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Pope Francis has named Cardinal Peter Turkson the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, two groups of top-level scholars and experts who promote studies on issues of concern to the Vatican.

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Cardinal Turkson makes 'urgent call' to fight growing problem of antibiotic overuse /home/international/item/28456-cardinal-turkson-makes-urgent-call-to-fight-growing-problem-of-antibiotic-overuse /home/international/item/28456-cardinal-turkson-makes-urgent-call-to-fight-growing-problem-of-antibiotic-overuse VATICAN – Antimicrobial resistance poses a "great challenge" to global public health and puts the most vulnerable in our society at risk, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
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Vatican II's Bible promotion said to create vitality in church life /faith/item/14742-vatican-iis-bible-promotion-said-to-create-vitality-in-church-life /faith/item/14742-vatican-iis-bible-promotion-said-to-create-vitality-in-church-life

NEW YORK - In the 50 years since the Second Vatican Council encouraged Catholics to read, reflect and act on Scripture, there has been a "surging vitality in the life of the church," according to Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

"There is nothing that the church does that is not rooted in Scripture," he told participants at the New York Catholic Bible Summit June 16.

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