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HOUSTON (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted Wednesday to the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital with pneumonia, and his wife, Barbara, was hospitalized as a precaution after suffering fatigue and coughing, a spokesman said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump says his inauguration will have "an unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout." Organizers of a protest the next day call it the biggest demonstration in history to welcome a new president....
(Vatican Radio) A delegation from the U.S. state of Louisiana was among the special guests meeting with Pope Francis during his general audience on Wednesday. Led by Governor John Bel Edwards, the delegation asked the Pope to bless the pioneering work that is going on in Louisiana to prevent human trafficking and to protect victims who’ve been trapped in this modern day slavery.That work includes special training for police officers and the opening of a shelter for sixteen young women in a secure location near the city of Baton Rouge.To find out more about the project Philippa Hitchen spoke to Governor Edwards and to Fr Jeff Bayhi, pastor of St John the Baptist Catholic Church in Zachary….Listen:  Fr Bayhi was inspired the tireless anti-trafficking efforts of Italian Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, whose passion, he says “is contagious”. He explains that the Louisiana initiative has brought together the governor, state agencies, law enforcement, leg...
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan 18, 2017 / 11:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Venezuela have urged that elections take place in the country in a timely manner, in light of the crisis of hyperinflation and chronic shortages of goods facing their nation.“The country requires a plan for elections, just as was agreed upon during the round-table discussions,” the Venezuelan bishops' conference said in a Jan. 13 pastoral exhortation “Jesus Christ, the Light and the Way for Venezuela.”They urged the government to comply with an Oct. 30 agreement so that dialogue with the opposition, which controls the legislature, can continue and thus pull Venezuela out of its crisis.The country has been ruled by a socialist government since 1999, and particularly in recent yers has been marred by violence and social and economic upheaval; the International Monetary Fund expects an inflation rate of 1,600 percent in 2017.Poor economic policies, including strict price controls, c...
Washington D.C., Jan 18, 2017 / 01:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Any changes to health care law under the new administration should not abandon the principal of genuinely affordable health care for everyone, said the U.S. bishops in a letter to Congress.In American policy, they said, “we must not see health care as a luxury, but as a necessary building block to help individuals and families thrive and contribute to the good of the community and the nation.”“We recognize that the law has brought about important gains in coverage, and those gains should be protected,” Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida said in a Jan. 18 letter to members of Congress.He wrote in his role as chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.For the U.S. bishops, any repeal of key provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act should not take place “without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate health car...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike NelsonBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Acknowledging thefear some immigrants have expressed as Donald Trump becomes president, Jesuitparishes, schools and other communities plan to pray for those who fear him andhis proposals on the eve of his Jan. 20 inauguration as the country's 45thpresident.At least one community said it willdeclare sanctuary status for itself that evening.The Ignatian Solidarity Network, asocial justice education and advocacy organization based in University Heights,Ohio, said in a news release that it asked its partner universities, highschools and parishes to organize events "recognizing the experiences ofmarginalization that immigrant members of communities throughout the countryare experiencing."The result is the event titled"Prayers of Light: A Call to Prayer for Immigrants," taking place fromcoast to coast Jan. 19 in venues from San Francisco to New Jersey in places large and small in between, such as De Pere, Wisconsin, and St. L...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gorillas, monkeys, lemurs and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct, and scientists say it's our fault that our closest living relatives are in trouble, a new international study warns....
DENVER (AP) -- Denver is starting work Wednesday on becoming the first city in the nation to allow marijuana clubs and public pot use in places such as coffee shops, yoga studios and art galleries....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, with scientists mostly blaming man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino that's now gone....
LULA, Ga. (AP) -- Patti Thomas owns a flower shop in the north Georgia town of Lula. Xavier Bryant runs an independent pharmacy just outside Atlanta. Looking toward the inauguration of an entrepreneur as president, the two share this expectation: Donald Trump will be good for business....
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