VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today's "throw-away culture" and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them. |
Pope blasts abortion in olive branch of sorts after denouncing church's obsession with rules |
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel set a searing pace to top second practice at the Singapore Grand Prix. |
2013-09-20 BUNIA, 20 September 2013 (IRIN) - Over the course of three weeks, clashes between government forces and an armed group in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) displaced so many civilians that the population of one village, Gety, increased nine-fold, from 5,000 to 45,000. |
The blind sectarian rampage, which has been waging a war on worship mosques, churches and religious shrines have become a modern Arab trade mark phenomenon, since what the western media called from the start the “Arab Spring” overwhelmed the Arab streets. |
BUNIA, 20 September 2013 (IRIN) - Over the course of three weeks, clashes between government forces and an armed group in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) displaced so many civilians that the population of one village, Gety, increased nine-fold, from 5,000 to 45,000. |
Lewis Hamilton produced a sensational performance to set the pace in first practice at the Singapore Grand Prix. |
A GREENPEACE ship stormed by the Russian military is being towed to the country's extreme northwest with two Australians on board. |
Its power is so great it can even “rob you of your faith; it weakens it and you lose it!”. “The devil always takes this path of temptation: wealth , to feel sufficient; vanity, to feel important , and , in the end , pride: pride is his language". |
The French bishop of Angouleme has taken to task Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Lahham for his alliance with Bashar al-Assad's regime, showing clarity and principle at a moment when many Syrian and Lebanese Christians have done the opposite. |