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Washington D.C., Jul 26, 2017 / 10:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On one of the hottest days of the year, more than 1,300 young people from around the country gathered together for WYD Unite, bringing together alumni of former World Youth Days as well as pilgrims from at least 52 Catholic dioceses around the nations.They gathered for the all-day event at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, named for the Pope who in 1984 began the World Youth Day celebrations to bring together millions of young people from around the globe to share and grow in their Catholic faith. From their starting place in Rome, World Youth Days have traveled across the world to six continents, most recently in 2016 to Pope John Paul II’s homeland of Poland.The smaller United States gathering focused upon the theme, “The Mighty Has Done Great Things for Me and Holy is His Name.” The gathering explored the radical “Yes” Mary gave at the Annunciation, as well as gratitude for how God has ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/The CrosiersBy Barbara J. FraserLIMA, Peru (CNS) -- When PopeFrancis visits Colombia in September, he will take his message of mercy andreconciliation to Cartagena, a city that still bears scars of its painfulhistory as a slave port. And he will walk the streets where another Jesuit, St.Peter Claver, put that message into practice four centuries ago.Canonized in 1888, St. PeterClaver is now considered the patron saint of human rights in Colombia. Butalthough the country abolished slavery in 1851 and passed a law prohibitingdiscrimination in 1993, racism persists.Many Afro-Colombians inCartagena, the "children of children of children of slaves ... oftenremain marginalized, abandoned by the government," said Father JorgeHernandez, who works with Afro-Colombian communities in and around the city. "Insome neighborhoods, people don't have running water. Inhumanity has becomenatural." The same is true in other LatinAmerican countries. Although about half the population of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ricardo Maldonado Rozo, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' decree to beatify twoColombian martyrs from two troubled eras in the South American country'shistory underscores his call for courageous witness amid violence andpersecution. "What does the church need today?" the pope asked earlierthis year at an evening prayer service honoring Christians killed under Nazism,communism, dictatorships and terrorism."Martyrs and witnesses, those everyday saints, thosesaints of an ordinary life lived with coherence. But it also needs those whohave the courage to accept the grace of being witnesses to the end, to thepoint of death," he said.The lives of Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca, who was murderedby Colombian Marxist guerrillas in 1989, and Father Pedro Maria Ramirez, who was killed at thestart of the Colombian civil war in 1948, seemingly fit the pope's description.Their beatification, which will take place during the pope'svisi...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican allies of President Donald Trump are intent on giving him a long-sought victory in Congress by finally making a down payment on his long-promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month, has been discharged from a Washington hospital....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new package of financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea has a hit a snag in the Senate, where the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has objected to the House's decision to include penalties targeting Pyongyang in the legislation....
LONDON (AP) -- Critically ill baby Charlie Gard will be transferred to a hospice and taken off life support unless his parents and a hospital agree on a plan that could potentially keep the child alive for a bit longer, a British judge ruled Wednesday....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Palestinian Muslims have been praying in the streets of Jerusalem every evening - creating a new, surprisingly effective form of protest in their long conflict with Israel....
Ten former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship church say they have been contacted by U.S. federal and state authorities investigating allegations of abuse, forced labor and visa fraud after a series of Associated Press stories about the North Carolina-based evangelical sect, which has branches in Brazil and Ghana and affiliations in other countries....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military "in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."...
