World news index
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Pakistan flood misery continues
PAKISTAN (ACN News): Authorities in Pakistan have been overwhelmed by the number of people displaced by the floods. (05/09/2010)
Catholics pray for 72 massacred migrants
MEXICO CITY (CNS): Catholics in the north-eastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas offered prayers for the 72 undocumented migrants from Central and South America whose bodies were discovered August 24 in what was possibly the largest mass slaying since the country began cracking down on drug cartels and organised crime. (05/09/2010)
Cardinal suggests younger communion age
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Children today are maturing so quickly and are exposed to so many different influences that it might be time to consider allowing them to prepare for and receive their first Communion even before their seventh birthdays, the head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments said. (29/08/2010)
Toronto leader sponsors Iraqi refugee family
TORONTO (CNS): For Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins, the fate of Iraqi Christians trapped in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon is not just another tough case in an unfair world full of too much heartbreak. For him, the situation is personal. (29/08/2010)
Helping to rebuild Haiti
HAITI (ACN News): "The people are still traumatised; the parishes have been scattered, and over half the churches are destroyed." (22/08/2010)
US leaders decry decision on same-sex marriage
WASHINGTON (CNS): Saying that marriage between a man and a woman "is the bedrock of any society," Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounced the August 4 decision of a federal judge to overturn a California voter-backed initiative that essentially banned same-sex marriage. (22/08/2010)
Murdered Christians remembered
PAKISTAN (ACN News): Nearly 2500 people in Pakistan marking the first anniversary of some of the country's worst anti-Christian violence listened as a senior police official admitted the security forces had failed in their duty to protect their loved ones and homes. (15/08/2010)
Prison could be St Peter's
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Tradition holds that St Peter was jailed in Rome's maximum security Mamertine Prison before he was crucified upside down and buried on the hill where St Peter's Basilica was later built. (15/08/2010)
Vocations rising against persecution
INDIA (ACN News): Vocations are continuing to grow in the north of India despite increasing persecution, according to a bishop in the region. (08/08/2010)
Bishops fear more violence
SUDAN (ACN News): The bishops of Sudan have issued an official statement warning that the country could return to widespread violence unless political leaders speed up preparation work ahead of a ref-erendum on the future of the south. (08/08/2010)
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