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UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (AP) -- In Israel's Arab community, life is imitating art....
DALLAS (AP) -- A New Jersey woman whose son was asked to leave his Boy Scouts troop after leaders found out he is transgender said she has mixed emotions about the organization's decision to allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys-only programs....
Morelia, Mexico, Jan 31, 2017 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of an archdiocese in the western Mexican state of Michoacan has said the country needs to seek forgiveness for failing to provide for its people who seek a better life in the United States.“We have to ask the migrants for forgiveness because they couldn't find job opportunities or adequate conditions in Mexico for their families to get ahead,” Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos of Morelia told the weekly Desde la Fe.Mexico has been unable to “create an environment where justice reigns, where there are well-paid jobs and opportunities for the future,” he commented.“So we ask forgiveness from those we have driven from our places by not eradicating poverty, and who are now facing the threat of exclusion and discrimination.”To all of them, Archbishop Garfias continued: “a word of gratitude for everything you are doing for your families and your communities. Also a word o...
Morelia, Mexico, Jan 31, 2017 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of an archdiocese in the western Mexican state of Michoacan has said the country needs to seek forgiveness for failing to provide for its people who seek a better life in the United States.
“We have to ask the migrants for forgiveness because they couldn't find job opportunities or adequate conditions in Mexico for their families to get ahead,” Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos of Morelia told the weekly Desde la Fe.
Mexico has been unable to “create an environment where justice reigns, where there are well-paid jobs and opportunities for the future,” he commented.
“So we ask forgiveness from those we have driven from our places by not eradicating poverty, and who are now facing the threat of exclusion and discrimination.”
To all of them, Archbishop Garfias continued: “a word of gratitude for everything you are doing for your families and your communities. Also a word of encouragement in face of the difficulties you are up against. Know that you are not alone.”
Archbishop Garfias also said now is time to stand in solidarity with the migrants in face of the announcement by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who has ordered the continuation of the construction of a border wall started by Bill Clinton's administration.
Regarding his new mission as Archbishop of Morelia – he was appointed Nov. 5, 2016 – he emphasized that “in this time our country is going through, we need more than ever to find a path to reconciliation to give an effective and long-lasting response to the violence, injustice, corruption and impunity that has settled over our homeland and has become the breeding ground for growing discontent.”
“Although this violence is the product of many distortions in society and the uncontrolled action of organized crime, the fact does not escape me, and I take it up as a challenge, that the decisive action of Christians has been lacking in this environment, who have not been able to respond in time and with strength to the disintegration of the social fabric,” he lamented.
“We have not known how to give an effective and living witness to the mission and the evangelization that the Lord has entrusted to us in this world.”
Ashley C. Ford felt driven to act by a sad fact of life in the nation's school cafeterias: Kids with unpaid lunch accounts are often embarrassed with a substitute meal of a cold cheese sandwich and a carton of milk....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they've developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are muscling more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees to the cusp of Senate confirmation over Democratic objections, with committees poised to advance his picks to head agencies in the thick of partisan battles over health care, legal protections, education and the economy....
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea will be casting a dark - and nuclear - shadow over U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' first foray abroad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Donald Trump paused the nation's refugee program with the stroke of a pen, top congressional leaders of his own party were left to find out the same way the general public did: from the media as Trump signed the order....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington became the first state to sue the Trump administration with a filing Monday over the president's executive order restricting refugees and immigration. It likely will not be standing alone for long....
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- On any given day at MacDill Air Force Base, web crawlers scour social media for potential recruits to the Islamic State group. Then, in a high-stakes operation to counter the extremists' propaganda, language specialists employ fictitious identities and try to sway the targets from joining IS ranks....
