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Week of June 28, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Church jubilee group rejects debt plan:

Leaders of the industrialized democracies have agreed to significant debt relief for the world's poorest countries. However, Jubilee 2000 coalitions in Western nations said the plan represents "only a first step." That move follows intensive lobbying by religious and humanitarian groups, including an international assembly of Catholic bishops. Jubilee 2000 presented German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder with the signatures of 17 million petitioners worldwide who advocate debt cancellation. Those signatures include 630,000 collected in Canada.

Woman convicted over flowers at abortion clinic:

A Delta, B.C., woman who handed out flowers in front of an abortion clinic is B.C.'s newest prisoner of conscience, say pro-life officials. Mary Wagner, 25, was sentenced June 16 to spend the rest of the year in jail after admitting to a variety of offences under B.C.'s Access to Abortion Services Act. However, on June 18 Wagner was set by free by the judge who sentenced her. In March Wagner was arrested after handing out flowers in front of the Everywoman's abortion clinic in Vancouver. She was charged with two counts of protesting, besetting a building, and interfering with a person, after sitting in front of the clinic door.

Former Mexican leaders linked to 1993 murder:

Three prominent Mexicans, including the former president, will be called to testify regarding their roles in an alleged plot to murder Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo in 1993. Former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his brother, Raul, and the former head of the country's national security force will be called to testify before a special commission investigating the assassination of Posadas and allegations of a subsequent cover-up. Secret testimony by three former officers said senior officials participated in the plot.

Britain's Cardinal Hume dies:

Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England, died the evening of June 17 in a London hospital where he was suffering from inoperable abdominal cancer. He was 76. Despite being a Catholic, Hume was Britain's best-known Church leader. Hume was described by Cardinal Carlo Martini of Milan, Italy, as "one of the great prophetic figures of our age."

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