Pope urges racial reconciliation in Australia
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Australians to do more towards racial reconciliation between settlers and the country's Aborigines, many of whom live impoverished and marginalised lives.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the gesture will remove a "blight on the nation's soul."
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In his Christmas message, the Anglican Bishop of Canberra has urged Australians to act to relieve poverty and injustice at home and abroad.
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A Vatican preacher said on Friday in the presence of Pope Benedict that the Catholic Church should hold a worldwide day of fasting and penitence to ask forgiveness for its priestly sexual abuse scandals.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australiaâs tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs.
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Israel's prime minister asked Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday to urge Christians to protest Holocaust denials, Israeli government officials said.
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POPE John Paul today issued a new appeal for peace in Iraq and the Middle East, condemning the &quot;horror&quot; of violence as well as &quot;the terrorism that cruelly targets the innocent&quot;.
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Pope John Paul told the world in  his Christmas message on Saturday that people everywhere were  yearning for peace and expressed particular concern for Iraq,  the Middle East and Africa.
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Leaders across the Muslim world demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize for his remarks on Islam and jihad, but the Vatican stopped short of doing so Saturday, saying instead the pontiff "sincerely regrets" that Muslims were offended.
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The new Australian government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for past mistreatment of the countryâs Aboriginal minority.
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Pressure is growing on Pope Benedict XVI to issue a personal apology when he makes his first public appearance following a speech on Islam that enraged Muslims around the world.
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Pope John Paul II issued a new appeal for peace in Iraq and the Middle East, condemning the &quot;horror&quot; of violence as well as &quot;the terrorism that cruelly targets the innocent&quot;.
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Pope Benedict XVI appealed Tuesday for mutual respect for religious beliefs as he mourned an Italian nun slain in Somalia in an attack possibly linked to Muslim anger over his recent remarks about Islam.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Aborigines Wednesday for past injustices, saying he wanted "to remove a great stain from the nation's soul."
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert asks the Pope to urge Christians to denounce Holocaust denial, at talks in the Vatican.
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An organization of 56 Islamic   nations pressed Pope Benedict on Tuesday to apologize for his   comments linking Muslims and violence, keeping alive a   two-week-old controversy.
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Prime Minister John Howard has been  demonized by Aborigines for a decade, but on Tuesday one of  Australia's most influential black leaders said Howard could be  the person that ends generations of black squalor.