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Although Russia's daily tally of new infections has dropped by about half since a month ago, to about 15, Thursday, concern is strong that the highly contagious Omicron variant may be getting a foothold in the country. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Thursday officials have detected Omicron infections in people who had not travelled outside Russia.

In Serbia's capital, Belgrade, hundreds of worshipers gathered outside St. Anger, he says, is in the air in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. Thousands have taken to the streets, spurred by inflation rates that have left many struggling to make ends meet; ahead of parliamentary polls later this month, calls for a boycott are mounting, while a blacklist of Turkish Cypriot dissidents, reportedly drawn up at the behest of Ankara, has spawned consternation and fear.

Pope doubles down on quashing old Latin Mass with new limits ROME AP — Pope Francis doubled down Saturday on his efforts to quash the old Latin Mass, forbidding the celebration of some sacraments according to the ancient rite in his latest salvo against conservatives and traditionalists. Turkson, 73, from Ghana, has been a key adviser Israel rejects 'alarm call' by Christian leaders in Jerusalem Israel has rejected allegations from Church leaders that unnamed "fringe radical groups" are trying to drive Christians out of the Holy Land.

The patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem said authorities had failed to curb assaults against Christians and desecration of their sites. The Archbishop of Canterbury said the Well, they should be happy now because the Archbishop has brought Jesus right into the middle of the hottest political subject of the day by intimating that Jesus would have got vaccinated.

Churches could double as banks, or even serve beer. What started as protests against rising fuel costs have turned into escalating armed clashes, prompting fears of the strife spreading across the region, as troops from the Russian-led CSTO Collective Security Treaty Organisation arrived to guard strategic locations. The deployment of the force of around 3, — the first from the CSTO, successor to the Warsaw Pact, since it was founded 23 years ago — is a potent sign of how the All external sites will open in a new browser.

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