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Manila, Philippines, Feb 8, 2017 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Though the Philippines president has professed a willingness to go “to hell” to win his deadly war on drugs, the country’s bishops have said Catholics must speak out against its evils.“This traffic in illegal drugs needs to be stopped and overcome. But the solution does not lie in the killing of suspected drug users and pushers,” they said.“The life of every person comes from God. It is he who gives it, and it is he alone who can take it back. Not even the government has a right to kill life because it is only God's steward and not the owner of life.”Silence in the face of evil means becoming an accomplice to it, they warned.“If we neglect the drug addicts and pushers we have become part of the drug problem, if we consent or allow the killing of suspected drug addicts, we shall also be responsible for their deaths.”The pastoral letter, dated Jan. 30, bears the sign...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Stringer, EPABy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- No country is immune to thetrafficking of organs, which has become a global problem that demands aconcerted and cooperative response, said a number of speakers at a Vaticansummit.To encourage nations to create, tighten or implementlegal and ethical best practices for organ donation, the Pontifical Academy ofSciences brought together government ministers, judges, law enforcementpersonnel, medical professionals, human rights activists and journalists Feb. 7-8.While much media attention focused on the Vaticaninviting officials from China, which has been criticized by human rights groupsfor harvesting organs from executed prisoners, the Vatican also invitedrepresentatives from more than 50 nations, especially those plagued by organtrafficking, including Mexico, India, Pakistan and Iran -- where the sale ofhuman organs is legal.The point of inviting countries struggling with orcondoning the organ trade was to give them th...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Dwight Powell lost his Lexus to the massive tornado that injured 33 people and destroyed or seriously damaged 940 properties on a half-mile wide rampage through two miles of east New Orleans....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Where the White House saw a father standing up for his daughter, an ethics expert saw an implicit threat....
SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal appeals court is considering whether to reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban, but another aspect of his executive order is still in effect - a review of visa procedures to ensure they are strict enough....
PHOENIX (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on charges that he provided support to the Islamic State group by helping two followers with an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas that resulted in a deadly shootout with police....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was elected Somalia's president on Wednesday, declaring a new "era of unity" as he took on the daunting task of bringing the long-chaotic country its first fully functioning central government in a quarter-century....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Army on Wednesday granted the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline formal permission to lay pipe under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed $3.8 billion project....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The turbulent national debate over race, gender and free speech consumed the normally staid Senate on Wednesday after the GOP majority voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, abruptly elevating her celebrity status at a moment when liberals are hungry for a leader to take on Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed the court that is deliberating his immigration and refugee executive order as being "so political," part of a relentless pounding of the judiciary branch that prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court....
