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Green Shoots Of Life In A Fragile African Land
CHURCH leaders in Ethiopia have appealed for continued support from the international community to strengthen the country's fragile peace, according to delegates just returned......
Philippines Church Leaders Back New Peace Initiative
CHURCH leaders in the Philippines this week threw their weight behind new national initiatives to end the country's armed insurgency. The Churchmen said hurculean efforts had to......
Clinton Reopens Us Abortion Row
IN A SHARP rebuke for Bill Clinton, the Vatican daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano this week condemned the new president's decision to reverse legislation restricting abortion......
Rome In Weapons Accord
THE Vatican last week joined 125 nations who signed a treaty banning chemical weapons. Calling the agreement a major step against a "particularly cruel and inhuman kind of......
Genocide Fear Grips Bosnia's Catholics
by Timothy Elphick BOSNIA'S Catholics face extinction in their villages if Muslims turn to "ethniccleansing" to preserve their ethnic identity, the Catholic archbishop of......
The Pope's Ambassador In Baghdad, The Iraqi Capital, This...
endorsed new efforts to persuade the United Nations to lift its economic sanctions against Saddam Hussein's regime. Archbishop Marian Oles, who spoke after a meeting with......
News In Brief
Priest for president A CHILEAN Catholic priest last week declared his intention to run for president. Fr Eugene Pizarro has already submitted a request to the Chilean bishops'......
Bishop In Toy Gun Ordeal
A VENEZUELAN man carrying a toy gun and a fake bomb surrendered to police this week after holding a bishop hostage for three hours in the capital, Caracas. The man, who......