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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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Europe
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 ...
Middle East
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 ...
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 ...
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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