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Italy
The Catholic Church has objected to an upcoming nudist beach festival in Sicily - billed as a 'celebration of nudity' - over fears of an invasion of naked sunbathers.

Brazil
Human rights advocates and the Brazilian government sharply criticized the acquittal of a man accused of being behind the murder of an American Roman Catholic nun in the Brazilian Amazon forest.

Missouri
Pope Benedict XVI named St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke to two Vatican offices, increasing Burke's already prominent stature in Rome.

Armenia
Armenia's Orthodox leader used a Vatican pulpit to condemn the 1915 killing of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks, saying the whole world should recognize it as a genocide.

Vatican City
Pope Benedict has urged international donors to provide generous and effective aid to help Myanmar deal with the death and destruction caused by a cyclone.

Philippines
Manila's Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales has frowned on the participation of cross-dressing gay men in the "Santacruzan" flower festival held across the Philippines every May in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Poland
The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II is applying for Polish citizenship because he wants to live in the country of the late pontiff, whom he called his "spiritual brother."

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