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London, England, Jun 27, 2017 / 07:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Jewish girls' school has received a failing report from a British education standards monitor because it did not teach its pupils about sexual orientation and gender reassignment.The report concerns Vishnitz Girls School, an Orthodox Jewish school in the London borough of Hackney for students up to age eight. Inspectors charged that the school did not give its students a “full understanding of fundamental British values.”The British education standards office, informally known as Ofsted, faulted the school’s lack of instruction about all legally protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender-reassignment, the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph reports.Ofsted charged that this means students have “a limited understanding of the different lifestyles and partnerships that individuals may choose in present-day society.” It said school policy “restricts pupils’ spiritu...
Vatican City, Jun 27, 2017 / 07:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' pick of Mons. Alfred A. Schlert to be the next bishop of the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania, himself born and raised in the diocese.Bishop-elect Schlert, 55, fills the vacancy left when his predecessor, Bishop John Oliver Barres was appointed to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York at the end of January.In a statement on the appointment June 27, Bishop Barres said that Mons. Schlert “has a blend of holiness, intelligence and pastoral experience that will serve the mission of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Allentown in an extraordinary way.”“He is primarily a loving pastor with an insightful and compassionate pastoral charity and a non-stop New Evangelization missionary spirit,” the statement continued.“He is humble and down to earth and has this incredibly creative sense of humor that is charitable and puts everyone around him at ...
Marawi, Philippines, Jun 27, 2017 / 09:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Captured priest Father Teresito “Chito” Suganob was seen alive on Sunday in a part of a Philippines city under Islamist militant control, Agence France Presse reports.“We don’t have details of his health. We were just told that he was sighted alive,” military spokesman Lt. Col. Jo-Ar Herrera told reporters in Marawi, citing reports from rescued civilians.Militants of the Maute group stormed the city of Marawi, on the island of Mindanao, May 23. The group, formed in 2012, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2015.The militants still have about 100 civilian hostages, whom they use as human shields, ammunition carriers, and stretcher-barriers.Father Suganob, who is vicar general of the Marawi territorial prelature, was featured in a video released one week after his capture. He appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to withdraw the army and stop the airstrikes.Several bishops, including Ca...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN LETTER (CNS) -- The CatholicChurch is not a "gerontocracy" ruled by old men, 80-year-old PopeFrancis said; "we aren't old men, we are grandfathers.""We are grandfathers called todream and to give our dreams to the young people of today. They need it so thatfrom our dreams, they can draw the strength to prophesy and carry out theirtask," the pope told about 50 members of the College of Cardinals.Celebrating the 25th anniversary ofhis ordination as a bishop June 27, Pope Francis concelebrated Mass in thePauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.Most of the cardinals present wereofficials of the Roman Curia or retired curial officials living in Rome. Manyof them needed assistance up and down the small steps to the altar at Communiontime.The Mass was celebrated the daybefore Pope Francis was to create five new cardinals: Archbishop Jean Zerbo ofBamako, Mali, 73; Archbishop Juan Jose Omella of Barcelona, Spain, 71; BishopAnders Arboreli...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Workers have installed a Ten Commandments monument outside Arkansas' Capitol, two years after lawmakers approved a measure permitting the statue on state grounds....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers and resulting in a power outage as people were evacuated from trains along the subway line....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was coming to snort some crushed pills....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- After a seven-year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah's Mike Lee became the fifth Republican senator Tuesday to oppose even beginning debate on the GOP's foundering health care bill, tossing another hurdle in the path of party leaders who've hoped the Senate would approve the measure this week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Tuesday said it detected "active preparations" by Syria for a chemical weapons attack, giving weight to a White House statement hours earlier that the Syrian government would "pay a heavy price" if it carried out such an attack....
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