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Take care of refugees
Yahoo.com
Pope Benedict XVI urged world leaders on Wednesday to take in and care for refugees seeking asylum in their nations. Speaking on a day the United Nations sets aside as World Refugee Day, Pope Benedict said accepting refugees was a "dutiful gesture of human solidarity."

Did he find the Grail?
London Telegraph
An archaeologist has provoked new debate about the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, the cup used by Jesus at the First Eucharist on the night he was betrayed, which disappeared in the third century. He insists it is buried beneath a sixth-century church in Rome; previous claims have been made that the sacred relic can be found in Spain, Scotland or other sites.

Newton’s religious side
Christian Post
Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible – exhibited this week at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem for the first time – lay bare the little-known Jewish religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist.