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Lourdes, France, Aug 8, 2017 / 05:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A government proposal in the United Kingdom to set up an anti-extremism commission could unjustly affect faithful Christians, Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has warned.The present is “a time when our own country faces uncertainty about its calling and struggles to define arbitrary values which might preserve society now confronted by aggressive ideologies and homicidal terror,” Bishop Davies said during his homily at a July 31 Mass.He was speaking to English pilgrims at Lourdes, and addressed the proposal by Prime Minister Theresa May's Consverative minority government to establish a Commission for Countering Extremism.This commission, meant to counter Islamist extremism, is to “stamp out extremist ideology in all its forms” and identify extremisms which undermine British values.May has said that “there is clearly a role for government in tackling extremism where it involves behaviour that ...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- After hearing about the plight of acancer-stricken child whose mother was facing imminent deportation, a U.S. border bishop, Texas BishopMark J. Seitz of El Paso, decided to pay the pair a visit at the hospital.On Aug. 7, he prayed at a Texas hospital with bed-ridden 8-year-oldAlia Escobedo, suffering from bone cancer, and her mother Maria De Loera, thechild's only caretaker, before heading to a meeting with immigration officials-- a hearing in which the mother was to report for deportation but one whichthe bishop attended in her place."I was informed about the situation over the weekend, I'dheard rumblings," said Bishop Seitz in an Aug. 7 phone interview with CatholicNews Service. "As a parish priest, one of the most rewarding ministries wasthrough the sick. I always felt close to children who were sick."At the hospital, he said, he read Scriptures with the motherand daughter, who are Catholic, and prayed. He said he tried to reassure themother t...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Reaction to the death of superstar entertainer Glen Campbell:...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Glen Campbell, the affable superstar singer of "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 81....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday led challenger Raila Odinga by a significant margin in partial election results, but the opposition said the counting process was flawed and disputed the tally....
DENVER (AP) -- A former radio disc jockey accused of groping Taylor Swift before a concert testified Tuesday that he may have touched the pop superstar's ribs with a closed hand as he tried to jump into a photo with her but insisted he did not touch her backside as she claims....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's new constitutional assembly took over the halls of the endangered, opposition-controlled congress Tuesday and decreed itself superior to all other branches of government while prominently displaying images of the late President Hugo Chavez....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs (all times local):...
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump threatened North Korea "with fire and fury like the world has never seen" on Tuesday after suggestions the communist country has mastered one of the final hurdles to being able to strike the United States with a nuclear missile....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation's struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods....
