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Ambushes in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and other shootings around the country led to a sharp increase in the number of police killed in the line of duty this year....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Carrie Fisher played a supporting role at her own birth....
HONOLULU (AP) -- The United States is unleashing a string of sanctions and other punitive measures against Russia amid allegations that it engaged in cyber-meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign, putting pressure on President-elect Donald Trump not to let Moscow off the hook after he takes office....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian opposition activists say a nationwide cease-fire that went into effect at midnight is holding despite minor violations....
The savior of the world now had a target on his back....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Church in the United States is preparing to celebrate “National Migration Week” at the beginning of the year as it has done for the past 50 years or so.The event, scheduled to take place from 8 to 14 January 2017, is presented as “an opportunity for  the Church to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking”. The theme, “Creating a Culture of Encounter” has been chosen to highlight Pope Francis' reiterated appeal to create a culture of encounter, and “in doing so to look beyond our own needs and wants to those of others around us”. The USCCB website cites the Pope’s homily for his first Pentecost as Pope saying that he immediately emphasized the importance of encounter in the Christian faith: "For me this word is very important. Encounter with others. Why? Because faith is an encou...
(Vatican Radio) “Notwithstanding a return to calm in the South Sudanese city of Yei, those living in rural areas continue to die immersed in the deafening silence of the media and before the indifferent gaze of the international community.”This dramatic statement was made by Catholic Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe of Yei in Equatoria region, South Sudan.Bishop Lodu Tombe was speaking to “Radio Easter” in Juba, and the interview was reported on in the Vatican “Osservatore Romano” newspaper.He said that the country has been hit by a wave of murders and massacres, which are believed to have been carried out by mixed military-civilian groups that target suspected supporters of the former vice president, Riek Machar.Lodu Tombe said that hundreds of people have lost their lives in violent attacks in villages on the outskirts of Yei and said they are dying also due to lack of food and medicine.He said the population lives in constant fear of new waves of v...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Some parts of the world see swift attentionpaid to victims of sexual abuse and others still experience delays or amishandling of allegations.This imbalance, one Jesuit expert has said, reflects howyears of papal pleas and Vatican mandates have not been received or implementedconsistently everywhere.Because the church's typical top-down approach in gettingthe message out may not be enough, Jesuit Father Hans Zollner is spearheading acomplementary course: a global alliance built and grown from the ground up byindividual priests, religious and laity along with Catholicuniversities, religious orders and bishops' conferences.Father Zollner, president of the Center for ChildProtection at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, told Catholic NewsService in late December of the center's plan to launch the newalliance in the coming months.The center offers a specialized e-learning program and anon-site diploma course in safeguarding ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, ReutersBy FARGO, N.D. (CNS) -- The CatholicBenefits Association, the Diocese of Fargo and Catholic Charities NorthDakota filed a lawsuit Dec. 28 in U.S. District Court in North Dakota against a federal regulationscheduled to take effect Jan. 1 that redefines "sex" foranti-discrimination purposes to include sexual orientation and gender identity.The regulation from theDepartment of Health and Human Services requires that Catholichospitals and health care providers perform or provide gender transitionservices, hormonal treatments and counseling as well as a host of surgeriesthat would remove or transform the sexual organs of men or women transitioningto the other gender. The HHS regulation requires group health plans to cover theseprocedures and services."We ask only for the freedom toserve consistent with our conscience and our Catholic faith," Bishop John T.Folda of Fargo said in a statement, released by the Catholic BenefitsAssociation. "While we do...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Deliberating jurors at a major racketeering trial of the purported leaders of Chicago's notorious Hobos gang sent a note to the presiding federal judge on Thursday saying they are deadlocked on at least one count after four full days of deliberations....
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