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The Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Committee of South Sudan’s Catholic Bishops is urging the country’s citizens, especially the youth to engage in dialogue to build their nation, which is embroiled in a civil conflict that broke out in December 2013.Speaking at a two-day workshop on Conflict Management in Juba this week, Jim Long John urged the Christian youth at the training session to help communities put aside their differences and to engage in dialogue so as to live peacefully together.During the workshop, the young people identified insecurity, land grabbing, tribalism, injustice, corruption, economic crisis and cultural conflicts as issues of serious concern in South Sudanese communities.They resolved to help people address their grievances through dialogue, prayer, respect for human rights and also promote a change of attitude.Meanwhile, the government of South Sudan is to launch a national dialogue to discuss issues of forgiveness, unity and nationa...
(Vatican Radio) A Dutch court has ruled that a trove of historical artefacts being held by an Amsterdam museum must be returned to Ukraine and not to four museums in Crimea, which loaned them out for an exhibition in 2014. The decision is aimed at ending a cultural tug-of-war triggered by Russia's annexation of Crimea.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Wednesday's ruling by the District Court of Amsterdam came after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 left treasures in a legal limbo. Both the Crimean museums and Ukraine demanded the return by Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum of some 300 stunning historical artefacts. The museum had borrowed them for a 2014 exhibition that opened a month before the annexation. However judge Mieke Dudok van Heel ruled that the artefacts should be returned to Ukraine, in part because Crimea is not recognized as a separate country. She explained "that the Crimean museums take the position that the Crimean treasures ...
(Vatican Radio) Brazilian Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns died on Wednesday morning, aged 95, after a long struggle with lung and kidney problems.The Archbishop Emeritus of Sao Paulo was the last living Cardinal to be appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1973.Cardinal Arns served as Archbishop of Sao Paulo from 1970 to 1998. A pastor at heart, never far from his flock, Cardinal Arns was much beloved by the faithful. He was also known for having challenged leaders of the brutal Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964-1985 and for his fight against torture in Latin America.A commission created by Cardinal Arns at his Archdiocese documented many cases of torture and helped later governments pay damages to victims and shame perpetrators of violence."Let us praise God for the Franciscan life of Dom Paulo and for his courageous engagement in the defense of human dignity and inalienable rights of each person," Sao Paulo Archbishop Odilo Scherer said in a statement.Cardin...
Columbus, Ohio, Dec 14, 2016 / 10:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a bill banning abortions performed after five months of pregnancy in most cases, citing evidence that unborn babies can feel pain at this point.At the same time, he vetoed the “heartbeat bill” passed by the state’s legislature, which would have outlawed abortions once a baby’s heartbeat has been detected.“By signing S.B. 127, the 20-week ban, Governor Kasich will save hundreds of unborn lives each year and he positioned the state of Ohio to directly challenge Roe v. Wade,” Mike Gonidakis, President of Ohio Right to Life, stated.The bill “was nationally designed to be the vehicle to end abortion in America,” he added. “It challenges the current national abortion standard and properly moves the legal needle from viability to the baby’s ability to feel pain.”Gov. Kasich signed the state’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The death of Alan Thicke has saddened every fan of "Growing Pains," the warm family sitcom where he played Dr. Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist and ideal TV dad....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A U.S. study of Zika-infected pregnancies found that 6 percent of them ended in birth defects. The rate was nearly twice as high for women infected early in pregnancy....
Fed up with Europe's union across borders? Reject it. Disgusted with the U.S. political establishment? Can it....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Prosecutors are trying Bill Cosby for an alleged 2004 sexual assault only so that a "bandwagon" of women can pursue old, unsubstantiated claims that the 79-year-old comedian drugged and assaulted them, a defense lawyer said in court Wednesday....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Advocates for more state control of public lands and fewer government regulations on energy development hope Donald Trump will be more receptive to their cause, which they say has been ignored during President Barack Obama's two terms. A look at some key questions:...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Conservatives who have long complained about the government's control of vast Western lands hope they will have a new ally in Donald Trump, who has sent mixed signals about how he might manage land and whether he would relinquish federal authority over millions of acres....
