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French Priest Charged Over Alleged Gay Date-Rape With Minor
A priest working in northwest France has been charged after being accused of drugging and raping a 15-year-old he met via a gay dating app, prosecutors and legal sources said Thursday.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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French Bishop Says Protecting Minors "Absolute Priority" After Confession Row
Protecting children from sexual abuse is an "absolute priority" for the Catholic Church, a French archbishop said Tuesday, walking back previous comments suggesting priests should not violate the secrets of confession.
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Priest Shot Outside French Church, Suspect Arrested
An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun on Saturday wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting in the French city of Lyon before fleeing, said a police source.
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French Priest, Accused Of Molesting Girl, Commits Suicide In Church
A 38-year-old French priest in a town in northern France committed suicide in his church after being accused of molesting a girl, local prosecutors and police sources told AFP on Wednesday.
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Pope Speeds Path To Sainthood For Slain French Priest
Pope Francis has agreed to speed up the path to sainthood for French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel, murdered by two teenaged jihadists in July, Vatican sources said Sunday.
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Pope Francis Says Murdered French Priest A Martyr, On Road To Sainthood
Pope Francis said Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest knifed to death at his altar by Islamist militants in July, was a "martyr", and indicated on Wednesday he was already on the road to sainthood.
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Teen Who Killed French Priest Buried In Family Crypt Outside Paris
One of the jihadists who murdered a French priest in July was buried in a Paris suburb, where his family owns a crypt, a local official said today. Adel Kermiche, 19, was shot dead by French police after he and another assailant attacked a church on July 26 in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvroy in northern France, murdering priest Jacques Hamel and seriously...
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Cousin Of Church Attacker Charged And Detained: Paris Prosecutor
A cousin of Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean, who was formally identified as one of the two men believed to have killed a French priest in a church last week, has been placed in preventive detention, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Sunday.
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French Muslims Invited To Church To Mourn Priest
Muslims across France were invited to participate in Catholic ceremonies today to mourn a priest whose murder by jihadist teenagers sparked fears of religious tension.
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Teen Released, 2 In Custody Following French Church Attack
A French official says a teenager detained following the killing of an 85-year-old priest by a pair of terrorist attackers in northwest France has been released.
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French Church Attacker: From Troubled Childhood To Altar Killer
Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioural problems frequently led him to a psychiatric hospital and later a specialist school. He died a coldblooded killer who slit the throat of an elderly French priest in the name of ISIS.
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Second French Church Attacker Formally Identified: Prosecutors
French investigators have formally identified the second terrorist who attacked a church and killed a priest, a young man who was known to authorities after having tried to travel to Syria, a source in the prosecutor's office said today.
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Donald Trump, After Attacks: 'France Is No Longer France'
Donald Trump responded to the murder of an elderly French priest, the latest in a string of jihadist attacks to rock the country, by saying Wednesday that "France is no longer France."
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'A Good Man': Slain French Priest Jacques Hamel
From religious leaders to common parishioners, there was a singular refrain regarding the priest slain in his own church Tuesday by terrorists: Jacques Hamel was simply a good man.
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French Priest Charged Over Alleged Gay Date-Rape With Minor
A priest working in northwest France has been charged after being accused of drugging and raping a 15-year-old he met via a gay dating app, prosecutors and legal sources said Thursday.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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French Bishop Says Protecting Minors "Absolute Priority" After Confession Row
Protecting children from sexual abuse is an "absolute priority" for the Catholic Church, a French archbishop said Tuesday, walking back previous comments suggesting priests should not violate the secrets of confession.
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Priest Shot Outside French Church, Suspect Arrested
An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun on Saturday wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting in the French city of Lyon before fleeing, said a police source.
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French Priest, Accused Of Molesting Girl, Commits Suicide In Church
A 38-year-old French priest in a town in northern France committed suicide in his church after being accused of molesting a girl, local prosecutors and police sources told AFP on Wednesday.
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Pope Speeds Path To Sainthood For Slain French Priest
Pope Francis has agreed to speed up the path to sainthood for French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel, murdered by two teenaged jihadists in July, Vatican sources said Sunday.
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Pope Francis Says Murdered French Priest A Martyr, On Road To Sainthood
Pope Francis said Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest knifed to death at his altar by Islamist militants in July, was a "martyr", and indicated on Wednesday he was already on the road to sainthood.
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Teen Who Killed French Priest Buried In Family Crypt Outside Paris
One of the jihadists who murdered a French priest in July was buried in a Paris suburb, where his family owns a crypt, a local official said today. Adel Kermiche, 19, was shot dead by French police after he and another assailant attacked a church on July 26 in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvroy in northern France, murdering priest Jacques Hamel and seriously...
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Cousin Of Church Attacker Charged And Detained: Paris Prosecutor
A cousin of Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean, who was formally identified as one of the two men believed to have killed a French priest in a church last week, has been placed in preventive detention, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Sunday.
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French Muslims Invited To Church To Mourn Priest
Muslims across France were invited to participate in Catholic ceremonies today to mourn a priest whose murder by jihadist teenagers sparked fears of religious tension.
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Teen Released, 2 In Custody Following French Church Attack
A French official says a teenager detained following the killing of an 85-year-old priest by a pair of terrorist attackers in northwest France has been released.
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French Church Attacker: From Troubled Childhood To Altar Killer
Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioural problems frequently led him to a psychiatric hospital and later a specialist school. He died a coldblooded killer who slit the throat of an elderly French priest in the name of ISIS.
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Second French Church Attacker Formally Identified: Prosecutors
French investigators have formally identified the second terrorist who attacked a church and killed a priest, a young man who was known to authorities after having tried to travel to Syria, a source in the prosecutor's office said today.
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Donald Trump, After Attacks: 'France Is No Longer France'
Donald Trump responded to the murder of an elderly French priest, the latest in a string of jihadist attacks to rock the country, by saying Wednesday that "France is no longer France."
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'A Good Man': Slain French Priest Jacques Hamel
From religious leaders to common parishioners, there was a singular refrain regarding the priest slain in his own church Tuesday by terrorists: Jacques Hamel was simply a good man.
