Ethnic tensions underlie the instability and conflict being experienced in the Solomon Islands says a Marist Brother who has been teaching in the country. PETER BUGDEN reports:.
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Gay law row
WASHINGTON (CNS): The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has deplored a US Supreme Court decision on June 26 which overturned state laws that made sodomy between consenting adults illegal...
Read More »Time for Balkans to start afresh
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNS): Pope John Paul II has visited Banja Luka, a Balkan city scarred by two ethnic cleansing campaigns in recent decades, and asked God's forgiveness for wrongs committed by Catholics and others in the tormented region...
Read More »Bishop resigns after fatal crash
VATICAN CITY (CNS): A US bishop resigned after he was charged with leaving the scene of a traffic accident in which a 43 year-old man was killed...
Read More »Gusmao’s prize
NEW YORK (CNS): Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, presented the annual Path to Peace Award on June 12 to President Xanana Gusmao of East Timor...
Read More »Violence vortex no way to peace
VATICAN CITY (CNS): With the latest Middle East peace plan in jeopardy, Pope John Paul II warned that Israelis and Palestinians had fallen into an "endless vortex of violence and reprisal"...
Read More »War memorial chapel of peace
An open-air chapel on the central Queensland coast is a memorial to the US and Australian servicemen who sacrificed their lives during World War II and a reminder of the need to pray for peace. ELAINE CARNEY visited this oasis of peace.
Read More »Prophecy of peace
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Marking the 40th anniversary of Blessed Pope John XXIII's death, Pope John Paul II held up his predecessor's "prophecy of peace" as a continuing challenge for believers today...
Read More »Papal attack on contraception
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has decried attempts to impose "morally unacceptable" types of family planning and reproductive health measures on Asian countries such as India...
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