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Call For Sharia Law Exemption Sparks Conflict In Khartoum
BY PETER MOSZYNSKI SUGGESTIONS that Khartoum should be exempt from Islamic Sharia law have led to widespread protest across the Sudanese capital and death threats against......
Photographer Exposes Torture Of Chinese Faithful
Christina Farrell on shocking pictorial evidence of state persecution of the Chinese underground Church PHO FOGRAPHS Of Chinese policemen torturing Christian men and women have......
Africa
Church warns of human crisis A CATH01,IC priest has warned of a humanitarian crisis in Liberia as thousands flee the civil war. Fr Augustin Houessinon, a member of the Society......
Cafod Calls For Workers' Access
CAFOD'S partners in Aceh, Indonesia, are demanding immediate access for humanitarian workers to help more than 40,000 refugees fleeing from fighting between the Indonesian......
Sars Fears Abate In Hk
CHURCH activities in Hong Kong are returning to normal after the World Health Organ isation removed the territory from its list of Sars-infected areas. On June 23, the Hong Kong......
No Papal Visit To Mongolia
CHURCH officials have confirmed that it is unlikely that Pope John Paul II will visit Mongolia in August. Speaking on June 22, during the Pope's visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina. a......
Abandon Arms Programme
A RETIRED South Korean cardinal has called on North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms programme. Cardinal Stephen Kim Souhwan also called on South Koreans to offer assistance to......
America
No sanction for gay marriage CATHOLIC priests who officiate at the marriages of samesex couples can expect to be suspended from their duties, according to Archbishop Marcel......
Us Bishops Meet Aids Czar
ALARMED by the dramatic increase of HIV and AIDS among African-Americans, the US bishops' committee on African-American Catholics has met with White House AIDS czar, Dr Joseph......
Priests Face Abuse Charges
Two FORMER Los Angeles priests were arrested in midJune and a lawsuit brought against a Californian parish priest by a woman who accused him of abuse during a near 40 year......
Former Nun Hits Jackpot
A Foasiest nun's prayers were answered when she won $1.5m on an Atlantic City slot machine. Catherine Foy, 56, who was once with the Sister Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary,......
Silver Pieta Arrives In Us
A eeetica of the Virgin Mary's head from Michelangelo's famous Pieta has arrived at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. It was......
Support Group Praises Bishop
A SUPPORT group representing victims of sexual abuse has praised a prelate for being "a model bishop". Mark Serrano, a board member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by......
Bishop Deplores Sodomy Ruling
THE PRESIDENT of the US bishops' conference has deplored a Supreme Court decision overturning a state law against sodomy. Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville said the ruling......