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World's Religions Meet In Rome
By Bruce Johnston in Rome and Luke Coppen AN HISTORIC meeting of the world's major religions ended yesterday with a plea for religions to be a source of peace, rather than a......
Synod For Europe Closes
Continued from P1 suddenly. The Archbishop of Genoa, who helped the Pope to write the encyclicals Evangelium Vitae and Veritatis Splendour, was in charge of drafting the Synod's......
Pope Writes On Old Age
IN A LETTER published this week, 79-year-old Pope John Paul II expressed his "spiritual closeness" to the elderly, writes Citra Sidhu. In this personal reflection on age in the......
Roman Holidayers The Average Visitor Travelling To Rome...
Jubilee will be young, educated and reasonably well-off, according to a new survey, writes Bruce Johnston. A study of 23,000 Italians and foreigners and 300 tour operators made......
Ex-nun Loses Pension Fight
AN EX-NUN who claimed from her former order £400,000 in what she claimed equalled her rightful back wages for her work as a sister for 35 years has lost her case in an Italian......
Media Hits Out At Unfpa
THE MEDIA in Kosovo has reacted with alarm to recent admissions that the UN Population Fund entered Kosovo "at the request of the Yugoslavian government" during the height of......
Interfaith Team Priest On Trial Studies Archive After...
A TEAM of Catholic and Jewish scholars is to study Vatican archive material relating to the period of the Second World War. It is hoped that by jointly examining eleven volumes......
Middle East
Hero Foley honoured A CATHOLIC war hero, known as Britain's Oskar Schindler, has received Israel's highest honour for gentiles. Frank Foley, a British spy who saved the lives of......
Pope Faces Tense Visit
Continued from P1 took place in Lahore in the eastern Punjab province. The arsonist was arrested, local Christians claim, only after a public demonstration outside a police......
Asia
Beijing warms to Rome CHINA and the Vatican are on the verge of establishing full diplomatic ties, according to a report the Vatican would not confirm. The Hong Kong Sun claimed......
Africa
Missing bishop found safe THE SAFETY of hundreds of thousands of people caught in the power struggle between Sierra Leone's rebel forces is under threat according to a senior......