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(Vatican Radio)  The Holy See’s representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday said freedom of the media requires ‘great responsibility’.Msgr. Janusz S. Urbanczyk told the OSCE that it is “important to stress that the great role of the media is accompanied by great responsibility. Because, with every right – such as freedom of expression – there follows obligations.”His address came after the presentation of a report by the OSCE representative on freedom of the media.Msgr. Urbanczyk cited Pope Francis’ address to journalists in September 2016: “In life not everything is black or white. Even in journalism, you have to know how to discern the shades of grey of the events that you are called to cover… This is the job – we could also say the mission, difficult and at the same time necessary – of a journalist: to get as close as possible to the truth of the facts ...
Almost 20,000 women and children were victims of human trafficking in India in 2016, a rise of nearly 25 percent from the previous year, government data released on Thursday showed.  The Ministry of Women and Child Development told parliament that 19,223 women and children were trafficked last year against 15,448 in 2015, with the highest number of victims recorded in the eastern state of West Bengal. Police officials attributed the rise to increased public awareness of trafficking-related crimes and more police training.  "It's difficult to claim these crimes are rising dramatically," said a senior Delhi police official, who declined to be named.  "I think more victims are coming forward and reporting because of more information about trafficking," the official said. "Government and civil society groups are doing campaigns and people are also seeing more cases being reported in the media."  The official said the actual fi...
Two Bangladeshi asylum seekers in Japan cleared up radioactive contamination from one of the world's worst nuclear disasters on the false promise doing so would win them permission to stay in the country longer, Reuters quoted media as reporting on Wednesday.  The Fukushima nuclear plant suffered multiple meltdowns after being hit by a tsunami triggered by a big earthquake on March 11, 2011. Companies decontaminating areas around the plant, which usually involves removing radioactive top soil, have struggled to find workers willing to do the job. The two men, who arrived in Japan in 2013 saying they were escaping political persecution, said they were told by brokers and construction companies that their visas would be extended if they did decontamination work, the Chunichi newspaper reported.  "We believed the visa story because they said it's a job Japanese people don't want to do," Chunichi quoted one of the men, Monir Hossain, as saying.&nbs...
(Vatican Radio)  The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Journey to Colombia from 6 to 11 September 2017.Listen to our report: A communique from the Holy See Press Office confirmed that the Holy Father will visit the cities of Bogotá, Villavicencio, Medellín, and Cartagena:“Accepting the invitation of the President of the Republic and the Colombian bishops, His Holiness the Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Trip to Colombia from 6 to 11 September 2017, visiting the cities of Bogotá, Villavicencio, Medellín and Cartagena. The programme for the trip will be published shortly.”Official Logo and MottoThe logo of the Journey contains the motto of the Pope’s Apostolic Journey: “Let’s take the first step” [Demos el primer paso].A message accompanying the logo says the words refer to "the more than 50 years of violence" which divided Colombia.“The visit of Pope Francis to C...
Amatrice, Italy, Mar 10, 2017 / 06:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy rebuild their monastery from the rubble caused by devastating earthquakes last year, they do so in the spirit of their founder, Saint Benedict.“For us, it’s very symbolic, that is, being at the birthplace of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, St. Benedict being the founder of Western monasticism,” said Fr. Martin Bernhard, O.S.B. of the Benedictine Monks of Norcia.He noted that St. Benedict (480-547) lived amidst “the collapse of the Roman empire” and the “collapse of society and structures.”“Montecassino was destroyed once when he was there as abbot,” Fr. Martin added of St. Benedict, but the saint “didn’t give up, and he knew that the real answer was still the worship of God, that the primary thing he could do is just give back to God and to center our lives and build our lives around Him in a declining culture and world....
Vatican City, Mar 10, 2017 / 08:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis will make a six-day trip to Colombia in September with four cities on his itinerary, almost a year after the government and FARC rebels signed a major peace agreement.“Accepting the invitation of the President of the Republic and the Colombian bishops, His Holiness the Pope Francis will make an Apostolic Trip to Colombia from 6 to 11 September 2017,” a March 10 communique from the Vatican read.While the official schedule is expected to be released shortly, the Vatican confirmed that Francis will visit the cities of Bogotá, Villavicencio, Medellín and Cartagena.The trip will mark the third time Francis has visited his native South America since becoming Pope, with the first taking place in July 2013 when he traveled to Rio de Janiero for World Youth Day. The second tour took place in July 2015, with stops in Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay.In August 2016 a pe...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When facingcriticism, a sense of humor and the grace to remain at peace are always thebest response, Pope Francis said in an interview with Germany's Die Zeit newspaper.In the interview, published March8 online and in print March 9, the pope laughed and said the Roman dialect featured in postersthat were plastered around the Rome city center criticizing him "wasgreat."The poster, featuring astern-faced picture of the pope, said: "Ah Francis, you've taken overcongregations, removed priests, decapitated the Order of Malta and theFranciscans of the Immaculate, ignored cardinals ... but where is your mercy?""There is this prayer -- whichis attributed to (St.) Thomas More -- that I pray every day: 'Lord, give me asense of humor!' The Lord preserves my peace and gives me a great sense ofhumor," Pope Francis said. Vatican Radio released a brief summarywith selected quotes from the nearly 6,000-word interview, in which the popediscussed several ...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will be visitingColombia in mid-September as the Latin American nation works to implement a newpeace deal and rebuild after 52 years of war.The Vatican announced March 10 that the pope had acceptedthe invitation of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Colombian bishops.The trip, Sept. 6-11, will include visits to the citiesof Bogota, Villavicencio, Medellin and Cartagena. Details of the trip were tobe published at a later date.Pope Francis will be the third pope to visit the nationafter Blessed Paul VI and St. John Paul II. The previous papal visit there was 31years ago in 1986.The bishops' conference posted on their website the triplogo: the pope smiling and walking flanked by the white and yellow colors ofthe Vatican on one side and an early indigenous symbol on the other. The mottois "Let us take the first step" ("Demos el primer paso").Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, apostolic nuncio toColombia, said: "The pope wants to come to mee...
SEATTLE (AP) -- A joke book "written" by a conservative author and filled with blank pages in a dig at Democrats is the top selling book on Amazon....
CAIRO (AP) -- Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country's most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs....
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