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State Encourages Volunteer Groups
THERE ARE about 800 Italian volunteers at work in Third World countries and over 500 of them are linked to Catholic organisations. These Catholic volunteers are not identical......
Sri Lankan Bishops Call For Reconciliation
by Peter Stanford IN THE WAKE of the recent racial violence in Sri Lanka, the country's Catholic bishops have issued a pastoral letter on the feast of the Pentacost pleading for......
Overseas News In Brief
Sentenced A CRIMINAI. COURT judge in El Salvador has sentenced five former National Guardsmen to the maximum 30 years in prison for the murder of four American churchwomen in......
Call To Free Polish Prisoners
THE POLISH Church appealed on Monday to the government to act swiftly in releasing political detainees, after the authorities had hailed Sunday's local elections as a victory......
Mozambique Bishop Praises Sa Accord
ONE OF THE Catholic bishops of Mozambique has praised President Samora Machei for.his "lucidity and courage" in .coming to an agreement with neighbouring South Africa. The......
Strain On 'street School'
THE ECONOMIC crisis in Colombia has put renewed strain on a rehabilitation scheme run by a Catholic priest, which turns street urchins into undergraduates. Since the early......
Pope Praises Eec Plea For Punjab
THE MOVEMENT towards European unity and Christianity have common roots, Pope John Paul II told 25 members of the Council of European Municipalities at a recent audience in the......