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Week of May 17, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Churches present 60,000 petitions opposing the debt:

The Canadian churches' contribution to the largest petition in history was brought to Parliament Hill May 11 in boxes on a tractor-drawn trailer as several hundred people, many of them high school students, chanted "Cancel the debt." The boxes contained the names of the more than 600,000 Canadians who signed the petition of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative since the campaign for the cancellation of the debts of the world most impoverished nations began in earnest last September. The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace raised 450,000 of the Canadian signatures.

Suppression of abortion stories angers pro-lifers:

Pro-life groups are condemning attempts to suppress reports in Alberta Report magazine on genetic, late-term abortions at Calgary's Foothills Hospital as an attack on freedom of the press. The Ottawa-based Human Life International and Alliance for Life, based in Winnipeg, said in separate statements they were shocked at the Calgary Regional Health Authority's attempts to suppress the articles.

Pope, patriarch oppose 'murderous bombardments':

Pope John Paul and Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teoctist called for an end to the "murderous bombardments" of Yugoslavia and to the forced expulsion of civilians from Kosovo. "In the name of God, the Father of all men, we insistently ask the parties involved in the conflict to definitively lay down their weapons," the pope and patriarch said in a May 8 statement.

Catholic-Anglican document proposes 'shared' primacy:

A Catholic-Anglican document has proposed both churches accept a "shared" universal papal primacy. Such authority is often exercised by the hierarchy but must be open to renewal and influence from the lay faithful, said the document by Catholic and Anglican members of the Second Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.

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