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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Judge Neil Gorsuch wasn't convinced that a teenager who made burping sounds in a classroom should be arrested, handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention in a police car....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It took former President Barack Obama and his Democrats more than a year to pass the Affordable Care Act, a slow and painstaking process that allowed plenty of time for a fierce backlash to ignite, undermining the law from the very start....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration....
(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...
Over 3,000 young people from different religious communities gathered in Semarang, capital of Central Java province, to attend an interreligious meeting, committing themselves to "develop an inclusive attitude and to combat all forms of radicalism and intolerance in Indonesian society". As Fides learns, the meeting was organized on March 5 by the Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of Semarang and by five universities (three Islamic, one public, one Catholic). The meeting was attended by young Indonesians from 71 different communities. The meeting was presided by Fr. Lukas Awi Tristanto, secretary of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of Semarang and was attended by the Mayor of Semarang, Hendrar Prihadi who said: "Those who are not willing to accept diversity, leave Indonesia!"Speaking to Fides, Fr. Lukas Awi Trisanto said that the interreligious event had the primary purpose of "...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the staff and volunteers of the Telefono Amico Italia service on Saturday. Celebrating fifty years of activity this year, Telefono Amico is a volunteer service that makes itself available to anyone feeling lonely, depressed, anxious, or angry – or who simply wants to reach out and talk to a friendly person willing to listen.There are 700 volunteers staffing the organization’s telephones in 20 locations throughout Italy, from 10am to midnight every day.Click below to hear our report The Holy Father told his guests dialogue allows us to know and understand each other's needs.“First,” he said, “it shows a great deal of respect, because it places people in an attitude of openness to one another, in order for each to receive the best aspects of his interlocutor.”Dialogue is also an expression of charity, insofar as it can help people search out paths forward while respecting each other’s differences, al...
(Vatican Radio) The President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, has written to Pope Francis on behalf of the whole Conference, to offer congratulations on the fourth anniversary of the Holy Father's election to the See of Peter, which took place on march 13, 2013.Cardinal Nichols offers expressions of gratitude for the Holy Father's steadfast leadership. "Holy Father," writes Cardinal Nichols, "we thank you for the steadfast way in which you uphold the teachings of Christ and the Church, presenting them in deed and in word with a freshness and directness, which draws the attention of the world."The full text of the letter is available on the website of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, here.
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican representative to the United Nations in Geneva, on Friday addressed the Human Rights Council on the 'moral obligation' of universal access to medicines.He said policy coherence is necessary to achieve this goal. "In relation to pursuing of the double goals of access to medicines and necessary medical innovation, policy coherence is fundamental for effective, sustainable and equitable progress towards universal health coverage and improved health outcomes for all.""In order to promote human dignity and to adopt policies rooted in a human rights approach," Archbishop Jurkovic said, "we need to confront and remove barriers, such as monopolies and oligopolies, lack of access and affordability and, in particular, both overwhelming and unacceptable human greed."Please find below the full text of the address:Statement by H.E. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Representative of the Holy Se...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The skeletal remains of 27 people were all that was left of a massacre, one of many in this West African nation's back-to-back civil wars more than a decade ago. When the United Nations handed over the bones to the government last month, it was an invitation to investigate. Instead the remains were buried quickly, without ceremony, in a site intended for victims of the Ebola virus....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Twin explosions Saturday near religious shrines frequented by Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least 40 people, Syria's interior minister and media reported....
