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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the Trump administration and the Russia investigation (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday warned of a new problem presented by the nation's drug abuse epidemic: the threat of law enforcement officers accidentally overdosing....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby's chief accuser took the stand at his sexual assault trial Tuesday to tell her story publicly for the first time, saying the comedian groped her after giving her three blue pills that left her paralyzed and helpless....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday urged Christians to be truthful,  warning them against the temptations of hypocrisy and flattery. His words came during the homily at morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.Hypocrisy – Pope Francis said – is not the language of Jesus, nor is it the language of Christians, in fact, he said, “the hypocrite is capable of destroying a community”.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: The Pope explained that Jesus often uses the adjective “hypocrite” to describe the doctors of the law, because, as the etymology of the word illustrates, they claim to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case, they proffer their opinions and issue judgements but in reality they are false.And reflecting on the Gospel reading of the day, the Pope said "The hypocrite always uses language to flatter” just as some Pharisees and Herodians who tried to ensnare Jesus in his speech.“Hypocrites &ndash...
India has doubled the compensation for the death of power loom workers in its textile industry as part of a benefits scheme to weed out problems plaguing the labour-intensive sector.India is one of the largest fabric producers in the world  and has traditionally been a cornerstone of the Indian economy in terms of foreign exchange earnings and employment. Power looms contribute around 70 per cent of the total jobs in the textile industry, employing around 6.5 million people.A single person, working 12 hours or more, often tends to six to nine looms inside cramped spaces, exposing them to loud noise and injuries from the shuttle that moves at a high speed across the loom. Nearly 60 percent of the fabric and garments they produce is exported.The government's worker protection scheme, called PowerTex India, was launched in April and includes a helpline for workers and subsidies for employers to upgrade their machinery.“We have to develop the textile value chain and upg...
(Vatican Radio)  A leading human rights organization has accused the government of Nepal for failing to crack down on ‎unscrupulous job recruitment agencies and private recruiters that extort poor migrant workers and leave them at the ‎risk of forced labour abroad and crippling debt.  Around 20 percent of the impoverished Himalayan nation's almost 29 million people are migrant ‎workers in the Middle East, as well as countries such as Malaysia and South Korea -generating ‎remittances that make up a quarter of Nepal's GDP.  ‎‎  ‎“Migrant workers contribute nearly a third of Nepal’s GDP in money they send back ‎home, yet the government spends a tiny fraction of its budget on their needs,”  said  Amnesty ‎International in a report published on 6 June.  ‎“All over Nepal, unscrupulous recruiters are getting away with destroying lives – illegally charging ‎aspiring job-see...
(Vatican Radio) Managing money, combatting corruption, planning a budget and guaranteeing transparency in all financial transactions. These important skills will be at the heart of a new programme on Church management to be launched next spring at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome.Designed to give priests, religious and lay people the skills to be better stewards of the Church’s resources, the course has been put together in partnership with a group of American Catholic universities and leadership training institutes.The programme is the brainchild of Msgr Martin Schlag, professor of Catholic social thought at Holy Cross University, who’ll shortly to be taking up a teaching post at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the course and why it’s such a vital part of the evangelization envisioned by Pope Francis for the Catholic Church todayListen: Msgr Schlag says he took part in a Vatican conference 9 years ag...
(Vatican Radio)  The Holy See has appealed to the international community to face global challenges with solidarity and cooperation between nations.Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva, made the appeal at the 35th Session of the Human Rights Council.“For the wellbeing of our human family and the promotion and protection of the common good there is an urgent need to recognise the role of international solidarity as an essential element for the enjoyment of fundamental human rights by all,” he said.He said international solidarity would help nations face current challenges “such as migration, climate change and natural disasters, armed conflicts and the growing gap between poor and rich”.Archbishop Jurkovic said, “Solidarity does not oppose sovereignty; instead, it pushes for a deeper understanding of the concept of sovereignty as an expression of the freedom of people.”Rather than trampling on a pe...
Paris, France, Jun 6, 2017 / 09:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A man was shot after an apparent hammer attack on police officers at Paris police headquarters next to the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Tuesday.The suspect was wounded in the chest during the June 6 attack. He had allegedly attacked officers on duty at the headquarters.Tourists ran from the attack, BBC News reports. The attack closed the area around the historic cathedral, and people were asked to stay away.The incident follows a London attack in which Islamic extremists used a van and knives to kill seven and wound dozens of people.Extremist attacks in Paris in 2015 killed 147.France has experienced several terrorist attacks in recent years, including a July 2016 attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in which a priest was murdered while saying Mass.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Antonio Bat, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The diabolical language of hypocrisy, which ensnares othersthrough flattery, has the power to destroy Christian communities, Pope Francissaid. Like the Phariseeswho spoke to Jesus with soothing words of adulation, Christians who engage in hypocrisy speak gently yet"brutally judge a person," the pope said June 6 at his early morningMass. "Hypocrisyis not the language of Jesus. Hypocrisy is not the language of Christians. AChristian cannot be a hypocrite and a hypocrite cannot be a Christian. This isvery clear," he said. "Hypocrisy can kill a community." Inhis homily during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the popefocused on the day's Gospel reading from St. Mark, which recounts the Pharisees'attempts to trick Jesus into answering a question on the legality of paying acensus tax. Theirattempt to trap Jesus with flattery, the pope said, is the first sign of theirhypocrisy."Hypocritesalways...
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