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BEIRUT (AP) -- President Donald Trump's 59-missile message to Syria - the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated - may well resonate with Bashar Assad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on events in Syria (all times local):...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The United States is looking into whether Russia participated in the Syrian chemical weapons attack that provoked President Donald Trump's airstrikes against the Assad government, a revelation that could have dramatic implications for relations between Washington and Moscow....
Vatican Weekend for April 8th, 2017 features a report on the Pope’s general audience, a look ahead to the upcoming papal visit to Egypt, a Lenten reflection on the fickleness of Jesus’ followers, a look at where we can see artwork depicting Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and a reflection on the difficulties of being a Good Samaritan.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:     
Vatican Weekend for April 9th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Church leaders in the Philippines welcomed the signing of an agreement between the government and communist rebels to bring a temporary stop to armed clashes.The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) said the outcome of the ongoing talks "shows that the concerns of the people are central to resolve the decades-old armed conflict in our land." The PEPP is an alliance of Catholic and Protestant church leaders who have been pressing for a negotiated end to the almost five-decade communist insurgency.The fourth round of formal talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines ended on April 6 in the Netherlands. Both sides firmed up an agreement on free land distribution "as a basic principle of genuine agrarian reform.""This is the main message of the meeting ... and an achievement of the fourth round of talks," read a statement signed by both sides at the end of the talks. They earlier agreed to an int...
A nine-year-old girl has filed a lawsuit against the Indian Government for failing to take adequate action to mitigate the effects of climate change, citing growing concern over pollution and environmental degradation in the country.   In the public interest litigation (PIL) filed on March 31with the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a special court for environment-related cases established in 2010‎, Ridhima Pandey said the government has failed to implement its environment laws.  "As a young person (Ridhima) is part of a class that amongst all Indians is most vulnerable to changes in climate, yet are not part of the decision making process," the 52-page petition said.  It called on the tribunal to direct the government "to take effective, science-based action to reduce and minimize the adverse impacts of climate change".The NGT has asked the Ministry of Environment and the Central Pollution Control Board to respond within two weeks. A spok...
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican on Thursday released latest statistics for the numbers of Catholics in countries around the globe. The figures show substantial growth in the numbers of both priests and people in the pews in Africa and Asia, but declining vocations and Mass attendance in other parts of the world.The data, compiled by the Vatican’s central office for Church statistics, refers to the year 2014-2015, showing a slight increase of about one percent of Catholics worldwide.While the statistics do not seem like an emergency scenario, some analysts are warning that the Church is suffering its worst decline in centuries, requiring some profound changes in strategy and leadership style to turn the crisis around.Chris Lowney is one of those Catholics who believes that Pope Francis’ reform efforts must be followed up by a transformation of culture and participation, from the grassroots through to hierarchical level.A New Yorker and former Jesuit seminarian, Lowney becam...
Vatican City, Apr 7, 2017 / 05:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Friday that when it comes to solving the immigration crisis, the media needs to stop perpetuating negative stereotypes and explain the big picture, shedding light on the causes behind migration.“The mass media should be driven by the need to explain the different aspects of migration, also making the public aware of the causes of this phenomenon,” he said in an interview published April 7.“The violation of human rights, the violent conflict in the social unrest, lack of basic necessities, natural disasters and those caused by man: all this must be told clearly to allow the right knowledge of the migration phenomenon and, therefore, the right approach.”The Pope’s comments were made in a new interview with the Italian magazine, LibertàCivili, published every two months by the Italian Ministry for Internal Affairs.In the interview, Francis slammed those in media who perpetuate ...
Bamako, Mali, Apr 7, 2017 / 06:14 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Four people have been arrested in Mali in connection with the February kidnapping of a nun who remains missing.According to the Associated Press, a judge in the country charged four individuals this week.Sister Cecilia Argoti Narvaez was originally from Colombia but worked in Mali until she was kidnapped earlier this year. Her fate is still unknown.Armed men kidnapped Sr. Cecilia in the southern Mali city of Karangasso on February 7th. The men forced Sister Cecilia to hand over the keys to the community’s ambulance. The vehicle was later found abandoned. Three other sisters were present at their house but escaped.A member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, Sr. Cecilia had served in Mali for 12 years. Her community administers a large health center in the country, as well as a home where they care for some 30 orphans between one and two years of age.The religious sisters teach literacy to some 700 Muslim women. T...
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