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Philippine Catholic bishops have dismissed as "nonsense" President Rodrigo Duterte's tirades of March 30, against the Catholic Church.President Duterte renewed attacks against the Catholic Church, which has been vocal in its criticism against the president's anti-narcotics war, his plan to re-impose the death penalty and lower the age of criminal liability.It is good to  simply  ignore such remarks said,  CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Mission chairman Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes  over church-run Radio Veritas. Echoing Bishop Bastes, CBCP-Episcopal Commission on the Laity chairman Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo in the same interview said, “What he says has no value anyway.”Duterte during the oath-taking of new appointees in Malacañang last Thursday launched tirades against the Church anew, saying the institution will be passé in three decades because of its alleged abuses and flaws. Bishops Bastes and Pabil...
(Vatican Radio) Three new Syrian families have found shelter and welcome in the Vatican as part of an ongoing effort to provide the means and the tools for integration and a new life of hope for those fleeing conflict and persecution.All in all, thirteen people - from two Christian and one Muslim family - have been able make their homes in three Vatican-owned apartments recently vacated by other refugees who have since moved on to more permanent situations.According to a communiqué released by the Vatican Press Office, two of the families have fled violence and discrimination because of their Christian faith. They arrived in Italy in March.The first family is composed of the mother, two adolescent children, the grandmother, an aunt and a Syrian woman who lives with them.The second family includes a young couple with their two-week old baby daughter, Stella, who was born in the apartment they now live in. The mother had been abducted and in the hands of the so-called Islamic...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, President of Caritas Internationalis and Archbishop of Manila, participated last week in a series of encounters in Florence focusing on Pope Francis’ encyclical “Evangelii Gaudium” and on the Pope’s call to Church members to take the Church into the world and into its peripheries.Cardinal Tagle told Vatican Radio’s Alessandro Gisotti about the force of the Pope’s call for a missionary spirituality and about how much common ground is shared by “Evangelii Gaudium” and another encyclical - “Populorum Progressio” - that is marking its 50th anniversary.Listen:  “When people hear about Evangelii Gaudium of course they associate it with the favorite expression of Pope Francis: the Church that goes out to the peripheries” Cardinal Luis Tagle explains, but if we study the document carefully there is a deep spirituality to be discovered.The Cardinal says the Pope himself...
IMAGE: CNS/ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS) -- While the wounds of past trials have healed,the scars that remain will serve as a reminder of strength and courage forfuture generations, Pope Francis told survivors of an earthquake.VisitingCarpi and Mirandola April 2, nearly five years after a 5.8-quake rocked thenorthern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, the pope said his visit was a signof "closeness and encouragement" as the people continue to rebuildtheir homes and their lives. "Looking at these scars, you will have the strength togrow and to make your children grow in that dignity, in that strength, in thatspirit of hope, in that courage that you had in the moment you received those wounds," he said. The pope spoke to the survivors, who were gathered in the small square outside the Mirandolacathedral, which is still covered in scaffolding and where broken stones are stillpiled on the ground.Before addressing the people, he laid a bouquet of yellowand white flowers on the...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will meet with theleader of one of the world's leading Sunni Muslim institutions, the head of theCoptic Orthodox Church and representatives of the Catholic Church on a two-daytrip to Cairo.The pope is scheduled to arrive in Cairo April 28 forcourtesy visits with political and religious leaders and deliver a speech, alongwith the grand imam of al-AzharUniversity, to an international conference on peace. He will celebrateMass for the small Catholic community in Cairo the next day and meet withbishops, clergy, religious and seminarians before returning to Rome April 29.In mid-March, the Vatican confirmed the pope would make thetrip following an invitation from President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the Catholic bishops inEgypt, Coptic Orthodox PopeTawadros II and SheikAhmad el-Tayeb, grandimam of al-Azhar.It will be the pope's 18th trip abroad in his four yearsas pope and the seventh time he visits a Muslim-majority nation. He will be theseco...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The first threerefugee families from Syria welcomed by the Vatican left their temporary homesto start their new lives in Italy, and three new families took their places inVatican apartments.The papalAlmoner's Office, whichhelps coordinate Pope Francis' acts of charity, announced April 2 that twoChristian families and oneMuslim family moved the apartments that housed the first refugeefamilies welcomed by the Vatican in late 2015 and early 2016. The twoChristian families, the papal almoner's office said, arrived in March after"suffering kidnapping and discrimination" because of their faith."Thefirst family is composed of a mother with two adolescent children, agrandmother, an aunt and another Syrian woman who lives with them," theoffice said.The second family is a young couple, who had theirfirst child -- a daughter named Stella -- shortly after moving into the Vaticanapartment, the Almoner's Office said. "The mother had been kidnapped fors...
MOCOA, Colombia (AP) -- Jose Albeiro Vargas last saw his grandson the night fierce rain unleashed havoc on this small city surrounded by rivers and mountains in southern Colombia....
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Three people were killed and four others injured Monday when an explosion launched a boiler the size of a van through the roof a St. Louis box company and slammed much of it down hundreds of feet (meters) away in a neighboring laundry business, the fire chief said....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. Another "cyborg" is created....
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi woman who desperately tried to direct rescuers to her sinking vehicle after it skidded into a rain-swollen creek Monday was among four people killed in storms across the South....
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