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Bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Lourdes for their annual meeting, one month after a devastating report by an independent commission on widespread child sex abuse within the insitution. IMAGES
Protesters boo and chant 'go to hell Pell' as the casket of late Australian cardinal George Pell leaves St Mary's Cathedral. Pell continues to divide opinion in Australia with supporters dubbing him a "saint for our times", while campaigners accuse him of protecting paedophile priests while a senior Church official. IMAGES
The coffin of Lola, the 12-year-old schoolgirl who was murdered and found dead in a trunk in Paris, is carried out of a church in Lillers, in northern France, followed by her relatives. IMAGES
"I'm grateful that Robert Sylvester Kelly is away and will stay away and will not be able to harm anyone else", says Lizzette Martinez, a victim of R. Kelly after the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex. SOUNDBITE
The United States voices horror at new files on incarceration of China's Uyghur minority. "We are appalled by the reports and the jarring images," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Roseline Hamel, the sister of a priest murdered in France, the Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun and lawyers for the civil parties and the defence leave the courtroom at the special assize court in Paris pending the verdict in the trial of the murder of Father Hamel, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Hamel, 85, was giving Mass in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in northern France, on July 26, 2016 when he was killed by Islamist assailants. IMAGES