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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is promising Mexico will pay for his massive border wall. On Thursday, his administration finally suggested how: a 20 percent tax on products imported from south of the border....
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Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2017 / 03:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Just one decision can have a major effect on future generations, pro-life activists told a group of young people at the March for Life conference in the nation’s capital on Thursday.“When you pull one life out of this world, it changes everything,” said Ryan Bomberger, founder of the Radiance Foundation.The Radiance Foundation is a “faith-based, life-affirming organization to help people understand and embrace their God-given Purpose.” Bomberger, a black pro-life activist who has brought attention to abortion’s “disproportionate impact in the black community,” delivered the keynote speech at the 2017 March for Life Conference in Washington, D.C., the day before Friday’s march.Bomberger was conceived in rape. His mother chose to bear him, and his foster parents adopted him along with nine other children into their family of 15.“This is my family. This is the result o...
Boston, Mass., Jan 26, 2017 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Meet Collette: a talented young baker from the Boston area, who has been working on her own original cookie recipes since 2011. She is also a young woman with Down Syndrome.Despite her passion for cookies and her talent with baking, she was unable to find a job.“After rejection over and over again when applying for a job and being told she had great skills but was not 'a good fit,' she was determined to own her own business,” reads her website.Fueled with ambition, Collette opened a production facility in Boston, where she creates and bakes all her own cookies. Within the first 10 days, over 50,000 cookies were ordered.She has also received over 65,000 letters from fans across the world, including 100 offers from volunteers who want to help with her new company.Her business, called Collettey's, also has a website where her cookies can be ordered, shipped and delivered with a note from Collette herself. ...
London, England, Jan 26, 2017 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Proposed standards for U.K. medical professionals could force them to violate their religious beliefs on the job, both Christian and Muslim groups have warned.David Clapham, a treasurer of the group Christians in Pharmacy, says the proposed changes could deter religious people from entering the profession and may make “the position of some excellent professionals untenable.”“This would be to the detriment of the profession, patients and pharmacy as a whole,” he said, according to The Pharmaceutical Journal, a publication of the U.K.-based Royal Pharmaceutical Society.The independent regulator for pharmacy in Great Britain, the General Pharmaceutical Council, recently announced proposed changes in professional standards.Both the current and the proposed wording for the professional standards guidance say that pharmacy professionals must “recognize their own values and beliefs” but “no...
Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2017 / 05:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a culture where abortion is prevalent, no one’s rights are safe, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York insisted at a national pro-life Mass before the March for Life.“We come together this sacred evening in a church we claim as a sanctuary, in a land historically termed a sanctuary, on a planet the creator intended as an environment of sanctuary,” said Cardinal Dolan, chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, in his homily at the March for Life vigil Mass on Thursday.“Why?” he asked. “To reclaim the belief that the mother’s womb is the primal sanctuary, where a helpless, innocent, fragile, tiny baby is safe, secure, nurtured and protected.”The March for Life vigil Mass was held Thursday evening at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.The national march is the largest pro-life rally in the world, annually drawing hundreds...
Rome, Italy, Jan 26, 2017 / 05:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The secretary general of the Italian bishops conference on Thursday said that torture can never be a response to terrorism, shortly after United States president Donald Trump condoned the idea.“I realize that any response in this case seems banal; that is, torture annuls the negative, very negative impact of terrorism,” Bishop Nunzio Galantino, Bishop Emeritus of Cassano all'Jonio, told reporters Jan. 26.“I don’t think terrorism is overcome with another form of terrorism, because in the end torture becomes this.”Bishop Galantino was speaking to journalists in Rome at the conclusion of the Italian bishops' permanent council meeting.“Above all … I don’t know with what criteria one can decide with certainty that this person is a terrorist,” he commented. “It doesn’t seem like problems can be solved with torture.”The bishop was responding to a question ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man charged with protecting America's borders was ousted Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump announced ambitious plans to build a massive wall at the Mexican border and bolster the ranks of the Border Patrol....
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- The Latest on the scheduled execution of Texas inmate Terry Edwards (all times local):...
DALLAS (AP) -- Bodycam video from a white Fort Worth police officer who was suspended for wrestling a black woman and her daughter to the ground appears to show the officer using his foot to push the 15-year-old girl into a police car....
