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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A white former police officer whose killing of an unarmed black man running from a traffic stop was captured on cellphone video pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal civil rights charges that could send him to prison for decades....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled the prospect of increased cooperation in Syria Tuesday, in what the White House called a "very good" phone discussion that included a focus on setting up safe zones in the war-torn nation....
In an effort to keep our kids safe, we often tell them to not talk to strangers. But Pattie Fitzgerald says teaching little ones to look out for "tricky people" instead is more practical and effective.
(Vatican Radio) “The Lord softens those with hard hearts, those who condemn all who are outside the law.” This was the message of Pope Francis homily, during tuesday’s Mass in the Vatican’s Santa Marta residence.  He said that those who are hard hearted do not know the tenderness of God and his ability to remove hearts of stone and replace them with hearts of flesh.Beginning with the first reading, in which St Stephen was stoned to death by the temple authorities in Jerusalem, the Pope reflected on the witness of Christian obedience. He said that those who stoned Stephen to death did not understand the word of God. Stephen had called them “circumcised of heart,” which was the equivalent of calling someone a pagan.According the Pope, there are different ways of not understanding the word of God. For example, when Jesus had met the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, he had called them “fools.” This was not an expression of prais...
International Workers’ Day was marked on May 1 across several Asian countries with rallies, marches and special events.  Here are a few:CAMBODIAIn Cambodia, riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.  The marchers, holding a forest of banners, filled a street a short distance from the parliament complex and advanced noisily until they were stopped by a barricade and lines of police, holding batons, shields and guns capable of firing gas canisters. A standoff of several hours was resolved when a representative from the Assembly came out and accepted the petition.The workers were from the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union. Among their demands was increasing the minimum wage from $153 to $208 per month. The clothing and footwear industry is Cambodia's biggest expo...
Sri Lankan Catholics organized two protest campaigns recently against dumping garbage in Muthurajawela wetlands, the country’s largest marsh that supports myriad species of flora, fauna and birds.  Catholics held a Mass, demonstrations and discussions with government officials to raise the issue of protecting the ecological asset, 30 kilometers north of Colombo. "People are campaigning against dumping garbage at Muthurajawela wetland as it is a home to various species," said Father Dinush Gayan, assistant parish priest of St. Nicholas Church, Bopitiya.  The wetland acts as a natural hatchery, home to animals and controls floods by acting as a natural buffer zone."We held a Mass on April 26, two demonstrations on April 21-22, discussions with politicians, government officials and spoke to Colombo's municipal commissioner to try and stop garbage being dumped in the wetlands," said Father Gayan. "Over 150 special task force police came to ...
The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences wrapped up its Plenary Assembly on Tuesday with a call for inclusion of the most marginalized in society.The five-day Plenary Session focused on the theme “Towards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration”.A message from Pope Francis provided the guidelines for the Plenary. Recalling the movements and the battles for the rights of workers in the past two centuries, the Pope pointed out that “those battles are far from over” and called for a new world vision that has the value of fraternity at its basis.Present at this mornings’ press conference in the Vatican was one of the participants of the Plenary, Professor Paulus Zulu who highlighted the fact that in Africa one of the major causes for exclusion is to be found in political systems which prevent the people from accessing even the basic resources of life.Listen:  Professor Zulu explains that in Africa there is a crisis of r...
The Indonesia’s Catholic bishops are backing a government minister's appeal against sermons that promote religious or ethnic intolerance.  Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, issued the appeal on April 28. It contained nine points targeted at religious preachers and the broader public.Sermons should not "contrast elements of ethnicity, religion or race as they could lead to conflicts," it said. "They should also not contain insults against the belief or practices of other congregations and should avoid provocations to commit discrimination, intimidation or destruction," the appeal added.Bishop Yohanes Harun Yuwono of Tanjungkarang, chairman of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Indonesian Catholic bishops’ conference (KWI) welcomed the appeal and said that sermons should promote harmony.  "As a religious leader, I am embarrassed that the call to deliver a good sermon has had to be convey...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Irish Jesuit CommunicationsBy Susan GatelyDUBLIN(CNS) -- When Jesuit Father John Sullivan is beatified May 13, two archbishops-- one Catholic and one Anglican -- will present the solemn petition asking thatthe priest be declared "a blessed." Thatis unusual, but Father Sullivan's life straddled two centuries, two traditionsand two cultures. Bornin 1861, one of five children, John Sullivan grew up in privileged conditionsin Ireland and Britain. He was raised in the Protestant tradition of hisfather, Sir Edward Sullivan, who rose to be lord chancellor of Ireland. Hismother, Elizabeth, was a devout Catholic.FatherSullivan later wrote of "a blessed childhood in a happy, loving home"although, at age 16, he suffered the loss of an older brother through drowning.In Trinity College Dublin, he excelled in his studies of the classics. He wasan avid player of tennis and the card game whist and was dubbed "the best-dressedman in Dublin." Society mothers viewed him as a ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyWAU,South Sudan (CNS) -- Rita Williams slept under a tree beside St. Mary CatholicCathedral, her three hungry children beside her. Around them, as many as 16,000other displaced people filled the cathedral compound, hoping the church wouldkeep them safe as their country spirals into greater violence."I'vebeen here two weeks, since the soldiers chased us out of our house and burnedit," she said April 26. "We have nothing, not even salt. Our clothesare dirty, and some days all we have to eat or drink is water. We're waiting. Idon't know for what, but we're afraid to go back home."Whencivil war ripped apart South Sudan's fragile democracy in 2013, residents ofthis city in the country's northwest watched the violence from afar, seeminglyunconcerned that the politically manipulated ethnic violence would spread here.And then it did, and the victims ran for the city's churches. "Itwasn't safe anywhere, but people said that if they were going to b...
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