Archives on Argentine dictatorship to be opened

VATICAN (SE): The Vatican has completed the cataloguing and digitising of the archival material of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina, the apostolic nunciature in Buenos Aires and the Vatican Secretariat of State in regard to the Argentine Military Dictatorship Period (1976 to 1983).

Excommunicate Mugabe

HARARE (SE): Pastor Phillip Mugadza petitioned Pope Francis on October 12 to excommunicate the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, for running down the country’s economy and exposing the country’s citizens to poverty.

No saints’ names on hospitals

HAMMOND (CWN): The Franciscan Alliance hospital system in the mid-west of the United States of America has announced that it will remove references to saints from the names of its hospitals.

Abu Sayyaf abducts three Malaysians

MANILA (UCAN): Gunmen suspected to be from the Abu Sayyaf abducted three Malaysian fishermen off the coast of Semporna in Malaysia on September 10.

Indonesian priest attacked with ax

JAKARTA (AsiaNews): A 17-year-old later identified as Ivan Armadi Hasugian tried to kill Father Albert Pandiangan as he was celebrating Mass in the Indonesian town of Medan, North Sumatra, on August 28.

Pope leads rosary for earthquake victims

VATICAN (SE): Discarding his prepared text for a general audience on August 24, Pope Francis asked the crowds in St. Peter’s Square to join him in the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary for the victims of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck central Italy.