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Louisville, Ky., May 26, 2017 / 05:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The former head of the US bishops decried President Trump's budget plan, claiming its cuts to social services conflict with both the Catholic faith and American principles.“Whether through Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps or foreign aid, our nation has recognized that our worth is judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us,” Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky said in a May 24 article published by Courier-Journal.“The concept is shared by many religions and has become part of the ethos of the United States.”President Trump issued 2018’s budget proposal, “The New Foundation for American Greatness,” on Tuesday. The proposal would defund many aid programs benefiting the poor, the environment, and the foreign aid, drawing outcry from organizations like Catholic Charities and Catholic relief services.The budget proposes 4.1 trillion dollars for 2018, with bu...
IMAGE: EPABy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Worried about the fate of some of theirstudents, more than 65 college presidents representing U.S. Catholicinstitutions asked for a meeting with the Secretary of Homeland Security to talkabout immigration policy."As leaders of Catholic colleges and universities, we arededicated to educating students from all backgrounds. In keeping with thiscommitment, many of our institutions are home to young men and women who areundocumented and have met the criteria for Deferred Action for ChildhoodArrivals (DACA). We are deeply concerned about the futures of our undocumentedstudents," said the May 23 letter addressed to Department of Homeland SecuritySecretary John Kelly.In the letter, they cited incidents in which DACA recipientshave been placed under immigration detention, including a case in which one of them was deported, and said that "recent actions and statements byImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about young people who met the DACAc...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mohamed Abd El Ghany, ReutersBy CAIRO (CNS) -- Christians in Egypt"are getting to this idea that we could be a martyr at any moment,"the spokesman for the nation's Catholic bishops told Catholic News Service.The spokesman, Father Rafic Greiche,also lamented the number of children killed in an attack on a bus carryingCoptic Orthodox Christians to St. Samuel Monastery in southern Egypt May 26.At least 26 people, many of themchildren, were killed when masked assailants attacked the bus. Dozens of otherswere injured."It is too early to say who isbehind it, but certainly terrorists, and the security forces are now scanningthe area" to find the culprits, Tarek Attia, Interior Ministry official,told Sky News Arabia, an Arabic-language television station, May 26. He said three cars carrying themasked gunmen had attacked the bus at roughly 10:30 a.m. in the southerngovernorate of Minya, a traditional stronghold of Egypt's Christian community,which accounts for a tiny percent...
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday tossed out two life sentences for one of Virginia's most notorious criminals, sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing hearings....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Preparing for North Korea's growing threat, the Pentagon will try to shoot down an intercontinental-range missile for the first time in a test next week. The goal is to more closely simulate a North Korean ICBM aimed at the U.S. homeland, officials said Friday...
CAIRO (AP) -- Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the FBI wants to talk to Jared Kushner about his Russian contacts, they won't have to track down the president's son-in-law. Amid reports the FBI is scrutinizing Kushner's encounters, his lawyer says he stands ready to talk to federal investigators as well as Congress about his contacts and his role in Donald Trump's 2016 campaign....
TAORMINA, Italy (AP) -- The alpha-male handshake. The deadpan reaction from NATO leaders. The presidential push to the front of the pack....
TAORMINA, Italy (AP) -- Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump "more knowledgeable" and with "evolving" views about the global climate accord he's threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. Trump also was impressed by their arguments about how crucial U.S. leadership is in supporting international efforts....
Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017 / 09:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An attack on a bus carrying Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday killed at least 28 people, including children, and injured at least 22 more.The AP reported that, according to the Egyptian government, the bus was stopped and attacked by gunmen in the desert south of Cairo, en route to St. Samuel the Confessor monastery in Minya, Egypt. Witnesses reported seeing eight to 10 gunmen wearing masks and military uniforms, who fired on the bus.Bishop Angaelos, general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of the UK, tweeted on Friday that he had spoken to the Bishop of Menia, and confirmed the attack.The May 26 attack is the latest in a string of violent incidents where Coptic Christians in Egypt have been targeted. Twenty-nine were killed when a chapel adjacent to St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo was bombed in December.The Islamic State released a threatening video message after that attack, saying, “Oh crusa...
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