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Throngs mourn Spanish nun gunned down in Haiti

Throngs of mourners attended the funeral on Thursday for a Catholic sister from Spain who was shot dead last week on a highway in Haiti.

Health

'Spain's repratriated nun clear of Ebola': doctors

Spanish doctors said on Friday that blood tests showed no sign of Ebola in a nun who was evacuated from Liberia along with an elderly missionary infected with the deadly virus.

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Spanish model swaps catwalk for nunnery

Olalla Oliveros, a famous Spanish model and actress, has revealed that she secretly quit showbusiness in 2010 after experiencing an 'internal earthquake' during a visit to a religious sanctuary in Portugal and has spent the last 4 years as a nun.

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Transsexuals fight church in hunger strike

A group of Spanish transsexuals is planning to go on hunger strike outside Granada Cathedral in the southern region of Andalusia to protest against a parish priest's decision to refuse confirmation to a fellow transsexual.

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World record nun dies after 86 years in convent

A 105-year-old Spanish nun has died after spending 86 years in a convent, a period of ecclesiastical retreat touted by the Spanish media as a world record.

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Hookers help out in Murcia street clean-up

Prostitutes in the city of Murcia took to the streets on Sunday alongside nuns and volunteers to clean up the area where they work.

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Opus Dei MP probes police over sister act

Many Spaniards are questioning the motives of Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz after his office called up police officers who had asked a nun to remove her headgear during an ID check.