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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin says she's not afraid of Donald Trump and plans to keep making fun of him but maintained that she's sorry for a video that depicted her holding a likeness of the president's severed, bloody head....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Having so far failed to persuade judges to allow its travel ban to take effect, the Trump administration is turning to the nation's highest court with its slim conservative majority....
PARIS (AP) -- A Malian cattle herder, German environmental activists, leaders from Mexico to China - they're among millions on Friday denouncing President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Many nations pledged to ramp up their efforts to curb global warming instead....
Last minutes preparations are in full swing for the 2017 Uganda Martyrs Day celebration due Saturday, 3 June at Namugongo Catholic Shrine.The Chairperson of the Organising Committee, Dr Kiiza Aliba, who is also the Executive Secretary of the Justice and Peace Department of the Uganda Episcopal Conference, said that preparations are at the final stage with 95 percent of the work complete.“We only need some additional touches on technical aspects which will be finalised today, 2 June. So far we have already received thousands of pilgrims from within and outside the country, and more are still registering. We expect the Shrine to be flooded with millions of pilgrims by Saturday morning,” Aliba said.The Uganda Martyrs Day celebration usually attracts millions of enthusiastic pilgrims from across the world. The majority of these pilgrims often come to the shrine on foot as a demonstration of their faith. Others, use various means of transport to reach Namugongo shrine.Last ...
(Vatican Radio) Why does God let children suffer? How can kids change the world? And how can they overcome their fear of growing up?Those were the soul-searching questions that three children asked Pope Francis on Friday during a meeting with members of an organisation for middle school students called ‘I Cavalieri’ or The Knights.The colourful encounter included young knights from all over Italy, along with groups from Spain, Portugal, France and Switzerland, plus others linked up online from Latin America.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: After lots of lively singing and cheering, a young girl named Marta asked a first question about how to overcome her fear of moving to high school and saying goodbye to all her current friends.The Pope told her that life is a continual round of big and small ‘hellos and goodbyes’. We grow up, he said, by making new friends and letting go of old ones. Don't be frightened, he said, but try to see it as a c...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his video message accompanying his monthly prayer intention for June.This month’s intention is for the elimination of the arms trade.The text of the video message reads:"It is an absurd contradiction to speak of peace, to negotiate peace, and at the same time, promote or permit the arms trade. Is this war or that war really a war to solve problems or is it a commercial war for selling weapons in illegal trade and so that the merchants of death get rich?Let us put an end to this situation. Let us pray all together that national leaders may firmly commit themselves to ending the arms trade which victimizes so many innocent people."The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer developed the "Pope Video" initiative to assist in the worldwide dissemination of monthly intentions of the Holy Father in relation to the challenges facing humanity.
An increasing number of underage girls in India's towns and cities are being married off, a study has revealed, challenging long-held assumptions that child marriage in the country is largely a rural phenomenon. Child marriage is illegal in India, but it is deeply rooted and accepted in society, and remains widespread in parts of the country. Data from the 2011 census shows more than 5 million girls were married before the legal age of 18 - a marginal decrease from 2001. Yet while the number of underage brides has declined by 0.3 percent in rural areas since 2001, they have increased by 0.7 percent in urban parts, said a report by the government’s “National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights” and the charity “Young Lives”. Experts said these percentage figures appear insignificant, but considering India has a population of 1.3 billion, this means tens of thousands more underage girls were married in towns an...
An important initiative aimed at addressing and understanding the state of youth unemployment in South Africa was recently launched at Don Bosco Educational Centre in Ennerdale, Johannesburg. The New Skills for Youth (NSFY) programme is a $75 million, five-year, global initiative by J.P. Morgan designed to empower young people to acquire the education and credentials they need to be career-ready for and succeed in well-paying jobs. The programme envisages benefiting 1,000 young people.South Africa is one of the first countries to inaugurate an innovation site for the global NSFY initiative. The NSFY launch saw the establishment of the first South African site where the NSFY’s programme of simulated workplace-based learning will be offered. Lessons from this innovation site will be used to inform other local and international youth employment creation initiatives.The initiative is supported by J.P. Morgan, in collaboration with JET Education Services, the Catholic Insti...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bilawal Arbab, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians and Muslims, believers inone God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said theVatican's annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan."Our vocation to be guardians of God's handiwork is notoptional, nor is ittangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: It is anessential part of it," said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, respectivelypresident and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.Dated May19, the message was released at the Vatican June 2, the day after U.S. President DonaldTrump announced he was withdrawing the United States from the internationalParis accords, which are designed to lessen the human impact on climate change.Each year, the council for interreligious dialogue publishesa message to the world's Muslims in preparation for the celebration of the endof Ramadan, a month of fasting. This y...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Max Rossi, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Life is a long series of hellos andgoodbyes, so don't be afraid to let go of the past; remember old friends, butkeep moving and be open to the new, Pope Francis told students as the schoolyear was coming to an end."We have to learn to see life by seeing thehorizons," not the walls that can make people afraid because they don'tknow what is on the other side, he told thousands of adolescents during a45-minute encounter at the Vatican June 2. The middle-schoolers were part ofCommunion and Liberation's "The Knights of the Grail" educationalinitiative.In the informal Q-and-A, a teen named Marta told the popehow scared she was to be leaving middle school and most of her best friends asthey head on to high school next year. "Why do I have to changeeverything? Why does growing up make me so afraid?" she asked him."Life is a constant 'Good morning' and'Farewell,'" he said, with the goodbyes sometimes being for forever."Y...
