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Would-be papal assassin
OFFERED TO DELIVER BIN LADEN
DEAD OR ALIVE
Rome (CNS)
urkish terrorist and would-be papal
assassin Mehmet Ali Agca offered
more than a year ago to capture and
deliver Osama bin Laden to the United
States, Agca’s lawyer said. Agca, serving
a prison term in Turkey, wrote to the
Turkish secret services and offered to
infiltrate the al Qaeda terror network, go
to Afghanistan and bring back bin Laden
“dead or alive,” Sevket Car Ozbay, his
lawyer, told ANSA, an Italian news
agency, November 2. Ozbay said he per
sonally delivered the letter 13 months ago
to Senkal Atasagun, undersecretary of
Turkey’s secret services. He said the offer
never received a reply. According to
Ozbay, Agca wrote, “America delivered
Abullah Ocalan to us as a gift. If you free
me, I will give bin Laden to America as a
gift.”
U.S. visit to Ireland
DISRUPTED, BUT CATHOLIC
OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC
Dublin, Ireland (CNS)
he U.S. Interchurch Committee on
Northern Ireland’s visit to Belfast
was disrupted by the latest crisis in the
Northern Irish peace process. Members of
the committee, made up of representa
tives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops and Presbyterian Church USA,
were due to meet nationalist and unionist
political leaders November 2, but the
meetings were cancelled as politicians
attempted to save Northern Ireland’s
political institutions. Despite the setback,
Bishop Raymond J. Boland of Kansas
City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Gerry
Powers, director of the U.S. bishops’
international justice and peace depart
ment, said their visit was going well.
“When we started making these annual
interchurch committee visits in 1990,
even the thought of a cease-fire was
unimaginable,” Powers said. “There has
been huge, huge progress. It’s just frus
trating that every year when we come
here there seems to be another major cri
sis.”
Haitian-American youth
RECEIVES NATIONAL YOUTH
LEADERSHIP AWARD
Washington (CNS)
ean Souffrant, a young Haitian-Ameri
can Catholic from the Miami Archdio
cese, has been named recipient of the
2001 Cardinal Bemardin New Leadership
Award. The award, which recognizes
young Catholics leaders who are fighting
against poverty and injustice, is given
annually by the Catholic Campaign for
Human Development, the national anti
poverty program of the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops. The award, named
for the late Chicago cardinal for his
strong support of CCHD, was announced
in Washington. It was scheduled to be
presented in Washington November 11
before the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meet
ing. Souffrant, 23, is being honored for
his volunteering and social justice work
in Miami. He is the volunteer youth min
ister for his Miami parish, Notre Dame
d’Haiti, as well as a youth leader for
Miami-Dade County’s PACT, which
stands for People Acting for Community
Together. It is a coalition of 25 interde
nominational Christian churches that
address problems among low-income res
idents.
Organizers brief Vatican
, OFFICIALS ON SECURITY FOR
World Youth Day
Rome (CNS)
anadian organizers of World Youth
Day 2002 briefed Vatican officials on
plans for increased security measures fol
lowing the September 11 terror attacks in
the United States. During organizational
meetings in Rome in late October, the
Canadian team also asked the Vatican to
renew its public endorsement of the
Toronto event to bolster confidence
among potential participants. “We’re ask
ing them to state the obvious,” Paul
Kilbertus, director of communications for
the event, told Catholic News Service
November 1. Numerous young people
had contacted organizers to ask whether
the July 23-28 event would be cancelled
because of the terror attacks, he said, and
event planners thought a renewed state
ment of Pope John Paul II’s intention to
attend would help reassure them.
Dublin cardinal apologizes
FOR CRITICIZING PROTESTANT
BISHOP
Dublin, Ireland (CNS)
ardinal Desmond Connell has apolo
gized for questioning the intellectual
capacity of Church of Ireland Archbishop
Walton Empey. Cardinal Connell made
his remarks in an interview conducted a
year ago for the recently published book,
The Irish Soul: In Dialogue. Discussing a
1997 controversy about intercommunion,
Cardinal Connell said: “Archbishop
Empey wouldn’t have much theological
competence anyway.” The cardinal said,
“He wouldn’t be regarded as one of their
high flyers, but Protestants very often go
in for a very positivistic theology.” In the
interview, Cardinal Connell also criti
cized Ireland’s oldest university, Trinity
College Dublin, for slighting him on sev
eral occasions. The cardinal apologized to
Archbishop Empey and Trinity College
after excerpts of the book were published
in a national newspaper October 31.
Vatican calls for ‘political
WILL’ TO DEAL WITH VIOLENCE
in Israel
United Nations (CNS)
he Vatican appealed in New York
October 29 for “greater international
solidarity” and “political will” to deal
with “the seemingly unending violence”
in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Archbishop Renato R. Martino, Vatican
nuncio to the United Nations, said “the
peoples of the Holy Land” were “all
cousins in the Abrahamic faith,” and he
called for a “just resolution” of their dif
ferences. “Only a just peace will bring
genuine security to all the peoples of the
region,” he said. The nuncio made his
remarks in a statement to a committee of
the U.N. General Assembly that was
reviewing the work of the U.N. Relief
and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East.
Catholics refuse to join
patriotic association;
CHURCH RAZED 3RD TIME
Hong Kong (CNS)
local government in eastern China
demolished a newly rebuilt Catholic
church for the third time in 18 months
because Catholics there refused to join a
government-recognized association.
Catholics in Linjiayuan village, Zhejiang
province, rebuilt their church during the
National Day holidays October 1-7.
However, the government demolished it
October 25, reported UCA News, an
Asian church news agency based in
Thailand. A local Catholic source told
UCA News October 26, “Government
officials said if we join the local Catholic
Patriotic Association, they will not tear
down the church.” They did not comply,
he said, adding that Catholics in the vil
lage are very angry.
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