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NEW YORK (AP) -- Following the death of Florence Henderson, the matriarch of "The Brady Bunch," here's a look at the other cast members from the iconic TV show:...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Soldiers and police fanned out Friday across the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, chasing a wounded gang leader and trying to quell a wave of violence that included the discovery of hidden graves holding dozens of bodies and a camp where gunmen stored the severed heads of nine rivals in a cooler....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It will be one of many unusual things about a Donald Trump administration: a long-distance first lady....
The Ethiopian Catholic Church through different religious congregations and diocesan desks is supporting women discover their potential through various skills training available in Church-run promotion centres.In most parts of Ethiopia, the lack of financial independence and lack of awareness, lack of educational opportunities leave women victims vulnerable to Gender Based Violence. Having realised this, the Church is making efforts to eradicate such problems through women’s promotion centres now found in various parts of the country. The promotion centres have been lauded as a successful strategy of raising awareness and potential among women. As centres, they become hubs that build capacity among women thus enabling them engage confidently in various entrepreneurial activities.Progress about the success of the promotion centres was disclosed this week on 24 and 25 November when the Ethiopian Catholic Church’ Social and Development Commission (ECC SDCO) marked the int...
At the end of their November Plenary in Antananarivo, the bishops of Madagascar have issued a pastoral statement marking the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. In their statement, made available to the media, the Malagasy bishops dedicate the country to the Divine Mercy of God and hail relations with the Holy See.“We dedicate today the destiny of our beautiful country, Madagascar, and its children confronted with all kinds of miseries: Non -respect for life, abortion, crimes against humanity, irresponsible exploitation of our natural wealth, crime, insecurity, thirst for power and money, injustice, corruption, fear of truth, egoism, a spirit of hatred, vengeance and so many other evils ...” the Bishops pray.On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of relations with the Holy See, the Bishops praise the warm ties.“We invite the people to pray for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations bet...
The Bangladesh High Court on Tuesday, ordered an explanation from officials involved in the violent eviction of thousands of indigenous Santal people from their ancestral lands by a sugar plantation and mill in the northern Gaibandha district.About 2,500 Santals, mostly Christians, were forced off disputed land in the northern Gaibandha district by workers from the Rangpur Sugar Mill with support from the local administration on Nov. 6-7. Three Santal men were killed and over 20 people, including police officers, were injured in a series of clashes as the Santals tried to resist eviction attempts. The attackers also looted the villages of tribal people and their livestock and set fire to 600 squatter homes.The court ordered 12 government officials and bodies, the police, the managing director of Rangpur Sugar Mill and local lawmaker, Abul Kalam Azad to explain their role in the eviction that left three people dead.Two Santal women filed a petition with the High Court on Nov. 21. J...
(Vatican Radio) A statement from the Vatican issued on Friday said the Holy See and France, have completed the procedures to ratify the Amendment of the diplomatic Conventions of 14 May 1872 and 8 September 1828 and the Amendments of 4 May 1974 , 21 January 1999 and 12 July 2005 concerning Rome’s Trinità dei Monti church and convent.As a result the Amendment went into effect on 23rd November 2016,.The complex that overlooks Rome’s famous Spanish Steps has been in the hands of a series of French Catholic Orders from the 19th century up to the present day. It is now being assigned to the care of the Emmanuel Community, an international public association of pontifical right that was founded in France in 1972.
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican announced on Friday that the newly established commission for the study of the female diaconate was holding its first meeting at the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.The two day meeting brings together the 12 members of the commission, under the presidency of Jesuit Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, who also serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.During the morning and afternoon sessions, members will study the situation of women deacons in the early centuries of Church history.Pope Francis announced the setting up of the new commission on August 2nd this year, following a May 12th meeting with participants at a plenary assembly of female religious superiors, who asked him about the possibility of restoring the permanent diaconate for women.The commission includes six men and six women from eight different countries, with a wide variety of theological perspectives. Five of the members teach...
Vatican City, Nov 25, 2016 / 08:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Drug addiction is a contemporary form of slavery, Pope Francis lamented Thursday, emphasizing that a rehabilitation which restores victims' joy and dignity is much needed.“Drugs are a wound in our society. A wound that traps many people in the networks. They are victims have lost their freedom to fall into slavery; slavery of a dependency we can call ‘chemistry,’” the Pope said Nov. 24.It’s certain, he said, that drugs consist “of a new form of slavery, like many others that plague man today and society in general.”Pope Francis spoke to participants in a Nov. 23-24 workshop organized by the Pontifical Academy for the Sciences titled “Workshop on Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of this Global Issue.”The two-day gathering focused on the history of drug use and the current global situation, the global impact of the drug trade, methods of prevention such as education...
Montpellier, France, Nov 25, 2016 / 09:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An attack at a French retirement home for missionaries to Africa late on Thursday has left dead one caregiver. The residents have been evacuated and are now safe, but the perpetrator is still at large.The attacker, armed with a shotgun and a knife, entered the retirement community of Green Oaks in Montferrier-sur-Lez, six miles north of Montpellier, the night of Nov. 24.The Montpellier prosecutor, Christophe Barret, has said the attack is not believed to be linked to Islamist terrorism, but was a “local” crime with an identified suspect who has ties to the home, the BBC reports.The community, home to 60 residents, is run by the Society of African Missions. Most residents are members of the Society of African missions, though there are some members of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles and a few laywomen.Police were notified of the attack after a nurse escaped the scene. The attacker had fled, however. He...
