New hope for Sakineh "Condemnation may be broken"

TEHRAN - The sentence of stoning for Sakineh Ashtiani-Mohammadi, the Iranian woman whose death sentence has mobilized the international community, could be undone. He said a "high source" of the Iranian Ministry of Justice Iranian Fars agency, quoted by Agence France Presse. "Everything is possible," said the head of the judiciary in the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, when a reporter asked him if the sentence can be annulled.

The pope condemns massacre in Egypt "vile gesture, an offense against humanity"

ROME - The attack against the Coptic Christian community in Egypt was "a cowardly act of death" that "offends God and humanity." The strong condemnation from Pope Benedict XVI is back at the end of the Angelus on Sunday, on the massacre carried out in the New Year's Eve in Alexandria, Egypt. "Yesterday morning - said the pontiff - have learned with sorrow the news of the serious attack against the Coptic Christian community made in Alexandria, Egypt.

Armed mitIran: 100 celebrities call for release of German Reporter

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg agrees with Franz Beckenbauer, Josef Ackermann and Günther Jauch: 100 celebrities urging Iran's leadership to free two detained German journalists. The reporters wanted to talk about a woman who was sentenced to death for adultery. Berlin - The Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Guido Westerwelle are also business leaders such as Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann and railway chief Ruediger Grube.

Christians in the heart of Islam in the crosshairs of the fundamentalists

Even Christians targeted in the Middle East, this time in Egypt. After Baghdad, Alexandria. An attack announced that reveals how the Christian presence in the universe of the Crescent is increasingly at risk. The Benedict XVI stressed again and reported that Napolitano spoke of persecution: a bloody persecution that threatens one of the most basic human rights, freedom of worship.

A drama of which should bear the entire international community. Especially the Muslim countries should do so that they have inside religious minorities. Pena a terrible religious homogenization, which will arise, inevitably, new conflicts and tensions. The Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, had already threatened the Copts, who are accused of preventing the conversion to Islam for two women in their communities.

The Ivorian president refuses to leave office

The current president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, yesterday rejected the ultimatum to relinquish power that gave the opposition leader and winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara, whom the international community recognizes as new Ivorian president. A senior UN official also warned Gbagbo and his officials can be accused of human rights violations.

Meanwhile, the population is growing fear that violence will trigger a new civil war. Prime Minister designated by Ouattara and leader of the New Forces, Guillaume Soro, Gbagbo threatened that if he does not leave office, the country's new leaders will be forced "to consider further measures." Gbagbo has refused to acknowledge that he lost the presidential election to Ouattara on 28 November.

2011 for peace

Do not you remember just anybody and nobody remembers him, but on January 1 would be the World Day of Peace, a tragic mockery seems to want to keep in mind while other twenty-one people died in Alexandria, hit by a car by armed workers for the global war, as opposed to the Crusades, to divide the world in strictly confined areas, a sort of fanaticism Yalta that aims to destroy any contamination and dialogue and shot dead as still living of the principles ispirarorono the French Revolution: liberty, fraternity, equality.

The year of Barack Obama

"Mele Kalikimaka." Merry Christmas in Hawaiian. Barack Obama has given hope just got out of the lineup of the plane that brought him to Hawaii, where the president spent with family and old friends a few times in Chicago, the year-end holidays. It 'been a troubled 2010 for him to come to the White House in the wake of one of the most striking phenomena of collective fascination with the past few decades, and soon scontratosi with the reality of government, the opposition Republican, the tangle of power and interests of a complex society.