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WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 8:37am neoform

Telegraph -- Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history's most unlikely legends — that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- A prominent critic of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, after an adultery scandal. Zimbabwe's state media in July published photographs of what it said was Pius Ncube in bed with a married wom.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

USA Today -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday invited all Roman Catholics in China to unite under his jurisdiction and urged Beijing to restore diplomatic ties and permit religious freedom. He called the state-run Catholic Church "incompatible" with Catholic doctrine.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 11:34am neoform

CNN -- Pope Benedict XVI will make his first trip to Latin America in May, a visit to Brazil to address the region's Roman Catholic bishops, the Vatican said Friday. The pope will depart from Rome, Italy, on May 9 and remain in Sao Paulo, Brazil, until May 11.. Read More