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For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio State Fair opened Thursday but its amusement rides remained closed one day after a man was killed and seven other people were injured when a thrill ride broke apart and flung people into the air....
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Though his future may be in doubt, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions forged ahead Thursday with a tough-on-crime agenda that once endeared him to President Donald Trump, opening a mission in El Salvador to step up international cooperation against the violent street gang MS-13....
LONDON (AP) -- A British judge ordered Thursday that critically ill infant Charlie Gard should be moved from a hospital to a hospice, where he will "inevitably" die within a short time....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is pushing for inspections of suspicious Iranian military sites in a bid to test the strength of the nuclear deal that President Donald Trump desperately wants to cancel, senior U.S. officials said....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Clashes erupted Thursday at a sacred shrine in Jerusalem as thousands of Muslims rushed to pray at the site for the first time in nearly two weeks following Israel's removal of security devices installed there after a deadly attack....
(Vatican Radio) From Rome, Italy, the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, on behalf of the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has commended the Catholic Church in Malawi for its generosity in contributing to the Universal Solidarity Fund and its continued work of evangelization.In a letter addressed to Fr. Vincent Mwakhwawa, National Director of PMS in Malawi, Archbishop Rugambwa said the 2017 General Assembly of the Superior Council of PMS was very grateful for Malawi’s financial contribution and participation in the different activities of PMS carried out in 2016:Archbishop Rugambwa said the scope of the general assembly was to reflect on the identity and the evangelizing activities and methods of collaboration in union with and at the service of the universal mission of the Church.“I am grateful to you personally and to all the National Directors who have duly submitted to our International Secretariat the financial report of th...
(Vatican Radio) Yemen is in the midst of the world’s worst cholera outbreak. In the last three months alone, 400,000 cases of suspected cholera and nearly 1900 associated deaths have been recorded.The country is on the brink of famine, with over 60 per cent of the population not knowing where their next meal will come from.The heads of three United Nations agencies, UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have just returned from a visit to Yemen to see for themselves the scale of this humanitarian crisis and to step up their combined efforts to help the people there.In a joint statement they said that, “thousands are falling sick every day. Sustained efforts are required to stop the spread of disease. Nearly 80 percent of Yemen’s children need immediate humanitarian assistance.”Speaking to Lydia O’Kane from Sana’a city, Communications Officer, Reem Nada spoke about the current situation on the ground.Listen...
(Vatican Radio) Young Catholics from 21 Asian countries will be celebrating the 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD7) from August 2 to 6 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on the theme, “Joyful Asian Youth: Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia.” But before they gather in the Javanese city, participants will be hosted by 11 Indonesian dioceses from July 30 to August 2 for what is called “Days in Dioceses” (DID).In preparation for the AYD7, participants have been asked to prepare themselves together with others, through a series of ‘pre-event’ activities in their countries. These pre-events prepared by the Commission for Youth of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia (KWI) and the host Archdiocese of Semarang, are based on the AYD7 theme. Part of these pre-events is an exhibition which each country will put up in Yogyakarta, showcasing their countries. Young Filipinos too have been preparing themselves through v...
Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jul 27, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Irish priest has decried a film festival's plans to screen two horror films in an abandoned church next month.The Belfast Film Festival plans to show two horror movies – The Exorcist and The Omen – at Holy Rosary Church in Belfast, a landmark church that has been abandoned since 1980 and is no longer owned by the Catholic Church. Local parish priest Fr. Patrick McCafferty told the Belfast Telegraph that the plan was a “cheap stunt” and disrespectful to what once had been a sacred place.“What is their motivation for showing those types of films in what was once a sacred building that will have such special memories of spiritual occasions for lots of people,” he said.“Should they not be sensitive to the fact that many people in that area have fond associations and is sacred to the memories of many people that were baptized or married or buried there?” the p...
