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A Child Protection activist in Malawi, Sister Agnes Jonas of the Teresian Sisters, has challenged Children Animators in the Church to safeguard and protect children from all forms of abuses including physical and emotional ill-treatment; sexual abuse; neglect or negligent treatment of children. She said the Church could also advocate against commercial interests that harm children.Sr. Jonas spoke about the importance of protecting children during a presentation on Child Protection to 96 Animators under the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM).“This includes exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust and power,” said Sr. Jonas.According to Sr. Jonas, the Church is crucial in ensuring that it assists victims of abuse. This support to victims encompasses cooperating with civil authorities and offering Coun...
Jefferson City, Mo., Apr 21, 2017 / 08:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Stronger medical standards for abortion clinics were thrown out in Missouri by a federal judge who cited a Supreme Court decision on a similar law in Texas.The Missouri law required abortion clinics to have the same standards as similar outpatient surgical centers. The clinics’ doctors were also required to have hospital privileges.U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs of the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City said April 19 that “relief should be prompt, given the needs of women seeking abortions and the need for available clinics to serve their needs.” He cited the 5-3 ruling of the 2016 Supreme Court decision Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said he would appeal the decision, the St. Louis Dispatch reports.“Today a federal court struck down large portions of Missouri law that protect the health and safety of women who seek to obtain an abortion,...
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....
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