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APNewsBreak: East Jerusalem construction frozen (AP)

April 26th, 2010

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, left, sits with Ahmed Qureia, a senior Fatah official, during a conference about Jerusalem at the Al-Quds University in the West Bank village of Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, Monday, April 26, 2010. Two Jerusalem officials say Israel has frozen plans for new construction in the city's disputed eastern sector despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declarations to the contrary.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - The Israeli government has imposed a de facto freeze on new Jewish construction in the city’s disputed eastern sector despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public insistence it would…

APNewsBreak: Vatican to post guide for abuse norms (AP)

April 9th, 2010

People walk in front of St. Peter Basilica at The Vatican Friday April 9, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is willing to meet with more victims of clerical sexual abuse, the Vatican spokesman said Friday. In comments to Vatican Radio, the spokesman defended the pope as a worthy pastor, deserving of respect and support in the face of ``unfounded'' allegations of coverup of sex abuse cases. But the Rev. Federico Lombardi also said that transparency and rigor are urgently needed to show that the church is run in a wise and just manner. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - The Vatican plans to post a “lay guide” on the Web explaining its procedures to deal with accusations of sexual abuse by priests as part of a new…

APNewsBreak: German diocese to examine choir abuse (AP)

March 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it.  In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have swirled around a famed choir once…