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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Nicolas Maduro's government says it is close to convening a special assembly endowed with powers to rewrite the constitution, override other branches of government and punish opposition leaders....
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(Vatican Radio) Over a million South Sudanese refugees, who've fled across the border with Uganda, are struggling for survival in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.South Sudan, which gained independence from its northern neighbour in 2011, spiraled into civil war after President Salva Kiir fired his vice president and rival, Riek Machar, two years later.A regionally mediated peace agreement, signed in 2015, failed within months and since then over a third of the population has fled from the violence that has spread across the country.Italian Comboni missionary, Fr Tonino Pasolini, has spent the past half century in Uganda, currently serving as media director for Arua diocese on the border with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He founded and runs Radio Pacis, a multi-lingual radio station bringing a message of peace and reconciliation, as tensions between the refugees and the local population continue to rise.Fr Tonino talked to Philipp...
Denver, Colo., Aug 1, 2017 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the US Department of Justice did not drop its appeal of a contraceptive mandate lawsuit by the Catholic Benefits Association on Monday, the group expressed its disappointment.“It is disappointing that that process hasn’t moved forward. It does seem to be stalled currently,” Douglas Wilson, CEO of the Catholic Benefits Association, told CNA Tuesday.Catholic Benefits Association is comprised of over 700 Catholic employers, including dioceses, schools, hospitals, and social service agencies. The group helps the employers provide quality Catholic health care in accordance with Church teaching.The association had previously asked the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to drop the government’s appeal of their lawsuit against the HHS contraceptive mandate. The Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the government until July 31 to reply to CBA’s request.In a July ...
Santa Rosa, Calif., Aug 1, 2017 / 03:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The impact of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the Americas should encourage Christians in the U.S. to continue to evangelize, even when their country seems headed in the wrong direction, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles has said.“Guadalupe is the true ‘founding event’ in American history. And that means it is the true founding event in the history of our country — and in the history of all the other countries in North and South America,” Archbishop Gomez said July 27. “We are all children of Guadalupe.”“In God’s plan, this is one continent. It is meant to begin new civilization. A new world of faith,” he reflected.“Our Lady did not appear only for the Mexican people. Her intentions were continental and universal,” the archbishop said. He cited the account based on St. Juan Diego’s testimony, in which Mary described herself as “truly your compa...
Montgomery, Ala., Aug 1, 2017 / 04:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge has struck down an Alabama law requiring more scrutiny for minors who seek an abortion without parental consent.U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Russ Walker said that the law governing judicial bypass requests unconstitutionally imposes an undue burden on a minor who seeks an abortion. She said the law violates the minor’s confidentiality by possibly bringing other people from her life into the process, the Associated Press reports.The State of Alabama had argued the law would allow a meaningful inquiry to judge the minor’s maturity while providing a “confidential, and expeditious option for a teenager who seeks an abortion without parental consent.” Other backers of the law said it helped give guidance to the minor.State law requires minors who can’t secure parental consent for abortion to seek court permission. The 2014 law modified the process to allow a judge to appoint a guardian...
Vatican City, Aug 1, 2017 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After violence followed a controversial vote in Venezuela this weekend, the Vatican Secretary of State has encouraged the country's citizens to find a "peaceful and democratic" way out of the crisis.The violence comes on the heels of a vote for an assembly charged by the country's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, with writing a new constitution.According to ANSA news agency, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that he and Pope Francis are "very committed" to seeking a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela. The Vatican has been "seeking to help all, indiscriminately, and calling each person to fulfill their own responsibility.""The criteria should be only the good of the people,” he said. "The dead are too many and I do not think there are other criteria to follow that is not in the common good of the people," he insisted.With that in mind, Cardinal Parolin said that ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Johnny AntounBy Doreen Abi RaadBEIRUT (CNS) -- They came from around the world, fromAustralia, South America, Europe and the United States. Some came from Africa,and some from nearby countries in the Middle East.They clapped and ululated, creating a celebratory atmosphereas nearly 500 young people from other countries joined 1,000 Maronite Catholicyouths from Lebanon for World Maronite Youth Days.Some participants came with a durbakke, a popular Lebanesehand drum, to accent the mood with a rhythmic beat. When a troupe of folkdancers performed the traditional dabke dance, many youths rushed from theirseats to form snakes on the perimeter of the seating area, hands joined for thestep-and-stomp line dance. Even nuns joined in."Everyone is singing songs, outwardly praising,"said Michel Kahwajy, 24, a Maronite Catholic from Richmond, Virginia."Meeting people that are my age that are passionateabout their Maronite faith, that's been a really moving thing for me," he toldC...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Kate Capato, Visual GraceBy Valerie SchmalzNAPA,Calif. (CNS) -- It is in the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 to apoor Indian convert that we can see God's plan and care for America today, LosAngeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in a July 27 address that tackled the"de-Christianization" of U.S. culture."AtGuadalupe, the mother of God came to be the mother of the Americas," ArchbishopGomez said on the opening day of the Napa Institute Conference.Theway forward in this time of cultural crisis is to turn to Mary, ArchbishopGomez said."Weneed to consecrate our Christian lives and the church's mission to the Virgin,"Archbishop Gomez said. "I think this is the answer to the challenges we faceright now in our culture. The way forward for our church -- right now, in thismoment -- is to 'return' to Guadalupe."Weneed to follow the path that the Virgin sets before us -- the path of buildinga new civilization of love and truth in the Americas," Archbishop ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A white former St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black man "executed" him after a car chase, then planted a gun in the slain drug suspect's vehicle as an excuse for opening fire, a prosecutor told a court Tuesday....
