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IMAGE: CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhillyBy Gina ChristianNORRISTOWN, Pa. (CNS) -- For immigrantsin the country without legal permission, a routine doctor's visit can be anoccasion for panic. Without papers, immigrants fear deportation when they enterthe waiting room.Unwilling to take such a risk,they avoid seeking medical attention even in life-threatening cases.Language barriers that make itdifficult to describe their ailments or to understand medical advice, lack oftransportation to health care facilities and working long hours at jobs thatdon't provide paid time off all add up to many immigrants missing out on vitalhealth care.St. Patrick Parish in Norristownis working to change this situation with help from local clinicians, volunteers-- and Our Lady of Guadalupe.After the noon Mass on the firstSunday of each month, the parish hosts a walk-in health fair for arearesidents, many of whom are Mexican immigrants, in the church's basement hall.Participants receive freescreenings f...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Promise," the grandest big-screen portrayal ever made about the mass killings of Armenians during World War I, has been rated by more than 111,300 people on IMDb - a remarkable total considering it doesn't open in theaters until Friday and has thus far been screened only a handful of times publicly....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has finally fulfilled his long-held ambition to expand his powers after Sunday's referendum handed him the reins of his country's governance. But success did not come without a cost....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Court documents unsealed Monday in the investigation into Prince's death suggest a doctor and a close friend helped him improperly obtain prescription opioid painkillers, but they shed no new light on how the superstar got the fentanyl that killed him....
VARNER, Ark. (AP) -- State and federal courts lifted the two primary obstacles Arkansas faced Monday in its plan to execute eight inmates before the end of April, but the executions of the first two inmates scheduled to die remained in limbo....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- In a rambling video, Steve Stephens said, "I snapped, I just snapped." But as the manhunt dragged on Monday for the man accused of posting Facebook footage of himself killing a retiree, police were unable to explain what set him off....
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) -- The White House displayed a tough and unyielding approach to North Korea and its nuclear ambitions Monday, with President Donald Trump warning that Kim Jong Un has "gotta behave" and Vice President Mike Pence sternly advising Kim not to test America's resolve and military power....
By Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Agrass-roots effort calling on Catholic churches around the world to celebrate aspecial Mass on the May 8 birthday of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen couldsee its goal of 1,000 Masses soon reached.As of April 13, close to900 churches had pledged to celebrate a Mass in memory of the prelate, who wasan Emmy-winning televangelist and who spread the Gospel message far and wide ashead of the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966.Lo Anne Mayer, a NewJersey Catholic, is one of those who launched the Mass effort in January. Shealso knew and greatly admired Archbishop Sheen, who is a candidate forsainthood.Mayer told Catholic NewsService the idea for the Masses is to not only celebrate the archbishop'slife, ministry and legacy but also to "storm heaven" with prayers forhis canonization.She felt he was a saintthe first time she met him. When he spent time with her and her husband andtheir six children, she observed his gentle manner with the childre...
BOSTON (AP) -- The Kenyans are back in Boston after a relative lull that saw them shut out in the world's most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched from one river to another....
