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...general for humanitarian affairs, said in 2003. HHRA and the Harvard College Coalition for Ugandan Peace (HCCUP) held last night’s class to show students “what has been done, what can be done, and what students can do,” said Adriana L. Benedict ’09, HHRA’s vice president of local advocacy. The classes, to be held regularly over the semester, represent a new effort to galvanize students to involve themselves in humanitarian causes in different regions of the world. Activists say their main task is to urge international...
...hard not to notice when the Pope shows up. And you can sometimes say the same when he doesn't. Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI was a notable no-show at a September ceremony to mark 20 years since John Paul II had hosted a groundbreaking gathering of world religious leaders in Assisi, Italy. Some viewed the Pope's absence as a slap to those working for inter-faith dialogue, both inside and outside the Catholic Church. On Sunday, however, Benedict will be center stage at the most lavish, and well-attended, inter-religious ceremony of his papacy, organized...
Still, when it came time for the 20th anniversary last year, Benedict was not going to shun Assisi altogether. While preparing for a trip a few days later to his native Bavaria, the German Pope sent a letter to the commemorative gathering that called his predecessor's focus on inter-faith dialogue at Assisi "prophetic" in light of the rising violence perpetrated in the name of religion...
...Indeed, Benedict was about to live another chapter of that very prophecy. Just days later, during his homecoming trip to Germany, the new Pope delivered his provocative lecture on faith, reason and violence that set off widespread criticism in the Muslim world, punctuated by acts of violence, including the burning of churches and the killing of a nun in Somalia. Benedict was quick to turn to the "spirit of Assisi" in trying to calm the waters after his Regensberg speech, inviting Rome-based Muslim diplomats for a meeting in the Vatican and visiting the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, where...
Cost of a facsimile of the Chinon parchment (below), the original account of the alleged misdeeds of the Knights Templar. One copy is reserved for Pope Benedict XVI, and the Vatican is selling the remaining 799 copies...