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Week of September 6, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

CCODP responds to Turkish quake:

Catholics in Canada continue to rally to the aid of the tens of thousands of victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey Aug. 17. Donations made to the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace for the massive international relief effort are being funnelled to Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church's international aid agency. "Anyone who wants to help out the Turkish relief effort can simply send a donation to Development and Peace and mark 'Turkey' on the cheque," said Ken Whittingham, spokesperson for CCODP. Donations earmarked for the Turkish relief effort can be made to Development and Peace, 10 St. Mary St., Suite 420, Toronto M4Y 1P9.

Alta. oil firm under firm:

Churches and religious orders in Canada and the U.S. are making little headway in their year-long battle to convince an Alberta-based oil company to adopt international human rights standards for its oil operations in Sudan. However, representatives of the 11 churches and religious communities were encouraged after a closed-door meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy Aug. 26. "We were quite impressed with the minister's level of concern about the issue," said Peter Chapman, who represents the Church shareholders in the company, Talisman Energy Inc.

Tough stand on cohabitation earns praise for bishop:

Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe knew his pastoral letter on cohabitation this summer would cause a stir. The letter, read from all pulpits the last weekend in June, bluntly condemned cohabitation as sinful and a bad way to prepare for marriage. "People stop me on street and in restaurants and churches. They say, 'By the way, that's pretty good what you did. We know it took courage and was controversial."'

Pope says world needs Church marriage teaching:

Recent social changes have made it all the more important to insist on Church teachings about marriage and the family, Pope John Paul said. The "secularist mentality" that has questioned "truths about the person, matrimony and the family," has become "in a certain sense more radical" since the early 1980s, the pontiff said Aug. 27.

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