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NEW YORK (AP) -- After falling sharply in the morning, U.S. stock indexes clawed back and were down only modestly in afternoon trading. A run higher for hospital stocks helped to stem losses for banks and other financial stocks....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The 15-day jail sentence imposed Monday on Alexei Navalny is nothing new for the Kremlin's most visible domestic foe, and is unlikely to be more than a brief interruption of his campaign against what he calls "the party of crooks and thieves." He's repeatedly been jailed, endured a year of house arrest and three convictions that could have brought him significant prison time....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina's "bathroom bill" isn't hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years, according to an Associated Press analysis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee met on the White House grounds with the source of the claim that communications involving President Donald Trump's associates were caught up in "incidental" surveillance, the congressman's spokesman said Monday....
If you've got kids, you're likely already aware of the slime-making craze. Kids across the country are mixing up their own squishy goo to play with using just a handful of readily available ingredients. It's fun, easy, and encourages kids to use their hands for something other than swiping and tapping a tablet or phone.
Impoverished tribal or indigenous Catholics in eastern India’s Jharkhand state readily embrace Lenten austerities in addition to their already hard life. Eugene Lakra, an Oraon tribesman from the state's Gumla Diocese explained that during Lent their daily routine changes and they ban all kinds of recreation including singing and dancing and consuming rice wine, a customary drink among tribal people.  Tribal people also avoid celebrations such as dancing during Lent and stop their daily evening gatherings. "Even when we walk back from fields, we don't sing or greet people loudly. We all keep a prayerful silence," he told UCANEWS.  "Visitors to villages are often surprised to see the tribal people, who otherwise miss no occasion to sing and dance, remaining quiet during Lent as though they have forgotten how to sing," Lakra said.Lakra’s neighbor Rakesh Kujur, also an Oraon, said it is "not so difficult to fast" because peo...
More young priests, nuns and brothers are needed to train as lawyers in India as cases flood the court system delaying justice, while, for the poor, it may not come at all.  This urgency was expressed at the Delhi National Capital Region Lawyers' Forum that brought together 30 professionals to discuss "the prophetic call of legal professionals in the Indian Church today" March 23-24 in New Delhi.  "More than any ministry in the Catholic Church we need religious lawyers who can give their services unconditionally to the people living on the margins of society," said Holy Cross Sister Rani Punnasseril, a lawyer.  She told UCANEWS that the need is most urgent for rural Catholics and tribal people who do not know what to do when their human rights are violated. "Some of them do not even have enough money to get a lawyer and fight their case in a court," she said.India has some 900 men and women religious who are lawyers but many of them...
(Vatican Radio) Mexicans who help build the much vaunted “border wall” along the frontier with the United States would be acting immorally and considered as traitors, according to the Archdiocese of Mexico.In its weekly newsletter the Archdiocese warns, “Any company intending to invest in the wall of Trump, would be immoral, but also all its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland.” It also stresses, “Signing up for a project that is a serious affront to dignity, is shooting yourself in the foot.”Mexico’s economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo agrees it would not be in companies’ interests to participate in building the wall. Meanwhile, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has stressed that Mexico will never pay for a border wall.Listen to James Blears’ report:
(Vatican Radio) The recent rededication of the ‘Edicule’, or chapel surrounding Jesus’ tomb in Jerusalem’s Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, is an important sign of the growing cooperation among the different Christian Churches in the Holy LandThat’s the view of Belgian Father Frans Bowen, a Missionary of Africa who has been living in Jerusalem for almost 50 years. He works closely with the Vatican as a member of the joint international commissions for dialogue with both the Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.During a visit to Jerusalem with the Tantur Ecumenical Institute last week, Philippa Hitchen, spoke to Fr Frans about the complex relationships among Christians in the land where Christ was born….Listen:  Fr Frans explains that in Jerusalem the three most visible communities are the Greek Orthodox, the Latin, (or Roman Catholic) and the Armenian patriarchates. These communities are the principle groups included in the ‘St...
Church leaders have called for an impartial probe and justice after police assaulted Catholics in Bangladesh injuring about 25 villagers.  Four "plainclothes policemen" entered Doripara village under Holy Family Catholic Church in Gazipur district near Dhaka on the night of March 24. They didn't have identity cards or a warrant but they started raiding the house of a local woman.  "When asked what they were doing, they claimed they were policemen but failed to show IDs," Biren Benjamin Gomes, a Catholic eyewitness, told UCANEWS. They looted 5,000 taka (US$63) from the house and raided another home, he said.  "Women started screaming 'robbers, robbers' and hundreds of neighbors rushed to help. They beat up the intruders before elderly men stopped them," Gomes, president of Bhawal Christian Jubo Samity, a Catholic youth forum covering seven parishes in Gazipur and Dhaka.  Then, about 35 riot police, armed with guns and ba...
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