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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Colorful campaign posters in this seaside capital give the impression that Somalia's presidential election on Wednesday will be like any other. That's far from true....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The prison north of Damascus was known to detainees as "the slaughterhouse" and in it, as many of 13,000 people were hanged in only four years after a series of sham trials, according to a new report issued by Amnesty International....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate was poised on Tuesday to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary by the narrowest possible margin, with Vice President Mike Pence expected to break a 50-50 tie after a last-ditch effort by Democrats to sink the nomination....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia addressed a bioethics workshop held by the bishops of the United States in Dallas, Texas on Monday.The President of the Pontifical Academy for Life thanked US bishops for their commitment and leadership “in initiatives that actively defend human life and the dignity of the person”.He said, “We must be very clear-headed and resolute in confronting the contradictions of extreme individualism and moral relativity that put at risk the humanity of that freedom and personal dignity.”Archbishop Paglia also gave three examples of areas in which ethical considerations will be crucial in the near future:1. A number of studies predict that in the future health care will be one of the central elements of western economies by reason of the development of efficient preventive medicine protocols in addition to the traditional combat against specific diseases and assistance in recovery. This approach will be expensive ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ Lenten message was released on Tuesday entitled “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift.”Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s report Below find the English language translation of Pope Francis’ Lenten message.The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift.Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to conversion. Christians are asked to return to God “with all their hearts” (Joel 2:12), to refuse to settle for mediocrity and to grow in friendship with the Lord. Jesus is the faithful friend who never abandons us. Even when we sin, he patiently awaits our return; by that patient expectation, he shows us his readiness to forgive (cf. Homily, 8 January 2016). Lent...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday said that God created man in His image, made him lord of the earth, and gave him a woman at his side to love. The Pope’s words on these three gifts of God in Creation came during his homily at daily Mass in the Casa Santa Marta.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: The Holy Father’s homily at Mass focused on the verses of Psalm 8: "Lord, what is man that you are mindful of him? Yet you have made him little less than a god, crowned him with glory and honor,” and on the Book of Genesis’ account of the Creation of man and woman.God has given us the DNA of children, in His imageThe Pope spoke about the first of three great gifts, which God gave humanity in creation."First of all, He gave us His 'DNA', that is, He made us children, created us in His image, in His image and likeness, like Him. And when one makes a child, he cannot take it back: the son is made, he exists. And whether or not he carri...
The Sisters of the Handmaid of the Divine Redeemer (HDR) in Ghana’s capital, Accra, are marking their 60th anniversary since the establishment of their order with a call to walk in the footsteps of Mary as a model of their lives.“Handmaids walking in the footsteps of Mary to our Lord Jesus Christ is the HDR’s Christian journey and must be an important concept of our faith, attitudes towards God, fellow men and women,” said Sr. Mary Matilda Sorkpor, Superior General of the HDR, during the Eucharistic celebration at Agormanya in the Koforidua Diocese on 2 February.The theme of the Sisters’ diamond jubilee celebration is, "60 Years of Handmaids of the Divine Redeemer, Our Achievements, Challenges and the future Prospects."Bishop Bowers founded the Congregation together with Mother Providential Hein, HDR (a former SSps missioned to Ghana) on 2 February 1957, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, which in 1997 was instituted by Pope St. John...
Orissa, India, Feb 7, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nine years ago, Christians in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, India suffered the worst attacks against Christians in modern times in the country.Around 100 people lost their lives and more than 56,000 lost their homes and places of worship in a series of violent riots by Hindu militants that lasted for several months.But since the devastation, the local area has seen an “unprecedented” increase in religious vocations, including Sr. Alanza Nayak, who became the first woman from her area to join the order of the Sisters of the Destitute. Sr. Nayak told Matters India that she decided to dedicate her life to God through the poor and needy after she heard “how a herd of elephants meted out justice to the victims of Kandhamal anti-Christian violence.”A tenth-grader at the time of the attacks, Sr. Nayak said she remembers escaping to the nearby forest so she wouldn’t be killed.A year after the att...
Vatican City, Feb 7, 2017 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ pastoral heart came out in his Lenten message this year, focusing in what could be a lengthy homily on the importance of recognizing others as a gift, with an in-depth reflection on the Word of God.“A right relationship with people consists in gratefully recognizing their value. Even the poor person at the door of the rich is not a nuisance, but summons to conversion and to change,” the Pope said in this year’s Lenten message.“Each person is a gift, whether it be our neighbor or an anonymous pauper,” he said, adding that Lent “is a favorable season for opening the doors to all those in need and recognizing in them the face of Christ.”Released Feb. 7, the Pope’s message is titled “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift,” and centers on the passage in the Gospel of Luke recounting the relation between the poor man Lazarus and the rich man who rej...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump made an unsupported assertion Monday that terrorist acts in Europe are going unreported. A look at the matter:...
