Monday’s roundup

Ten Baptists from the U.S. are being held in Haiti on charges of child trafficking. The group was trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to an orphange it is building in the Dominican Republic. Haitian officials, who have suspended adoptions in the post-quake chaos, say the group did not have proper documentation for […]

Ten Baptists from the U.S. are being held in Haiti on charges of child trafficking. The group was trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to an orphange it is building in the Dominican Republic. Haitian officials, who have suspended adoptions in the post-quake chaos, say the group did not have proper documentation for taking the children from Haiti.

An Arkansas trial judge has terminated the parental rights of six members of Tony Alamo’s sect. The Catholic bishop of Albany has approved a plan for his diocese to distribute free needles to drug users to stanch the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to file a complaint against the mayor of Lancaster, Calif. (not to be confused with Lancaster, Pa.) whose plans include “growing a Christian community” and endorsing prayers at city meetings.


Sister Mary Daniel Turner, a leading voice among American nuns after Vatican II, died Jan. 27 at age 84. The Episcopal Bishop of Washington, John Chane, a prominent proponent of gay rights, announced that he will retired in 2011.

Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that he will visit Britain, probably in September, and urged British Catholics to welcome disaffected Anglicans. Susan Boyle wants to sing for him.

A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing 41 and wounding 100. China stuck to its hard line in weekend talks with Tibetan envoys of the Dalai Lama.

Catholics and Protestants are close to reaching a power-sharing deal in Northern Ireland. Thousands of Iranian Zoroastrians gathered in the snowy mountains to light huge bonfires to mark the Sadeh festival, which celebrates fire. (Picture at top left is from Pyvand Iran News.)

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