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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The leader of the Islamic State group has released a new message encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the city of Mosul, which they are defending against Iraqi government forces, a U.S. organization that monitors militant activity online said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton may not be accumulating the type of early-vote advantage her campaign wanted, but she continues to maintain an apparent edge over Donald Trump, with roughly one-fourth of all expected ballots cast in the 2016 election....
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Garth Brooks, who lost entertainer of the year at last year's Country Music Association Awards when he returned to music after a 13-year break, won the top prize at the show Wednesday, where Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks' surprise duet performance was met with love and hate....
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Washington D.C., Nov 2, 2016 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Representatives of the nation’s capital voted Tuesday to approve physician-assisted suicide, despite strong opposition from religious, legal and medical leaders.“Since the time of the Hippocratic oath – which long predated Christianity – the medical community saw the profound incompatibility of efforts to end life being facilitated by a healing profession,” said Dr. Lucia Silecchia, a law professor at The Catholic University of America and a Washington, D.C. resident.“Thus, while the Catholic and Christian understanding of the dignity of human persons, made in the image and likeness of God undergirds the moral critique of such statutes, the medical opposition long predates Christ, and the legal objections should compel anyone who observes how easily disregard for the life of one spreads,” she continued.Silecchia had talked to CNA on Oct. 17, when the assisted suicide bill was original...
Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 2, 2016 / 04:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In the wake of fatal shootings of two Iowa police officers in apparent ambushes, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines offered prayers for the victims’ families and colleagues.After the shootings, Bishop Pates said the Catholic community “extends heartfelt prayer and sympathy to the families and friends of the two police officers who were killed in the line of duty this morning.”Bishop Pates voiced condolences to the police chiefs and police forces of Des Moines and Urbandale.“We stand in solidarity with you,” he said Nov. 2.Two police officers in the Des Moines area were shot and killed in separate incidents early Wednesday, the Des Moines Register reports. It appeared they were taken by surprise and had no chance to defend themselves.Urbandale Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines police Sgt. Anthony Beminio were named as the gunman’s victims.The gunman appeared to have walked up to Martin&r...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Most of us face death when a loved onepasses away, and family and friends head to a cemetery. But at the FranciscanMonastery of the Holy Land in Washington, the friars may think about death moreoften than most people since a cemetery with their Franciscan brothers who havedied is right in their backyard, lining a pastoral path where the living walk oncrisp fall days.On All Souls' Day this year, that's where they gathered formidday prayer, to include the dead in their prayers and to include them in lifeby remembering them."It's simple tradition," but one that has been around fordecades, said Father Larry Dunham, the guardian of the monastery. "We gatherfor our Franciscan family, our religious family."Midday prayer is one of shortest parts of the Liturgy of theHours, which the friars pray several times at a day but they have chosen theprayer in the middle of the day, when the sun is at its highest, to include thedead in th...
