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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a new challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court appeared deeply and evenly divided Wednesday over the arrangement devised by the administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday decried ugliness and divisiveness in American politics, delivering a veiled but passionate rebuke to GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the nasty tone of the presidential race....
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- A few miles from Disneyland is a place most California tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets, halal meat and travel services....
PARIS (AP) -- The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage, The Associated Press has learned....
LONDON (AP) -- The Tsarnaev brothers wreaked carnage in Boston. The Kouachi brothers attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. In Brussels, officials say the El Bakraoui brothers struck the airport and metro this week, killing more than 30 people....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Despite the high death toll and dramatic scenes of destruction, this week's attacks in Brussels appear to have been surprisingly easy to carry out, requiring little more than some careful preparation, a handful of motivated militants and ingredients that are readily available on store shelves....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The suspected bombmaker in the Paris attacks in November was one of two suicide bombers who targeted the Brussels airport, officials said Wednesday, in a new sign that both attacks are linked to the same cell of the Islamic State group....
Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul in his Easter message prays for peace in the Korean Peninsula and the world at large. "May the light of the Risen Lord shine upon you all. Let us pray for our brothers and sisters in North Korea: may the blessings on them be abundant. Let us pray for peace on the Korean Peninsula and peace in the world. Let us pray that God gives wisdom to solve the issue of nuclear weapons in North Korea. May God guide us in the paths of peace": this is the wish expressed by Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung in his Easter message sent to Fides.The theme of the message is taken from the Gospel of John: "Through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race" (Jn 1: 4). "Jesus became the world's light that illuminates our sins and darkness.The announcement of the Church is that Christ is the light of the world that no darkness can overcome" the text emphasizes. "After Resurrection, Je...
Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul in his Easter message prays for peace in the Korean Peninsula and the world at large.
"May the light of the Risen Lord shine upon you all. Let us pray for our brothers and sisters in North Korea: may the blessings on them be abundant. Let us pray for peace on the Korean Peninsula and peace in the world. Let us pray that God gives wisdom to solve the issue of nuclear weapons in North Korea. May God guide us in the paths of peace": this is the wish expressed by Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung in his Easter message sent to Fides.
The theme of the message is taken from the Gospel of John: "Through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race" (Jn 1: 4). "Jesus became the world's light that illuminates our sins and darkness.
The announcement of the Church is that Christ is the light of the world that no darkness can overcome" the text emphasizes. "After Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the disciples and sent them the message of peace", "he opened their closed hearts, gave them courage and showed them the way of life".(Fides)
"Our society today is full of darkness. People live in fear, under the threat of war, terrorism and serious economic problems. We live in a time when there is an urgent need for peace. We faithful have received the light of the resurrection, we are called to bring the light of love and hope in the world" he said.
The Cardinal also referred to the legislative elections for the National Assembly of Korea, which will take place ahead of time, recalling that "power is service" and that the vote will elect "those who will dedicate themselves to the future and well-being of our country". "I pray that we all exercise our sacred right as citizens of Korea", he adds, that "urgently needs Christ's light".
The text finally touches on the theme of mercy, recalling the central expression of the Jubilee: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful", defining mercy as the result of an enlightened life and permeated by the grace of the Resurrection.
(Vatican Radio) A well-known sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz has found a new home in the entry to the Office of the Papal Almoner in the Vatican. A press release from the Almoner’s Office explains that Homeless Jesus – a 2013 piece in the hyper-realist style that depicts Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench, with his face and hands are obscured, hidden under a blanket, though his exposed feet bear the wounds they received in the Passion, revealing the figure’s identity.The work has been described as a “visual translation” of the passage in the Gospel according to St. Matthew (25:40), in which the Lord looks forward to the Last Judgment and explains to the disciples that they shall be judged according to the way they treated the weakest and most vulnerable in society.In November 2013, during a General Audience in St. Peter's Square, the artist had the opportunityi to present a reduced size copy of the Homeless Jesus to ...
(Vatican Radio) A well-known sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz has found a new home in the entry to the Office of the Papal Almoner in the Vatican. A press release from the Almoner’s Office explains that Homeless Jesus – a 2013 piece in the hyper-realist style that depicts Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench, with his face and hands are obscured, hidden under a blanket, though his exposed feet bear the wounds they received in the Passion, revealing the figure’s identity.
The work has been described as a “visual translation” of the passage in the Gospel according to St. Matthew (25:40), in which the Lord looks forward to the Last Judgment and explains to the disciples that they shall be judged according to the way they treated the weakest and most vulnerable in society.
In November 2013, during a General Audience in St. Peter's Square, the artist had the opportunityi to present a reduced size copy of the Homeless Jesus to Pope Francis. “When the Pope saw the work,” Shmalz told journalists in the US, “he touched the knees and feet and prayed.” Schmalz added, “Pope Francis is doing just that, reaching out and approaching the marginalized.”
The statue, donated to the Apostolic Almoner by the initiative of the sculptor, is cast in bronze: the first copy of it was placed in 2013 in Toronto at Regis College, the Jesuit theological faculty.
Listen to Philippa Hitchen's interview with sculptor Timothy Schmalz following his meeting with Pope Francis in November 2013
