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Rome, Italy, Oct 27, 2016 / 03:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Helping the victims of human trafficking is not enough – we must go to the root to solve the problem, said one survivor at an event with Pope Francis on Thursday.“When we are spending money only for the victims, more are coming (through trafficking), hearing the news that if you come, you have a place to stay, you have food to eat, you have clothes to wear, and you can go to school,” Princess Inyang told CNA Oct. 27.Inyang herself became a victim of human trafficking in 1999, when she was promised that she would receive a good job in Europe as a cook, the job she had in her home country of Nigeria.But instead, she was trafficked. Her captors brought her through London and France and eventually to Italy, where she was forced into prostitution and to pay back her “debt” of 45,000,000 euros. She was eventually able, with help, to escape her traffickers, and has since founded the organization PIAM Onlus...
Vatican City, Oct 27, 2016 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Doctrine and theological reflection are to be formed by its evangelizing purpose and by pastoral concerns, Pope Francis told the faculty and students of the John Paul II Institute on Thursday.“Theology and pastoral care go hand in hand,” the Pope said Oct. 27 at the Vatican's Clementine Hall. “Theological doctrine that doesn’t let itself be directed and formed by its evangelizing purpose and by the Church’s pastoral concerns is no less unthinkable than pastoral activity that doesn’t know how to use revelation and tradition to better understand the Faith and preach it as Jesus commands.”Francis' address marked the opening of the new academic year for the institute, which will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. The address to open the academic year had been scheduled to be delivered by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, but he was replaced by ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Laura Elizabeth Pohl, By Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Many mornings Carolyn Y. Woo has arrivedto the relative solitude of a chapel at the Baltimore headquarters of CatholicRelief Services, and as the bustling city comes to life, she has looked insidethe serene space for a particular quiet spot, the place where she arms herselfwith prayer."That plant is my coffee table," she said inside the chapel,pointing to a leafy pot nearby where she hides papers, coffee or whatever shemight be holding on her way in."I do my readings for the day," she said, explaining hermorning routine during an October interview with Catholic News Service, one ofthe last she'll do as CEO of the agency. "I sit with the Blessed Mother.There's one chair there ... that's where I do my prayer and then I start the day."Prayer is something she's needed while managing one of thelargest charities in the country. The days have meant little sleep and lots ofmeetings, lots of visitors, lots of travel an...
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for an immediate investigation of an attack on a school in Syria's Idlib province that the U.N.'s children's agency is calling one of the deadliest of its kind in the country's six-year war....
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Trailing with time running out, Donald Trump denounced both Hillary and Bill Clinton Thursday as creatures of a corrupt political system who would use another pass at the Oval Office to enrich themselves at the expense of American families. Clinton turned to popular first lady Michelle Obama to rally voters in North Carolina, a state that could deliver a knockout blow to Trump....
NEW YORK (AP) -- An airplane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence has slid off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Law enforcement officers in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact that has simmered for months....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the Dakota Access oil pipeline protest (all times local):...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber was followed by fans with cameras and cellphones. A couple of pitchers from the Cleveland Indians played hacky sack in the outfield....
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- As first ladies they could hardly have been more different. But as Democrats looking to fire up female voters, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton were firmly bonded on Thursday....
