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Mandalay, in Myanmar will host a national-level interfaith peace talks next Saturday attended by Union government authorities and organisations representing various ethnic groups and religions.Titled “Meeting of Friendly Interfaith Brothers and Sisters who Coexist Forever in Myanmar”, the event will be held at Mandalay City Hall and focus on national peace talks in the presence of the country’s main religious leaders, and representatives of the central government.The aim is to ease sectarian tensions and promote dialogue between the country’s various religions and ethnic groups.Mandalay Region National League for Democracy (NLD) chairman U Tin Tun Oo said Union-level authorities would be invited to the meeting to discuss how to promote peaceful coexistence for all Myanmar citizens at a time of strong ethnic and religious tensions.Although Myanmar authorities want peace and co-existence and have recently pushed again for a ceasefire among all rebel gro...
(Vatican Radio) Bolivian bishops have decried a proposed change to the country’s penal code that would permit abortion in several circumstances.The Bolivian Episcopal Conference has appealed to legislators and the whole of society “to defend the right to life, which is seen as seriously threatened by this proposal for reform.”Currently being discussed by the country’s Plurinational Legislative Assembly, the amendment would mean abortion could be carried out in the first eight weeks of gestation in the case of there being no resources to bring up the child, or if the mother is a student, or to prevent a risk to the mother's general health.It also seeks to permit abortion at any stage of pregnancy when there is a risk to the mother’s life. Other cases would be when there is a suspected disability, and when a young girl becomes pregnant because of rape or incest. “Life is a gift from God and no one can dispose of it under any circumst...
Indianapolis, Ind., Mar 15, 2017 / 06:26 am (CNA).- There is an alarming increase in demonic activity being reported by those who work in exorcism ministry, said the exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Although steps are being taken to increase the number of exorcists, demand is still outpacing supply.Father Vincent Lampert has been an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis since 2005 and is the pastor at St. Malachy’s in Indianapolis. He trained at the North American College in Rome and assisted with more than 40 exorcisms with longtime Italian exorcist Father Carmine De Filippi. Although the identities of most exorcists are hidden, Father Lampert often gives talks to warn against evil and turn people toward the power of God.In an interview with the National Catholic Register, he said that he sees an increasing number of people involved in Satanic rituals and opening themselves up to evil.“The problem isn’t that the devil has upped his game, but mo...
Vatican City, Mar 15, 2017 / 06:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis warned against the hypocrisy that comes from believing that the ability to genuinely love others is based on our own efforts or goodness, rather than being only and always a gift from God.“We are called to love, to charity: this is our highest calling, our vocation for excellence,” he said March 15, asking: “how can we be sure that our love is sincere, that our charity is genuine?”“Behind all this there is a false idea, that is to say, if we love, it is because we are good; as if charity were man’s creation, a product of our heart. Charity, however, is first and foremost a grace, a gift; to love is a gift of God, and we have to ask. And He gives it willingly, if we ask it.”Showing love to others, Francis said, is not something that we do to shine a light on who or what we are, but to show better who God is, and what he freely gives to us.And the only way we can...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Employers who make business deals thatthreaten people's livelihood commit a sin that robs men, women and theirfamilies of their dignity, Pope Francis said. "Whoever -- because of economic maneuvering and businessdealings that are not all clear -- closes factories and businesses and takes work away from men andwomen commits a grave sin," the pope said March 15 before concluding hisweekly general audience.The pope was speakingto a group of employees from Italy's Sky television; several hundredemployees risk losing their jobs after the company announced plans to movetheir Rome headquarters to Milan.According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Sky Italia claimedthe move was due to rising costs and an outdated digital infrastructure inRome. Local workers' unions have criticized the company's decision that willforce 300 workers to transfer from the capital while an estimated 200 employeeswill be left without a job. Before the audience ...
The U.S. women's hockey team is threatening to boycott the upcoming world championships on home ice over a wage dispute with USA Hockey....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is firing back at Snoop Dogg days after the release of a music video in which the rapper points a toy gun at a clown dressed like Trump and pulls the trigger....
NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's has started testing mobile order-and-pay after acknowledging the ordering process in its restaurants can be "stressful."...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives' vest inside the main judicial building in the Syrian capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding many others, state media said....
TOKYO (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday began a three-nation tour of Asia where anxiety is rising over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, along with questions over how the Trump administration will tackle one of its sternest national security challenges....
