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(Vatican Radio) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a statement decrying President Trump’s orders to construct a wall at the US/Mexico border and to increase immigrant detention and deportation.Actions, the statement says, that put immigrants’ lives needlessly in harm’s way, tear families apart and spark fear in communities. Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Reacting to the US President’s executive orders to build the wall, Bishop Joe Vasquez, Chair of the Committee of Migration and Bishop of the Diocese of Austin, points out that its construction “will only make migrants, especially vulnerable women and children, more susceptible to traffickers and smugglers”.“I will continue, Bishop Vasquez says, to follow the example of Pope Francis” looking to build bridges between people, “bridges that allow us to break down the walls of exclusion and exploitation”.In regards to the announcement of...
India on Thursday celebrated 68th Republic Day with patriotic fervour. On this day it marks  the anniversary of  its constitution coming into effect on Jan 26, 1950.The annual celebration included floats from the various Indian states and its defense and police forces. These display a  rich culture and heritage of India.The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was the chief guest of honour at this year's Republic Day parade. A contingent of soldiers from the United Arab Emirates joined Indian troops in the celebrations, attended by top Indian government and military officials as well as diplomats and thousands of people.In his message the President Mukherjee hailed India's pluralism and diversity and said that the country has traditionally celebrated the argumentative" Indian; not the "intolerant" Indian.  
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – Commission for Education and Religious Education is committed to ensuring peaceful co-existence among Kenyans especially in conflict-prone communities.At the invitation of the Bishops, a peace education team from the United States of America has started training in the country to equip educators and pastoral ministers with skills on conflict resolution in schools, families and the community as a whole.Speaking during the one-week training session at Donum Dei Spiritual Centre, the Peace Education Foundation President Lloyd Van Bylevelt said there is need to change the culture and the climate in Kenyan schools by teaching children how to resolve conflict, embrace diversity and help them understand that it is a positive thing to belong to different communities. The Foundation also wants to foster respect for one another and coexistence. When these values are taught in schools, it is possible to prevent negative behaviours among...
Vatican City, Jan 26, 2017 / 06:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Cardinal Roger Etchegaray leaves Rome to retire to France, his homeland, an era has closed.He was a bishop without emblem or motto, but he was committed to peace and to the human person. Cardinal Etchegaray epitomizes all the characteristics of the modern Church. If there is something we deem to be new, it is possible he had done it already.The news of Cardinal Etchegaray’s departure was spread by Angelo Scelzo, former deputy director of the Holy See Press Office and a good friend of the cardinal. Scelzo penned a Jan. 20 article on the Italian Bishops Conference’s newspaper Avvenire and reported that, before leaving, Cardinal Etchegaray was able to say goodbye both to Pope Francis and Pope emeritus Benedict.Why was Cardinal Etchegaray so important for the life of the Church?A smart French priest with a profound human touch, Cardinal Etchegaray was born in 1922 in the southwestern French town of Espelette, the fir...
Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2017 / 09:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading bishop expressed alarm and dismay on Wednesday following President Trump’s executive orders to increase immigrant detention centers and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.“Every day, my brother bishops and I witness the harmful effects of immigrant detention in our ministries. We experience the pain of severed families that struggle to maintain a semblance of normal family life. We see traumatized children in our schools and in our churches,” said Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration.“The policies announced today will only further upend immigrant families.”President Trump issued multiple executive orders Wednesday on immigration.He ordered a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border. An estimated 650 miles of the 1,900 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border have a wall constructed currently.“The purpose of this order is to direct...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With "post-truth" beingcrowned "Word of the Year" by Oxford Dictionaries, Pope Francis'urgent call to communicate trust and hope could not have come at a better time.Helping people see the world with "realism andtrust" must be encouraged as well as fostering encounter, not exclusion,through constructive dialogue, the pope said in his World Communications Daymessage this year.A post-truth culture in which objective factsand objective, divinely inspired moral principles no longer have any place orpull in people's lives is not to be taken lightly, said Bishop Paul Tighe, adjunctsecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture."One of the real risks at the moment is that if webecome totally skeptical about all the (sources) of information, it will leadto a breakdown of the kind of trust that is necessary for society and indeedour own human lives to flourish," he told Catholic News Service Jan. 24,the day the pope's message was released to the public.P...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River....
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) -- Gambia's new President Adama Barrow has finally returned home, solidifying his position as this country's first new commander in chief in more than two decades....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday declared Ohio's new lethal injection process unconstitutional and delayed three executions, including one scheduled next month....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A man who died in a California prison in 2010 while serving a sentence for killing and dismembering his wife is responsible for killing five people in New Hampshire in the 1980s, authorities said Thursday....
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