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A 36 year-old woman accidentally gave birth yesterday in a train traveling from Tai Dong to Tai Pei. The nine month old pregnant woman was in the bathroom when her baby was born and accidentally flushed down the toilet.When the train reached the next station, an hour and a half later, the rescue team arrived and got to work. They immediately sent the mother to the hospitol while they tried to pull the baby from the toilet bowl opening.
Due the the babies fading condition, they finally decided to saw the pipe in half and rescued the baby.
She was born weighing 6.6 pounds and is now in stable condition.
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Pope Benedict XVI told Baptist and Catholic representatives he hoped conversations between the two denominations “will bear abundant fruit for the progress of dialogue and the increase of understanding and cooperation.”
The pope met privately at the Vatican Dec. 6 with more than 20 delegates who were in Rome for a meeting of the joint international commission sponsored by the Baptist World Alliance and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Pope Benedict said if reconciliation and greater fellowship between Baptists and Catholics were to be realized certain issues “need to be faced together, in a spirit of openness, mutual respect and fidelity” to the Gospel.
He said some of the “historically controverted issues” that needed further discussion include “the relationship between Scripture and tradition, the understanding of baptism and the sacraments, the place of Mary in the communion of the church, and the nature of oversight and primacy in the church’s ministerial structure.”
He said the commission’s focus on the word of God in the life of the church offered “a promising context” for discussing the differences in Catholic and Baptist approaches to faith.
Catholics place great emphasis on the sacraments, with particular reverence for Christ’s presence in the Eucharist. Baptists recognize baptism and the Lord’s Supper but refer to them as biblical “ordinances,” carried out in obedience to the Lord’s commands in Scripture.
Baptists honor Mary as the mother of Jesus Christ, but they do not address prayer to Mary or the saints because Jesus is the only mediator between human beings and God.
Both Catholics and Baptists agree that the primary source of knowledge of God is Scripture, and they share beliefs in the Trinity, the divinity and humanity of Jesus, and the existence of heaven and hell. They also share the same concerns over many social and moral issues such as abortion, pornography and violence.