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VATICAN CITY (CNS): While some pundits have sounded the death knell for ecumenical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the Anglican spiritual leader, pledged to move forward.

DAMBA, Angola (Zenit.org): Angolans are being driven from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo without a chance to gather possessions or food, a Catholic aid agency said.

ROME (CNS): Opulence and waste are unacceptable especially when hunger - the cruelest form of poverty - continues to rise, Pope Benedict XVI told world leaders at a summit on food securi

WASHINGTON (CNS): United States Catholic bishops' pres-ident Cardinal Francis George of Chicago praised the US House for approving a reform bill that provides "adequate and affordable health care to all" and "voting overwhelmingly" for a prohibition on using federal money to pay for most abortions.

MINSK, Belarus (Zenit.org): The head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity has affirmed that the enemies of believers are secularism and godlessness, not members of other faiths.

Bureau chief of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Monsignor Juan Usma Gomez knows Pentecostal Christians better than most other Catholics do. He spoke with journalist PAUL DOBBYN about some of his insights

Progress in the field of renewable energy is key for poverty eradication, the Holy See contends.

Catholics' respect for human life and dignity must be clear in the way they welcome migrants and refugees, offer them pastoral care and lobby their governments for fairer treatment of people on the move, Vatican officials said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Meeting the challenges of Africa - from protecting the environment to stopping the spread of AIDS - requires an individual change of heart, better education and co-operation based on respect for African and Christian values, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana, said.