NHatky (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vienna, Colombia's former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt who was rescued in July from the captivity of the country's leftist rebels has been named the Woman of the Year by the World Awards Association (WAA) as reported on Saturday. The Vienna-based World Awards Association Friday named Betancourt as the recipient of the ...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
INGRID Betancourt, 46, the former Columbian presidential candidate held captive by the country's Farc rebels for six and a half years, was yesterday named winner of I
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
This week on The Listening Post, we bring you a critique of the media coverage of the run up to and during the week-long Republican National Convention. We look back at the Ingrid Betancourt rescue by the Colombian government and ask some searching questions. In News Divide, we see what happened when the McCain ‘Straight Talk Express’ [...]
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - Global Politics Online - IPS Friday, September 05, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Sabina Zaccaro ROME, Sep 5 (IPS) - Resolution of the conflict in Colombia can only come through ”dialogue and openness,” says Ingrid Betancourt, the former presidential candidate held hostage by leftist guerrillas [...]
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The Dalai Lama, Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Franco-Colombian ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt figure among the candidates for the EU parliament's 2008 Sakharov prize, the assembly said Wednesday. The three were nominated along with five others for the parliament's prestigious prize, which is awarded each year to defenders of human rights and democracy. The other candidates are NGO...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Ingrid Betancourt, rescued in July after six years in leftist rebel captivity, is the second most popular politician in Colombia after President Alvaro Uribe, according to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday.
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
I was kinda surprised to read today how much meeting the Pope meant to Ingrid Betancourt. I didn't realize many of us Catholics/ex-Catholics still felt any serious emotional connection the Pope, most Catholics I know are lovers of La Virgin...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Sept. 1 - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, who was recently rescued from Columbia's rebel group, FARC, called her meeting with Pope Benedict 'a dream come true.' She says her religious faith helped her survive the six-year ordeal.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
ROME, Sept. 1 -- Freed French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged Pope Benedict XVI on Monday and told him how she was overcome with emotion when she heard him appeal for her freedom on a radio broadcast during her seven years of captivity in the jungle.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
"From my first moment of freedom I wanted to meet and embrace" him, Betancourt said at a news conference in Rome on Monday.
Couples for Christ Solomon Islands (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
ZENIT The World Seen From Rome Daily dispatch - August 25, 2008 VATICAN DOSSIER Íngrid Betancourt to Visit Pope Church Turning to Africa, Says Archbishop WORLD FEATURES Nuncio in Georgia: Aid Still Blocked From Ossetia Milan Cardinal to Visit Alexy II Scholar: Good Homilies Have 2 Prerequisites NEWS BRIEFS Jubilee Marks St. Lawrence's Martyrdom Caritas: Aid to Africa Should Be More Effective Chiara...
Not Ready for my Burqua (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Two months after her dramatic rescue from FARC terrorists in Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt will meet with Pope Benedict XVI on September 1. Via Catholic News Service: Betancourt, a Catholic who said her faith and prayers helped her survive six and a half years of imprisonment by Colombian rebels, had said she wanted to meet the pope to thank him for his prayers and his public appeals for her freedom...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
The freed French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt will visit Pope Benedict next week to thank him for the Vatican's support and appeals for all kidnap victims during her six years in the jungle.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
When would-be president Ingrid Betancourt was rescued last month, Colombia's Marxist guerrillas lost their most treasured hostage. But morale in the jungle was already low, with hunger, executions and forced abortions among Farc's female troops. Alice O'Keeffe meets the women who have given up the revolution Alice O'Keeffe The Observer Sunday August 24 2008 Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces...
