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A leading international rights group has accused Bangladesh’s security forces of gross human rights abuse, saying since 2013 hundreds of people, including many from the, have disappeared, have been killed or are held in secret detention.   In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch asked the Bangladesh government to “immediately stop this widespread practice of enforced disappearances, order prompt, impartial, and independent investigations into these allegations, provide answers to families, and prosecute security forces responsible for such egregious rights violations.”The 82-page report, “‘We Don’t Have Him’: Secret Detentions and Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh,” found that at least 90 people were victims of enforced disappearance in 2016 alone. While most were produced in court after weeks or months of secret detention, the New York-based rights watchdog documented 21 cases of detainees who were later k...
Zambia’s Bishop of Mansa, Patrick Chisanga, OFM Conv., says the role of women in the accomplishment of the divine will for the Salvation of Humankind cannot be overemphasised.Writing in the Mansa Diocesan newsletter, the Bishop calls upon women to be primary missionaries.“Ba Minshioni ba lelo nifwe,” the Bishop said in the local Bemba language meaning: “We are the Missionaries of Today.” Bishop Chisanga paid special tribute to ‘our mothers’ for their unique calling of being real primary missionaries.The Mansa Diocese prelate explained that the women reach out with the first touch of God’s love and nurturance upon humankind's entry into this world.He has since appealed to women in the Diocese of Mansa not to neglect the honour God has bestowed upon them as they emulate the Blessed Mother of the Saviour and the first women disciples.“You (women) are naturally the first Catechisers who communicate faith and morals to us from t...
Bring Christian values to politics; don’t lose your saltiness, Zimbabwe’s Archbishop of Harare, Robert Ndlovu says.As Zimbabwe approaches general elections scheduled for 2018, the Archbishop of Harare, Robert Ndlovu has challenged Catholics to be active in politics and to bring the mind of Christ to the process.Recently addressing congregants at St Canisius Parish, Marlborough in Harare during his pastoral visit, the prelate said Catholics should set precedence in being peace ambassadors and avoid all shameful acts.“As Christians we shouldn’t be seen, talking or conducting acts that put the Church or the name of God into disrepute,” he said He said Christians, led by the Holy Spirit, should promote the act of love on the political scene since Christians sit together and eat from the same plate.Archbishop Ndlovu encouraged parishioners that being active in politics is everyone’s right and duty. He went on to say that lay Catholics can active...
Vatican City, Jul 6, 2017 / 08:23 am (National Catholic Register).- Pope St. John Paul II’s former spokesman, Dr. Joaquìn Navarro-Valls, has died at the age of 80.A numerary of Opus Dei and a trained doctor, the Spanish journalist had been diagnosed with terminal cancer some weeks ago.He passed away at 8:41 this evening at home after being discharged from the Opus Dei-run Campus Biomedico hospital in Rome.His current successor, Holy See Press Office Director Greg Burke, announced the news yesterday with the following tweets:Joaquin Navarro. RIP. Grace under pressure.— Greg Burke (@GregBurkeRome) July 5, 2017The Vatican's chief spokesman from 1984 to 2006, Navarro-Valls had an influential role during John Paul II’s pontificate, helping the late Pontiff to communicate effectively and bringing the papacy into the modern age of social communications.He resigned as spokesman on July 11, 2006 and was replaced by Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.J...
Brooklyn, N.Y., Jul 6, 2017 / 09:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man allegedly threatened to kill a nun who was praying inside a Catholic Church in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon.The nun is the Mother Superior of her community, according to the Diocese of Brooklyn, and was praying inside the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph around 2 p.m. when a shirtless man approached her.In the video, the man can be seen meandering through the entrance and the nearly-empty church before he stops in at the pew in front of the praying nun.He told the nun: “I don’t believe in this because you don’t help the poor.” When she did not respond, he said, “What did I say?”At that moment, the nun looked around the church at a woman in another pew.“She can’t help you. I’m going to kill you,” the man said, according to the Diocese of Brooklyn. The video then shows the nun running out of the church to call for hel...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican MuseumsBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- What do the Sistine Chapel, a used car with 186,000miles on the odometer and a statue of Our Lady of Lujanmade out of metal from an abandoned factory have in common?Besides being found in the Vatican Museums' collections,the 1984 Renault, the Renaissance frescoes and the recycled scrap all helpshowcase Pope Francis' concept of art, according to museum officials.Blessed Paul VI's close relationship and active outreachto artists is well-known, as is St. John Paul II's love of theater and poetryand retired Pope Benedict XVI's passion for music.But not many people know about Pope Francis' love offilm, literature, music and the role he believes art can play in evangelization,social change and spiritual transformation. A new documentary produced bythe Vatican Museums and Vatican City State aims to fill that void.Titled "My Idea of Art," the 45-minute film isbased on the book of the same name, authored by Pope Francis aft...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Arne Dedert, EPABy VATICANCITY (CNS) -- Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who spent 22 years as director of theVatican press office, died at home in Rome July 5 at age 80 following a battlewith pancreatic cancer. Thecurrent director of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke, announced his deathin a tweet.Ina statement to Catholic News Service, Burke said he did not always agree withNavarro-Valls, but his predecessor "always behaved like a Christiangentleman - and those can be hard to find these days.""JoaquinNavarro embodied what Ernest Hemingway defined as courage: grace underpressure. I got to know Navarro when I was working for Time, and the magazinenamed John Paul II Man of the Year. I expected to find a man of faith, but Ifound a man of faith who was also a first-class professional."Burkesaid he remembered watching Navarro-Valls closely during the 1994 U.N.International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, which Burkedescribed as "one of the best examples of w...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Defiant Ones," a new HBO docuseries about two giants in the entertainment world, takes its title from a 1958 film classic about two prison escapees, one black and one white, who are shackled together as they make a break for freedom....
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A financial showdown more than two years in the making is slated to play out in the Illinois House on Thursday as Democrats try to enact a $36 billion spending plan fueled by a $5 billion income tax increase over the Republican governor's objection....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities continued to search Thursday for an inmate who has made his second escape from a maximum-security South Carolina prison, offering a reward for information leading to his capture....
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