11.   Nuns said three Israeli tank shells hit the laundry room and an empty guest house, a claim denied by an Israeli army spokesman, Lt. Col. Olivier Rafovitch.

12.   She remained in the tree for a week until the waters receded, the nun said.

13.   The nun said, there is a ship that sails directly from Davao to Russia, but it goes to Vladisvostok.

14.   The Louisiana nun said the death penalty serves no purpose other than to drag society into the same violence of the felons.

15.   The nunnery is also home to delicately crafted bronze lights -- which the nuns say are getting smudged by so much hands-on attention.

16.   The nuns said Sanchez did not waver in his demands except to give them a few more days to leave.

17.   The Roman Catholic nun said she did not have any pragmatic goals, but rather worked for the glory of God.

18.   Two nuns said they were beaten by Palestinian police.

19.   The nun also said that she had visited them again Tuesday and found they had not been harmed.

20.   The nuns said they would from now on join weekly protests outside the embassy gates staged by surviving comfort women.