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IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON(CNS) -- American Catholics will have an opportunity to become modern-daymissionaries during the weekend of April 29-30 by simply dropping money in a collectionplate.Thatis the weekend the Catholic Home Missions Appeal is being conducted as a secondcollection in many parishes throughout the U.S. The money raised from it willhelp bring the religion to people throughout the country.Contributingto that collection really is a way for Catholics to do missionary work withoutever leaving their home or parish, saidRichard Coll, director of Catholic Home Missions in the U.S. bishops' Office ofNational Collections.Theannual Catholic Home Missions Appeal helps support more than 40 percent of thedioceses and eparchies in the United States and its territories in theCaribbean and Pacific.Thesedioceses tend to be rural with enormous territories within their borders.Withoutthe subsidies that come from the annual appeal established by the U.S.Catholic b...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- With religious persecution against Christians on the rise worldwide,it is important for other Christians to stand in solidarity with them, saidCardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington.Christiansin the United States and elsewhere must raise their voices on behalf of"the millions who are suffering," he said April 20 during a symposiumheld in connection with the release of "In Response to Persecution, Findings of the Under Caesar's Sword Project on Global Christian Communities," a reportdetailing the nature of persecution against Christians in different nationsacross the globe. "Make it difficult for others to ignore," the cardinal said.Doingso, Cardinal Wuerl noted, may require Christians "to be aware" of thepersecution their fellow believers face on different continents.He suggestedone response should be to "continue to support the flow of materialassistance" to persecuted Christians through aid agencies like CatholicRelie...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is moving beyond rhetoric in its effort to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Tearful family members are pleading for information that could help solve the massacre of eight people in Ohio a year ago, in a video released Friday....
BERLIN (AP) -- A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen took out a five-figure loan to bet that Borussia Dortmund shares would drop, then bombed the soccer team's bus in an attack he tried to disguise as Islamic terrorism in a scheme to net millions, German officials said Friday....
DETROIT (AP) -- A judge on Friday ordered Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty in the United States for cheating on diesel emissions tests, blessing a deal negotiated by the government for a "massive fraud" orchestrated by the German automaker....
PARIS (AP) -- Marine Le Pen, whose passion for politics and far-right values were forged in the cradle, is making her second bid for the French presidency, hoping this time to break through the ceiling of fear that stopped her father from winning in 2002....
PARIS (AP) -- The Champs-Elysees gunman who shot and killed a police officer just days before France's presidential election was detained in February for threatening police but then freed, two officials told The Associated Press on Friday. He was also convicted in 2003 of attempted homicide in the shootings of two police officers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is taking the unusual step of weighing in publicly ahead of a foreign presidential election, predicting that the latest attack in Paris will have a "big effect" on voters there....
(Vatican Radio) The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a shooting in Paris that has killed one policeman, and injured two other officers as well as a bystander on the central boulevard of the Champs-Elysées. France President Francois Hollande linked the attack to terrorism and confirmed that the shooter was also killed.  Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The center of Paris appeared a war zone with special security forces pushing people away from several areas, and rushing to the streets to step up a security. Thursday's shooting came just before the French presidential elections. The shooter, who killed, was known to France’s security sources, French media reported, quoting police. French President Hollande quickly appeared on national television to share more details with a worried nation. "This evening at nine a clock police people in a car were attacked at the Champs-Elysée," said Hollande who  w...
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