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CAIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the global reaction to President Donald Trump's temporary suspension of immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the latest intensification of partisan hostilities, Republicans rammed President Donald Trump's picks to be Treasury and health secretaries through a Senate committee on Wednesday with no Democrats present after unilaterally suspending panel rules that would have otherwise prevented the vote....
Cameroon’s health sector has had its share of challenges over the years. For instance, according to statistics, there are only two doctors for every 10,000 people. Furthermore, a significant number of citizens cannot afford healthcare.To address these challenges, Dr Susan Enjema Aweh widely known as Doctor Sea is working to transform the way people in the country access information about their health by giving health advice online. She uses short videos to offer information and advice on how people can prevent and manage diseases as well as receive treatment.Despite Dr Sea’s helping the community, some physicians are sceptical about online healthcare programmes. Dr Tatah Divine, a doctor in the country, says “You really need a medical personnel, a trained Doctor to clerk you, examine and then maybe do some tests...”Apart from having an online health program, Dr Sea also holds seminars and trains doctors for free. She also has a website where she publishes h...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis during his General Audience on Wednesday continued his catechesis on Christian hope telling pilgrims in the Paul VI Hall that, "we Christians are challenged to hope more firmly in the Lord’s promise of eternal life." Below find the Pope's words read out in English at the weekly General Audience Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis on Christian hope, today we turn to the earliest writing of the New Testament, Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians. The Apostle writes to confirm this young Christian community in its faith in Christ’s death and resurrection, but he also speaks of the meaning of this mystery for the life of each believer. For Christ is the firstfruits of the future resurrection. Before the mystery of death, and the loss of our loved ones, we Christians are challenged to hope more firmly in the Lord’s promise of eternal life. Paul tells ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday invited Christians to “wear the hope of salvation like a helmet (1 Thess 5:8), in the knowledge that, because Christ is risen, the object of our hope is certain.”The Holy Father was quoting from Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians during his weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Hall where he continued his catechesis on Christian hope.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's report The Pope recalling the freshness and beauty of this first Christian proclamation described the community of Thessalonica at the time as one “ rooted in faith which celebrated with enthusiasm and joy the resurrection of the Lord Jesus”, despite its difficulties and the many trials.Pope Francis noted how this letter of St Paul is more timely than ever because, “before the mystery of death, and the loss of our loved ones, we Christians are challenged to hope more firmly in the Lord’s promise of eternal life.”Chris...
Catholic bishops of Philippines on Monday wrapped up their plenary assembly by calling for public vigilance over proposals to amend the country’s Constitution and the threat of martial law.The bishops did not categorically endorse or disapprove the moves to revise the 1987 Charter but urged the people to particularly keep an eye on the Constitutional safeguards against any abuse of martial law.“Let us continue to maintain the safeguards against dictatorial martial rule that our present Constitution contains,” said Archbishop Socrates Villegas, CBCP president, in a statement.President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly said he won’t hesitate to declare martial law if necessary to supposedly protect the nation.Only recently, Duterte said he is eyeing changing martial law provisions in the Constitution to allow its declaration without the approval of Congress and the Supreme Court.The bishops’ collegial body stressed that rewriting the “the single most...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday asked people to pray for all those in Religious and Consecrated Life, who have been called to profess the evangelical counsels.He was speaking on Wednesday during his General Audience, in anticipation of Thursday’s celebration of the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, which is also the World Day of Consecrated Life.“I ask you to pray for the priests, sisters, and brothers belonging to contemplative and apostolic Religious Institutes,” Pope Francis said. “Their life dedicated to the Lord, and their charismatic service, will bear abundant fruit for the good of the faithful, and for the evangelizing mission of the Church.”The Holy Father asked the faithful to pray that “through their witness of life, they may radiate to the world the love of Christ and the grace of the Gospel.”Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate Mass for the World Day of Consecrated Life on Thursday afternoon in St. Peter&rsquo...
Rome, Italy, Feb 1, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The archdiocese that once sent St. John Paul II to the papacy has a new archbishop: Marek Jedraszewski. The archbishop has special memories of the sainted Pope and the Divine Mercy devotion he brought to the world.“Thanks to Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later St. John Paul II, the message of mercy became very important for the world. And this is a message really close to Pope Francis, too,” Archbishop Jedraszewski told CNA.Krakow is a major center of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy devotion, based on private revelations of Jesus Christ to St. Faustina Kowalska. It hosts Sister Faustina's convent and a shrine dedicated to Divine Mercy. St. John Paul II was himself a devotee and a popularizer of the Divine Mercy.But the devotion itself began in the Archdiocese of Lodz, Archbishop Jedraszewski's previous assignment.“It is really symbolic that I am coming from Lodz, where the Divine Mercy devotion began, to Krakow, w...
Rome, Italy, Feb 1, 2017 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Iraqi priest who was forced to flee his village when the Islamic State seized the area in 2014 said the hardship and persecution Christians in Iraq have experienced has taught them what it really means to fully live out their faith.“What we have witnessed is a message for us, so we may reconsider what the objectives of being Christian should be, what it means to live as a Christian to the fullest, not through empty words, and not as something that can be carried away by the wind,” Fr. Karam Shamasha told CNA.Fr. Shamasha is from Telskuf, a town on the Nineveh plain 10 miles south of Alqosh. At one time there were more than 120,000 Christians there, he said: “In my village everybody was Christian. There was no other religion.”As a parish priest in the Chaldean Diocese of Alqosh, Fr. Shamasha served some 1,500 Christian families before the Iraq War started.But since 2003 the community has experienced cont...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- First the tiny drones buzz overhead to observe Iraqi soldiers. Then, the Islamic State group's flying machines return to drop a small explosive device to sow panic among security forces - or deadlier still, to help guide a suicide car bomber to a target....
