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Washington D.C., Jan 6, 2017 / 04:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Christian survivors of the ISIS genocide have serious humanitarian needs, but their faith remains strong, one congressman said after his visit to displaced Christians in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.The faith of Christians, “every one of them,” has grown “stronger” since ISIS militants forced them from their homes in Northern Iraq and in and around Erbil where they have been living for over two years, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) told CNA in an interview.Rep. Smith, chair of the House global human rights subcommittee, recently traveled to Erbil, Iraq to visit with survivors of the ISIS genocide there, most of them Christian. He also met with religious leaders and U.S. and United Nations officials.The faith of the Christians, he said, “has been tested in fire, and they are not capitulating, just the opposite. They love the Lord, and they love the Blessed Mother.”Currently around 70,000 displace...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Beth GriffinNEWARK,N.J. (CNS) -- The chasm between faith and life is the greatest challenge facingthe Catholic Church today, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin said at his installationMass, and he urged the church to be salt for the earth so that the presence ofChrist does not become "a comforting, nostalgic memory."Deliveringthe homily during the liturgy Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany, Cardinal Tobinsaid he wanted to head off "a growing trend that seems to isolate us,convincing us to neatly compartmentalize our lives" as people attend Masson Sunday and then doing "whatever we think we need to do to get by"the rest of the week.CardinalTobin said his appointment reminded him "that stakes are incredibly high" as heassumes leadership of the richly diverse Archdiocese of Newark."If wepermit the chasm between faith and life to continue to expand, we risk losingChrist, reducing him simply to an interesting idea of a comforting, nostalgicmemory. And if we lose Christ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Ilhan Omar took the oath as the nation's first Somali-American lawmaker this week, just days after an 8,500-mile journey that retraced her path from her war-torn homeland to Kenya to the Minnesota Capitol....
ATLANTA (AP) -- A winter storm stalking the South disrupted a new governor's inaugural ceremonies in North Carolina, triggered hundreds of fender benders in Tennessee and led shoppers to empty out shelves of bread and milk....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The horrific beating of a mentally disabled white man in Chicago by four black assailants broadcast on social media is highlighting anti-white hate crimes at a time of increased racial strife in the United States....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A judge rebuked four black people accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack on Facebook, sternly asking, "Where was your sense of decency?" before denying their attorneys' pleas to set bail so they might be released from jail....
The man police say opened fire with a gun from his checked baggage at a Florida airport had a history of mental health issues - some of which followed his military service in Iraq - and was receiving psychological treatment at his home in Alaska, his relatives said Friday after the deadly shooting....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- An Army veteran who complained that the government was controlling his mind drew a gun from his checked luggage on arrival at the Fort Lauderdale airport and opened fire in the baggage claim area Friday, killing five people and wounding eight, authorities said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America's presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government's first formal allegation supporting sensational claims that Trump and his supporters have staunchly resisted....
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The Magi had the courage to set out on a journey in the hope of finding somethingnew, unlike Herod who was full of himself and unwilling to change his ways,Pope Francis said.The Wise Men who set out fromthe East in search of Jesus personify all those who long for God and reflect"allthose who in their lives have let their hearts be anesthetized," the pope said Jan. 6, the feast of theEpiphany."TheMagi experienced longing; they were tired of the usual fare. They were all toofamiliar with, and weary of, the Herods of their own day. But there, inBethlehem, was a promise of newness, of gratuity," he said.Thousandsof people were gathered in St.Peter's Basilica as the pope entered to the sounds of the choir singing"Angels we have heard on high" in Latin. Before taking his place infront of the altar, the pope stood in front of a statue of baby Jesus, spending several minutes inveneration before kissing it.Thepope said that t...
