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Trouble brews as Bangladesh is hit by tea workers' strike
Workers are thought to receive world's lowest wages
Church has no room for power struggles, says pope
Pontiff warns against them but admits they have existed since Church began
Anti-gay campaigner shoots himself in cathedral
Suicide at the altar shocks Notre Dame sightseers
What is the Charismatic Renewal and what does the pope think of it?
The movement is less controversial than it may at first appearAnger at Beijing's grip on bishop elections
New regulations grant state-backed BCCCC final say on new bishops
Vatican rejects claim that pope performed an exorcism
Fr Lombardi says he was simply praying for a sufferer
Comfort women to meet Osaka mayor face to face
Two go to Japan after mayor's comment that WWII comfort women were a 'necessity'
A subcontinent of intolerance
Minority faiths are being throttled all over South Asia
Church
Vatican rejects claim that pope performed an exorcism
Fr Lombardi says he was simply praying for a sufferer
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Anti-gay campaigner shoots himself in cathedral
Suicide at the altar shocks Notre Dame sightseers
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What is the Charismatic Renewal and what does the pope think of it?
The movement is less controversial than it may at first appear
- Business is booming for 'nontheist' ministers
- Pope laments a world where homelessness and hunger is not news
- Theologian says persecution of early Christians is a myth
asia/world
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Filipino workers swamp Saudi Arabia consulates
Consul punched as Jeddah consulate stormed
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Comfort women to meet Osaka mayor face to face
Two go to Japan after mayor's comment that WWII comfort women were a 'necessity'
- Indonesia to summon disaster mine directors
- Obama says Myanmar will free more political prisoners
- Elderly people injured in pylon protest
- Suicide bid thwarted from thousands of miles away
features
The rise and spectacular fall of an Indian guru
A dream to build a vast spiritual commune ended in a blizzard of charges including attempted murder
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Balancing the cause of Matteo Ricci with Church-China relations
The strained relationship could cause years of delay
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Would this poster get young people into your church?
Or should the Catholic Church steer clear of trying to be trendy?
- Making miso with disaster refugees
- Horrific figures emerge on sexual assaults in US military
- When evangelizing turns agonizing
- It's the laptop of the future - and it's flexible
- For many Myanmar Muslims, it's time to flee
opinion
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A subcontinent of intolerance
Minority faiths are being throttled all over South Asia
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Philippine politics needs to break free of dynasties
Running in the family has an added meaning here
- Triumphalism is no way to remember civil war
- Could social media make you a better person?
- The Dalai Lama must stop sitting on the fence
- How did Ireland go from staunchly to not particularly Catholic?
- Reforming the Vatican is like nailing jelly to a wall
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- Polling day
- See our new gallery from the Philippines
- A priest who drinks
- What can parishioners do to help him beat the habit?
- The cult of money
- Pope Francis fires yet another broadside at it
- Supernatural
- Cardinal describes how the conclave was guided by the Holy Spirit
- Mostly a myth?
- Theologian has some surprising things to say about early Christian persecution
