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• The Wisconsin group challenging the constitutionality of a cross on a war memorial in Rhode Island says it expects to prevail without the type of long legal battle that unfolded over a prayer banner ordered removed this year from a public high school.
• The Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote to Woonsocket Mayor Leo Fontaine this month saying the Christian cross on a 1921 monument on city property is unlawful because it violates the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.

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News Vatican Information Service 04/27/2012

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- AUDIENCES

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AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 27 April 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience:

- Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.

- Archbishop Mario Roberto Cassari, apostolic nuncio to South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana.

- Maria Jesus Figa Lopez-Palop, Spanish ambassador, on her farewell visit.

This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer S.J., secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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