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Green Appeal By Florida Bishops
PEOPLE must act "in unity". with the creator and with each other to prevent further environmental damage being inflicted on the earth, according to a pastoral letter issued this......
Priest-president Defies Haiti Coup
by Timothy Elphick FEARS that Haiti's fragile new democracy had been hijacked by right-wing supporters of the Caribbean republic's former Duvalier regime in a midnight coup in......
Paul Vi's Advisor On Birth Control Makes Plea To Rome
THE Pope should permit Catholics who find themselves unable to accept the church's teaching on Kalil c ontrol to use artificial forms of contraception, the 78 year-old......
News In Brief
Moscow killing A MEMBER of a church group investigating the killing in Moscow last September of Russian Orthodox priest and writer Alexander Menn was murdered this week.......
Senegal
condemned UNARMED civilians and suspected opponents of the government in the coastal city of Dakar are being tortured in southern Senegal, according to a report released this......
Green Light For
Esperanto mass MASS in the international language Esperanto can be celebrated on special occasions, the Vatican has announced. Ending more than a century of scepticism about the......
Vatican Radio Bombed
An explosion which shook the offices of Vatican Radio and the neighbouring United Service Organisation in the early hours of Christmas Day was the work of an anarchist group, it......
Recognise Israel, Minister Urges
'THE time has come for the Vatican to recognise the state of Israel and establish diplomatic relations, the minister for religious affairs in Tel Aviv said last week. In an......
Mexico Suspends Abortion Move
LAWS which would have legalised abortion in Mexico for the first time were suspended this week as the authorities in the southern state of Chiapas acknowledged the strength of......