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Catholic Church urges peace between Colombia and Venezuela

Catholic News Agency • 7/26/2010

Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez said he hopes "to return to having peaceful and fraternal relations," and he called for solidarity with those suffering from the Venezuelan decision to break off ties.It makes no sense that we are incapable of solving problems.our nations deserve to live in peace." ...

We are in a time of cultural crisis where objective references are lost.

Argentina's Gay 'Marriage' Law and 'Sexual Minorities'

By Carmen Elena Villa • Zenit News Agency • 7/27/2010

'There is no right if one does not comply with the laws of nature that pre-exist the will of the human being. To approve of marriage between persons of the same sex is to disfigure reality and to ruin children. One cannot ignore what has been "given" to man, which pre-exists his will. Two ...

The bodies were identified as mostly men between the ages 20 and 50, many of them sporting tattoos. Forensic investigators are performing DNA tests to identify the victims.

Mass grave discovered in Mexico border state

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/25/2010

At least 51 bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. According to the state media, there were at least nine hidden mass graves. Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz told reporters that it's likely that the bodies were connected with drug-gang ...

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Europe

Top Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff says Kunz was a participant in Operation Reinhard, the program to eliminate Polish Jews.

Third most wanted Nazi now in custody

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/29/2010

A former Nazi death camp guard has been arrested and charged in the deaths of 430,000 Jews. 88-year-old Samuel Kunz is suspected of serving Hitler's Third Reich in the Belzec camp in occupied Poland during World war II. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Kunz is the third most wanted in a list of ...

Bullfighting has long been illegal in the Canary Islands, and the rest of Spain may soon follow suit.

Spanish bullfight ban stirs passionate dissent

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/28/2010

There are few images as vibrantly Spanish as the classic bullfight, toreador at the ready to sink the killing blow into his bovine opponent under the blazing sun. A ban on the sport on Catalonia has inspired many passionate reactions from Spaniards, which many see as a disruption of their national ...

For many Anglo-Catholics, the Canterbury Road will lead to Rome. For evangelicals, alternatives are being considered.

Church of England Readying for Exodus As Women Bishops are Anticipated

By Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 7/28/2010

While the resolution must now be reviewed by the Dioceses over the next eighteen months and then ratified by the 2012 synod; no one expects the measure to fail. For many Anglo-Catholics, the Canterbury Road will lead to Rome. For evangelicals, alternatives are being considered. WASHINGTON, DC ...

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Middle East

Leader of Iran: Government Will Pay Families to have More Children to Double the population

Asia News • 7/30/2010

He plans to give $ 950 to children born before 21 March 2011, plus $ 95 for each year after that until they reach 18. They will be able to withdraw the money when they are 20. Many harbour doubts about the initiative's feasibility as well as its impact on an already high unemployment rate. TEHRAN, ...

The Pentagon managed the DFI funds until the end of 2007. The special inspector general reviewed records from eight Defense Department organizations that received DFI funds.

Money set aside for Iraq reconstruction missing

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/28/2010

According to a federal report, an audit of $9.1 billion targeted for reconstruction in Iraq cannot account for more than 95 percent of it. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, blamed "weaknesses in DoD's [the Department of Defense's] financial and management controls" and called ...

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Asia Pacific

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel prize for her charitable work for the poorest of the poor and she continued to inspire many people to carry on working for those who have been consigned to the margins of society.

Interview: How India Remembers Mother Teresa

By Mariaelena Finessi • Zenit News Agency • 7/30/2010

What Mother Teresa was emphasizing was the value of human life in the context of rampant misuse of science to terminate life rather than to nurture it. Abortion is always and everywhere a heinous crime against humanity. Mother would never get tired of repeating it, [in accord with] the Church's ...

Sr. Meena, the raped nun, A Testimony to Living Faith and Forgiveness

Asia News • 7/29/2010

On the eve of the trial against the rapists of Sister Meena, the religious sister attacked during anti-Christian pogrom in Orissa, her uncle Mgr. Barwa speaks: "She is the symbol of our struggle. She feels no anger, but wants justice for us all. " KANDHAMAL (AsiaNews) - Sister Meena, the religious ...

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Africa

California Congresswoman Barbara Lee is calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to create a three-year, six billion dollar commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Congresswoman calls for creation of global fund to fight Aids

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/21/2010

California Congresswoman Barbara Lee is calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to create a three-year, six billion dollar commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Lee has returned from attending the opening days of the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. LOS ANGELES, ...

Fighting in Sudan has been particularly heavy around the Jebel Moon region, where more than 150 people were killed in a single battle.

Hundreds killed in figting in Sudan

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/19/2010

Almost 400 people have been killed in fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels. The majority of those killed, more than 300 were members of the Justice and Equality Movement. Eighty-six soldiers have perished in the recent violence. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - United Nations ...

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