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CINCINNATI (AP) -- A public funeral service is planned Thursday at a high school attended by a 22-year-old college student who was held for nearly a year and a half in North Korea and died shortly after he was sent home to Ohio in a coma....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week....
(Vatican Radio) The Sri Lankan government is showing it is taking seriously the growing phenomenon of hate crimes against the country’s minority Muslim population. Police said on Sunday they have arrested 4 people, including a Buddhist monk and a police officer, accused of taking part in an attack on Muslim properties in May. The four belong to the hardline Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), a hardline Buddhist organization. which Muslim groups blame for attacks on their businesses and mosques. BBS denies the allegation.Police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody told reporters the four were caught in a CCTV footage while setting fire to a Muslim-owned book shop and a mosque in Panadura, a suburb of the capital Colombo on May 17. Describing the monk and the police officer as “prominent members of the Bodu Bala Sena” Jayakody said they were arrested with a sword, a hockey stick and equipment used to make petrol bombs. He said they are close associa...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Ivan Cornelius Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay in India, died in Rome on Monday at the age of 81.On Tuesday, Pope Francis sent a telegram expressing his condolences to Francis Dias, the brother of the late Cardinal:To Mr Francis DiasDeeply saddened to learn of the death of your dear brother, I offer heartfelt condolences to you and the Dias family. I recall with gratitude the late Cardinal’s years of faithful service to the Apostolic See, especially his contribution to the spiritual and physical reconstruction of the suffering Church in Albania and the missionary zeal demonstrated in his work as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. I likewise unite my prayers to those of the faithful of the Archdiocese of Bombay, where the pastoral concern and broad apostolic vision that marked his service as Archbishop are fondly remembered.&nbs...
(Vatican Radio) The Archdiocese has published the following notice of the death Cardinal Ivan Dias:WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD DEMISE OF HIS EMINENCE, IVAN CARDINAL DIASJune 19, 2017We Regret to Announce the Sad Demise of His Eminence, Ivan Cardinal Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, and Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay.Cardinal Ivan Dias, was born on 14 April, 1936 in Mumbai, India and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Bombay on 8 December, 1958. He held a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.He entered the Holy See’s diplomatic service in 1964 and was posted to the Nordic countries, Indonesia, Madagascar, La Réunion, the Comorros, Mauritius and the Secretariat of State. On 8 May 1982, he was appointed titular Archbishop of Rusubisir and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and received episcopal ordination on 19 June. He later served as Apostolic Nuncio in Korea (1987-91) ...
Twenty young people from Laos who will join the Asian Youth Day in Indonesia in August, took part in a formation camp over the weekend in the Laotian capital Vientiane. Three Thai formators conducted the camp at the youth development center of the Sisters of Charity, June 17-18, where the young Catholics from three out of the country’s four ecclesiastical jurisdictions were given exercises in team-building and strengthening their English skills. A Filipina, who has volunteered at the development center for a year, also joined the camp.A volunteer youth leader Joseph said he is thrilled to have the chance to meet other young Catholics at the Asian Youth Day to be held in Yogyakarta in Semarang Archdiocese, July 30-August 6. He told UCANEWS the youth meet will “won't just be about our new Laotian cardinal or the 17 martyrs beatified last December that will make the Laotian faith community known to the universal Catholic Church." "The young peopl...
Caritas the social arm of the Catholic Church is supporting flood-hit villages in northeast India following heavy rains and landslides that hit more than 70,000 people. In response to the situation, Caritas India has rushed support to 12 villages in Lakhimpur district in the state of Assam. There, they organized free medical camps and distributed "hygiene kits" that include antibacterial soap, shampoo, toothpaste, to about 1,000 flood-affected families.A depression last week in the Bay of Bengal moved in to Bangladesh and beyond to northeast India bringing in torrential rains causing floods and landslides, especially in hilly areas. "We are also planning to distribute mosquito nets to the affected families," Thangsha Sebastian, state officer for northeastern unit of Caritas India, told UCANEWS on Tuesday. Sebastian said that in many places there is still a foot of stagnant water in village houses. "The situation is very unpredictable...
Sunday, the feast of Corpus Christi, or the Body of Christ, was solemnized in Bali, Indonesia, with 181 children receiving the First Holy Communion. Father Herman Yoseph Babey, parish priest of the Holy Spirit church in Denpasar, celebrated the Mass, in which the whole community participated with great enthusiasm. The children, who went through a five-year preparation, came from 18 different basic ecclesial communities, and were on an average ten years old. In his homily Fr. Babey said that after receiving the Body and the Blood of Jesus, the life of children can no longer be for themselves, but is to be shared and lived in the service of others. “We hope that after receiving the Eucharist, these children will let themselves become involved in the Church's various activities and that their parents will encourage them to do so," said Fr. Babey said. “First Communion for those who receive it is the beginning of par...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday travelled to two small towns in northern Italy to pay homage to two Italian parish priests of the past century who championed the poor and challenged powerful prelates to step outside their comfort zones. Arriving by helicopter in Lombardy town of Bozzolo to pray at the tomb of Don Primo Mazzolari, Pope Francis was greeted by Cremona Bishop Antonio Napolioni who announced the process to beatify Mazzolari will start on September 18th.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Don Mazzolari, who died in 1959, was the parish priest of Bozzolo. He was also a scholar who wrote about St. Francis and Blessed John Henry Newman, an anti-fascist activist who opposed the Mussolini regime and an ardent champion of the poor. Sanctioned for a time by diocesan authorities, Mazzolari was a friend of Pope John XXIII and praised by the future Pope Paul VI. Pope Francis’ lengthy tribute to Mazzolari – whom he described as Italy&rs...
Barbiana, Italy, Jun 20, 2017 / 05:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to the graves of two 20th century Italian priests, reflecting on charity and education, and calling on adults to form their consciences well, so that they may teach young people to do the same.Addressing educators, Pope Francis said June 20, “Yours is a mission full of obstacles but also of joys. But above all it is a mission. A mission of love, because you cannot teach without love and without the awareness that what you give is only a right that you recognize, that of learning.”“This is an appeal to responsibility. An appeal to you, dear young people, but first of all, adults who are called to live the freedom of conscience in a genuine way, as a search for the true, the beautiful and the good, ready to pay the price that this entails.”The Pope’s June 20 pilgrimage to the small Italian towns of Bozzolo and Bariana took place in commemoration of the 50t...
