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Church Faces Threats After Peace Accord
by Mary Durran LESS than a week after the signing of a Salvadoran peace accord, churches have come under threat from right-wing extremists and a major military conscription......
Missionary Link Ends
FR JOSEPH Chang Shou-yi, the last Missionhurst missionary in China, has died, ending 126 years of the order's presence in the country. Fr Chang, who was jailed in the 1950s for......
News In Brief
Pope to tour US A PAPAL visit to the United States could be on the cards next year, according to a coastto-coast Catholic weekly. Our Sunday Visitor reported that "one Vatican......
Power Plant Threat To 'god's Creation'
TENS of thousands of indigenous Filipinos and one of the world's richest wildlife habitats face annihilation if a power plant is built by the highest mountain in the......
Vatican Plans Synod On Religious Life
BISHOPS from around the world will meet in Rome in 1994 to discuss contemporary religious life, the Vatican has announced. Rome said Pope John Paul had decided that autumn of......
Religion Springs Back In Vietnam
VIETNAM is allowing Catholic seminaries to reopen and new churches to be built amid signs of a "springtime" for religion, the head of a Vatican delegation to the communist......
Bishops Tackle Women's Concerns In Rural India
AMID criticism that the church in India has failed to tackle women's issues, the country's bishops have announced a special commission to make women's concerns a top priority.......
Haiti Claims `approval'
HAITI'S army-backed provisional government, which overthrew the democratically elected priestpresident, claimed this week that it had been recognised by the Vatican following......
Truce Ends Attacks
NICARAGUA's most notorious "contra" leader agreed this week to suspend his group's attacks as part of a truce officials said would bring stability to the country's troubled......