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Ukraine Clerics Gather In Rome
by Timothy Elphick POPE John Paul II this week opened the first synod of the Ukrainian Catholic bishops for more than 40 years, to discuss the future of the Greek Catholic......
African Basilica Gets Grudging Blessing
by our Rome correspondent POPE John Paul II will after all consecrate the Ivory Coast's controversial desert cathedral of Notre Dame de la Paix, an almost exact copy of St......
Viviane Hewitt On Troubled Times For Papal Diplomacy
Pope's mediation runs into more difficulties A NEW crisis this week upset Vatican Middle East peace initiatives which include an all-party conference announced unofficially two......
News In Brief
Sri Lanka peace plea RELIEF agencies from all over Europe joined together this week in calling on the Sri Lankan government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to......
John Paul Appeal For Iran Victims
IN an appeal this week from the Vatican Pope John Paul II called on the world community to come to the aid of earthquake victims in Iran, where more than 50,000 are believed to......
Court Blow For Abortion Protestor
A NEW cathedral in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, may soon rise from the ashes of the old, (above), destroyed by an earthquake in 1972. Plans are afoot to raise $2 million,......
Swiss Dispute
THE row over the future of a Swiss bishop gathered pace again this week with an invitation to the controversial prelate to resign his see. President of the Swiss episcopal......
Philippines' Warning
THE church in the Philippines must not become the vehicle of the rich, Bishop Julio Labayen of Infanta said in London this week. Speaking at the Catholic Institute for......