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  • Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process

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    (Story repeats, adding reference to Sunday's canonization.) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta marked the culmination of a process – sometimes called “the saint-making machine” – that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during…

  • Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process

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    (Story repeats, adding reference to Sunday's canonization.) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta marked the culmination of a process – sometimes called “the saint-making machine” – that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during…

  • Singapore confirms 27 more locally transmitted Zika cases

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    Twenty-five new cases were linked to the initial outbreak area, one was linked to a potential new cluster and the remaining new case had no known links to any existing cluster, the Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency said in a joint statement. “There is a potential new cluster involving one previously reported case…

  • Childless Scottish nationalist leader Sturgeon reveals 2011 miscarriage

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    Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose childlessness has been a matter of media speculation over the years, has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in 2011. Following the publication of extracts from a book in the Sunday Times, in which the author referred to Sturgeon losing a baby, the Scottish National Party leader said she hoped…