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Vatican City, Jan 14, 2017 / 01:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday, Pope Francis baptized 13 babies from areas where devastating earthquakes struck Italy last year. The baptism took place in the chapel of the Santa Marta house, where the Pope resides. Italy was struck with a series of fatal and destructive earthquakes last summer and fall. The first struck the town and nearby areas of Amatrice, Italy in August. It measured in at a magnitude of 6.2 and killed as many as 290 people throughout the region, and left several hundred others injured.The next earthquakes hit in October, in a region just 50 miles north of where the first quake had occurred. A magnitude 5.5 quake, and another, measuring at a magnitude of 6.1, struck the region of Visso, Italy within just hours of each other on October 26. One man died of a heart attack as a result of the earthquakes. Just days later, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake leveled the 13th century Basilica of St. Benedic...
Bhubaneswar, India, Jan 14, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- India is a country of more than 1.2 billion people, with Christians accounting for only some three percent of the population, including close to 19 million Catholics. Despite its relatively small size, the Indian Church has a disproportionate impact on Indian society through education and social services. With the ascension to power of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, there has been a rising tide of violent attacks on Christians as well as Muslims.Growing intolerance of religions considered to be foreign imports adds to the wounds of both Christian and Muslims of low caste background – known as dalits – who are denied government benefits awarded to low-caste Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhist to compensate for centuries of discrimination by the dominant Hindu culture.To address the needs of dalits within the Church – where low-caste faithful have also suffered various forms of discrimination, despite the fact th...
DALLAS (AP) -- Top-ranked UConn broke its own NCAA record with its 91st consecutive victory, scoring the first 21 points and romping past SMU 88-48 on Saturday....
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Parts of the central U.S. grappled Saturday with a second day of road-glazing ice and braced for more of the treacherous, below-freezing wintry weather expected to close out the holiday weekend....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- As a younger lawyer, Loretta Lynch prosecuted New York police officers who sodomized a Haitian immigrant in a precinct bathroom. As attorney general, she's broadened her focus to go after entire police departments for unconstitutional practices....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the U.S., denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country....
Vatican City, Jan 14, 2017 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday it was announced that Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has yet another reason to come to Rome, with his appointment as the newest member of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.Already a member of the Pope’s Council of Cardinals and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, O’Malley’s appointment to the CDF, announced in a Jan. 14 communique from the Vatican, adds yet another major role to the list of duties he is accumulating. Headed by Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the CDF is also home to a new judicial section established by the Pope last June to handle cases of “abuse of office” on the part of a bishop or religious superior accused of being negligent in handling instances of child sexual abuse. O’Malley was tapped to be one of the Pope’s cardinal-advisors when Francis established the Council of Cardinals, wh...
IMAGE: REUTERSBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thankedPope Francis for his support of the country's new embassy to the Holy See."This is a sign that the pope loves the Palestinianpeople and loves peace," Abbas told the pope Jan. 14 before heading to theinauguration of the Palestinian embassy to the Holy See in Rome. The pope welcomed Abbas with open arms, embracing thepresident and saying, "It is a pleasure to welcome you here.""I am also happy to be here," Abbas replied. The Vatican said the two leaders spoke privately of thecontribution of Catholics in Palestine and their "promotion of human dignity andassistance for those most in need, especially in the fields of education,health and aid."Thepope and Abbas also discussed the peace process and expressed hope that "directnegotiations between the parties may be resumed to bring an end to theviolence" and to find "a just and lasting solution.""Tothis end, it is hoped that -- with the s...
