16 March 2002
 Break the chains and pray togetherWilliam JohnstonThe terrorist attacks of 11 September on the United States inaugurated a new stage in history, says a Jesuit based in Tokyo. The crisis we face is essentially spiritual. Can the human family show that it can pray together for peace? A good start was made in Assisi in 1986, but the successor event in 2001 went backwards. Church in the WorldChurch leaders in Holy Land plead for justice and peace |
AsiaWhere have all the women gone.? After almost 30 years of the one-child policy, the ratio of men to women in China is out of balance, the Vatican agency Fides has reported | EuropeCalvi mystery remains unsolved |
Middle EastIsraeli government halts Nazareth mosque |
my hope for India
In India hundreds of people have been killed in Muslim-Hindu riots in Gujarat. The ruling BJP has played the Hindu card in elections in Uttae Pradesh and the campaign to build a Hindu temple on the site of the mosque at Ayodhya has been revived. Yet a veteran observer is convinced that India will come through....
Slow bus to Lima
After 10 years of dictatorship, party politics are back in Peru - and so are the high-waymen. A Columban missionary based in the mountain city of Cajamarca found that, these days, it takes rather longer to reach the capital....
An Irish homecoming
A wind of change has been blowing through Ireland, coming especially from the European Union. It's not like it used to be, thought a returning broadcaster. Yet roots that count are still alive, giving him heart on St Patrick's Day....
The silence of the sheperds
A highly controversial film about the Church and the Holocaust is showing in France. It is an updated version of Rolf Hochhuth's The Representative, which criticised Pius XII for not speaking out. Our Paris correspondent has been to see it....
