• Home
  • About Us
  • Support
  • Concerts & Events
  • Music & Media
  • Faith
  • Listen Live
  • Give Now

Article Archive

Please click below to view any of the articles in our archive.

Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 1, 2017 / 09:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- For one Catholic bishop in Nigeria, social media and family life are two keys for evangelization and sharing the values of the Catholic Church.“We need to invent new means of forming people’s consciences. We need to form new means of confronting the agents of non-values that are among us. We need to form new means of colonizing the media so that people can hear the voice of the Church,” said Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo of Oyo.The interview, conducted by Catholic News Agency for Africa, was released after the bishops’ conference in Nigeria last week.Bishop Badejo is the chair of the Pan-African Episcopal Committee of Social Communications and is director of communications for the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. This year he is celebrating his 30th year as a priest and 9th year as a bishop.The bishop warned of sometimes inappropriate use and malicious intent behind main stream media. Social media c...
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Inmates at a Delaware prison took four corrections department workers hostage Wednesday, a move the inmates told a local newspaper was due to concerns about their treatment and the leadership of the United States....
PUNO, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian dancers in colorful masks and elaborate headdresses are celebrating the Virgin of Candelaria in what's considered the largest Roman Catholic festival in the Andes....
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister insisted Thursday that a deal struck with the Obama administration that would allow mostly Muslim refugees rejected by Australia to be resettled in the United States was still on, despite President Donald Trump dubbing the agreement "dumb" and vowing to review it....
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire prompting University of California at Berkeley officials to cancel a talk Wednesday by a polarizing editor of Breitbart News out of safety concerns....
I have this image that I'm going to be put through the proverbial "ringer" and not make it out...
Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2017 / 04:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. bishops are concerned by the Trump administration’s decision to maintain a “troubling” Obama-era executive order that could demand federal contractors violate their religious beliefs on marriage and gender ideology.“In seeking to remedy instances of discrimination, it creates new forms of discrimination against people of faith. Keeping the executive order intact is not the answer,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Feb. 1.“The Church steadfastly opposes all unjust discrimination, and we need to continue to advance justice and fairness in the workplace,” the bishops added. “Executive Order 13672, however, creates problems rather than solves them.”The executive order is “deeply flawed” with “many problems,” they said, voicing hope the administration would be open to ways to advance conscience rights.Signed by President Barack Obama...
By AUGUSTA,Ga. (CNS) -- Saying "justice needs to be tamed by mercy," Bishop Felipe J. Estevezof St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the stateof Georgia to drop the death penalty in the case of accused priest killerSteven J. Murray."Wehave great respect for the legal system and we believe Murray deservespunishment for the brutal murder, but the sentence of death only perpetuates thecycle of violence," Bishop Estevez said at a news conference. "It isunnecessary and denies the dignity of all persons."BishopEstevez, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta and Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayerof Savannah, along with priests, deacons and other supporters, gathered outsidethe Richmond County Courthouse in Augusta to issue their appeal.Murray,29, has admitted in interviews to killing Father Rene Robert, 71, a priest ofthe Diocese of St. Augustine, who befriended him as part of his prisonministry. He is charged with first-degree murder, which carries a sentence oflif...
NEW YORK (AP) -- On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to appoint a crusading anti-abortion Supreme Court justice who'd work to overturn the Roe v. Wade opinion that legalized it....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Army's review of a proposal to finish the Dakota Access pipeline could be the beginning of the end for opponents who have been fighting the project for nearly a year....
Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Soundcloud

Public Inspection File | EEO

© 2015 - 2021 Spirit FM 90.5 - All Rights Reserved.