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POPSGory. Do NOT LOOK. Do NOT, unless you must! Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said the strike, which hit a civilian area, was the result of a "technical failure". "I'm very uncomfortable with this event. I'm very distressed." "I checked it and I verified it. This is not the policy,"
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POPSLetters Reveal Mother Teresa's Secret "What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true." "These are letters that were kept in the archbishop's house," the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk told Phillips. The letters were gathered by Rev. Kolodiejchuk, the priest who's making the case to the Vatican for Mother Teresa's proposed sainthood. He said her obvious spiritual torment actually helps her case. "Now we have this new understanding, this new window into her interior life, and for me this seems to be the most heroic," said Rev. Kolodiejchuk. According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said. The church decided to keep her letters, even though one of her dying wishes was that they be destroyed. Perhaps now we know why.
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POPSIsrael’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Investigators to Enter Gaza In listening to the CNN interview the pack of lies by the war mongering heartless bullies were almost believable until asked about oversight, then it all fell apart. I guess when you become as arrogant and your accomplice in crime (Bush) you don't bother trying to lie well. Insulting to anyone with a functioning mind.
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POPSGlobal Peace Index "The Global Peace Index is intended to contribute significantly to the public debate and highlight the relationship between Global Peace and Sustainability. Because, how will we achieve the necessary global co-operation to reverse global warming, loss of bio-diversity, provide adequate drinking water and a sustainable population without peace?"
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POPSThe Abomination of American Imperialism I take no joy in writing these words, but America's attempts at imperialism are so half-hearted, so feeble, so stupefyingly inept, that we might as well hoist le Tricolore, print all our legal documents in French, and subjugate ourselves to our superiors in Paris. Maybe being forced under penalty of death to drink their lighter-fluid-flavored wines and laugh at Jerry Lewis movies will teach us how an empire is SUPPOSED to be run.
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POPSWho are the Chaldean Christians? An archbishop seized by gunmen last month in Iraq has been found dead. The body of Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, was found in a shallow grave close to the city. Pope Benedict XVI said he was profoundly moved and saddened, calling the archbishop's death an act of inhuman violence. Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped not long after he left mass in Mosul, in northern Iraq, on 29 February. Three people who were with him at the time, a driver and two guards, were killed by the gunmen. It is not clear whether he was killed, or died of natural causes. Nobody has claimed responsibility for his death. The archbishop's body was found by church workers who went to the area after being contacted by the kidnappers.