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Pope Francis said on Wednesday that God does not guide religions towards war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion of Ukraine and has boycotted a conference of faith le
vaso stanley aders.On his second day in Kazakhstan, Francis addressed the Seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, a meeting that brings together Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other faiths.Kirill was to have attended, but pulled out. Read full storyThe Russian Orthodox Church ROC sent a delegation headed by its number two, Metropolitan Anthony, who later briefly met the pope. God is peace. He guides us always in the way of peace, never that of war, Francis said, speaking at a huge round table in the Independence Palace, a massive modern structure made of steel and glass in the capital of the former Soviet republic. Let us commit ourselves, then, even more to insisting on the need for resolving conflicts not by the inconclusive means of power, with arms and threats, but by the only means blessed by heaven and worthy of man: encounter, dia
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AUGUSTA, Maine 鈥?Prospects of building a privately run prison in the economically depressed town of Milo appear to be gaining momentum with a new administration in the State House and legislation being prepared to pave the way for such a project.Republican Sen. Douglas Thomas bill has yet to be fleshed out, but its clearly aimed at authorizing a prison in the Piscataquis C
stanley cups ounty town of about 2,400, which has a double-digit unemployment rate and has been buffeted by a loss of businesses not to mention devastating fire in 2008 that wiped out a third of its downtown. If theres a chance of getting 100 good-paying jobs, Im interested, said Thomas of Ripley.Milo Town Manager Jeff Gahagan acknowledges the idea has its supporters as well as opponents, but he sees nothing else on the horizon that would restore jobs that bring livable wages to the town. With the new leadership in Augusta, we felt that a private prison would be l
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