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News In Brief
Brazil hostages Fir I tEN PEOPLE WERE taken iostage by hundreds of Indians after their farms were invaded in North East Brazil the Catholic Church's Indian Rights group said......
Vatican Pledges Support For Return Of Aristide
BY SIMON MARKS ToP OFFICIALS AT THE Vatican last week promised support in ending the bloodshed in Haiti and restoring the c1, - .-nocratically-elected president Fr Jean Bertrand......
Threat To Catholic Russia
BY LUCY LETHBRIDGE RESIDENT p BORIS Yeltsin's victory, in this p BORIS Yeltsin's victory, in this week's Russian parliamentary election results, has heightened speculation that......
Chile Votes In Christian Democrat
JUAN FLORES THE CHURCH-BACKED leader of Chiles Christian Democrat parry has won a landslide victory in the country's presidential elections last week. Eduardo Frei who was the......
Priest Loses Race For Power
A Catholic priest in Gabon was defeated by the President, Omar Bongo, in the country's first multi-party elections this month. Fr Paul Mba Abessole, a Congregation of the Holy......
Overseas Letter
A LONG DRIVE OVER snowcovered mountain roads brought me and my companions to Lu Gu Lake, near the southern border of Tibet. The poetry of the scene was marred by the fact that......