A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a
medical team who performed Colombia’s first legal abortion on an
11-year-old girl, who was eight weeks pregnant after being raped by her
stepfather.
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the
Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, said in addition to the
doctors and nurses, the measure could apply to […]

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In July, the World Council of Churches (WCC) released a statement
expressing concern over the most recent acts of violence in the Middle
East. It claimed that “the concept of the war on terror” puts
“civilians at greatest risks” and argued that Israel’s “illegal
occupation of Palestinian territories” presents “the vortex of the
region’s violent storm.”

“Acts of terror are criminal […]