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While talks have broken down between the Panama Canal Authority (PCA) and the GUPC consortium – led by Spanish builder Sacyr – in their dispute over cost overruns in the project to widen the waterway, both sides are putting out feelers to pick up negotiations again in the hope of finding an agreement. |
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The Red Cross says it has collected 281 bodies during two days of violence in Bangui and it expects to find more. A hospital in the capital of the Central African Republic has been attacked by armed gunmen, according to Al Jazeera sources. At least ten people were killed when Seleka rebels arrived.... |
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At morning Mass Francis speaks of the "three graces" to ask God for at the end of our life. Like King David, who says to his son, "You be strong and be a man. Observe the law of the Lord, your God, proceeding in His ways, and according to His laws." |
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Spanish prosecutors have opened an investigation into newly chosen Spanish Cardinal Fernando Sebastián Aguilar after a gay-rights group accused him of hate speech for calling homosexuality a "defect". |
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Because the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has no police power, it relies on moral pressure to get member states to adopt its child protection recommendations. That is obviously what it hoped to accomplish with Wednesday’s report on the Vatican and the child abuse scandals that.... |
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The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. The Times of Malta reports how a UN report yesterday told the Vatican to turn over paedophile priests. It also reports how ArrowPharm is to dismiss 110 workers. The Malta Independent says a suspicious man with a shaved head was.... |
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…Ghana Will Be Better Off By Dr Alfred B Cudjoe There is a particular quotation we were found of using in our childhood and it was attributed to no less a personality than Jesus Christ. It was common to hear people telling others that Jesus said “Don’t weep for me; weep for yourselves”. |
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The panel also urged the Vatican to review the church’s doctrine on abortion, saying its position forbidding abortion in any circumstance puts girls’ health at risk and to revise its stance on homosexuality, saying its condemnation had led to violence against children. |
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GENEVA - The United Nations denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for failing to stamp out child abuse and allowing systematic cover-ups, calling on the Church to remove clergy suspected of raping or molesting children. Meanwhile, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations accused the UN on.... |
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The man chosen for the big new job in the Church of England has been revealed this week. Jayne Dawson meets the Bishop of Leeds. It was the 1980s, the Cold War was at its height, the Russians were the enemy, and even today Nick cannot talk about the work he did during his four years at Government.... |
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Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Australian Foreign Minister Visits With Officials In PNG Bishop to discuss asylum centre, economic relations with leaders. MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, Feb. |
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