Summary: We remain committed to work side by side with the churches the president of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit told representatives of an international ecumenical delegation in Juba Southern Sudan on 3 April 2008
Summary: AP - Chelsea Clinton is spending long days on the campaign trail telling college crowds about her mother's positions on everything from health care and student-loan costs to the Darfur crisis and gay rights.
Summary: AP - The Senate is working to quickly pass a grab bag of measures aimed at helping homeowners and businesses weather the housing crisis as a key House panel hears from experts on a broader government rescue plan for struggling borrowers.
Summary: AP - Democrats plan to push legislation this spring that would force the Iraqi government to spend its own surplus in oil revenues to rebuild the country, sparing U.S. dollars.
Summary: Hip young and fun are usually not words that come immediately to mind when describing the Catholic Church But this is the mood the worlds second largest religious institution is looking to create for the Popes stop at a youth rally in New York next Saturd
Summary: Reuters - Protesters angered over China's
crackdown in Tibet marched in San Francisco ahead of the
Olympic torch's arrival on Wednesday, but Olympics chief
Jacques Rogge said there are no plans to cut short a global
relay.
Summary: AFP - Iraq on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's iron-fisted regime with the nation still wracked by violence and the capital under curfew.
Summary: Authorities are bracing for protests Wednesday as runners plan to carry the Olympic torch through the streets of San Francisco -- but they hope to avoid the chaos that disrupted the torch relay in London and Paris.
