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IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlos Garcias, ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Days before a referendum to elect a constituent assembly torewrite Venezuela's constitution, leaders of the country's bishops' conferencesaid the referendum is illegal and will only increase the suffering of thepeople.The July 30 referendum is "unconstitutional as well asunnecessary, inconvenient and damaging to the Venezuelan people," membersof the presiding council of the bishops' conference said in a statementreleased July 27. "It will be a biased and skewed instrument that willnot resolve but rather aggravate the acute problems of the high cost of living and the lack of food andmedicine that the people suffer and will worsen the political crisis wecurrently suffer," the statement said. Tensions have steadily increased under the government ofPresident Nicolas Maduro who continued to tighten his grip on power despitenationwide outrage against his administration of the country's crumbling economy....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sashenka Gutierrez, EPABy David AgrenMEXICOCITY (CNS) -- An anarchist group calling itself "Informal FeministCommando of Anti-Authoritarian Action Coatlicue" has claimed credit for detonatingan explosive device outside the Mexican bishops' conference offices.Thegroup said via an online posting in late July: "Not God nor master. Foreach torture and murder in the name of your God. For every child abused bypedophile priests." Littleis known about the group, though it is believed to detonated a similar deviceMarch 17, Mexican media reported. Coatlicue is an Aztec goddess known as themother of gods.Thegroup also claimed the device at the bishops' office was made with dynamite,butane and propane. The Mexico City attorney general's office said in astatement the device was made with a fire extinguisher, gunpowder, adhesivetape and a wick. It also said it was turning over the case to the federalattorney general's office as the attack was on "a building administered bya relig...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Afterthe Senate Republicans failed to get enough votes to pass a "skinny"repeal to remove parts of the Affordable Care Act in the early hours of July28, a U.S. bishop said the "task of reforming the health care system stillremains."The nation's system underthe Affordable Care Act "is not financially sustainable" and"lacks full Hyde protections and conscience rights," said BishopFrank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.It also "isinaccessible to many immigrants," he said in a statement."Inaction willresult in harm for too many people," Bishop Dewane added.The failed repeal billwas a pared-down version of earlier bills. It would have repealed both theindividual mandate that says all Americans must buy health insurance or pay apenalty and the requirement all large employers offer health insurance to theirworkers. It would ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy revved up this spring after a weak start to the year, fueled by a surge in consumer spending. But the growth spurt still fell short of the optimistic goals President Donald Trump hopes to achieve through tax cuts and regulatory relief....
BOSTON (AP) -- A notorious figure in Boston's Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal was quietly released from prison Friday morning after completing a 12-year sentence for the rape of a boy in the 1980s....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque ended peacefully on Friday amid two weeks of unrest over security at a major holy site in Jerusalem, Israeli police said, but violence flared in the West Bank, where a Palestinian was killed after he attacked soldiers and another died in clashes along Gaza's border with Israel....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry ordered a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia on Friday and said it was closing down a U.S. recreation retreat in response to fresh sanctions against Russia....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's prime minister stepped down on Friday, hours after the country's Supreme Court disqualified him from office in dramatic developments that have plunged the nuclear-armed nation into another major crisis....
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile Friday night which landed in the ocean off Japan, Japanese officials said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is sending a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia to President Donald Trump to sign after the bill received overwhelming support in Congress. Moscow has already responded, ordering a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and closing the U.S. embassy's recreation retreat....
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