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NEW YORK (AP) -- Opening his first news conference since the election, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to suggestions that U.S. intelligence agencies leaked unsubstantiated reports to the media about his relationship with Russia, calling it a "tremendous blot on their record if they did that."...
(Vatican Radio) The Migration and Refugee Section of the new Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development has announced it is launching its first media campaign.Although the Dicastery is run by Cardinal Peter Turkson – who had been serving as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace – the Migration and Refugee Section is being led for the time being by Pope Francis himself, to show his particular concern during the ongoing refugee crisis.The new media campaign is being launched to coincide with the 103rd World Day for Migrants and Refugees, which is observed 15 January 2017.From 12 to 15 January 2017, the tweets of Pope Francis will focus on migrants and refugees, and will link directly to the Section’s Facebook page, which will present a brief story and reflection relevant to each day’s topic.The media accounts of the new section are listed belowTwitter Accounts:English - https://twitter.com/M_RSectionItalian - https://twitter...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis continued his series of catechesis on Christian hope at his Wednesday General Audience, in which he contrasted authentic hope, born of trust in God's word, with the temptation of false hope in idols.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: Taking issue with the false idols offered by our modern world, Pope Francis at his Wednesday General Audience said that “hope is a primary need in man” but that we can get lost in our search for security by trusting in the false hopes offered by idols.He said the Scriptures teach us that side by side with authentic hope, born of trust in God’s word, we can be tempted by false hopes and worldly idols, like money, power or physical beauty.Idols, he said, “confuse the mind and heart, and, instead of favoring life, they lead to death.The Pope then told a story he had heard in Buenos Aires of a “very beautiful woman who bragged of her beauty”. The woman commented, he said, &ldqu...
The Diocesan Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) Directors’ annual meeting has opened in Lusaka with a call on new Directors to bring about a worldwide missionary openness to diocesan pastoral life.“You will be expected to serve the Bishops in your respective Dioceses and bring about a worldwide missionary openness to the diocesan pastoral life,” said Zambia’s National Director Fr. Edwin MulanduLusaka Archdiocese and Mansa Diocese have new PMS Directors.Meanwhile Fr. Mulandu described the year 2016 which was the Jubilee Year of Mercy as a successful one.“2016 has been a very successful Year of Mercy (for the Church) …We received a lot of graces as PMS. The (national) collections for the universal solidarity fund were marvellous,” he said.The Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) Diocesan Directors’ National Annual Meeting closes Wednesday 11 January 2017.(Zambia Conference Catholic Bishops -ZCCB)Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va
The Catholic Bishops of Kenya have once more appealed to both Government and opposition political parties to urgently embrace dialogue for the good of the country. The call comes after President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law the Election Amendment Act of 2016 in spite of strong objection from the opposition and civil society.In a press statement signed by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Chairman, Philip Anyolo, together with other Kenyan Bishops, the prelates believe that there is still room for Kenyans to dialogue. The Bishops expressed their readiness to mediate and facilitate the process of dialogue in conjunction with other religious leaders and people of good will.“We wish to make a passionate appeal, for sobriety, to give dialogue a chance in order to reach consensus and a harmonious resolution that embraces divergent views of all Kenyans,” the statement read in part. The Bishops appealed to all stakeholders to do everything possible t...
Paterson, N.J., Jan 11, 2017 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Catholic hospital faces an anti-discrimination lawsuit for cancelling a surgery to remove a uterus from a female who identifies as a man. The surgery was meant to treat gender dysphoria.“This case involves whether a Catholic hospital can be compelled to perform a procedure that violates its sincerely-held religious beliefs,” Matt Sharp, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, told CNA.“Our nation has long provided broad exemptions for organizations like this – for example, protecting them against being compelled to perform abortions,” he added. “Those same protections should extend to organizations that decline to be part of the procedures like the one sought here – procedures that not only raise religious concerns, but that many doctors and psychiatrists also believe pose serious long-term risks to the patients.”Sharp spoke in response to the legal case of Jionni Confo...
Vatican City, Jan 11, 2017 / 03:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis issued strong words against worshipping idols, cautioning against the false hope that beauty, wealth and power can give, but which lead a person to trust in empty promises rather than in the Lord.“It’s terrible, it hurts the soul what I heard one time years ago in the diocese of Buenos Aires: a woman, a good woman, very, very beautiful and who bragged about her beauty, commented as if it were natural: ‘Yeah, I had to have an abortion because my figure is so important.’”Attitudes like this, he said “are the idols, and they take you on the wrong path and they don't bring you happiness.” Pope Francis spoke to pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall during his weekly general audience, continuing his catechesis on Christian hope. While he has so far focused on the meaning and source of hope, in today’s audience he highlighted several types of fal...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Lawyers for a Texas death row inmate who killed two men after one of them mocked him for falling for a fake drug deal are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year....
The most popular single request we ever receive on our prayer line is for physical healing. Unfortunately, dealing with disease, pain, and injury is common in our world. In the verses before these, it's clear...
