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The court seeks to accommodate “petitioners’ religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered by petitioners’ health plans receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage.”

Venezuela’s opposition warned the embattled leader that if he tries to block an attempt to hold a recall referendum, society could “explode.”

“We feel because of our values, the choice was this, but that didn’t mean it was easy.”

A spokesperson for the Friends of St. Frances X. Cabrini, said the group plans to consult with its attorney, but acknowledged, “it doesn’t sound good.”

Alarming levels of hunger, caused by the worst drought in about half a century, has left about 10 percent of all Ethiopians—some 10 million in all—in need of food aid.

Bishop Lubamba noted that many government observers believe President Kabila is considering changes to the constitution that would allow him to run for a third term.

Two mandates from the New York State Department of Financial Services have been placed on insurers—without any legislative or regulatory enactment—that have the effect of forcing religious and other employers to pay for abortions in employee health plans.

The spokesman insisted “it is wrong to reduce all the important things the pope said to the religious women to just this question.”

“I don’t want to exaggerate, but there is a feeling on the part of the Palestinians that the current Israeli government just wants a purely Jewish [Jerusalem].”

“Ambient air pollution…is the greatest environmental risk to health—causing more than 3 million premature deaths worldwide ever year,”