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Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 6, 2016 / 04:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In late September, Pope Francis met with the controversial president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila.But instead of greeting him in the same room where he usually meets other visiting leaders, a “glum looking Francis” waited for President Kabila in his library. Many interpreted the breach of protocol with Kabila as a subtle Vatican snub.During the brief exchange, translated through interpreters, the Pope raised his concerns over the recent violent protests in the country, due to delayed elections.Political unrest in Congo under Kabila has been increasing since January 2015, after a bill proposed that Kabila could remain in power while a national census was conducted, potentially delaying presidential and parliamentary elections.Protesters who saw the bill as a power grab by Kabila took to the streets in what sometimes turned into deadly clashes with the country’s...
IMAGE: CNSBy VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Pontifical Commission for theProtection of Minors has launched a beta version of its website in English andhas included its template for local guidelines on preventing sexual abuse,resources for a day of prayer for the victims and survivors as well as amailing address to contact commission members.The website -- www.protectionofminors.va -- eventually will includeversions in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French, the commission said in astatement Dec. 6.Pope Francis' international Council of Cardinals identifiedthe protection of children and young adults as one of the church's priorityneeds and suggested in December 2013 that he create a commission to advise himand assist dioceses and religious orders around the world in drawing up guidelines,handling accusations and ministering to victims and survivors. Pope Francisnamed the first members three months later and appointed as president CardinalSean P. O'Malley of Boston.- - -Copyright © 2016 C...
IMAGE: EPABy Beth GriffinNEWYORK (CNS) -- Christians in the Middle East face extinction because of genocide,wars and international indifference to their plight, according to panelists ata Dec. 5 interfaith forum in New York.Aconcerted multilateral effort to establish a safe haven for them whilerebuilding their devastated homelands is preferable to massive permanentresettlement to other countries, including the United States, they said.Twelvespeakers at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture event explored "TheCrisis for Christians in the Middle East," with a particular focus on vulnerableChristian minorities in Syria and Iraq.Christiansformed the majority in the Middle East until the Crusades in the 12th-14th centuries,but "the past thousand years haven't been good in many ways," said JackTannous, assistant professor of history at Princeton University.Tremendousviolence perpetrated against Christians led to widespread conversion, he said, andlong periods of stasis have been punc...
DENVER (AP) -- Surveys show a small but growing number of older adults are using marijuana - a trend that worries researchers who say not enough information exists about how pot affects older users....
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) -- Some protesters who have been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline retreated to a nearby casino and area shelters overnight as a blizzard blew through, but many remained at a camp in southern North Dakota, according to protest organizers who say they're committed to maintaining the camp through the winter....
SAARLOUIS, Germany (AP) -- Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked secretly to save the lives of 226 members of his flock from the Islamic State group - by amassing millions of dollars from his community around the world to buy their freedom....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The video was unambiguous: A white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man in the back as the man ran away....
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Closing out two terms as a president at war, Barack Obama staunchly defended his counterterrorism strategy as one that rejected torture, held to American values and avoided large-scale troop deployments, in an implicit effort to shape the strategy his successor might employ....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- City and state officials fielded years of complaints about dangerous conditions, drugs, neglected children, trash, thefts and squabbles at the illegally converted warehouse where 36 partygoers were killed in a weekend fire, with inspectors knocking on the door as recently as two weeks before the blaze....
