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(Vatican Radio) The chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, has written the U.S. Senate urging lawmakers “to oppose any effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a concurrent replacement plan that protects poor and vulnerable people, including immigrants, safeguards the unborn, and supports conscience rights.”Congress is considering legislation to replace the controversial health care program, also known as Obamacare.Bishop Dewane notes that, even before any legislation had been proposed, the U.S. Bishops had made clear “that a repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate health care for the millions of people who now rely upon it for their wellbeing.” He continues: “To end coverage for those who struggle every day without an adequate alternat...
Bangladesh's largest Christian organization has launched yearlong activities to mark its 50th anniversary, with the country’s prominent Catholic Church leader inviting Christians to improve how they engage in politics to ensure the community's rights. The Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA) "was launched to demand and protect rights of minority Christians," said Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario during the anniversary event held in Dhaka on July 17. "Now, the signs of the time demand that Christians need active political engagement to serve the community and the nation better, and the BCA can pave the way," said the cardinal, Archbishop of Dhaka, during the event where he also inaugurated the BCA's jubilee programme. "Getting political should be based on Christian values and about breaking barriers that fuel division and conflicts which can harm the church and the community as whole," sa...
By Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- U.S. senators must reject any bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act unless such a measure "protects poor and vulnerable people, including immigrants, safeguards the unborn and supports conscience rights," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee.Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, called on the Senate to fix problems with the ACA in a more narrow way, rather than repeal it without an adequate replacement. "Both the American Health Care Act legislation from the U.S. House of Representatives and the Better Care Reconciliation Act from the Senate were seriously flawed, and would have harmed those most in need in unacceptable ways," Bishop Dewane said.The House passed its bill to repeal and replace the ACA health care law May 4 with a close vote of 217 to 213. The Senate's version collapsed July 17 after fou...
FIGUERES, Spain (AP) -- Forensic experts in Spain have removed hair, nails and two long bones from Salvador Dali's embalmed remains to aid a court-ordered paternity test that may enable a woman who says she is the surrealist artist's daughter to claim part of Dali's vast estate....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Cancer patients' gray hair unexpectedly turned youthfully dark while taking novel drugs, and it has doctors scratching their heads....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It would be a first for a U.S. national park: Requiring reservations to get in. But it's an option that Utah's Zion National Park is considering to manage an overwhelming surge of visitors to its sweeping red-rock vistas and canyons....
COCOA, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities in Florida say a group of teens watched and laughed as a man drowned in a retention pond last week....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Was it Tom Sawyer in Samuel Clemens' billiard room with a revolver?...
KOS, Greece (AP) -- A powerful overnight earthquake shook holiday resorts in Greece and Turkey, injuring nearly 500 people and leaving two tourists dead on the Greek island of Kos, where revelers at a bar were crushed in a building collapse....
