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Cross Wires: Friday headlines
Benedict XVI: When one Christian community is suffering, other Christians must offer assistance; Call for action to help Christians stay in the Middle East; Vatican to launch dialogue with non-believers; Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy says support for celibacy fights secularisation; Outgoing nuncio to Great Britain's final audience with Pope; Return to work for SFA trio in Pope e-mail scandal...
INTERNATIONAL AND VATICAN
When one Christian community is suffering, other Christians must offer assistance, Pope Benedict XVI told Coptic Orthodox and other Oriental Orthodox church leaders. (Above Pope Benedict XVI exchanges gifts with members of the Catholic-Oriental Orthodox theological dialogue.)
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100350.htm
The Vatican’s ambassador to Iraq, Archbishop Georgio Lingua, has called for action to be taken to help Christians stay in the Middle East
http://www.rferl.org/content/vatican_urges_action_to_keep_iraqs_christians_from_leaving/2289064.html
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and United Action for Egyptian Christians will host an interdenominational day of prayer for Christians in Egypt on 29 January in London.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17549
Vatican to launch dialogue with non-believers in March
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-to-launch-dialogue-with-non-believers-in-march/
Benedict XVI meets outgoing nuncio to Britain, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/01/28/benedict-xvi-meets-outgoing-nuncio-to-britain/
Support celibacy to fight secularisation, says Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy
http://www.zenit.org/article-31589?l=english
SCOTLAND
Alice Sheridan on Tommy Sheridan: Dignified and devout amid the sins of a son
Catholic teacher under investigation in Kilmarnock
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3375950/Music-Sirs-flings-with-two-pupils.html
Return to work for SFA trio in Pope e-mail scandal
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3373648/Return-to-work-for-SFA-trio.html
Papal visit and protests could cost Scotland’s capital city £1m
http://www.scotsman.com/news/Protests-and-Pope-cost-city.6703873.jp
ENGLAND AND WALES
Catholic Church backs academy schools in England and Wales
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jan/28/catholic-church-academy-schools
Leading Catholic MP Jon Cruddas urges Church to engage with Big Society