Papal appeal - Pope Benedict XVI appeals for the end of violence, intolerance
and suffering in Iraq, in Egypt and for the victims of traffickers and criminals in
the Sinai Desert... A horror ignored - We learn of the dramatic and
cruel predicament of the hundreds of African hostages held in the Sinai Desert by
human traffickers From the Philippines with love... - One of the
Filippine bishops who has just ended his ad limina visit to the Vatican talks about
the experience and the challenges of the Filippine Church… The Death Bed -
Father Jim Brand looks ahead to the third Sunday of Advent with a special thought
for those who work the land…