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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is learning a harsh lesson: In the White House, words matter....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Thursday stood by President Donald Trump's unproven accusations that his predecessor wiretapped his New York skyscraper, despite growing bipartisan agreement that there's no evidence to back up the claim and mounting pressure to retract the statement....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's new $1.15 trillion budget would reshape America's government with the broad, conservative strokes he promised as a candidate, ordering generous increases for the military, slashing domestic programs and riling both fellow Republicans and Democrats by going after favored programs....
Prison Ministry India (PMI), headquartered in Bangalore, in southern India’s Karnataka state, is a nation-wide voluntary organization, operating under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), for ‎the release, renewal and rehabilitation of all prisoners, irrespective of religion, caste or nationality.‎  To know more about Prison Ministry India we talked on the phone with its national coordinator, Fr. Sebastian Vadakumpadan.  Last week, in the first of a 2-part interview, Fr. Sebastian narrated how PMI was initiated. In late 1981, two philosophy students, Varghese Karippery and Francis Kodiyan of St. Thomas ‎Apostolic Seminary in Vadavathoor in Southern India’s Kerala state, had an unusual spiritual experience that urged them to become “a love-bomb… to heal the broken hearts."  Subsequently, ‎inspired by a Protestant prison ministry, a group of 12 brothers and a priest ‎began ministering to prisoners in...
Vatican City, Mar 16, 2017 / 11:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With the 6th anniversary of the start of the Syrian war as backdrop this week, Pope Francis met Thursday morning with the President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun.Their discussion centered on the large number of Syrian refugees now in Lebanon and the efforts to find a solution to the conflict.According to a March 16 statement by the Vatican, in the 20-minute meeting, the Pope and President Aoun discussed Syria “with special attention to international efforts to find a political solution to the conflict.”The Pope expressed appreciation for the many Syrian refugees Lebanon has welcomed during the years of the Civil War. The two leaders also exchanged views on the greater regional context and other ongoing conflicts, particularly the situation for Christians in the Middle East.Lebanon, officially known as the Lebanese Republic, is a sovereign state bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Before Presi...
Madrid, Spain, Mar 16, 2017 / 01:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Spain-based branch of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has issued an urgent appeal for aid to continue its “Drop of Milk” project, which benefits more than 2,800 children in the city of Aleppo, Syria.This initiative began in 2015 among various Christian churches to provide milk every month for children under 10 years of age.Even though the fighting has ended in eastern Aleppo, ACN reported that “living conditions remain deplorable.” Some 80 percent of the population of Aleppo is displaced, and 70 percent live below the poverty line, the group said in a statement.Dr. Nabil Antaki, coordinator of the “Drop of Milk” project, has made an urgent appeal to keep it going.“Every month we distribute milk to some 2,850 children: 2,600 get powdered milk and 250 servings of special formula milk for infants, including babies that can't be nursed by their mothers,&rd...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (CNS) -- The leader of theCatholic Church in Ireland has urged Irish people and those of Irish descentcelebrating St. Patrick's Day to remember the plight of migrants.Archbishop Eamon Martin -- St. Patrick's modern-daysuccessor as archbishop of Armagh -- used his message for the March 17 feast torecall that St. Patrick was first brought to Ireland as a slave by traffickers.The archbishop said that "as Irish people, wecannot think of Patrick without acknowledging the enormous humanitarian andpastoral challenges facing growing numbers of people who find themselvesdisplaced and without status in our world.""This is so shockingly exemplified by the refugeecrisis here in Europe," he said."Prompted by the situation of thousands ofdisplaced people around the world, let us think about Patrick the 'unlearnedrefugee' (as he once described himself), the slave in exile, Patrick theundocumented migrant," Archbishop Martin said.Referr...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Almsgiving is a Lenten tradition and Washingtonresident Ron Van Bellen says his volunteer work feeding the homeless honors hisCatholic faith as he prepares for Easter.The real estate agent and parishioner at Holy TrinityCatholic Church in Georgetown was one of several volunteers dishing up dinnerfor homeless men and women lined up March 8 for the weekly St. Maria's mealsprogram sponsored by Catholic Charities each Wednesday evening.Van Bellen took time to greet each man and woman who wentthrough the food line before they made their way along the downtown Washingtonsidewalk to eat their dinner."Every time I volunteer I reflect on how my day went and howit related to my relationship with God," he told Catholic News Service. "Itdoes relate to Lent. We have to sacrifice and serve our brothers and sisters."Van Bellen's example of helping the homeless during Lent isa Catholic value that Washington's Catholic Charities president an...
NEW YORK (AP) -- After 42 seasons, "Saturday Night Live" is trying something new: airing live to everybody....
READING, Pa. (AP) -- A pastor in a fundamentalist Christian sect that rejects doctors and drugs has been charged in the death of a child - his own granddaughter - from medical neglect. The novel prosecution is raising hopes among some advocates that it might spur change in a church that has resisted it....
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