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CURRENT
ISSUE: November 6, 2006
VOL.
44, NO. 19Oakland,
CA
Rice
asked to help halt persecution of Iraqi Christians
Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando,
Fla., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy,
has asked U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “take several
specific measures” to reverse the growing persecution of Christians
and other minorities in Iraq. >>>
Bishops
to discuss Communion, gays, liturgical music
When the U.S. Catholic bishops
gather in Baltimore next week for their fall general meeting, they will
be asked to vote on a number of draft documents affecting the life of
American Catholics. >>>
U.S. Catholics asked to mobilize
against global poverty
In a world where half of the
population is poor and more than 1 billion people endure a poverty so
harsh that their very survival is at risk daily, the notion of eliminating
extreme poverty from the world in this lifetime may seem utopian.
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