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Associated Press – February 13, 2008 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia – the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during 1917 apparitions in Fatima – on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday. The customary waiting period before beginning the process…

By Menachem Wecker c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Like many religious institutions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) has commissioned countless works of art to educate believers and non-believers about its history and doctrines. Now, like other churches, Mormons are engaged in a low-simmer dispute with artists over how the…

Associated Press – February 13, 2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Leading Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a gesture of solidarity Wednesday after police revealed a plot to kill the creator of the caricature that sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world. Danish Muslims said they would seek to avoid a repeat of…

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) – February 11, 2008 Paris (dpa) – More than 50,000 Catholic pilgrims took part in a Mass on Monday at the Catholic shrine in the southern French city of Lourdes to celebrated the 150th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous. The Mass…
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