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Nov 18, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie
After two days of speculation, the FARC confirmed Tuesday that it is in possession of an army general and two other military personnel captured in western Colombia.
“The three were taken because they are enemy military personnel, carrying out their duties in a war zone,” the communique says. |
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Blase Cupich will take religious and legal possession of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in separate ceremonies Tuesday, pledging before a Cook County judge and later priests, bishops and parishioners that he will dutifully shepherd the nation's third-largest archdiocese.
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Burst pipes at Tribune Tower knocked WGN-AM 720 off the air for 20 minutes during the 6 a.m. hour of the Steve Cochran show.
The water streamed down from the ninth floor, where the pipes burst, and reached the radio studios on the seventh floor, causing the interruption at the start of morning.... |
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Our nation is entering a dangerous new phase in its relationship with Iran. Its nuclear program is proceeding, it continues to threaten to destroy Israel, it maintains its support for international terror and it is wrongfully imprisoning Americans, including a pastor, Saeed Abedini, merely because of his Christian faith. |
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11/18/2014 PHILIPPINES - SYMPOSIUM Card Tagle: the Churches of Asia defined by martyrs without a name who bore witness to Jesus' Name At the AsiaNews International Symposium, the archbishop of Manila describes the strength of Asian Churches. Although they are a "small flock," they have given so many martyrs to the Church. |
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The end of communist rule in Europe, which began 25 years ago this month, was not all positive for Christianity because it brought tensions between Rome and Russia back to the surface, a senior Vatican official said on Monday. Cardinal Kurt Koch, the top Roman Catholic official for inter-church.... |
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Millions of Rwandans and other Kinyarwanda speakers have struggled to understand why changes were recently introduced in the language's orthography. The new instructions on how to write Kinyarwanda were gazetted last month and left those who write the language a period of two years to comply with the new style. |
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VATICAN CITY – Children should grow up in a family with a father and a mother, Pope Francis said Monday.
“Children have the right to grow up in a family, with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for their development and emotional maturity,” the pope said on Radio.... |
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As the senate leader, Mr Withers was the orchestrator of Mr Whitlam’s downfall in 1975, an act that etched him in Australia’s political history. Mr Withers’ son Simon said his father should be remembered as a major, colourful figure in Australian politics. “Dad wasn’t really an ideological person. |
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By the time Martin Salia arrived on a chartered medical jet at the Nebraska Medical Center over the weekend, his kidneys had failed, he didn’t respond to someone calling his name, and he was barely breathing. Doctors immediately put the 44-year-old surgeon, who had been infected by Ebola while.... |
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Reg “Toecutter” Withers, a former Fraser government minister, has died at the age of 90. As the senate leader, Withers was the orchestrator of Whitlam’s downfall in 1975, an act that etched him in Australia’s political history. Withers’s son Simon said his father should be remembered as a major, colourful figure in Australian politics. |
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