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Muslim zealots in Egypt place $60M bounty on exiled Coptic priest

October 28, 2008

Muslim extremists have placed a $60-million bounty on the head of Father Zakaria Boutros, a Coptic Orthodox priest whose popular critiques of Islam twice led to his arrest in Egypt. Father Boutros now lives in exile in the United States.

 

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Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Norbert, Bishop

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Norbert (1080-1134). Norbert was born at Xanten near Cologne about the year 1080. As a young cleric he resided at the court of the Archbishop of Cologne and then at that of the emperor where he allowed himself to be influenced by the spirit of the world. But he was won…

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