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25 gunmen killed in shootout in Mexico
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010
Twenty-five gunmen with purported ties to Mexican drug cartels have been shot to death in a gun battle in northeastern Mexico. Mexico's Defense Department said that a reconnaissance flight over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas spotted several gunmen in front of a property. The ranch is about 90 ...
Second survivor announced in Tamaulipas massacre
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010
There has been a second survivor identified in the Tamaulipas massacre, in which the bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found killed near a ranch building near the U.S.-Mexico border. The second survivor is only described as a man from Honduras, whose identity has not yet been revealed to protect ...
Mexican cartel leader could be extradited to the U.S.
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010
Edgar Valdez Villarreal, the 37-year-old drug lynchpin nicknamed "La Barbie" known as being among the most brutal leaders of the Mexican cartels could face extradition to the United States after being tried to Mexico. The American-born Villarreal is suspected of numerous crimes in both Mexico and ...
Europe
Priest: We are becoming Pagan: Islam May Fill Europe's Religious Vacuum
Zenit News Agency • 9/5/2010
Father Piero Gheddo of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions and founder of the missionary news agency AsiaNews, said that far from being "folklore," al-Qadhafi's summons could become a reality in a few decades. "The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and the ...
Hawking declares that 'God Didn't Create the Universe'
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010
World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking makes a bold statement with the title of his new book entitled "God Didn't Create the Universe." Hawking seeks to banish the divine creator in the creation of matter. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Hawking argues in his book that "The Grand Design," given ...
Profile: Fr. Joseph Tobin, Archbishop-elect and newly Appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Religious
By Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010
By virtue of this selection, Fr. Tobin becomes an archbishop. The date of his Episcopal ordination has not yet been announced, but Cardinal Bertone requested that he begin his work immediately as the post has been vacant for eight months.His appointment comes at a time when the Congregation ...
Middle East
Reports of Christian Aid Workers Killed by Taliban in Pakistan Still Unconfirmed
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor • CNSNews • 9/3/2010
Mystery surrounds reports that three Western Christian relief workers were kidnapped and killed by the Pakistan Taliban last week while helping people affected by the severe floods in the country's northwest. Despite claims that the recovered bodies of the three were taken by the Pakistani ...
U.S. expresses confidence in Iraq forces
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010
U.S. forces have begun to formally hand over the reins to Iraqi security forces, and many military officials have expressed their confidence in the Iraqi army to handle all challenges. While U.S. commanders admit that rocket and mortar attacks have picked up in the past months, they it's because a ...
Asia Pacific
Pakistan faces hunger, homelessness and desperation
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010
Torrential rains and flooding have battered Pakistan over the past month, leading to the south Asian nation's worst ever recorded catastrophe. All five provinces have been effected, and the World Food Program now says that Pakistan faces a "triple threat" from the floods. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...
Pakistani women face health crisis in flooding
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010
Heavy rainfall and nonstop flooding have driven many Pakistanis from their homes, where they huddle in wait for aid that is slow in coming. The floods have damaged more than 200 health facilities and a third of the nation's 100,000 female health workers have been left without a place to practice. ...
Africa
Material for electronics mined cheaply for $1 daily in Congo
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010
Workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo must toil long and hard, for as little as $1 to $15 a day in order to mine minerals necessary for high-tech toys sold for top dollar in the west. The material used in your laptop computer or cell phone more than likely come from Congo mines. LOS ANGELES, ...
Grim statistics on Hutu genocide in Congo released
By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010
A report by the United nations of the massacres of Hutu civilians in D.R. Congo after Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been released before its intended publication. As expected, the report is relentlessly grim and shows how long and hard human beings can drop their pretense of humanity. LOS ...
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