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| ‘African pope would be quite some miracle’ Posted: 13 Feb 2013 07:43 AM PST  Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican February 13, 2013. — Reuters pic "If the Church chooses a Third World person or a black pope it will have to come to terms with itself," Matthias Kobena Nketsiah, archbishop of Cape Coast, told Reuters "I am not saying the Church is racist, but there are overtones and perceptions that maybe add up to that." Speaking in an interview with Reuters TV recorded yesterday, Nketsiah said he supported Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, his predecessor in the Cape Coast archbishopric, for the job of leading the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. "I am all for it but I have to have my feet on the ground. It will be quite some miracle given the perception of an African of the Third World," he said at his residence in Cape Coast. Benedict stunned Catholics across the globe on Monday by saying he would step down on February28. Some 117 cardinals will enter a closed-door conclave at the Vatican in mid-March to elect a successor. Two-thirds of today's Catholics live in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Cardinal Odilo Scherer of Brazil are among those mentioned as candidates. Nketsiah said he believed Turkson, who is 64 and currently head of the Vatican justice and peace bureau, would tend towards being conservative on moral issues if he were elected. "We in Ghana, and I think in the Third World, we are loyal children of the Church, if I may say so, so he will stick to the teaching of the Church," he said. "If the Church says there is no way for same sex (relations), that is what he's going to pursue ... He would be somebody who would stick to it and teach how the Church teaches," Nketsiah added, saying he had trained to be a priest with Turkson. Another African Cardinal, Laurent Mosengwo, archbishop of Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of Congo, is seen as another potential candidate from Africa. There are no open campaigns or declared candidates for the post and cardinals are forbidden by Church law from revealing who they voted for. Many cardinals choose their favourite after a series of discreet contacts in the days before the election. — Reuters |
| Chinese in Costa Rica set record for fried rice Posted: 13 Feb 2013 07:38 AM PST SAN JOSE, Feb 13 — Members of Costa Rica's Chinese community celebrated the the arrival of the Year of the Snake by setting the world record yesterday for the largest amount of fried rice ever cooked.  Chinese and Costa Rican chefs cook the world´s largest fried rice in celebration of Chinese New Year, for which they obtained a Guinness record, in San Jose on February 12, 2013. — AFP pic The official weight: 837 kilograms (1,845 pounds), which nearly doubles the previous record. Armed with shovel-sized spoons, 52 cooks toiled over an enormous wok built especially for the event in San Jose's recently inaugurated Chinatown. Some 735 kilograms of rice were used, along with 200 kilograms of chicken, 120 kilograms of ham, 20 kilograms of Chinese sausage, hundreds of eggs and vast amounts of chopped vegetables. The Chinese Association of Costa Rica came up with the idea for the giant meal, said Godwin Pang, who helped coordinate the event. Pang said the Chinese community wanted to mark the Year of the Snake, which began on Sunday, with a big event. Most Chinese residents in Costa Rica are in the restaurant business. Chinese restaurants can be found even in small towns across this Central American country of 4.7 million. Hannah, the Guinness representative for Latin America, said this was the first time that Costa Rica enters the world record book. — AFP/Relaxnews |
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