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Vatican calls for coverage of world's simmering wars by G Donnovan 
Vatican calls for coverage of world's simmering wars. (World).(Brief Article) National Catholic Reporter, April 25, 2003, by Gill Donovan VATICAN: Unprecedented news coverage has brought the war in Iraq into living rooms around the globe. Now the Vatican wants equal time for many of the "off-screen" wars simmering in more than 30 other countries. In early April, the Vatican missionary news agency, Fides, published a 22-page dossier to draw attention to the "silent wars" around the globe. The agency complained that, judging by newspaper headlines and running TV coverage, Iraq was the only war worth reporting--or worth protesting. "Millions of victims including women and children, millions of wounded, millions of disabled whowill always carry the signs of violence in their flesh do not make news, do not stir the media and do not send people marching in protest," it said. "They don't even merit a few lines in a newspaper." The pope has reminded people that as Baghdad, Iraq, burns, the Holy Land is still being devastated by continual violence between Palestinians and Israeli occupation troops. On April 9, the pope said that while the world's attention was focused on Iraq equally tragic news was coming in from the Great Lakes region in Africa, where a massacre left hundreds of people dead. COPYRIGHT 2003 National Catholic Reporter COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group |