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(Vatican Radio) The migrant crisis has undermined harmony within churches in Europe, a Catholic bishop has told a high-level EU summit.Auxiliary Bishop of Malines-Bruxelles Jean Kockerols told the meeting of European Commissioners and religious leaders that a common solution the refugee crisis “is a question that touches directly upon the values and the future of Europe”.Bishop Kockerols, also the Vice-President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), said: “This crisis has undermined unity in Europe, and, admittedly, also within the churches in Europe. The migration crisis is challenging Christian communities to position themselves, as citizens and also as believers.“It is our duty to recall that every refugee has the right to receive a fair and human treatment.”The event was hosted by the European Commission and involved 15 representatives from the major religions of the continent. Issues discussed inclu...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Will KirkBy Christopher GuntyBALTIMORE (CNS) -- In October1791, five men began studies for the priesthood at the first seminary in theUnited States, just a couple years after the Diocese of Baltimore wasestablished as the first in the country in 1789.At the time of that humblebeginning -- when Bishop John Carroll, Baltimore's first bishop, welcomed fourpriests from the Society of St. Sulpice and the five seminarians -- the Dioceseof Baltimore encompassed the whole fledgling nation.Sulpician Father Phillip J.Brown, president rector of today's St. Mary's Seminary and University, noted inhis welcome to commemorate that occasion that the seminarians began their studiesat St. Mary's downtown on Paca Street a month before Georgetown University inWashington opened, making the Baltimore seminary the oldest American institutionof higher learning.The remark brought a chuckle ofpride from the congregation gathered Nov. 15 in the seminary's chapel to markthe 225th anni...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, EPABy Bronwen DachsCAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) --Hunger levels are so severe in drought-ridden southern Madagascar that manypeople in remote villages have eaten almost nothing but cactus fruit for up tofour years, said a Catholic Relief Services official.Eating this fruit leaves crimsonstains on people's faces and hands, and there is a "shame of povertyassociated with these stains in Madagascar," an island nation 250 milesoff the coast of mainland Africa, said Nancy McNally, CRS information officerfor East and Southern Africa.The cactus plant "is theonly thing that grows" in southern Madagascar, and the plants "aregrowing everywhere" in earth "that looks like white silt," shesaid in a Nov. 23 telephone interview from Nairobi, Kenya.A father of three, sitting withhis wife and children outside the town of Beloha in southeastern Madagascar, "toldme that his family had been living on cactus fruit for a year," McNallysaid."With whatever money hecould m...
VERBANIA, Italy (AP) -- Italy's Emma Morano, the world's oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake....
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) -- Raging wildfires fueled by high winds forced the evacuation of thousands of people and were believed to have wiped out an entire resort of more than 100 buildings in the Great Smoky Mountains as National Guard troops arrived early Tuesday to help overwhelmed firefighters....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University complained on his Facebook account about U.S. interference in countries with Muslim communities, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The Latest on the Colombia plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local):...
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) -- A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 75 people and leaving six survivors, Colombian officials said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified "consequences," such as jail or a loss of citizenship - a move that was ruled out by the Supreme Court nearly three decades ago....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump made two Cabinet selections on Tuesday, choosing fierce Obamacare critic Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and Elaine Chao, who served in the Cabinet of George W. Bush, to serve as the secretary of the Department of Transportation....
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