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Uruguay President Vetoes Pro-Abortion BillZenit News Agency 11/15/2008In addition to the veto, the Bishops appealed to canon law to confirm their position that those who support abortion should not receive the Eucharist. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Zenit) - The president of Uruguay vetoed today a measure to allow first-trimester abortions.
Tabaré Vázquez, a medical ... El Salvador Rejects Anti-Family, Pro-Abortion Youth Convention Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute 11/14/2008, by Piero A. Tozzi and Neydy Casillas PadrónHis decision cheered Latin American social conservatives who have been wary of articles in the Convention that they say promote homosexuality and abortion. NEW YORK, N.Y. (C-FAM) - The President of El Salvador, Elias Antonio Saca, affirmed at an Ibero-American leaders’ summit late last month that ... Food for the Poor Expands into MexicoFood for the Poor 11/11/2008The Order of Malta, with its countrywide aid distribution capacity, will partner with Food For The Poor in this new initiative. COCONUT CREEK, FL (Food for the Poor) - Food For The Poor, an international relief and development agency working primarily in the Caribbean and Latin America, has ...
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Italian Nuns Refuse to Stop Feeding EluanaLifeSiteNews 11/18/2008, by Hilary White, Rome CorrespondentIf there are those who consider her dead, let Eluana remain with us who feel she is alive. We don’t ask anything but the silence and the liberty to love and to devote ourselves to those who are weak, poor and little in return. MILAN (LifeSiteNews) – The nuns who run the hospice in which Eluana ... Community of Sant ' Egidio Peace Meeting Draws OrthodoxZenit News Agency 11/18/2008This 22nd meeting is on "The Civilization of Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue." NICOSIA, Cyprus (Zenit) - Orthodox, Catholics and people of other faiths are gathered together on the island of Cyprus to pray for a civilization of peace.
The International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, ... Pro-lifers Defend 'Italy's Terri Schiavo'Zenit News Agency 11/18/2008The person is valuable in herself, not for what she produces or consumes, or for the pleasure or satisfaction she gives to others. ROME (Zenit) - Italian associations are making last-minute appeals for the life of Eluana Englaro, after Italy's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that her father's wish ...
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Pope: Lebanese Should Follow Path of ReconciliationAsia News 11/18/2008The Holy See continues with determination its efforts in favour of peace in Lebanon and around the Middle East. VATICAN CITY (AsiaNews) – The Lebanese should put aside partisan interests and make a real commitment towards peace and reconciliation. The international community should contribute to ... Taliban Throw Acid in Faces of Girls Going to SchoolAsia News 11/14/2008During their term of government, the Taliban imposed an absolute ban on any form of education for females. KABUL (AsiaNews/Agencies) - "Guilty" of going to school, five female Afghan students have been splashed with acid in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. In the area with the greatest presence ...
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Chinese Government Forces Woman's AbortionAsia News 11/18/2008Her husband has denounced the forced abortion and protests have erupted in the country and abroad. BEIJING (AsiaNews/Agencies) - In bed number 3 of the Water Gate Hospital in Gulja (Xinjiang), Arzigul Tursun, an Uyghur woman six and a half months pregnant, is under guard. The authorities want to ... Hindu extremists attack Pentecostal church in MumbaiAsia News 11/18/2008, by Nirmala CarvalhoMonsignor Fernandes, bishop of Bombay, says these actions are terrorism and endanger Indian democracy. MUMBAI (AsiaNews) – A group of radical Hindus attacked a Pentecostal church in Bhayander (Mumbai), destroying furniture and equipment, beating its clergyman and worshipers and launching ...
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Two Nuns Kidnapped in KenyaZenit News Agency 11/12/2008Sisters Caterina Giraudo and Maria Teresa Oliviero, 67 and 61, of the Italian Contemplative Missionary Movement Father de Foucauld, were taken Monday night in northeast Kenya. VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - Two women religious were kidnapped in Kenya by a group of armed men Monday evening. Neither the ... BREAKING: Italian nuns kidnapped by Somali gangCatholic Online 11/10/2008, by Randy SlySeveral news services are reporting the adbudction of two Italian nuns by heavily armed Somali bandits in northern Kenya. Reportedly they have been taken across the border. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - According to several news services, two Italian nuns have been kidnapped by Somali bandits in ...
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