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The Madrid Conference Over The Future Of The Middle East,
developments in eastern Europe, and the crisis in Yugoslavia were on the agenda when President George Bush visited Pope John Paul II in the Vatican on Friday. The two had taken......
Flood Victims
POPE John Paul II has sent a personal message of condolence to families in the Philippines bereaved by floods which have claimed the lives of 7,000 people. "The Holy Father has......
Vatican Finances
still deeply in the red CHURCH officials warned this week that only a severe squeeze on expenditure and a determined tightening of belts would help the Vatican out of financial......
Steer Clear Of Friendly Masons, Catholics Told
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome MASONS' attempts to forge a social alliance with the Vatican are ill-founded, Rome authorities said this week. The church's negative opinion of......
News In Brief
Missionary cricketers MOTHER Tersea of Calcutta this week welcomed members of the first South African test cricket team to play overseas for 20 years. She told the team captain......
Chicago Radio Station Rapped For Poor Jokes
A CHICAGO radio station apologised this week for a broadcast that mocked the eucharist, and warned its presenters against ridiculing religious beliefs on the air. The WLUP-AM......
Priest's Backers Abused
AN international negotiating team arrived in Haiti this week in an attempt to restore the Caribbean republic's ousted priest-president, Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But as the......
No Amnesty Senators Appeal
SENATORS in the United States this week implored the Salvadoran president to resist internal pressure to grant an amnesty to two army officers convicted of the murders of six......
Stop Forced Repatriation Says Rome
THE VATICAN has appealed to the United Nations to stop the British government forcing refugees in Hong Kong to return to their native Vietnam. At the weekend the first batch of......