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(Vatican Radio) An explosion rocked a major petrochemical facility of Mexican national oil company Pemex in the Gulf state of Veracruz on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others.The incident took place at Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo, or PMV, a vinyl petrochemical plant that is a joint venture between Pemex's petrochemical unit and Mexican plastic pipe maker Mexichem.Pemex said the explosion occurred at the facility’s chlorinate 3 plant near the port of Coatzacoalcos, one of the company's top oil export hubs.Pemex confirmed three people had died in the blast and said as many as 45 others were injured, while the governor of Veracruz state – in which the facility is located – Javier Duarte, put the number of injured people at more than 60.Local emergency officials said hundreds of people had been evacuated from the site.The cause of the explosion is at present unclear.
(Vatican Radio) An explosion rocked a major petrochemical facility of Mexican national oil company Pemex in the Gulf state of Veracruz on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others.
The incident took place at Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo, or PMV, a vinyl petrochemical plant that is a joint venture between Pemex's petrochemical unit and Mexican plastic pipe maker Mexichem.
Pemex said the explosion occurred at the facility’s chlorinate 3 plant near the port of Coatzacoalcos, one of the company's top oil export hubs.
Pemex confirmed three people had died in the blast and said as many as 45 others were injured, while the governor of Veracruz state – in which the facility is located – Javier Duarte, put the number of injured people at more than 60.
Local emergency officials said hundreds of people had been evacuated from the site.
The cause of the explosion is at present unclear.
Erbil, Iraq, Apr 21, 2016 / 12:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A delegation of bishops and priests from France are visiting Iraq April 17-21 to aid young Christian students living in the refugee camps.The visiting bishops are the Archbishop of Marseilles, Georges Paul Pontier and the Bishop of Pontoise, Stanislas Lalanne. Also accompanying them are Father Pascal Gollnisch, director general of l’Oeuvre d’Orient, a French aid society for Christians in the Middle East; and Father Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas, secretary general and spokesman for the French Conference of Catholic Bishops.These young students are part of the group of 120,000 Christians that fled from the cities of the Nineveh Plain when the Islamic State attacked the region in 2014.When the students came to Erbil they had trouble continuing their studies because the curriculum is in the Kurdish language, and they speak Arabic. Around 400 of them will now be able attend university in the city of Kirkuk, where an educat...
Erbil, Iraq, Apr 21, 2016 / 12:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A delegation of bishops and priests from France are visiting Iraq April 17-21 to aid young Christian students living in the refugee camps.
The visiting bishops are the Archbishop of Marseilles, Georges Paul Pontier and the Bishop of Pontoise, Stanislas Lalanne. Also accompanying them are Father Pascal Gollnisch, director general of l’Oeuvre d’Orient, a French aid society for Christians in the Middle East; and Father Olivier Ribadeau-Dumas, secretary general and spokesman for the French Conference of Catholic Bishops.
These young students are part of the group of 120,000 Christians that fled from the cities of the Nineveh Plain when the Islamic State attacked the region in 2014.
When the students came to Erbil they had trouble continuing their studies because the curriculum is in the Kurdish language, and they speak Arabic. Around 400 of them will now be able attend university in the city of Kirkuk, where an educational program has been set up in their language.
The trip was the initiative of Archbishop Pontier and the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk, Yousif Thomas Mirkis, and is part of the “Support the Students in Iraq” project which was began last year and seeks to raise approximately $1.7 million to help young Iraqis continue their studies. The project is sponsored by the French bishops' conference and l'Oeuvre d'Orient.
When they arrived in Iraq, the bishops went to Kirkuk where they celebrated a Mass and met with the students and visited the homes where they live.
Regarding the situation of these young Christians, Archbishop Mirkis stated that they are “the priority and future of Iraq.”
“Helping these future leaders pursue their studies is essential for rebuilding our country. By supporting these young people we're keeping them in the country. So then there will be doctors, pharmacists, architects, and engineers,” Archbishop Mirkis stated on l'Oeuvre d'Orient's website.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- An explosion rocked a petrochemical plant on Mexico's southern Gulf coast, causing evacuations in the area as a fire billowed a toxin-filled cloud into the air. Officials said three workers died and more than 100 people were injured....
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