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Pope Not Avoiding Ahmadinejad

June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Benedict XVI isn’t hiding behind a full schedule to avoid meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports the Vatican.
For several days media reports have speculated on whether the Pope would meet with Iran’s president this week, who arrived in Rome today to attend the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) summit on food security.
An announcement by [...]

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Holy See: Cluster Bomb Ban a “Big Step”

June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The international agreement to ban cluster bombs is a “big step,” even though there is still much work to be done, according to the Holy See’s permanent observer at the U.N. offices in Geneva.Archbishop Silvano Tomasi led the Holy See delegation at last week’s International Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, in which he said the [...]

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President of El Salvador Awarded Path to Peace 2008

June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

In New York on 10 June the Path to Peace Foundation will bestow the 2008 Path to Peace Award on Elias Antonio Saca Gonzalez, president of El Salvador. Every year, the foundation awards the prize in recognition of acts of individual leadership in the international community. The president of the foundation, which was founded in [...]

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Pope Urges Guatemala to Fight Child Hunger

June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There is an ethical duty to fight against hunger, especially when children are the hungry ones, Benedict XVI said to Guatemala’s new ambassador to the Holy See.
The Pope said this Saturday upon receiving in audience Acisclo Valladares Molina, a renowned lawyer and two-time presidential candidate, who previously served as the Guatemalan ambassador to the Holy [...]

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Father Damien’s Canonization a Step Closer

June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Vatican has recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Belgian Blessed Damien de Veuster, known as the apostle of lepers in Molokai, Hawaii.
Father Bruno Benati, general postulator of Father Damien’s cause, announced earlier this month that the Congregation for Saints’ Causes ruled that a Hawaiian woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle [...]

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