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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Zenit): Pope Benedict XVI is sending a special envoy to express concrete solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the US Gulf Coast...

LONDON (CNS/Zenit): A Chaldean Catholic leader said Christianity may begin to disappear from Iraq if the country's new constitution is based on Shariah, or Islamic law...

TAIZE, France (CNS): About 10,000 Christians of various denominations travelled to the Church of the Reconciliation in the village of Taize, in the eastern Burgundy region of France, for the August 23 funeral of Br Roger Schutz, the renowned ecumenical leader...

COLOGNE (CNS): In back-to-back encounters with more than 1 million young people from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI urged them to discover the transforming power of the faith and join the "true revolution" of personal holiness...

COLOGNE (CNS): Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops in his German homeland to tap into the "enormous potential energy" of World Youth Day in order to face a series of dramatic pastoral challenges...

COLOGNE (CNS): A German bishop joined a protest over his country's refusal of visas to some World Youth Day pilgrims from poorer nations...

LONDON (CNS): A British cardinal has ordered an inquiry into claims that doctors working out of a Catholic hospital are referring women for abortions and prescribing the morning after pill...

CALCUTTA (CNS): The Missionaries of Charity have denied allegations that they abused residents at a home for children in India...

ROME (CNS): Doctors at Rome's Gemelli Hospital gave Pope Benedict XVI's older brother, Msgr Georg Ratzinger, a pacemaker on August 3 after he was hospitalised with an irregular heartbeat...