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IMAGE: CNS photo/U.S. Navy handout via ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The U.S. cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base days after chemicalweapons were dropped on civilians in rebel-controlled territory furtherendangers innocent people, observers familiar with the just-war theory said.Ifanything, the observers told Catholic News Service, the unilateral U.S.response could embolden SyrianPresident Bashar Assad to undertake future attacks, exposing more livesto harm -- including those of people fleeing the violence.TheU.S. strike early April 7 on the Shayrat airfield came three days after chemical weapons weredropped in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province.The attack claimed more than 80 lives, including dozens of children.President Donald Trump has citedthe deaths of the children in particular in condemning the attack prior to theretaliatory strike.The Pentagon reported that 23 of59 missiles launched from warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea struck theair ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Embattled Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly, who announced he was going on vacation starting Wednesday and returning April 24, hasn't taken off this much time consecutively in March or April for at least 10 years, an examination of his show's transcripts revealed....
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Washington D.C., Apr 12, 2017 / 02:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Three chairmen of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference have voiced strong support for a measure that would restore certain religious freedoms to child welfare providers.The recently introduced Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2017 would prevent the federal government, and any state receiving federal funds for child welfare services, from taking adverse action against a provider that, for religious or moral reasons, declines to provide a child welfare social service.Under the previous administration, several faith-based child welfare providers in multiple states including in Massachusetts, Illinois, California, and the District of Columbia, have been forced to shut down their adoption and foster care services because of beliefs that children should be placed with a married mother and father.In the case of Illinois, more than 3,000 children were displaced after religiously affiliated adoption and foster care services ha...
Minya, Egypt, Apr 12, 2017 / 03:42 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After two bomb attacks on worshippers at Coptic Orthodox churches on Sunday, the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of Minya has announced it will celebrate Easter without the typical festive accoutrements.The observance of Easter in the Minya Coptic Orthodox archdiocese will be limited to liturgical services “without any festive manifestations” in mourning for the nearly 45 Coptic Orthodox faithful who were killed in attacks on Sunday, the AP reports.Two Coptic Orthodox churches were the targets of Islamic State bombings on April 9, Palm Sunday. The attack on St. George's in Tanta, nearly 60 miles north of Cairo, killed 28. Shortly after, another bomb went off outside St. Mark's cathedral in Alexandria, killing 17.The attacks came only weeks before Pope Francis plans to visit Egypt to promote peace and dialogue between Christians and Muslims in the country. Pope Francis, after celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at St. P...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy and a comic performer in his own right who turned encounters with Rick James and Prince into standout sketches on "Chappelle's Show," has died. He was 57....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two suburban Chicago men who posed for photos holding a black Islamic State group flag at a Lake Michigan beach park were arrested Wednesday on federal terrorist charges, and an undercover operative said one of the men suggested homosexuals should be thrown off the city's tallest building....
CHICAGO (AP) -- United Airlines sought to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane by announcing on Tuesday that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights and would compensate customers who were on the flight when the man was removed....
PARIS (AP) -- With a bleed-the-rich video game and suggestions of a "Frexit," French far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is rattling financial markets by rising in polls just 11 days before the country's presidential vote....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has declared: "I am my own strategist." That would seem to bode poorly for his actual strategist, Steve Bannon....
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