Prayer Meeting Shows Pope’s Larger Vision
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 6th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Prayer Meeting Shows Pope’s Larger Vision
Pope Francis’s prayer meeting on Sunday with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents shows how he is trying to position the Vatican as an independent, global diplomatic player.
World Briefing: Syria: Drought Adds to Woes, U.N. Says
The supply of safe water in Syria is now one-third of the level it was before March 2011 when the civil war began, Unicef officials said.
World Briefing: India: Officers Convicted in Man’s Death
Seventeen police officers were convicted of kidnapping and killing a man, 22, and could face the death penalty when they are sentenced on Monday, Indian officials said.
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State Department officials acknowledged that their efforts to directly challenge Boko Haram could prove challenging in a region racked by massacres, bombings and shootings.
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