Page 2, 6th September 1991
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Peru Diocese Faces Closure
A PERUVIAN diocese was this week on the verge of closing itself down after the terrorist murders of three Catholic priests, condemned as "demonic" by the archbishop of Lima. At......
`no Triumphalism Orthodox Warned
by Timothy Elphick TEMPTATIONS Russia's Orthodox church may feel to become a "church triumphant" in President Gorbachev's new confederation of sovereign states should be firmly......
News In Brief
Turkish attack MORE than 100 Turkish nationalists this week surrounded the Orthodox patriarchate in Istanbul, threatening to "take control" of the building. The demonstrators......
Creole Pigs Might Fly
PIGS are flying to Haiti with the help of a Catholic third world development agency. For centuries the "creole" pig was the basis of the peasant economy in the Caribbean......
Companies Ecuador Squabble
by Mark Topping "THE oil companies squabbled over the Amazon in Ecuador in the same way Roman soldiers cast lots for Christ's tunic," an Amazonian Indian and partner of the......
Burglar Leaves Empty Handed At Presbytery
A burglar left a house in the United States with nothing but his conscience last week after discovering that his victim was a priest. Mgr Terrence Murphy found the basement......
Farmers Aided In East Timor Struggle
FARMERS struggling to keep their land in Indonesian occupied East Timor are to be given a helping hand from the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development. New agricultural......
Papal Concern At Yugoslav Crisis
POPE John Paul Il this week held private talks with the president of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzogovina and appealed for an immediate end to the country's civil war.......