Page 1, 9th February 1990
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Church Greets De Klerk's Reforms
by Timothy Elphick THE announcement that Nelson Mandela will be set free, and the ban on the African Nationalist Congress lifted, has been welcomed as "courageous" by church......
Court's Ruling On Abortion Welcomed
LIFE, the anti-abortion agency, has welcomed the result of a legal test-case which ended in defeat this week for a couple claiming medical negligence after the failure of......
Religious Orders Vow To Fight Injustice
THE Conference of Major Religious Superiors has defined the prophetic role of the church as its duty to speak out clearly on issues of justice and against all forms of......
Comedy Of Errors?
WE apologise to readers for the uncharacteristic number of typographical errors in last week's edition. Operational difficulties as we changed printers were to blame. Teething......
John Paul To Visit Ireland?
by our Rome correspondent SPECULATION was growing once again in the Vatican this week that Pope John Paul II was "anxious" to make a second visit to Ireland in the near future.......
Famine Still Looms In Eritrea
by Joanna Moorhead AID agencies in Tigray are still negotiating with the government on how to get desperatelyneeded food supplies to those badly hit by the current Ethiopian......
Italy's Bishops Offer To Take Hostages' Places
by Viviane Hewitt in Rome......
Two Italian Bishops This Week Offered Themselves As...
a ruthless Mafia band of kidnappers currently holding five wealthy Italians for millionpound ransom. The bishops made a public appeal to the crime ring to contact them to......