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 Winner: Fernando Lugo, a former RC bishop, was elected President of Paraguay on Sunday. He defeated the Colorado party candidate, ending 61 years of the party’s pro-American government. Mr Lugo, who resigned his orders in order to enter politics, is known to his enemies as “the red bishop”, and to his supporters as "the bishop of the poor" REUTERS |
| No priority EU entry for Iraqi Christians AN APPEAL to Europe by the German Interior Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, in a Sunday newspaper, to offer Christian Iraqi refugees a home until they could return was challenged on Friday by the Interior Minister for Slovenia’s EU presidency, Dragutin Mate. He said it would be very hard to work. Refugees must be accepted without the pre-condition of religion, he told reporters before a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg on Friday. United Methodists to discuss disinvestment THE general conference of the United Methodist Church in the United States, which is held once every four years, and is meeting until next Wednesday in Fort Worth, is discussing disinvestment from companies that support Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, although its Board of Church and Society has withdrawn a petition to disinvest from Caterpillar, whose customers include the Israeli military, after talks with the company. The debate was revived when the Methodist Federation for Social Action filed a petition for debate. “In no way is this issue dead,” a spokeswoman for the federation said. Accept that it’s a multifaith world, says Rome THE President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, told a four day interreligious meeting at the Resurrection Gardens in Karen, near Nairobi, that it was unrealistic to live as if there were only one global faith. Dialogue was about bridge-building. Partners in dialogue were equal, although that did not make their religions equal, he said. The meeting ended on Sunday. Florida debates ‘I believe’ number-plates RESIDENTS of Florida, in the United States, may soon be legally entitled to display car number-plates bearing the words “I believe” and an image of a cross and a stained-glass window. The new plates will cost about £12. The state legislature is expected to pass the Bill, although it has been criticised as violating the separation of Church and state. |
