Signs Of the Times

Negotiators from small nations were outraged when an agreement was leaked that included generous emissions for industrialized nations.

“We shall discover the meaning of Christmas in a quiet way and hope for the return of harmony and peace,” said Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore.

Thirty faith-based institutional investors are using their shareholder clout to urge 21 health companies to disclose the compensation packages for their top executives.

“As the legislation moves forward, the Archdiocese of Washington will continue its dialogue with the council,” said Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese.

“I think he’s making a tragic and horrible mistake,” said David Robinson, head of Pax Christi USA.

Christians conducted a vigil service in Bhopal, India, to remember victims and survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster.

“It is inconceivable that with more than 100 world leaders gathered together in one room…they have failed to commit themselves to adequate and binding obligations,” said the secretary general of Cidse.

A critical factor will be the doctors’ evaluation concerning the woman’s mental state and whether or not she was “of sound mind.”

Orthodox Christians in predominantly Muslim Turkey “don’t feel that we enjoy our full rights as Turkish citizens,” said Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox.

A total of four bishops have now resigned as a result of a recent report on how the Dublin Archdiocese covered up allegations of clerical sex abuse.