Month: October 2013

Vatican – The newly-appointed Vatican Secretary of State, Archbishop Pietro Parolin is recuperating after his recent surgery, the Holy See Press Office has said. In a statement last weekend, the office said: "As is known, he recently underwent a surgical procedure, which took place in Padua in the department of hepatobiliary surgery in the university…

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Kenya – Christian leaders have vowed to continue to pray at their places of worship despite the recent slaying of two pastors, one of them in his church as he read his Bible. The two killings, in and near to the port city of Mombasa have been blamed on Islamic extremists, and were possibly carried…

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Dear Editor, How frustrating that when disgraceful shortcomings are pointed out in the State’s failure to protect and vindicate the rights of children that vested interests always blame a ‘lack of resources’. What resources were lacking when social workers, backed by the full authority of the Garda Síochana, removed two Roma children from their family…

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United Nations – Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations has called on the international community to seize the opportunity in disarming weapons of mass destruction. During an address to the UN General Assembly last week, the archbishop said recent moves on chemical weapons in…

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