Pope Benedict has appointed an American married priest who
converted
from Anglicanism to oversee the passage of converts to Roman Catholicism in the United States. The Reverend Jeffrey Steenson, formerly an Episcopalian bishop from Texas, will lead a structure created by the Pope to allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church in groups while maintaining certain Anglican traditions.
More on those stories online, that's the BBC News.
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The United Nations mission in South Sudan says government troops have retaken control of the centre of the town of Pibor, which was captured by tribesmen on Saturday. But a spokeswoman for the mission, Liz Grande, told the BBC the situation was still fluid. She said thousands of Lou Nuer tribesmen were still on the periphery of the town, where they were endangering civilians who'd fled the fighting. Here's our East Africa correspondent Will Ross.
联合国驻南苏丹使团称,政府军已重新夺回皮博尔镇中心,该镇周六曾被部落村民夺去。但该使团发言人Liz Grande告诉BBC情况还不稳定,她说,数千名努埃尔人仍在该镇周边,这对逃离战争的平民来说是个威胁。BBC驻东非记者威尔·罗斯报道。
The next few days will show to what extent the government of South Sudan is in control of this fledgling nation. President Salva Kiir has called on the 6,000 armed men from the Lou Nuer tribe to halt their attacks on the rival Murle people. But they appear determined to take revenge for past cattle raids and to rescue dozens of abducted children. The United Nations peacekeeping force has a robust mandate, but it's not clear whether it has the capacity to stop the violence, which is now on an alarming scale.