Tag: Vatican
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UN warns of Afghanistan ‘humanitarian crisis’ – Vatican News
The United Nations has sent a stark message to world leaders, warning that Afghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” including widespread hunger and financial collapse.
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Hurricane Grace lashes eastern Mexico as it moves inland – Vatican News
At least eight people have been killed and three are still missing, after Hurricane Grace hit Mexico twice in two days, causing widespread damage, flooding, and landslides.
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Biggest disability rights campaign launched before Paralympics – Vatican News
The decade-long “WeThe15” campaign intends to advance the rights and empowerment of the world’s 1.2 billion people with disabilities who make up 15 per cent of the global population.
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South Sudan mourns slain nuns. – Vatican News
“Our sisters were killed in cold blood,” says Sister Christine John Amaa, of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, providing details of the murder of Sister Mary Daniel Abut, and Sister Regina Roba.
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Haiti searches for victims of devastating earthquake – Vatican News
At least a thousand people are known to have died in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday, with at least five times that many injured and a still unknown number of people missing.
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Pope urges Latin American religious to be joyful witnesses – Vatican News
Pope Francis sends a video message to a conference reuniting religious men and women in Latin America and the Caribbean, inviting them to root the Gospel in their local cultures and to be joyful.
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Ecumenical Prayer for the Reunification of the two Koreas on 15 August – Vatican News
On 15 August 1947, the Korean peninsula was liberated from 35 years of brutal Japanese colonization. The day also marks the division of Korea into two nations.
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Western nations announce new sanctions on anniversary of Belarusian election
The United States and other western countries have imposed new sanctions on Belarus one year after a controversial presidential election that saw Alexander Lukashenko claim a sixth term as president of the former Soviet republic.
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Cardinal Martinez Somalo dies at age of 94 – Vatican News
Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo died in the Vatican on Tuesday at the age of 94, following a long and distinguished career in service of the Holy See.
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40 years of WCC and Vatican in the scope of the KGB
and will reveal more thoroughly Secret services’ interest in religious organizations. The book “The KGB and the Bulgarian State Security Service – connections and dependences” is a Collection of Records (1950-1991),ISBN 978-954-92467-1-1, Sofia, 2009, edited by the Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of…