Australia's foreign minister has criticized the detention of 44 Fijian peacekeepers by Syrian rebels and is calling for their unconditional release. |
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's foreign minister has criticized the detention of 44 Fijian peacekeepers by Syrian rebels and is calling for their unconditional release. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement Saturday that as a member of the U.N. |
Australia's foreign minister has criticized the detention of 44 Fijian peacekeepers by Syrian rebels and is calling for their unconditional release. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement Saturday that as a member of the U.N. Security Council, Australia "demands the unconditional and.... |
The Philippine government has contingency plans for at least 75 Filipino peacekeepers locked in a standoff with Syrian rebels at Golan Heights, Malacañang said Saturday. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte on government-run dzRB radio said, “Meron namang contingency plan, but we'll leave.... |
Ordain Women founder Kate Kelly is an “apostate,” the LDS Church’s top spokesman declared in a recent radio interview. So does that make the organization she founded to push for women’s inclusion in the all-male Mormon priesthood an apostate group? It is no idle question. |
Former Mayor Jane Byrne made a rare public appearance Friday as Chicago’s main confluence of major highways was renamed in her honor, a nod to her status as the only female ever elected to the city’s top political post. |
In an unusual gesture for a member high in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Cuba, the apostolic nuncio Bruno Musaro spoke openly about Cuba’s “extreme poverty and human and civil degradation.” |
The nuncio spoke at a service in Italy and Vatican Radio later posted his remarks on its Polish website. |
Paul McDonagh-Forde is a past pupil of Sligo Grammar School and is studying Law at Trinity. He is the son of Pat Forde and Pauline McDonagh of Woodtown Lodge. Paul served as organist and director of music at Calry Parish Church in Sligo from 2011 to 2013. |
It wasn’t always like that – back when the Great Western Railroad came through town. Those were Churchville’s glory days. There was a stockyard and a grocery store. They even had a hotel. But that was a long time ago and the trains don’t rumble down the tracks anymore. The stockyard is empty. The grocery store boarded up. |