BBC News - Kenyan Muslim groups 'to protect churches'

The following excerpts are from a news story on BBC News:

• Muslim leaders in Kenya have agreed to form self-defence groups to protect churches following a deadly attack on Sunday.
• Fifteen people were killed in the raids on churches in Garissa, a town near the border with Somalia.
• Kenya's border region has been tense since it sent troops into Somalia to pursue al-Shabab Islamist militants.
• Adan Wachu, head of the Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims, told the BBC the attacks were acts of terrorism.
• "There are people out there who are determined to make Kenya another Nigeria," Mr Wachu, who also chairs the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya, told the BBC Network Africa programme.
• "It's not going to be allowed to have a sectarian division in this country - whoever wants to do that will of course fail."
• Mr Wachu said that at a meeting the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya on Tuesday it was unanimously agreed the church attacks were acts of "terrorists and terrorism".
• "Therefore we all resolved to stand together as one united front," he said.

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New CDF prefect cut funding for dissenting groups in Germany : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

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New CDF prefect cut funding for dissenting groups in Germany : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

Israeli Holocaust memorial moderates critical tone in description of Pope Pius XII : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

The following excerpts are from Catholic Culture's Catholic World News:

• Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial to Holocaust victims, has changed its description of Pope Pius XII, acknowledging the work of historians who have demonstrated the wartime Pontiff’s efforts to save Jews from the Nazi genocide

• A panel at Yad Vashem, which had been devoted to criticism of Pius XII, has been replaced by a new panel that notes “a more complex picture than previously presented.” The memorial still says that Pope Pius XII failed to offer any public condemnation of the Nazi bid to exterminate the world’s Jews.

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Israeli Holocaust memorial moderates critical tone in description of Pope Pius XII : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

After you read the whole story, go to my two articles, here and here, to read what Pope Pius XII did for the Jewish people during World War 2.

Fortnight For Freedom homily by Bishop Peter Jugis

"We cannot separate the fruits of faith from faith itself." July 1, 2012, homily of the Most Reverend Peter J. Jugis, Bishop of Charlotte, N.C. Topic: Fortnight for Freedom. Proclaimed at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Charlotte.