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Sudan Govt.
making South a `Human Zoo' A FORMER Sudanese civil servant, William Deng, has declared at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. that the Sudanese Government is turning the......
Elderly Get A Message From Pope
"DOPE JOHN XXIII. who is him self 81. has sent his greetings to the elderly of Italy on the nation's fifth annual Old People's Day (May 26). The message. sent through Cardinal......
Luxembourg Has 1,000th Birthday
A RCHBISHOP ODD!, Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium and Luxembourg, offered Mass in the cathedral to mark the 1.000 anniv crsary of the city's founding and the establishment of the......
Mission Aid Tops £8m.
But calls for help cannot be met W ORLD-WIDE contributions to Catholic Mission work given through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in 1962 amounted to more than......
Missions Cardinal To Tour Africa
Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, will leave Rome June 10 for a month's tour of Africa. Accompanied by Mgr. Tiziano......
`miracle' Escape In Laos
T HE Vicar Apostolic of Vientiane. in Laos, French-born Bishop Loosdregt O.M.I., has said in v ientiane that it was a "miracle" that he, the nine other missionaries and 30......
70 Clergymen
in unity talks S EVENTY Catholic and Anglican clergymen lived together for three days in Vancouver this week during a residential conference on Christian unity. Chief subjects......
American Priest Gets Peru Post
F R. JOHN E. THOMAS, an American priest from Massachusetts has been appointed Superior in Peru of the Society of St. James the Apostle. the missionary congregation founded by......
Afro-asian Centre
A centre for Afro-Asian students. a joint venture of the Church and the German government, has been opened in Munich. It was described as open to students of all faiths from all......
Marriage Poll
A Parliamentary committee is to tour India to hear the views of Christian groups and others who have expressed opposition to a proposed Christian marriage law. Leaders of the......
Hopeful Signs For Forum On Food Needs
Catholic Herald Reporter HE world's potential for increasing food production is "very substantial indeed", according to a report which has been issued by the United Nations Food......
700th Anniversary Of St. Anthony
P OPE JOHN has asked Cardinal Urbani, Patriarch of Venice, to serve as his special representative at ceremonies in Padua .this June marking the 700th anniversary of the transfer......
Israel To Aid Pilgrims
I SRAEL'S o ffi cial tourist-promotion office is setting up a special department to handle the Christian pilgrims that come to the Holy Land each year, now estimated at 100.000......
Pope Play For U.s.
The controversial German play, "The Vicar", which impugns Pope Pius XII for not saving the Jews from Nazi tyranny in the last war, is to be produced on Broadway in the autumn.......
E. Rite At Fatima
The new Eastern Rite chapel at the headquarters of the Blue Army international organization to spread devotion to Our Lady of Fatima — is scheduled to be opened in Fatima on......
Lutherans Say Church Not `clearly Wrong
A PROPOSAL stating that .t11. Catholic teachings are not "clearly wrong" has been placed on the agenda of this summer's meeting of the World Lutheran Federation. The meeting of......
Jesuit To Head Rome Biblical Institute
IVERPOOL-BORN Fr. Roder 4 ' ick Mackenzie, S.J., has been appointed Rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Aged 51, Fr. Mackenzie has served as President of the......
Chaplains Wanted
The Indian Army recruiting office in Ernakulam is seeking Catholic, Protestant and Moslem chaplains to serve the Indian soldiers in the border conflict against the Chinese Reds.......
Generals To Visit Mount Athos
T HE Monasteries of Mount Athos which have been the chief centre of Orthodox monasticism since the 10th century, have invited the Superiors General of the Benedictines, the......
Teachers Strike In Congo
A STRIKE of the Catholic' orientated teachers' union throughout the Congo is involving 37,500 teachers and is affecting more than a million pupils in the country's subsidised......
`c.h.' Readers Send £1,186 For Gboko
Catholic Herald Reporter R EADERS of the CATHOLIC HERALD have contributed £1,186 towards the completion of the church at Gboko, Nigeria, which was featured in this paper three......
Letter From
ROME by Alan McElwain I T is the Romani, the real people of Rome, the workmen and the old ladies in black who stand out among the pilgrims constantly flocking to St. Peter's......