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- Pope to create new Vatican office to fight secularization, re-evangelize West
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- Vatican says it is ‘astonished’ at the Belgian police raid
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- Vatican charges international community ignores plight of Christians in the Middle East
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- Polish priests to rebury Copernicus as hero after astronomer’s remains found in unmarked grave
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- European Muslim conference criticizes proposed bans on face-covering veils
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