Archive for the ‘church’ Category

‘Aids drugs’ flood black market: Africa: Zimbabwe: News24

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Harare - Aids drugs - some of them contaminated, diluted or faked - are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, says the health ministry.Read the full story

Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries.Read the full story

BRAZIL: Controversial Bill to Sterilise Younger Women

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

BRAZIL: Controversial Bill to Sterilise Younger Women RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 22 (IPS) - A draft law to reduce the minimum age for women to undergo voluntary sterilisation in Brazil’s public hospitals from 25 to 18 is vigorously opposed by the government.Read the full story

“Right Now, I Could Kill President Bush”

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Not the sort of thing you'd normally expect to hear out of the mouth of a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but then, these are not normal times : Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached. ...

Pope wants to deliver Jews ‘from their darkness’ | Press Esc

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Pope Benedict XVI courted fresh controversy today by formally sanctioning the celebration of a Latin prayer that calls for Jews to "be delivered from their darkness" and calls for their conversion to Christianity. "In parishes, where there is a stable group of faithful who adhere to the earlier liturgical tradition, the ...