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Five Faith-Based Organisations in the network of Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim affiliated health facilities met recently in Nairobi to review their performance in the fight against HIV/AIDS.The forum held at a Nairobi hotel under theme “Joining together to celebrate our successes in the fight against HIV in Kenya,” discussed the contribution of Faith-based organisations (FBOs) to the HIV response in the country.They included the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK), Coptic Mission Hospital, Eastern Deanery Aids Relief Program (EDARP) and BOMU Medical Center.“We renew our commitment to support all efforts already undertaken by the national government, county governments and other non-governmental organisations to alleviate the human suffering caused by the pandemic and to prevent it from further spreading and if possible to eliminate it completely in human history,” said Bishop Peter Kihara Kar...
(Vatican Radio) In his address to Catholic charities, MPs and supporters at the annual Caritas Social Action Network parliamentary reception, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, focused on the soaring number of homeless people in England and, in particular, the rise in what he termed 'hidden homelessness.' Official figures have revealed that the number of people sleeping rough in England has doubled since 2010 and rose by 30 percent in the last year alone. An estimated 3,569 people sleep on the streets on any one night according to these figures.Cardinal Nichols described the hidden homeless as "under the radar," saying these are people who may have a job but are sleeping on sofas or spare rooms or in Bed and Breakfast accommodation. Young people in this position may stay with a different friend each night or go to all-night parties to avoid sleeping on the street.Homelessness charities called the figures "scandalous" and "sh...
Vatican City, Nov 7, 2016 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Monday that recently nominated Cardinal-elect Archbishop Joseph William Tobin of Indianapolis will soon be taking over as the new head of the Newark, N.J. Archdiocese.Born in Detroit May 3, 1952, Tobin has since 2012 served as the 6th Archbishop of Indianapolis. He was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1978 and served as the order’s superior general from 1997 to 2009.On Oct. 9 Pope Francis named him as one of three Americans on his list of 17 new cardinal-elects, who will be elevated during a special Nov. 19 consistory set to coincide with the end of the Jubilee of Mercy.Other Americans getting the red hat are Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago and Bishop Kevin Farrell, former head of the Dallas diocese but who recently moved to Rome to carry out his new role as prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Laity, Family and Life.As head of the Newark Archdiocese, Tobin will be taking over for Archbishop Jo...
Vatican City, Nov 7, 2016 / 08:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A statement made by the Vatican on Monday declared that unverified reports of bishop ordinations taking place within the so-called “underground Church” in China had neither the authorization of the Holy See, nor had they been officially communicated.“The Holy See has not authorized any ordination, nor has it been officially informed of such events. Should such episcopal ordinations have occurred, they would constitute a grave violation of canonical norms,” the Nov. 7 communique read. Signed by Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, the statement referred to recent unsubstantiated reports that, without authorization from the Pope, the ordination of some bishops took place recently in the so-called “underground Church” in Continental China. As the statement read: “In recent weeks, there has been a series of reports regarding some episcopal ordinations conferred...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In 1963, theVatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an instructionpermitting cremation as long as it was not done as a sign of denial of thebasic Christian belief in the resurrection of the dead.The permission was incorporatedinto the Code of Canon Law in 1983 and the Code of Canons of the EasternChurches in 1990.However, Cardinal GerhardMuller, prefect of the congregation, told reporters Oct. 25 that church law hadnot specified exactly what should be done with "cremains," andseveral bishops' conferences asked the congregation to provide guidance.That request led to "Adresurgendum cum Christo" ("To Rise With Christ"), an instruction"regarding the burial of the deceased and the conservation of the ashes inthe case of cremation," issued Oct. 25. The document was approved by PopeFrancis after consultation with other Vatican offices and with bishops'conferences and the Eastern churches' synods of bishops.Release...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the search for profits outweighsall other considerations in society, money becomes a god who terrorizeshumanity -- excluding the majority of people and causing those still well offto build walls to cower behind, Pope Francis said."The entire social doctrine of the church and themagisterium of my predecessors rebel against money as an idol that reignsinstead of serves, tyrannizing and terrorizing humanity," the pope said.Like all forms of terrorism, the terrorism of an economyfocused only on making money relies on people's fear for effectiveness, PopeFrancis said Nov. 5 during a meeting at the Vatican with participants in thethird World Meeting of Popular Movements, a collection of grassroots organizationsof the poor, the underemployed, indigenous communities and farmworkers."When this terror, which is sown in the peripherieswith massacres, pillaging, oppression and injustice, explodes in the cent...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Indifference, criminal networks andpowerful economic interests still pose a challenge to those fighting againsthuman trafficking, Pope Francis said.While much has been done in recognizing the seriousnessand extent of this "true crime against humanity," he said, "much more needsto be done on the level of raising public awareness and effecting a bettercoordination of efforts by governments, the judiciary system, law enforcementofficials and social workers."The pope spoke Nov. 7 to more than 100 people taking partin the second assembly of RENATE-- Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation. Networkmembers and supporters were meeting in Rome Nov. 6-12.In his speech to participants, the pope said this modernform of slavery was "one of the most troubling" open woundsafflicting the world today "and constitutes a true crime against humanity."The pope thanked those present, especially womenreligious, for their "faithful witness to...
WOODRUFF, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina man's confession to a decade-long crime spree has cracked open a cold case that had haunted the victims' relatives and has prompted law enforcement investigators to expand their search for human remains beyond the property where they discovered a woman chained inside a storage container....
CUSHING, Okla. (AP) -- Dozens of buildings sustained "substantial damage" after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but officials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal....
MIAMI (AP) -- Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and was also the epicenter of a relentless series of political storms, from the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, to the seizure of 5-year-old Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez....
