Africa is the continent where Catholicism is strongest, unlike Europe, where people are becoming more secular–even in Italy, home of the Vatican. The exiting Pope Benedict will have a lot of influence on who will be chosen to succeed him.
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The North Korean government has threatened a nuclear attack against the United States. The threat has generally been dismissed as preposterous, and I hope it is, but I wonder. It’s unlikely that they could reach the United States with a nuclear tipped ICBM, but I think that it’s quite probable that they could bomb Seoul, and possibly reach Japan with some sort of nuclear warhead.
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