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In Easter message, Holy Pontiff urges diplomacy in Libya

The faithful crowd St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican during an Easter Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

 

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged an end to fighting in Libya, using his Easter message to call for diplomacy and peace in the Middle East.

Benedict also said that politics in North Africa and [...]

POPE: HUMANITY IS NO ACCIDENT

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI marked the holiest night of the year for Christians by stressing that humanity isn’t a random product of evolution.

Benedict emphasized the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily Saturday, saying it was wrong to think at some point “in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and [...]

POPE: Humanity is not random product of evolution

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI marked the holiest night of the year for Christians by stressing that humanity isn’t a random product of evolution.

Benedict emphasized the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily Saturday, saying it was wrong to think at some point “in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and [...]