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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Italian researchers have developed a method to repair a damaged heart using adult stem cells, and said it confirmed that the adult cells were more therapeutically useful than embryonic stem cells.

Good Samaritan Sister Pauline Coll is raising awareness about religious items being produced by "child slaves" or workers who are exploited. PAUL DOBBYN reports

NIGERIA (ACN): Nigeria could stand on the brink of radical Islamisation, a leading development official in the country said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): A leading Vatican official has called for greater protection of Iraq's beleaguered Christian minority, saying the disappearance of Christianity from the country would be an enormous religious and cultural loss for everyone.

MORE than 7000 people from throughout Australia put others first for the inaugural Caritas "Be More" weekend.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI deplored the killing of eight Christians in Pakistan by a Muslim mob and urged the minority Christian community not to be deterred by the attack.

WASHINGTON (CNS): Orders of women religious in the United States will be asked to complete a comprehensive questionnaire that looks at six areas of religious life in preparation for a series of apostolic visits set to begin in January.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Vatican concerns about how some recent decisions of the United States Episcopal Church will impact the search for full Anglican-Roman Catholic unity are echoed in a reflection by Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Even though the Catholic faith is not included in the project, the Moscow-based Catholic archbishop hailed the Russian Government's plan to reintroduce religious education in public schools.