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News - International
Monday, 09 November 2009
The South Africa Bishop's Conference (SACBC) is warning that thousands of women will be trafficked for prostitution at the soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
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News - International
Monday, 09 November 2009
The Rudd Government is being called to tighten controls over the way Australian companies operate overseas, following reports that local company Anvil Mining, which is caught up in alleged war crimes in Africa, could partner UK oil company Trafigura, which has landed in trouble over dumping toxic waste.
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News - International
Monday, 26 October 2009
Bishops at the Vatican's Synod on Africa are calling for "saintly politicians who will clean the continent", lambasting corrupt leaders in office in a communique released on Friday.
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News - International
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Saying they have special talents and shouldn't be left to clean churches and mend vestments, nuns have told the African Synod in Rome they want more of a say in running the Church.
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News - International
Wednesday, 07 October 2009
Speaking at a press conference during the African Synod, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson says there's no reason why the next pope can't be black.
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News - International
Monday, 05 October 2009
Pope Benedict warned that Africa, which he described as a "spiritual lung", was at risk from the "toxic spiritual rubbish" of materialism that the developed world continues to export, as well as from increasing religious fundamentalism.
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News - International
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Marauding bands of guerrillas have "crucified" seven Christians during a series of raids on villages in Sudan, with one man tied to a tree and mutilated while six other victims were nailed to pieces of wood and killed.
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News - International
Friday, 31 July 2009
Hundreds are believed dead in Nigeria from three days of violence blamed on a group dubbed the "Nigerian Taliban". The local Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace warned of rising radical Islamists.
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News - International
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Caritas Australia said it is "alarmed" by the killing of Caritas aid worker Ricky Sukaka in Congo, and points to the growing number of victims in the African republic from increased activity of the country's army and rebel groups.
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News - International
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
The killer of an Austrian priest working in South Africa has confessed to the crime in an anonymous note left at a church, South African police say.
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