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Patriarch: Lebanon a model for Arab democracies
Catholics don't rejoice, but recall Gadhafi's brutality
Australian bishops meet Vatican officials to discuss removed colleague
In South Africa, outrage gives way to acceptance of translations
In South Africa, outrage gives way to acceptance of translations
Priest: Translation was 'imposition we’ve now become used to'
New Catholic Relief Services head calls for ways to aid world's poor
Feb. 22, 2012
Carolyn Woo is seen in a 2007 file photo, holding a child in Ethiopia. (CNS photo/Jim Stipe, CRS)
WASHINGTON -- Innovative approaches and working on the ground with the local people are needed to help the world's poor achieve self-sustaining economies, the new president of Catholic Relief Services told the recent national Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C.
Anticlimactic arrest, hospitable detention after days of demonstration
Feb. 17, 2012
Brian Terrell in 2010 (NCR photo/Joshua J. McElwee)
Brian Terrell, 55, arrived in Bahrain on Feb. 10 and remained there as an international human rights observer until he was deported five days later. A Catholic Worker farmer and veteran peace activist, Terrell has participated in human rights delegations to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Central America and Chiapas, Mexico.
Six American activists arrested in, deported from Bahrain
Feb. 17, 2012Bahraini authorities arrested and deported six Americans on Tuesday who say they were in the country as part of a monitoring mission during a security crackdown on the first anniversary of the country's popular uprising.
The Americans activists are members of Witness Bahrain, a newly created U.S. group of civilian observers. All six were arrested in the capital of Manama while accompanying human rights activist Nabeel Rajab during a protest march toward the Pearl Roundabout, the epicenter of last year's anti-government protests that were crushed weeks after they began.
In addition to the six Americans, police arrested dozens of protestors, including women and children, according to Al Wefaq, the country's main political opposition party, which is aligned with Shi'a Islam. Also detained were several human rights activists, among them Rajab, who was later released.
Sealed accounts and mystery sources blur Filipino impeachment trial
Feb. 17, 2012
Chief defense counsel Serafin Cuevas questions Enriqueta Vidal, Supreme Court clerk of court, on Chief Justice Renato Corona's statement of assets and liabilities and net worth during the third day of Corona's impeachment trial. (Joseph Vidal)
The text message from a lawyer flashed on my phone Sunday: "Tonight at 7 p.m. Defense Panel will hold a presscon at the Club Filipino. Inviting everybody to come for an important announcement."
At a sports club packed with journalists and TV and radio crews, impeached Philippines Chief Justice Renato Corona's nine lawyers interrupted their Sunday evening routine to tell the media they received "very reliable information" that Malacañang, the office of President Benigno Aquino, was offering 100 million pesos ($2.356 million) for projects to every senator who would defy the Supreme Court's temporary restraining order to stop the opening of Corona's dollar accounts.
Attorney Dennis Manalo, reading the Corona defense team's statement at the Feb. 12 press conference in San Juan City, Metro Manila, said the team received information that Aquino's executive secretary, Paquito Ochoa, "acting on behalf of the president was personally phoning the senator-judges to persuade or pressure them to defy the temporary restraining order issued by the Supreme Court in favor of Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank)."
New papal representative to Ireland promises to strengthen relations
Feb. 17, 2012DUBLIN -- Pope Benedict XVI's new representative to Ireland has promised to strengthen relations between the country and the Holy See.
Archbishop Charles Brown, a native of New York, spoke while presenting his credentials as apostolic nuncio to Ireland and dean of the country's diplomatic corps to President Michael Higgins.
In brief remarks to Higgins, Archbishop Brown said that Pope Benedict XVI had asked him to "solidify and strengthen" the relations between Ireland and the Holy See.
The meeting came three months after the Irish government provoked controversy by closing its embassy to the Vatican. While ministers blamed the closure on economic concerns, the move was widely interpreted as representing a chill in relations: The government had been highly critical of the Vatican's approach to child abuse scandals in the country.
Educators revive history of Poland's Jews
Feb. 17, 2012
Agata Jaworska from the School of Dialogue tells young Poles in Chelm about a Jewish community that was wiped out during the Holocaust. (Courteszue)
WARSAW, POLAND -- Every Polish town and village had its Holocaust. That’s what Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to learn.
Her task is not easy. Although Polish children are taught about the Holocaust, they don’t learn what happened in their own towns.
700 prominent Australians call for nuclear abolition
Feb. 16, 2012More than 700 prominent Australians -- including former prime ministers, defense ministers, and Catholic bishops and priests -- have signed onto a statement calling on their country’s government to adopt a “nuclear-weapons-free” defense posture and to take steps to initiate a global treaty to abolish nuclear arsenals.
Former Guatemalan dictator to stand trial
National court prosecutes Ríos Montt on charges of genocide
Feb. 16, 2012
Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt answers questions at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City Jan. 26. (CNS/Reuters/William Gularte)
Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt will stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a Guatemalan court after his indictment Jan. 26, news outlets reported, and experts are saying this is “huge news” for Guatemala and the world.
The truth will out, even for dictators
Feb. 16, 2012The news that former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt will stand trial on charges of genocide is a welcome sign that some of Guatemala’s institutions are able to begin squaring off with the darker episodes of a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.
The 85-year-old Ríos Montt represents a particularly evil and bloody approach in a conflict that never lacked for producing horrors.
'Let it begin with me': Parishioners work for peace in Juárez
Feb. 07, 2012
Fr. Roberto Luna of Corpus Christi Parish in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (CNS/David Agren)
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, MEXICO -- In a city that has become synonymous with violence and despair during a four-year drug war that has claimed more than 12,000 residents, parishioners at a small church are trying to change the image of Ciudad Juárez -- one person at a time.
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