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Washington D.C., May 11, 2017 / 06:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After hundreds more migrants perished last weekend in the deadly Mediterranean passage to Europe, one Catholic expert insisted that the root causes of migration need to be addressed.“The real tragedy is that these deaths are preventable,” said Bill O’Keefe, vice president of government relations and advocacy for Catholic Relief Services.“We need to ensure safe passage for all refugees and migrants, but also address the reasons people are migrating in the first place,” he stressed.The United Nations’ refugee arm reported on Tuesday that 245 were feared dead or missing from two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, adding to an already steep death toll for migrants headed for Europe from North Africa.One of the boats carrying migrants, a rubber dinghy, sank on Friday with 132 on board, and “some 50 people were rescued” while 82 others “are feared dead or mis...
HOUSTON (AP) -- San Antonio is heading to the Western Conference finals for the 13th time thanks to a player who has never been there....
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, opossum and stoat....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Migrants from Central America's violence-plagued Northern Triangle region endure harrowing abuses while trying to make their way through Mexico toward the United States, a report from an international medical group said Thursday....
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Arctic nations have renewed calls for the world to address climate warming, but U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States will not rush to make a decision on its policies....
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Washington D.C., May 11, 2017 / 03:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday pledged his prayers and support for persecuted Christians around the globe, as well as members of other religions who are persecuted for their beliefs.“Your faith inspires me, it humbles me, and it inspires all who are looking on today.” Pence said, speaking to persecuted Christians including Fr. Douglas Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic priest from Iraq who survived a 2006 kidnapping and torture before ministering to Christian refugees fleeing ISIS in 2014.“On behalf of the President of the United States, I say from my heart,” Pence continued, “we’re with you, we stand with you.”The vice president on May 11 addressed the first annual World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians, hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Washington, D.C.The summit brings together Christian leaders and groups from all over the world, including clerics of ...
Fatima, Portugal, May 11, 2017 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While Fatima is famous for the mystifying candlelight procession and vigil that take place annually the night between May 12 and 13, there is an essential element that can easily be overlooked, but which bears special significance: silence.“Silence is important, because only in silence can we listen to the Word of God, only in silence can we listen to the whispers of God in our hearts,” Fr. Francisco Pereira, chaplain of the Fatima Shrine, told CNA in an interview.It’s been this way in Fatima since the very beginning, he said, noting that the bishop who arrived on site after the diocese was established in 1918 immediately wrote a letter to all parish priests in Fatima saying the shrine “is a place of silence, of prayer and of sacrifice.”Because of this, it’s forbidden to set off fireworks, play music or sell alcohol on the property, Fr. Pereira said, stressing that that the shrine wants t...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Faith is a journey guided by the HolySpirit, who helps the church grow in understanding the sinful nature of once-accepted practices like slavery and the death penalty, Pope Francis said. While people once even used religious reasons to justify practicessuch as slavery, the death penalty and "wars of religion," over timethe Holy Spirit has deepened the church's understanding of the Gospel, the popesaid May 11 in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. Slavery "is a mortal sin; today we say this. Back then,some would say that this could be done because these people did not have a soul!"he said. The number of people enslaved today is "even more, but at leastwe know that it is a mortal sin. The same goes for the death penalty; for atime, it was normal. Today, we say that the death penalty isinadmissible."Reflecting on the day's first reading in which St. Paulrecounts God's works throughout history, Pope Francis said the Lor...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz MuthBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Isaiah Burroughs, a 20-year-oldstudent at The Catholic University of America in Washington, gets an idea in his head, he followsthrough with it pretty much immediately.When hewas praying in the university chapel during a freshman retreat last year, Burroughs,who was raised Baptist, said he realized becoming Catholic was something"I really wanted to do and I had to do."Thenext day he talked to a priest on campus about joining the Rite of ChristianInitiation of Adults and the next Easter he was confirmed -- a day he said he"couldn't stop smiling." He'd had a countdown on his phone for a monthleading up to it.Burroughsdidn't leave the RCIA program behind after he finished it, but instead cameback the next year to help as one of its volunteers.AnthonyCarona, a seminarian at Theological College, who helps lead CatholicUniversity's RCIA program, said Burroughs "encapsulates the evangelicalnature of the church" because ...
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