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Pope Francis urges priests to avoid becoming a “showman”

The Pope Francis Thursday advised the priests to officiate the Mass to avoid behaving like a “showman” and recover “the charm of beauty and amazement, both of whom celebrated as people”. “When we see a priest who preaches sophisticated or artificial,...
Posted On 19 Feb 2015
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Japan suffers earthquake 5.7 on the Richter scale and remains on alert

An earthquake 5.7 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale occurred yesterday in northeastern Japan, the same area which suffered on Monday, another 6.9-magnitude earthquake, but this time the tsunami warning was not triggered. The Japan Meteorological Agency said that the quake...
Posted On 18 Feb 2015
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Pope Francis is committed to help relatives of the victims of the AMIA bombing

Pope Francis vowed this Wednesday to do everything in his power to assist in the clarification of the bombing of a Jewish venue in Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people died. “From me expect everything, that I do everything possible,” the pontiff told a group of...
Posted On 18 Feb 2015
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Government closes its offices in Washington due to snowstorms

Snow and wind storms have strongly affected the northeastern of the United States, prompting the government to close all its offices in Washington, like most schools and public transport. It has also affected several southern states with frost and snowfall. These storms have...
Posted On 18 Feb 2015
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Northwest of US continues under the cold and snow

The northeast of US remains under the arctic cold, while a new storm of snow threatens the nation’s capital, Washington, and several southern states. Cities like Boston, in Massachusetts, have suffered four snowstorms in just three weeks. In fact, according to The Boston...
Posted On 17 Feb 2015
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Snowstorm affects northwestern United States

A new snowstorm yesterday left the northeastern corner of the United States, with almost zero visibility in coastal areas. This would be the fourth attack of the winter weather in less than a month. Piles of snow over two meters caused by previous storms could be seen un some...
Posted On 16 Feb 2015
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Pakistan: Taliban attack in Shiite mosque left at least 19 dead

At least 19 people dead and 67 wounded was the balance of an attack executed on Friday by a Taliban commander at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar (northwestern Pakistan), during the weekly prayer. Three men with explosive vests and weapons entered the grounds of the Imamia mosque,...
Posted On 13 Feb 2015
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UN urges Mexico to create specialized unit to investigate disappearances

The UN recommended to Mexico, through the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the creation of a “fiscal unit specialized in investigating enforced disappearances,” said a ruling released this Friday in Geneva. The opinion was prepared by ten independent experts who...
Posted On 13 Feb 2015
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Petrobras’s maritime platform suffers explosion leaving at least three dead

An explosion in the maritime platform of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras yesterday left at least three dead, six missing and ten wounded. The accident happened on the ship-platform FPSO Cidade de Sao Mateus, that had been anchored in the Atlantic, about 120 kilometers...
Posted On 12 Feb 2015
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Mexico: Four dead in Tamaulipas after clash between police and criminals

A new confrontation between suspected criminals and federal forces in the state of Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico, on Wednesday left a toll of four dead. The confrontation has occurred in the city of Reynosa, when armed civilians who were traveling in a van “began to...
Posted On 12 Feb 2015
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