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Vatican City, Apr 25, 2017 / 10:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis will not use a bulletproof vehicle during his trip to Egypt this weekend, despite recent terror attacks against Christians in the country, according to Reuters.  "The Pope will use a closed car to move around, but not an armoured one," Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed yesterday. "That's how he wanted it."This is not the first time Pope Francis has done so - he typically prefers to travel in more open vehicles, or ones that are not bulletproof, because he feels that allows him to better interact with the people on the streets.Pope Francis will be traveling to Cairo, Egypt, April 28-29 for his first international trip of the year. Interfaith dialogue with Muslims and showing solidarity with persecuted Christians will be main priorities of the trip.His trip comes after several recent attacks on Christian in the country.In December, a bombing at Cairo's main Coptic cathedral kille...
Washington D.C., Apr 25, 2017 / 12:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With President Donald Trump’s administration signaling that it is not dropping the HHS mandate cases against religious non-profits, plaintiffs are concerned that the action does not reflect promises made during the presidential campaign.“The government has a chance to do the right thing here. It got it wrong for five years in these cases, almost six years,” said Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents many non-profits in HHS mandate cases.“And they can do the right thing by dropping their appeals that are in favor of the mandate, and admitting that they were wrong on the issue of the contraceptive mandate, as applied to religious non-profits,” Rassbach told CNA Tuesday.During his presidential campaign, Trump had promised Catholics relief from the HHS mandate, which requires employers to offer health insurance plans covering contraception, ...
By Tim PuetCOLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) -- Apriest's "office hours" are unlimited and the priesthood is notsolely focused on administrative work, the apostolic nuncio to the UnitedStates told students at the nation's only Vatican-affiliated seminary."It's important to say thisto young seminarians: Don't prepare yourselves to be administrative people, tosay 'I work from 8 to 6 and after that, it's finished and I take my rest.' No,you are full time," Archbishop Christophe Pierre said during aquestion-and-answer session April 23 at the Pontifical College Josephinum."Your enthusiasm is soimportant," he continued. "This country needs the church announcingthe beauty of the presence of God in Jesus Christ, the power of hisresurrection, and the power of transformation found in the Gospel, in whichwhenever a person met Jesus, he became different."The nuncio's remarks came after hedelivered the college's annual lecture honoring the late Cardinal Pio Laghi, who servedfrom 1980 to 1990 as the Vatican's...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. abruptly announced his retirement at the end of the season Tuesday, a decision that will cost NASCAR its most popular driver as the series scrambles to rebuild its fan base....
HONOLULU (AP) -- A California couple on their honeymoon and two people who drank a homemade herbal beverage are among the rising number of victims in Hawaii falling ill with a potentially deadly brain parasite....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies - and remarkable animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- White extremists, almost by nature, are seldom good at working together....
BERLIN (AP) -- Ivanka Trump drew groans and hisses Tuesday from an audience in Berlin while defending her father's attitude toward women, but she brushed it aside as "politics" during her first overseas trip as a White House adviser....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior Republican senator says he emerged from a dinner meeting with Donald Trump confident the president will not allow North Korea to build a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pledging to confront anti-Semitism in all its forms and to "never be silent," President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced as accomplices to "horrible evil" anyone who denies that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust....
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