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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- The Catholic Church is one of the mostculturally diverse institutions in the United States and Catholic institutionsand ministries need to adapt and prepare for growing diversity, said a reportpresented to the country's bishops Nov. 15.The report, by the Center for Applied Research in theApostolate at Georgetown University, was commissioned by the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops' Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church in 2013 to helpidentify the size and distribution of ethnic communities in the country. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, chairman ofthe committee, called the study "groundbreaking" because he said it combined,for the first time all available data from Catholic and non-Catholic sources and mappedthe multicultural and ethnic diversity of the church nationwide.Of the world's estimated 1.3 billion Catholics, the studyfound, less than 6 percent live in the United States.Of the U.S. Catho...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is under fire for failing to rein in fake and biased news stories that some believe may have swayed the presidential election. Its predicament stems from this basic conundrum: It exercises great control over the news its users see, but it declines to assume the editorial responsibility that traditional publishers do....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Russian missiles pounded opposition targets in Syria on Tuesday, the start of a much-anticipated offensive, while activists reported the resumption of bombing in rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo for the first time in nearly a month, apparently by Syrian government warplanes....
OREM, Utah (AP) -- As a group of boys at a Utah high school changed Tuesday morning into gym clothes for physical education class, a straight-A student pulled out a knife in the locker room and stabbed five of his classmates, sending the injured running for their lives and covered in blood, police said....
CLAY, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia mayor resigned Tuesday following a backlash after she posted a response to a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A Southwest Airlines employee was shot outside Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday and died after police closed the sprawling complex to search for his killer....
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The Latest on a strong earthquake that struck New Zealand on Monday (all times local):...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Latest on a shooting at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City (all times local):...
Vatican City, Nov 15, 2016 / 11:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A year after Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment, Laudato si', the Vatican has stepped up its efforts in the recycling game by creating a new central waste collection point within Vatican City.Announced Nov. 14 by the State Governorate of Vatican City Events Coordination, the new system builds on recycling practices already in place.With the implementation of the new, more organized system, the leaders of the Vatican’s State Governorate said they hope that the small state “can in some way become a good example of a ‘green’ and non-polluting state.”For many years now the Vatican has encouraged recycling and dispensed different colored bins throughout the Vatican for sorting and recycling waste appropriately, but this marks the first time there is one central collection area.In addition to the usual recyclable categories such as paper, plastic and organic material, there will ...
