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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- American women are staying home from work, zipping up their wallets, wearing red and attending rallies across the country to show their economic strength and impact on society as part of International Women's Day celebrations happening across the globe Wednesday....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Paul Ryan staunchly defended the House Republican health care plan Wednesday as the only alternative to the current Obama-era law, as he confronted forceful opposition from conservatives, medical professionals and others....
(Vatican Radio) Bringing the voices of Catholic women leaders from around the world to the heart of the Vatican is the goal of an event taking place on Wednesday to mark international women’s day.The annual ‘Voices of Faith’ event is jointly organised this year by the Fidel Gotz Foundation and by Jesuit Refugee Services, focusing on women working for justice and peacemaking in countries across the globe.Flavia Agnes is one of those who has been on the front line of this struggle in her native India. She’s a lawyer and co-founder of the Majlis Legal Centre in Mumbai for marginalized women and children. A survivor of domestic violence herself, Flavia has campaigned tirelessly to bring women’s rights to the forefront of her country’s legal system.She told Philippa Hitchen about the work of her Centre, saying that while women to continue to suffer from the invisible scourges of domestic and sexual violence, her country has seen much progress for wom...
(Vatican Radio) ‘Stirring the Waters: making the impossible possible’ is the theme for an event taking place in the Vatican on Wednesday to mark international women’s day.The annual ‘Voices of Faith’ event is jointly organised this year by the Fidel Gotz Foundation and by Jesuit Refugee Services. It features the voices of Catholic women working to build leadership for justice and peacemaking in many different countries and cultural contexts.Among those taking part this year is American Sister Simone Campbell, better known as ‘the nun on the bus’.  A member of the Benedictine-inspired Sisters of Social Service, she’s a lawyer, serving as executive director of Network, the Washington DC based National Catholic Social Justice Lobby.In 2012, she and some of the sisters in her community toured parts of the United States on a bus to draw attention to their work with the poor and to protest planned aid cuts.She talked to Philippa Hitch...
(Vatican Radio)  Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic spoke to a high-level side event on Tuesday at the UN entitled “Mutual Respect and Peaceful Coexistence as a Condition of Interreligious Peace and Stability: Supporting Christians and Other Communities”.The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva called on participants to recognize religious freedom as a fundamental human right.He said, “Protection is one of the key elements surrounding any debate on religious freedom as a fundamental human right because it is intrinsic to the human person.”Archbishop Jurkovic said “a possible way forward could be represented by the universal recognition of religious freedom as a fundamental human right for every person, in every country, and respected equally by everybody.”Please find below the full text of his address:Opening Remarks by H.E. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other Inte...
Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new advisory group for the Pontifical Council for Culture is being hailed as the beginning of a greater representation of women in leadership at the Vatican.  On March 7 the Council presented their 37-member “Women's Consultation Group,” which they established in 2015 as a way to give women a voice in places where it can frequently be lacking in the Vatican.Member Donna Orsuto, director of the Rome-based Lay Center, called the the group “a good start.”“I think there are many other ways, or in the future there will be many other ways in which women can be more present, more involved in the Church, especially in the Roman Curia,” she told CNA, “but I think this is a very good start.”Orsuto voiced her hope that as they carry out their work, the group would be able to “work together...as women, but also with the council.”“This idea of men and women working ...
Mountain View, Calif., Mar 8, 2017 / 06:06 am (Church Pop).- St. Francis Catholic High School in Mountain View, California recently revealed that it invested just $15,000 in a very early seed round of funding for Snapchat (now known as Snap) back in 2012.Snap just went public with an IPO, and the school sold some of their shares for a whopping $24 million.They only sold two-thirds of their shares, saving one-third in hopes that the share price will continue to rise.The school president said the money would be used to carry out their strategic plan, which includes expanding financial aid and growing their science and technology programs.So why was the school investing in Snapchat in the first place? The school has a special growth fund that they’ve used to make investments since the 1990s as a way of generating additional income. In 2012, a father of two girls at the school who ran a venture capital firm recommended the school make the investment in the fledgling start-up. ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group....
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) -- Winds are expected to slow down Wednesday, but weather conditions are still not ideal for emergency crews battling wildfires in four states that have killed six people and destroyed hundreds of square miles of land....
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