Pope asks G8 to keep African aid promise
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"Education is the starting point for autonomous and sustainable development"  VATICAN CITY, June 6 Pope Benedict XVI took time from his weekly general audience Wednesday to ask Group of Eight members to keep promises of increased aid to Africa. via Earth Times
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Italy called on Group of Eight rich nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some of the stricken countries gathered pace.
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Pope John Paul II said Sunday that faith can be helpful during catastrophes like the Indian Ocean tsunami by reminding sufferers of God's continued presence.
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Bob Geldof has appealed to governments around the world to allow VAT receipts on purchases of the new DVD of the 1985 Live Aid concert to be spent on aid for Africa.
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The world's media outlets should use their power to promote peace and understanding and to mobilize aid during natural disasters, as happened following the recent tsunami in Asia, Pope John Paul II said in a message released Monday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday urged rich nations to keep their promises of financial aid to Africa, saying failure to do so could threaten the continent's march toward prosperity and democracy.
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Oxfam urges Tony Blair to make the fight against African poverty a priority for his time left in office.
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Bono said Saturday that Africa must keep working to stop malaria, which kills more than 1 million people a year &amp;#151; many of them young children on the continent.
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Pope John Paul II vowed Sunday to continue his mission despite his latest health crisis, telling the faithful from the hospital in a message read by an archbishop that he was grateful for their prayers and affection.
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The African Union needs increased United Nations support if it is to continue its peacekeeping operation in Darfur, European Commission aid chief Louis Michel said on Monday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will try to push poverty reduction back onto the G8 agenda, warning it will take &amp;quot;hard work for years to come&amp;quot; to tackle extreme poverty in Africa.
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President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo asked U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday for continued support as he seeks to stabilize the volatile eastern part of his vast Central African nation.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during a trip to Rome to launch a scheme aimed at providing life-saving vaccines to millions of children in the developing world.Comment
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Tony Blair is urged to use his presidency of the G8 of top industrialised nations to end world debt.
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Pope Benedict XVI issued a Christmas Day appeal Tuesday to political leaders around the globe to find the "wisdom and courage" to end bloody conflicts in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo
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Kofi Annan gently prodded world leaders to follow through on their aid pledges, which now total more than $3 billion.
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PARIS/ROME  - Italy called on Group of Eight rich  nations Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian  Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some  of the stricken countries gathered pace.