61.   Priests said some gunmen and foreign protesters had initially slept there because it was the warmest spot, but agreed to leave so clergy could conduct daily services there.

62.   Priests say there are some traditionally Christian villages in mostly Kurdish areas of the north that are virtually abandoned.

63.   Police were investigating, the priest said, adding that it was not clear if the explosion was caused by a bomb.

64.   A Greek-Orthodox priest said clergymen asked the gunmen to leave, to no avail.

65.   A Roman Catholic priest said Tuesday that last week a driver with the Tutsi-led military allegedly was wounded in a grenade attack.

66.   A priest said Friday that the kidnappers of a Swiss and a German woman had called and threaten to attack a U.S. family if their demands were not met.

67.   A priest said a brief Mass. Arroyo was accompanied by her husband and children.

68.   A prominent Catholic priest says he did not intend to insult the Jewish people by blaming Jews for Nazism and communism.

69.   A Roman Catholic priest said the city itself has been calm recently, although he reported recent combat on its outskirts.

70.   An Episcopal priest has been missing for four days and may have been kidnapped by bandits in the southern Philippines, a fellow Episcopal priest said Saturday.