Beatified martyrs include eight clergy killed in Spain
Seven priests and a nun who died in the opening days of the 1936 Spanish Civil War were beatified in St Peter's Basilica. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins led the ceremony praising their faith under threat of death. The eight, killed in 1936, were beatified without miracles. Pope Benedict XVI attended briefly. A separate report notes Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi attack on Christian students leaving three dead, and London’s Big Ben undergoing a 32 hour maintenance shutdown with bells off for the period.
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Jose Saraiva Martins
Congregation For Saints
Spain
Catholic Church
Francisco Franco
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Vatican
Indonesia
Central
Sulawesi
Poso Kota
Riky Naldo
Poso
Jakarta
Central Sulawesi
London
Westminster Palace
Houses of Parliament
Whitechapel
Assad orders judicial panel to probe Hariri slaying
President Assad issued a decree creating a special judicial committee to investigate the February 14 Beirut bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 20 others. The move follows U.N. calls for Syria to cooperate and amid international pressure over the assassination. Damascus says Islamic Jihad offices were closed years ago and that the group operates from Palestinian territories. The U.N. probe has linked Syrian and Lebanese officials to the killing and noted Syria’s lack of cooperation.
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Bashar Assad
Damascus
U.N
Rafik Hariri
Syria
Islamic Jihad
U.S
European Union
United Nations
Russia
SANA
Palestinian Territories
Special Judicial Committee
Hariri
Beirut
Assad
Detlev
Mehns
Train disaster in Veligonda kills over a hundred in floods
A passenger train plunged into a rain swollen river near Veligonda in Andhra Pradesh early Saturday killing at least 100 and trapping dozens more. Army divers and helicopters aided rescues as 100 bodies were recovered and injured were airlifted to hospitals in Hyderabad amid ongoing floods.
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Veligonda
India
Andhra Pradesh
Thomas Verghese
Southern Railway
Tamil Nadu
Karnataka
Hyderabad
Govind Singh
Israelis escalate campaign amid Gaza strikes and Abbas split
Israeli aircraft and artillery hit the northern Gaza Strip after a week of clashes sparked by Islamic Jihad attacks. Palestinian authorities, led by Mahmoud Abbas, vowed firm action against weapon facilities but would not raid homes. In Ramallah, security forces dispersed Islamic Jihad protesters outside Abbas' offices. Elsewhere, violence spilled into the West Bank with a car bomb in Nablus and exchanges near Tulkarem with no injuries reported.
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Gaza City
Gaza Strip
Israel
Nasser Yousef
Mahmoud Abbas
Islamic Jihad
West Bank
Ramallah
Abbas
Gaza
Nablus
Tulkarem
Missionaries face expulsion as Chavez orders New Tribes to leave Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses the New Tribes Mission of CIA links and orders its U S based evangelicals to depart. Four American families at Cano Iguana fear eviction after 18 years with the Jati Indians. Over 200 Mormon missionaries also transfer due to visa issues.
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Cano Iguana
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez
CIA
New Tribes
Susan Rodman
Dave
New Tribes Mission
Sanford
Fla
Chavez
United States
CLA
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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