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$The majority of the drug violence in Mexico had been located on its northern border that it shares with the United States. Fighting among drug cartels has since spread in recent months to other parts of the country as gangs fracture, old alliances dissolve and smugglers seek new transportation routes.$

11 bodies found dumped along roadside in Veracruz, Mexico

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/25/2011

Mexico, still reeling from the atrocious roadside dumping of 35 slain bodies in Boca del Rio, has discovered the disposal of least 11 more bodies around the Mexican city of Veracruz. The bodies discovered were in small groups scattered in various parts of the city. The latest wave of ...

Drug cartel violence has been blamed for more than 40,000 deaths since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared his own

Mexican president calls U.S. 'largest consumer of drugs in the world.' Is he right?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/22/2011

Mexican President Felipe Calderon met at the U.N. General Assembly this week to beg consumer nations to decrease their need on illegal narcotics. Mexico is in the throes of a deadly drug war that has taken the lives of thousand of Mexicans, guilty and innocent alike in mass slayings from the ...

In one of the most brazen acts of violence to date in the Mexican drug war, masked gang members halted busy city traffic near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio, and dumped the 35 bodies of their slain victims in full view of horrified motorists.

Mexican Drug gang halts traffic, dumps 35 bodies on roadway

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/22/2011

In one of the most brazen acts of violence to date in the Mexican drug war, masked gang members halted busy city traffic near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio, and dumped the 35 bodies of their slain victims in full view of horrified motorists. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

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Europe

Congregation for the Clergy on the 26th Sunday: Our Actions and Choices Follow Us

By Congregation for the Clergy • Catholic Online • 9/25/2011

Our actions follow us! It is this dramatic and fascinating reality that strongly emerges from this Sunday's readings. It is dramatic because the personal liability for what we have done cannot be cancelled, whilst, at the same time, our actions represent what we could rightly describe ...

Young Germans gather to hear the Successor of the Apostle Peter

Pope Calls Enthusiastic German Youth to be Saints Who Light up the World

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/25/2011

Dear friends, Christ is not so much interested in how often in your lives you stumble and fall, as in how often you pick yourselves up again. He does not demand glittering achievements, but he wants his light to shine in you. He does not call you because you are good and perfect, but because he is ...

Ecology of Man: Pope Gives German Parliament Lesson in Natural Law

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 9/25/2011

There is also an ecology of man. Man too has a nature that he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will. Man is not merely self-creating freedom. Man does not create himself. He is intellect and will, but he is also nature, and his will is rightly ordered if he listens to his nature, ...

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Middle East

Later that day, thousands of Saleh supporters and opponents poured into the streets for parallel rallies in different parts of Sana during a lull in fighting. The rallies revolved around Friday prayers and also included funeral ceremonies for those from each side killed in the clashes.

Yemeni president makes surprise return to country, demanding ceasefire

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/24/2011

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh made a surprise return to Yemen after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Injured in an attack on his presidential compound, both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had hoped that his hospitalization would have prompted him to turn over ...

Finance Minister threatens Palestinians he will stop collecting tax revenue

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/22/2011

He's done it before, and he says that he will do it again. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz has threatened severe "financial ramifications" if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas requests U.N. membership for a Palestinian state this week. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A close ...

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Asia Pacific

The urban middle classes, a fourth of the Indian population have come to view their political representatives and bureaucrats as being unable to deliver administration in step with economic development.

India fed up with corruption in 'world's largest democracy'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/24/2011

India, with a population of one billion takes pride in the fact of being the world's largest Democracy. However, for many middle-class Indians, representative democracy and social justice have too little meaning when they regard the state "as a rent-seeking behemoth incapable of preventing ...

Pakistani Foreign Minister to U.S.: 'You will lose an ally'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/23/2011

In a show of the escalating tensions between the United States and Pakistan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen has recently accused of Pakistan's top spy agency, the ISI of working with the Haqqani network, the most violent faction among Islamic Taliban ...

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Africa

Efforts by international mediators to promote a Gulf-initiated peace deal aimed at halting the political impasse in Yemen have since collapsed.

Civilians killed in latest rage of Yemeni unrest

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/22/2011

There are reports of new violence in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, where troops still loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and opponents have clashed nonstop for several months in a political stalemate. There are reports of at least four civilians being killed in the latest round of ...

SPECIAL: Kids win AK-47, grenades from Islamic radio station

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 9/22/2011

Islam may sometimes be peaceful, but not in al-Shabab controlled Somalia. A radio station has held a contest for children and awarded weapons as prizes. For the third year in a row. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (Catholic Online) - The radio station, with strong ties to al-Shabab, a close al Qaeda ally ...

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