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![Reaching the UN’s Millennium Development Goals is looking less and less likely. (CNS photo/Reuters) Development world poverty](/images/stories/international/international10/poverty_mdg.jpg)
Czerny will accompany Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to a Sept. 20-22 high level meeting at the United Nations in New York to review progress on the MDGs. The Canadian Jesuit is Turkson’s personal advisor on justice and peace issues.
Muslim mobs attack Christians in Kashmir
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service![A Kashmiri protester runs for cover during a protest in Srinagar, India, Sept. 14. Police in India-controlled Kashmir surrounded Catholic churches and schools to protect them after mobs threw Molotov cocktails at government and Christian buildings Sept. 13. (CNS photo/Danish Ismail, Reuters)](/images/stories/international/international10/kashmir.jpg)
“There are policemen everywhere, wherever there are churches and schools, to protect Christian sites,” Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery of Jammu and Srinagar, India, told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Pope urges people of Great Britain to preserve Christian tradition
By John Thavis, Catholic News Service![Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to celebrate Mass at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 16, 2010. (CNS photo/Phil Noble, Reuters) Pope Scotland](/images/stories/international/international10/pope_scotland2.jpg)
"Your forefathers' respect for truth and justice, for mercy and charity come to you from a faith that remains a mighty force for good in your kingdom, to the great benefit of Christians and non-Christians alike," the Pope said at a reception with Queen Elizabeth II and more than 400 distinguished guests at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital.
Protest leaders tell archbishop they won't disrupt papal events
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service![Pope in England](/images/stories/international/international10/PopeEngland.jpg)
Members of the Protest the Pope coalition told Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark that they do not intend to demonstrate at any public events during the Sept. 16-19 papal visit to England and Scotland.
Nine years after 9/11, pastor sees ripples of hope
By Michael C. Gabriele, Catholic News Service![This is the view of the New York skyline from the Paulus Hook waterfront in Jersey City, N.J., four blocks from Our Lady of Czestochowa parish. (CNS photo/Michael Gabriele) New Jersey](/images/stories/international/international10/jersey.jpg)
But it wasn’t the events of the cataclysmic date itself that brought him to tears; rather, it was an unexpected encounter with a woman in 2006 who gently knocked on the door of Our Lady of Czestochowa, the parish in Jersey City where he had served.
'Social business' plan aims to create social change
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News![Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, listens during the session 'Restoring Growth through Social Business' at the Annual Meeting 2009 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Date (Photo from Wikimedia) Yunas](/images/stories/international/international10/yunus.jpg)
Mohammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, said his social business model could transform Haiti, still reeling from its devastating earthquake, by creating a problem-solving environment that addresses deep-rooted issues such as employment and housing.
Families believe 'miracle' saved 33 Chilean miners
By Aaron Nelsen, Catholic News Service![A relative of one of the miners trapped underground lights a candle outside a deep underground copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile Aug. 29.(CNS photo/Pascal Parra, Reuters) Chile mine](/images/stories/international/international10/chilemine.jpg)
Later that day, the couple received word that the San Jose mine where Sanderson worked had collapsed, trapping 33 miners, including Olivares' cousin, Carlos Buge.
For 17 days and nights, the families of the trapped miners crowded in tents at Camp Hope outside of the mine, many of them turning to the Church and praying that their loved ones would be rescued from the belly of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
Belgian cardinal admits to naiveness, not cover up
By Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service![Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels. (CNS photo) Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels.](/images/stories/international/international10/godfried.jpg)
“There was no intention of any cover-up,” said Toon Osaer, spokesman for the cardinal, who retired in January as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
Pakistan flood aid picks up
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register![Flood victims cross a flooded road in the Dera Ghazi Khan district in the Pakistani province of Punjab Aug. 21. (CNS photo/Asim Tanveer, Reuters) Pakistan flood](/images/stories/international/international10/pakistanflood2.jpg)
Contributions over the Internet pushed the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace disaster relief fund for Pakistan over the $100,000 mark on the Aug. 22 weekend. In the archdiocese of Toronto, the ShareLife Pakistan Flood Relief fund went from less than $11,000 on Aug. 16 to $38,497 as of 3 p.m. Aug. 23.
With the federal government giving in to pleas from Development and Peace and other agencies to establish a dollar-for-dollar program to match private donations, Development and Peace is hopeful Canadian generosity will begin to equal the massive scale of the floods in the Indus River valley.
9/11 mosque controversy echoes era of anti-Catholic bias
By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service![A man holds a sign during a rally held to support a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York Aug. 22, 2010.(CNS photo/Jessica Rinaldi, Reuters) NYC mosque demonstration](/images/stories/international/international10/ncy_mosquedemo.jpg)
Public outcry erupted this summer over plans to convert a former Burlington Coat Factory store, located a little more than two blocks from the World Trade Centre complex, into a nine-storey Islamic cultural centre, with a mosque included. The area’s Muslim community already uses the vacant retail space for worshippers who overflow from the al-Farah Mosque, about a dozen blocks north of the trade centre property, according to The Associated Press.
Priest reports anti-Christian bias in Pakistan aid distribution
By Catholic News Service![Flood victims receive food handouts from the army in the Jafarabad district of Pakistan's Baluchistan province Aug. 17. (CNS photo/Rizwan Saeed, Reuters) Pakistan food handout](/images/stories/international/international10/pakistan_aid.jpg)
Fr. Mario Rodrigues, the Lahore-based director of the mission awareness and funding agencies, said, "While Caritas and the pontifical mission societies are working on providing humanitarian relief to displaced persons without discrimination of origin, race or religion, in other areas, the Christian refugees, even in the midst of this tragedy, are being treated as second-class citizens.