A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government is refusing to let noncombatants leave the combat zone.
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Activists Lobby U.N. on Sri Lanka
Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E
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Northern Irelands Catholic bishops have met with a loyalist group in an effort to build peace… and reconciliation, said Cardinal Seán Brady.
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Scholars: Promote Religious Freedom
There is this erroneous notion that its unconstitutional if we are talking to religious leaders around the world, said Thomas F. Farr.
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Richardson Honored in Rome
Archbishop Sheehan introduced the governor to Pope Benedict, saying, Holy Father, this is our governor and he just repealed the death penalty.
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Vatican Objects to Remarks on Israel
The Vatican called Irans president’s recent remarks about Israel at a U.N. conference on racism as extremist and unacceptable
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The Benedictine priest Stanley L. Jaki (left), a Hungarian-born author, physicist, philosopher and theologian, died on April 7 in Madrid.
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In Israeli Jewish Schools, No Teaching About Christianity
Currently, if anything about Christianity is taught, it is about the Crusades and the Inquisition. There is no teaching of comparative religion.
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Invitation Stokes a National Controversy
Notre Dames invitation to President Obama is the latest in a series of controversies concerning the identity of Catholic colleges.
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Demand for Counseling Skyrockets During Troubled Times
We are simply beyond capacity at this point, said a Catholic Charities worker in St. Louis, Mo.