartyrs.ru.

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Maryland
Workers at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds and later discovered the bags of money had only been left there for safekeeping under the Virgin's watchful eye.

Hong Kong
A Hong Kong student nicknamed the Chinese Warren Buffet has been accused of blackmailing a Catholic priest with intimate images, threatening to extort $800,000.

Maryland
Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, reporting initial findings in their look into causes of the Catholic church's 2002 sexual-abuse scandal, say they can't attribute it to gay priests.

California
Police arrested a 22-year-old Muslim man after he yelled, "Allah is power" and tore a crucifix from a customers's neck and scared others at a Bay area shopping center.

Washington DC
A Catholic coalition, citing several controversial grants to groups which opposed Church teaching, has called for reform of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Tanzania
A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder, and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said prosecution failed to prove its case.

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