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(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, has sent a letter in the name of Pope Francis to the Tenth Forum for the Future of Agriculture taking place in Brussels.In the letter addressed to Janez Potocnik, president of the Forum, Cardinal Parolin called on participants to put the human person at the heart of agriculture, “whether he or she be an agricultural worker, an economic agent or a consumer”.“Such an approach,” he writes, “if viewed as a shared goal and not simply a technical question, will allow greater consideration to be given to the close relationship between agriculture, the care and protection of creation, economic growth, levels of development, and the present and future needs of the world population.”Cardinal Parolin called for “greater commitment to supporting agricultural activity” through better production and commerce systems, as well as by “emphasizing the right of every human...
Vatican City, Mar 28, 2017 / 08:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday, Pope Francis acknowledged the difficulty of totally eliminating nuclear weapons, but said the challenge is still a necessary undertaking, especially given what’s at stake.“The ultimate goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons becomes both a challenge and a moral and humanitarian imperative,” he said in a message to United Nations members March 28.The message was read before the “United Nations conference aimed at negotiating a legally binding instrument on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination,” held in New York March 27-31.Presented by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, Secretary for Relations with States and head of the Holy See’s delegation at the meetings, the Pope’s message acknowledged that the goal is a “demanding” and “forward-looking” one.And this is true especially given the present international climate, which...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In Spanish, the word "encuentro" meansencounter and in the modern church in the U.S., it refers to a series ofmeetings that will take place over the next four years aimed at getting to know Latinosand producing more involvement in the church of its second largest and fastestgrowing community."The intent is for Latinos to have an encounter with theentire church and for the church to have an encounter with Latinos,understanding who they are, how they think, how they live their faith, so we canwork together and move together and build a church together," said MarMunoz-Visoso, executive director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in theChurch for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.A recent report by the Center for Applied Research in theApostolate at Georgetown University commissioned by the U.S. bishops shows thatmore than half of millennial-generation Catholics born in 1982 or later areHispanic or Latino. Tho...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rick Bajornas, UNBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Today'sthreats to global peace and security must be countered through dialogue anddevelopment, not nuclear weapons, Pope Francis told the United Nations."How sustainable is astability based on fear, when it actually increases fear and underminesrelationships of trust between peoples," the pope asked in a letter sentto a U.N. meeting on nuclear arms."International peace andstability cannot be based on a false sense of security, on the threat of mutualdestruction or total annihilation, or on simply maintaining a balance of power,"he said in the message, released by the Vatican March 28. The message was readaloud at the U.N. by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, Vatican undersecretary for relations with states.The pope's message was sent to ElayneWhyte Gomez, president of the U.N. Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrumentto Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards Their Total Elimination. Theconference was being h...
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Advocates for Pamela Smart, who's serving a life sentence for plotting with her teenage lover to kill her husband, say they are planning to file a petition seeking a reduced sentence....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aiming to prove their commitment to Israel, senior U.S. lawmakers are backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday he's going to give battered House Republicans another crack at a health care overhaul. But he offered no timeline, and leaders haven't resolved how to overcome the deep GOP divisions that crumpled their legislation last week in a humiliating retreat for themselves and President Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at moving forward on his campaign pledge to unravel former President Barack Obama's plan to curb global warming....
