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		<title>Death toll grows to 275 in Italy Quake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy today as the first funerals got underway for victims of the country&#8217;s devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 275 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday. As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent another day lining up for food and water at some of the 20 tent camps that have sprouted up around this quake-devastated city. Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the area soon. Rescue efforts continued for the 15 people still missing, but officials began discussing rebuilding the stricken region and reopening schools. They stressed it would take a month or two to have a clear idea of the extent of the damage. &#8220;For now the needs are basic. The people in the camps, they don&#8217;t have toothbrushes, they don&#8217;t have toothpaste,&#8221; said Massimo Cialente, mayor of the hard-hit city of L&#8217;Aquila. &#8220;You can&#8217;t find a place to buy cigarettes or get a coffee.&#8221; The magnitude-6.3 quake hit L&#8217;Aquila and several towns covering 230 square miles (600 square kilometers) in central Italy early Monday, leveling buildings and reducing entire blocks to piles of rubble. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contraceptives pollute Environment says Vatican</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L&#8217;Osservatore Romano said Saturday. The pill &#8220;has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature&#8221; through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report. &#8220;We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill,&#8221; he said, without elaborating further. &#8220;We are faced with a clear anti-environmental effect which demands more explanation on the part of the manufacturers,&#8221; added Castellvi. The article was promptly dismissed by several organisations. &#8220;Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones,&#8221; said Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-president of a contraceptive research association, quoted by the ANSA news agency. The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen &#8220;are present everywhere&#8230; in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat,&#8221; added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology. Pope Benedict XVI in October reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s condemnation of artificial birth [...]]]></description>
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