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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on refugees is likely to turn on questions of a president's authority to control America's borders and on whether the new immigration policy unconstitutionally discriminates against Muslims....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since taking office 10 days ago, President Donald Trump has moved to consolidate power within a small cadre of close aides at the White House....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban. Protests persisted at major airports, and concern mounted from U.S. diplomats and members of his own party....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a Democratic appointee, directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend President Donald Trump's controversial executive refugee and immigration ban, declaring Monday that she was not convinced that the order was lawful....
The Chairperson of the Laity Council in Southern Africa has reminded Catholic lay persons in the Southern African region that they have ‘a distinct and very real role’ in the spreading of the Gospel, which the Church desperately needs them to carry out with authority. Malatsi Leonard Kope said this, recently, when he spoke in the presence of Southern African Bishops. This was during the launch of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference Laity Council.The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) have been meeting at St John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. The Bishops’ conference comprises Botswana, the Republic of South Africa and Swaziland.“To many of us, lay faithful, there is a notion that the only real vocation in the Church is in the ordained or vowed priesthood and religious life. We still believe the Church is the ordained office of priests and the religious. (We think) of them as being the only ones who are c...
Vatican City, Jan 30, 2017 / 10:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Monday the strength of the Church does not reside primarily in grand gestures, but in the quiet faith of Christians in minority areas, who continue to practice even in the face of persecution and martyrdom.“We are pleased when we see a great ecclesial act, which has been a great success, the Christians revealing themselves,” he said in his homily during Mass at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta Jan. 30. “And this is beautiful! Is this strength? Yes, it is strength.”“But the greatest strength of the Church today is in the small Churches, tiny, with few people, persecuted, with their bishops in prison,” he continued. “This is our glory now, this is our glory and our strength today.”In his homily, Francis called out those who do not experience this kind of persecution, yet complain about small grievances: “This is the glory of the Church and our...
Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 30, 2017 / 01:12 pm (CNA).- “I knew my life wasn’t normal,” Duñia Zelaya said of her childhood. She vividly remembers the night her mother and stepfather dressed her in strange clothes and did her makeup before driving her to a bar to work as a sex slave. She can’t remember her age, but she was probably 7.Her mother gave her a drink to “give her courage.” Her two sisters, who were older though still minors, were dropped off first and then she was left at a bar where a man was waiting for her.On Jan. 14, Zelaya shared her story during the L.A. Freedom Walk at Blessed Sacrament Church in Los Angeles. She finally left the life of prostitution three years ago.Born into poverty and living as the child of immigrants, Zelaya endured the misery of prostitution for years. She was hungry for real love. “I noticed how all the other kids, their parents used to hug them and kiss them and I use to say, ‘I want that,&r...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, ReutersBy Kurt Jensen and Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Theleaders of the pro-life movement are used to having the ear of the president,as they had with Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.During their respectiveadministrations, they addressed the March for Life via telephone, but this yearthe event marking the Roe v. Wade anniversary had the highest-rankinggovernment official ever to address the crowd in person."Life is winning again inAmerica, and today is a celebration of that progress," the official, VicePresident Mike Pence, told the March for Life rally on the National Mall Jan.27."More than 240 yearsago, our founders declared these truths to be self-evident -- that we are, allof us, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights and that amongthese are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he said."Forty-four years ago, our Supreme Court turned away from the first ofthese timeless ideals, but today, generations henc...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Regis Duvignau, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Giving priority to Christian refugees for settlement programs would be "a trap" that discriminates and fuels religious tensions in the Middle East, said Iraq's Chaldean Catholic patriarch."Every reception policy that discriminates (between) the persecuted and suffering on religious grounds ultimately harms the Christians of the East" and would be "a trap for Christians in the Middle East," said Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad.The patriarch, speaking to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, commented on an executive action by U.S. President Donald Trump that temporarily stops from U.S. entry refugees from all over the world and migrants from seven countries in an attempt to review the screening process. The document asks that once the ban is lifted, refugee claims based on religious persecution be prioritized.Patriarch Sako said any preferential treatment based on reli...
