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Brazil strengthens ties with Cuba with presidential visit
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/4/2012
Brazil's first female president, Dilma Rousseff\' touched down in Haiti after visiting Cuba in an effort to strengthen ties with the two beleaguered Caribbean nations. Rousseff is committed to investing her nations with both nations and deepen political ties. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...
Social activists in Guatemala march against 'femicides'
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012
The Central American nation of Guatemala has been one of the hardest hit by a wave of "femicides" - murders committed against women for the sole reason that they are female. Guatemala is second only to Mexico in terms of murders committed against women. Right-wing retired general Otto Pérez ...
Cuban President pledges to set term limits; even his own
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/30/2012
Cuban President Raul Castro reiterated his pledge to limit political terms in office to 10 years - including his own. Castro made the statement at the country's Communist Party ended its two-day national conference in Havana. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Castro said a constitutional ...
Europe
Congregation for the Clergy on the Mystery of Suffering and the Saving Power of God
By Congregation for the Clergy • Catholic Online • 2/5/2012
Moved by human suffering, Jesus healed many who were sick and cast out unclean spirits. What the readings tell us is not just that suffering can be healed. In the second reading St Paul explains the possibility for each of us to participate in the saving work of Christ. We can truly ...
Pope Benedict XVI Calls Christians to Prayer as the 'Yes' Which Sets Us Free
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/4/2012
Pope Benedict XVI continued his astounding catechesis on prayer to the pilgrims assembled for his weekly General Audience. He invited them - and he invites all of us - to learn from the example of the Lord Jesus Christ and his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. In Christ's "yes" to the ...
Greek debt at the top of the list at eurozone crisis meeting
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/31/2012
Greek's precarious financial future and substantial debt are sure to be at the top of this week's eurozone crisis meeting. European leaders have gathered in Brussels, the Belgian capital and de facto capital of the European Union for a fresh round of talks. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - This ...
Middle East
United Nations asks Syrian president to step down
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012
Western and Arab nations have gathered at the United Nations in New York City to push for a tough resolution on Syria, calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down and hand power over to his deputy. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The resolution stresses that there will be no foreign ...
Death toll rises in Syrian city of Homs
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/29/2012
Armed forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad barraged residential buildings with machine-gun fire and killed at least 30 people in the besieged city of Homs. Activists say that heavy gunfire erupted last week. Homs has seen some of the heaviest violence of the 10-month-old uprising ...
Asia Pacific
Notorious Cambodian war criminal sentenced to life in prison
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/5/2012
Cambodia's war crimes court has rejected the appeal of one of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious war criminals. Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias of Duch ran a torture prison during the reign of Pol Pot. Eav was instead sentenced to life in prison. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ...
China unlikely to join embargo against Iranian oil
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/2/2012
According to various analysts, China is highly unlikely to join the West in an oil embargo penalizing Iran for its nuclear program. China has practiced a non-interfering foreign policy for the last 30 years, i.e. denouncing sanctions on one hand yet working to protect its national interests ...
Africa
Zimbabwe officials to investigate typhoid outbreak
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012
Health officials in the African nation of Zimbabwe have called for an overhaul of the national water and sanitation systems. There has been an unprecedented outbreak of typhoid in that country that has affected more than 1,500 people. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Zimbabwe Health ...
Al-Shabab bans Red Cross from stricken sections of Somalia
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012
Somalia's militant Islamist organization has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from that African nation's most stricken areas. In a statement, al-Shabab declared that it had "decided to fully terminate the contract" of the RED CROSS, claiming the organization had handed ...
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