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The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) has released a Pastoral letter on marriage and family titled, ‘The Family in Zimbabwe in the light of Amoris Laetitia.’The Pastoral letter, addressed to all Zimbabwean families, is a reflection of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, 'Amoris Laetitia' - On the Joy of Love in the family, released in April 2016.In the introduction of this 18 paged letter, the Bishops wish "to promote and protect, support and strengthen the family in every way, especially at a time when families feel the pressure of political tensions, economic collapse and other forces."“The message which we as Bishops of Zimbabwe wish to convey is meant to cheer and encourage, fill with hope, to give praise, understanding and support to all married couples and families,” it reads.On sexuality integrated into humanity, the Bishops write that “God created a man for a woman and woman for man,” hence &ldqu...
The Catholic Church in Ghana will deploy 2000 election observers across the country during general elections slated for December.Matthew Eghan, the National President of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC), said that the observers selected from all the 20 dioceses of the Church in Ghana would be deployed across all the regions in the country to help ensure a free, fair, transparent and violent-free election on 7 December.Eghan was speaking at the end of a three-day civic education and election observation training workshop organised by the Justice and Peace Commission of the National Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation at the Samaritan Villa in Kumasi, this week. This is according to Ghanaweb Online.Participants at the training workshop were taken through the roles and responsibilities of election observers and instructed on how to gather credible information during an election. They were also cautioned to be diligent as they emba...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Rolling Stone magazine publisher and co-founder Jann Wenner says in a video deposition that he disagreed with a top editor's decision to retract an entire article about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the story was discredited....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Protesters trying to block the Dakota Access oil pipeline were staying near their encampment Saturday morning following two days of confrontations that resulted in more than a hundred arrests and a barricade of burned-out vehicles blocking a North Dakota highway....
SHURA, Iraq (AP) -- State-sanctioned Shiite militias joined Iraq's Mosul offensive on Saturday with a pre-dawn assault to the west, where they hope to complete the encirclement of the Islamic State-held city and sever supply lines from neighboring Syria....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI's announcement that it recently came upon new emails possibly pertinent to the Hillary Clinton email investigation raised more questions than answers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Good riddance to Campaign 2016, the election that put the "ugh" in ugly....
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has joined in spreading the word to children and families about the Zika virus as the number of cases continues to rise in the country.The cardinal has issued a pastoral guidance which aims to help raise awareness about the mosquito-borne disease, and linked to serious birth defects.Eradicating potential mosquito breeding sites and protecting pregnant women are among the key messages of the guideline released this month to parishes and Catholic schools in Manila.The cardinal particularly asked the faithful to adopt the “4S” strategy of the Health department against the mosquito carrying Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.The 4S means Search and destroy mosquito-breeding places, use Self-protection measures, Seek early consultation for fever lasting more than 2 days and Say yes to fogging when there is an impending outbreak.The cardinal also said everyone should be attentive to the following symptoms: fever, rash, joint pains, m...
Rome, Italy, Oct 29, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Paulino Luduku Loro of Jubo, South Sudan has said that when it comes to the dramatic and widespread phenomena of child soldiers in his country’s conflict, the only way to stop it is to end the fighting and focus on talking about the issues.“The only solution we have been saying is stop fighting, stop war, so that we fight in dialogue. Because there are reasons why these people, these child soldiers are fighting,” Archbishop Paulino Luduku Loro told CNA Oct. 27.Many children, he noted, “are maybe not simply caught by the government,” but choose to fight on their own.“It's because they feel the problem, they are grieved, they feel that there is an injustice in the administration of the government and here you have young boys, young children, by themselves. They are not even recruited by anybody,” he said.Recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan is among the worst in the ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him "speechless."...
