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Spanish Socialists accuse Church of meddling
Spain's governing Socialist Party on Monday accused the Catholic Church of campaigning for the conservative opposition after bishops slammed laws on divorce and abortion at a mass rally in Madrid.
In a safer Baghdad, Iraqis party for 2008
On New Year's Eve Ridaa al-Azzawi squeezed into his pointy snakeskin boots, his tight black sweater and his snazzy corduroy flared jeans, hustled down to a Baghdad hotel ballroom and partied for peace.
Diocese of Hereford to help people keep New Year resolutions
The Diocese of Hereford is trying to break the New Year tradition of failed resolutions with a new initiative to help people to do much better at keeping them.
Six Christians dead, 400 houses burnt in eastern India
The US-based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that state police and federal armed forces in eastern India have failed to contain anti-Christian violence that began on Christmas Eve and has killed at least six Christians in Orissa state.
'God doesn't do waste,' says Archbishop on YouTube
The Archbishop of Canterbury has followed the Queen's lead in posting his annual message on YouTube, where his green theme for the New Year is 'God doesn't do waste'.
On New Year's Eve, Pope warns of 'false exaltation'
Western society is suffering a "deficit of hope" where many people seek shallow sexual gratification instead of faith and family values, Pope Benedict said in a New Year's Eve sermon.
Millions see in the New Year in UK
Millions across the UK have taken to the streets to usher in the New Year with firework celebrations.
Cardinal stresses importance of family in society
The foundations of a strong Christian life and a loving family are built first and foremost in the home, says the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.
Church people make it onto New Year's Honours list
The Diocese of Lichfield is celebrating after two of its church people made it onto the New Year's Honours list.
Church leaders alerted to mental health crisis in black community
A public call has been made to church leader to step up their role in helping to combat the mental health crisis in the African Caribbean community.
Novel new calendar to recruit more priests
The Catholic Church is trying to show the human side of priests in a new calendar that it hopes will drive up interest among teenagers to join the priesthood.
Inquiry into police shooting in Kent
The police watchdog has opened an inquiry into the fatal shooting of a man by police at a village near Sevenoaks.
BBC caps price of quiz phone lines
The BBC said on Sunday it would reintroduce a limited number of premium-rate line competitions in the New Year but would cap the price of calls.
Brown gets opinion poll boost
Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a boost from an opinion poll on Sunday and said his priority for 2008 would be steering Britain's economy through the fallout from the global credit crunch.
Mother pays tribute to son killed by dog
The mother of a year-old boy who died after being attacked by a pet rottweiller has paid tribute to her "li'l angel".
Spanish protests calls for defence of family
Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in favour of the traditional family in the centre of Madrid on Sunday, in a show of force by Catholics in what is now one of the most liberal countries in Europe.