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• Martyrdom commemorated | Vietnamese American Catholics gather in O.C. to pay homage to 117 persecuted saints (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Praying in Hanoi | That the president of America is needed to deliver this message in Vietnam, even 30 years after the war's end, is a sign of what a loss for freedom the American defeat in that war was. That Mr. Bush was able to do so — and to a receptive audience — is a sign that in the long run the victory may yet belong to those American ideals shared by the people of Vietnam (Editorial, The New York Sun)
  
  

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Religious freedom:

• China criticizes U.S. list of religious freedom violators | "The United States' action violates the basic rules of international relations, and constitutes a rude intervention in the internal affairs of another country," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said (Associated Press)
  
  
• Christian pressure kills off bias ban | The South Australian Attorney-General has admitted dropping a planned ban on religious-based discrimination from a new law because of fears from Christians they would be prevented from converting non-Christians (The Australian)
  
  
• Allowing everything but the veil | The Netherlands, famously tolerant of prostitution and drug use, wants to outlaw face veils in public places (Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Strength in numbers | Allies across the political and religious spectrum need to come together to defend freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Salma Yaqoob, The Guardian, London)
  
  

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Catholicism:

• The passion of the Pope | With his blunt talk on Islam, Benedict XVI is altering the debate between the Muslim world and the West. On the eve of his visit to Turkey, Time looks at the roots of the Pope's views--and how they may define his place in history (Time)
  
  
• What the Pope gets right … | By decrying the use of violence in the name of God, Benedict is challenging Muslims to confront hard truths (Richard John Neuhaus, Time)
  
  
• … And where he's still in the dark | Benedict's definition of what it means to be European ignores the positive contributions of Islam (Tariq Ramadan, Time)
  
  
• Pope to make 1st visit to Muslim nation | When | Pope Benedict XVI goes to Turkey this month for his first papal visit to a Muslim nation, he will in effect be making two distinct journeys (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Orthodox chief urges Turks on pope visit | The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians cautioned Turks in an interview published Sunday against creating "unpleasant incidents" during Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming trip to Turkey — his first to a Muslim country (Associated Press)
  
  
• Russian Orthodox cleric says Catholics are allies | A top Russian Orthodox cleric said on Sunday that the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church were allies in the face of hostile secularism (Reuters)
  
  
• Satirical humor aimed at the Vatican strikes a nerve | Msgr. Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI's secretary, has suddenly found himself the butt of jokes in the Italian news media (The New York Times)
  
  
• Tucson's Catholic bishop emeritus dies | Bishop emeritus Manuel D. Moreno, the son of a migrant farmworker who rose to became the nation's sixth Hispanic bishop and led the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson for 21 years, has died. He was 75 (Associated Press)
  
  

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U.S. Catholic bishops' statements:

• Bishops see a new generation turning to classic teachings | There is no question that Church teaching on contraception has remained the same for centuries or that American Catholics have largely ignored that teaching for the last 50 years. The real question about "Married Love and the Gift of Life" is: Why now? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  

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