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Vatican to interview Chile victim in person

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex abuse victim after his pleas to be heard by Pope Fran...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

AP Explains: How past wounds fuel debate over Polish law

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s president signed legislation Tuesday that imposes prison terms of up to three years for falsely and intentionally attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to Poland. ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Letter about abuse cover-up belies pope denial

VATICAN CITY – The letter was graphic not just in describing how the priest kissed and fondled the boy, but also in how other priests who saw the abuse tried to hush it up. Pope Francis said...

DATE: Feb 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

First Baptist to host ‘Night to Shine’ at fairgrounds

First Baptist Church Durango will host the Tim Tebow Foundation-sponsored “Night to Shine” event for a second year from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. ...

DATE: Feb 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Airport chapels reflect nation’s religious variations

Across U.S., cities have idiosyncratic approaches

DATE: Feb 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope sends sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate bishop

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is sending the Vatican’s most respected sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate a bishop accused by victims of covering up for the country’s most notorious pedo...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

‘Dreamer’ priest faces deportation – and a divided congregation

ATLANTA – As he hands each person the Communion wafer, the priest watches his congregants walk back to their seats. They drop to their knees and bow their heads. Hands clasp. Around the chur...

DATE: Jan 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Durango Dharma Center to hold insight meditation series

A five-class beginning insight meditation series will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, starting Feb. 27, at Durango Dharma Center, 1800 East Third Ave. Insight meditation is ...

DATE: Jan 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

German bishops reject pope suggestion to tweak Lord’s Prayer

BERLIN – Roman Catholic bishops in Germany say they’ve debated Pope Francis’ suggestion to tweak the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, but will leave it unchanged. France recently...

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Priest tends to miners, sex workers deep in Peru’s Amazon

BOCA COLORADO, Peru – Below an umbrella of trees deep in the Peruvian Amazon, drunken miners carry on their shoulders the casket of a man whose search for gold ended with a bullet in his sto...

DATE: Jan 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope apologizes to abuse victims, but defends Chilean bishop

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis apologized for insisting that victims of pedophile priests show “proof” to be believed, saying he realized it was a “slap in the face” to victims that h...

DATE: Jan 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Trump immigration remarks intensify evangelical rift

NEW YORK – Donald Trump’s vulgar remarks questioning why the U.S. should admit immigrants from Haiti and Africa have spotlighted the bitter divide among American evangelicals about his presi...

DATE: Jan 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion