Catholic tombs vandalized again in France
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LIMOGES, France -- In the second cemetery attack in a single weekend, vandals smashed vases and tipped over crosses on Roman Catholic tombs in central France, an act the prime minister condemned Sunday as &quot;scandalous.
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The number of anti-Semitic attacks in France has more than doubled over the past year, with most committed for vague reasons rather than ideology, France's interior minister said in an interview published Friday.
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France's Catholic Church posts a huge deficit after a weekend visit by the Pope to the southern shrine of Lourdes.
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A Muslim preacher who defended wife-beating is deported from France for a second time.
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Dutch Muslims and Christians called for an end to a cycle of retaliatory vandalism of mosques and churches on Tuesday, while slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh was cremated a week after his murder by a suspected ...
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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli archeologist said the site of a dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation yesterday.
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A memorial to victims of an IRA bomb attack in County Down has been vandalised, just two days after it was officially unveiled.
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A visitor to the cemetery in the town of Audincourt, south of Strasbourg, on Sunday found the graves defaced with the symbols from the German Nazi era.
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Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to have brought them a giant step closer to reunification.
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Pope John Paul II returned the bones of two of the most revered saints in the Orthodox Church on Saturday, one in a series of gestures aimed at healing a millennium of
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JARNAC, France  - On Francois Mitterrand's grave, one wreath stands out among those marking last month's anniversary of his death. Bigger than all others, it is made up of dozens of roses and a label saying simply "Segolene Royal".
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The inclusion of prayers calling for conversions has led to sharp criticism of the Vatican.
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THE incoming president of the European commission is facing the wrath of the European parliament for the second time in a row over a criminal conviction of Jacques Barrot, his French commissioner.
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Saudi authorities have warned foreign embassies that a group blamed for last month's killing of four French nationals could strike again, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Both the virtual and physical memorial endure periodic defacement attacks.
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CONVICTED French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur medal for services to France, causing fresh controversy after his death.Comment
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