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Cardinal Tagle will preside over a mass at the University of Santo Tomas on May 21 evening where the pilgrims of the 21 day cross-country caravan against death penalty will be joined by thousands of people. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila said that the whole question about the death penalty is something that should be ruled out in the fight against crime. Backing the pilgrims of the 21-day cross-country caravan against death penalty, the cardinal said that capital punishment must be replaced with better alternatives.“The march gives us an opportunity to find ways of fighting crimes, for all crimes violate life, but without resorting to measures that also violate life, like capital punishment. With personal and collective study, prayer, discernment and action, we hope to be a people that promote a culture of life,” he said.Backed by the CBCP National Secretariat for Social Action (Nassa), the marchers are composed of 14 core pilgrims from various...
Washington D.C., May 20, 2017 / 04:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Immigration arrests have risen sharply in 2017 compared to the previous year, after the Trump administration unveiled stricter immigration policies, which were decried by the U.S. bishops.In the first 100 days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the subject, immigration arrests are up almost 40 percent compared with the same time last year.According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers made 41,318 immigration arrests between Jan. 22 and April 29, 2017, more than 400 arrests per day and up from 30,028 made between Jan. 24 and April 30, 2016.“These statistics reflect President Trump’s commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board,” ICE’s acting director Thomas Homan stated.In January, President Trump had directed in an executive order that his administration intended on ...
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) -- Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton declared Americans "ready for that new beginning" in Iowa Friday, walking a delicate path by raising his national political profile at a time of turmoil for Donald Trump's White House....
HONOLULU (AP) -- After landing in Honolulu on a flight from Los Angeles, passengers described a midair disruption involving an unruly man whose attempts to get to the front of the jetliner prompted flight attendants and passengers to subdue him. and fighter jets to escort the plane....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won re-election by a wide margin Saturday, giving the moderate cleric a second four-year term to see out his agenda pushing for greater freedoms and outreach to the wider world....
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Accompanying her husband on his first international trip, U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Saturday stepped off of Air Force One conservatively dressed in long sleeves and pants to conform to the strict dress code that Saudi Arabia enforces for its female citizens. But one thing was missing from her black and gold-belted ensemble: a head scarf....
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump's first trip abroad (all times local):...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Donald Trump arrived in the Middle East on Saturday, touching down in Saudi Arabia to begin his first trip abroad, a visit aimed at forging stronger alliances to combat terrorism while seeking to push past the series of controversies threatening to engulf his young administration....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- They were among the city's oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts....
