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Josefina Vasquez Mota faces an uphill climb against former Mexico State Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto, the front-runner in the polls who could return Mexico's PRI to power after a 12-year hiatus.

Josefina Mota vows to become Mexico's first female president

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

Winning Mexico's National Action Party's (PAN) primary, Josefina Vazquez Mota vowed to unite a party battered by a bloody drug war. "I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history," the 51-year-old Mota told cheering supporters. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The conservative ...

On the issue of human rights in Cuba, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff avoided criticism, as some opposition sectors hoped she would do, and opted instead for a conceptual approach.

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 Online) ...

According to information from the Presidential Commission against Racism, 705 Guatemalan women lost their lives to gender-related violence in 2011, which is substantially higher than the 675 deaths the year before.

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 P�rez ...

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Europe

Lucas Papademos's chief mission was to at least agree to a preliminary deal with the

Greek talks on national debt suspended

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

Talks on the Greek national debt have been suspended - however, leaders say that many issues have been successfully resolved, and that the talks will continue. After five hours of discussions, Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said that the talks would continue this week. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

Congregation for the Clergy on the Mystery of Suffering and the Saving Power of God

By Congregation for the Clergy • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

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 ...

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Middle East

In order to attack Iran, the article says, Israel needs the approval and assistance of America, and under the current passive climate in the United States, the opportunity must not be lost to wipe out Israel before it attacks Iran.

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for destruction of Israel, Jews

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling for the death of all Jews and the destruction of Israel. On the Web site, called Alef, Khamenei says the opportunity must not be lost to remove "this corrupting material. It is a "'jurisprudential justification' to kill all the Jews and ...

Among the most harrowing scenes in Syria are the video images which appear to show people who have been shot and hit by shrapnel, including heavily injured young children.

Syria: 'It's a massive attack - a new massacre is happening here'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

China and Russia have steadfastly refused to join the United Nations in authorizing sanctions against the nation of Syria for its unbridled attacks on civilian populations during its 11-month uprising. As if in response, the Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in ...

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Asia Pacific

Cambodian war criminal Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias of Duch ran a torture prison during the reign of Pol Pot. He had ordered the execution of countless prisoners after their interrogation was completed.

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 remains Tehran's largest trading partner and biggest oil customer. Cooperation from China is crucial to the West's plan to use the embargo to force Iran to stop uranium enrichment.

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 ...

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Africa

Zimbabwe Health Minister Henry Madzorera says that the country is reporting up to 50 cases of typhoid a day.

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 ...

Hassan Osman Abdi, director of the Shabelle Media Network, was shot and killed by unidentified men outside his home in the city's Wadajir district over the weekend. The reporter, who also went under the name of

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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