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...Santa Muerte's increasing popularity in their communities. Father Oscar Cantu of Houston says he has watched botanicas and Santa Muerte gain popularity in his largely Mexican-American community, particularly among poor, uneducated immigrants. Father Cantu says he has made clear to his members that Santa Muerte is in conflict with the church's teaching. However, he says there has been little discussion about the topic among the broader church leadership. "It's probably time they receive some clarification that this is a distortion of our faith," he says, adding, "This poses a challenge for the church." (The U.S. Conference...
Lucky Condoleezza Rice. After a round of bruising meetings in Russia, the Secretary of State was rewarded with a ticket to the Middle East and a mission to convince the region's leaders to come to Maryland next month to discuss the most bedeviling issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her daunting to-do list includes: Secure the support and participation of Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs skeptical of the purpose of the talks; Fashion an agenda that includes substantial discussion on topics that have flummoxed legions of diplomats, and which some of the participants would prefer to gloss over...
...meetings and the content of some of her statements hint at the serious limitations on what she - and those in the Bush Administration who support her efforts - can accomplish. Rice may insist that "Israelis and Palestinians are making their most serious effort in years to resolve the conflict," but dynamics on the ground continue to suggest otherwise...
...patrol post Bukima, where government troops are trying to push the rebels out of the park. Says Newport: "The gorillas are confused and could get caught in the crossfire. They are not a target, but happen to live in a part of the world with a lot of human conflict." The larger problem, of course, is one of stability. The gorillas have weathered conflict before, with nearly 150 shot dead by either gunmen or poachers in the last ten years alone...
...widely expected, but there may still be those who wonder how an environmentalist could be, as the Peace Prize's description goes, the person who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." They shouldn't. Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist...