71.   Conditions inside the church have been deteriorating and priests inside have said food ran out.

72.   Congolese priests said Mass to a few dozen faithful who prayed with neither altar nor pews.

73.   Despite his frustration over inability to tend to the dead, the priest said he was doing his best to minister to the living.

74.   Even though the Vatican has put Mother Teresa on a fast track for possible sainthood, a priest involved says the process will likely take years.

75.   Hindu priest says he will perform ceremony outside banned area,

76.   However, in Orthodox churches last weekend around the country, priests said the papal visit was a momentous event for Christianity.

77.   In Bethlehem, a Franciscan priest said food had run out inside the Church of the Nativity.

78.   In any case, one Orthodox priest said the church was against exhumation.

79.   Local Muslim priests say any conversion will have to be for ideological and religious reasons and not for material gain.

80.   Michael Monaghan was doing about as well as could be expected for a man who lost his wife and his youngest child, the priest said.