Catholic News 2
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- To get a feel for how North Korea's economy works, go buy a roll of toilet paper. Or start up a mobile phone network....
Editor's note: Associated Press Tampa, Florida, correspondent Tamara Lush spent 15 days traveling via train across the U.S. as part of Amtrak's residency program, designed for creative professionals to spend time writing on the rails. She spoke with dozens of people - fellow travelers, friends and family waiting for loved one at stations, train workers - and filed occasional dispatches for the AP in the Tales from a Train projec...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If it's tough being a kid, try being a "first kid" - the child of an American president....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump has long expressed a desire for improved relations with Moscow, but his latest comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. are leading some fellow Republicans to take a step back from the president - on this issue at least....
NEW YORK (AP) -- For advertisers on Super Bowl Sunday, it was time to get political - or provide some escapist humor....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the rest of the New England Patriots have long been reluctant to rank their victories. They've refused to label any given season, or title, sweeter than another....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Travelers from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by President Donald Trump who were denied entry into the United States a week ago are arriving at airports around the country and into the open arms of their loved ones....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump is making his first visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says it expects the courts to restore President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an executive order founded on a claim of national security....
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 5, 2017 / 07:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday signed a framework agreement to govern relations between the Catholic Church and the state.Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, signed the agreement with the Congolese Prime Minister Clement Mouamba.The framework agreement guarantees the Catholic Church’s right to carry out her mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It recognizes the legal personality of the Church and of Catholic institutions.It affirms that both the Church and the State aim to work for the moral, spiritual and material wellbeing of individuals and to promote the common good.In attendance at the signing ceremony were many bishops including Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, the apostolic nuncio to the Congo; Archbishop Anatole Milandou of Brazzaville; and Bishop Daniel Mizonzo of Nkai, president of the Congolese bishops&rsqu...
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 5, 2017 / 07:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday signed a framework agreement to govern relations between the Catholic Church and the state.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, signed the agreement with the Congolese Prime Minister Clement Mouamba.
The framework agreement guarantees the Catholic Church’s right to carry out her mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It recognizes the legal personality of the Church and of Catholic institutions.
It affirms that both the Church and the State aim to work for the moral, spiritual and material wellbeing of individuals and to promote the common good.
In attendance at the signing ceremony were many bishops including Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, the apostolic nuncio to the Congo; Archbishop Anatole Milandou of Brazzaville; and Bishop Daniel Mizonzo of Nkai, president of the Congolese bishops’ conference.
Various leading officials of the Congolese government also attended.
The Church runs a large network of schools, hospitals and private businesses in the country. About half of the country’s people identify as Catholic.
In September 2016, Pope Francis met with the country’s president Joseph Kabilia. The Pope reportedly voiced concern about ongoing unrest in the country connected with delayed elections.
