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CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian Christians were burying their dead Monday after Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 45 people in attacks on Palm Sunday services in two cities, as a state of emergency went into effect amid fears of further violence....
SANT'ANNA DI STAZZEMA, Italy (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used a visit Monday to a World War II memorial to declare that the United States will stand up to aggressors who harm civilians, as the Trump administration sought to rally world leaders behind a strategy to resolve Syria's protracted civil war....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump praised new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch during a White House swearing-in ceremony on Monday as a jurist who will rule "not on his personal preferences but based on a fair and objective reading of the law."...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Toyota said Monday it is investing $1.33 billion to retool its sprawling factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, where the company's flagship Camry sedans are built....
(Vatican Radio) This Holy Week in Iraq, Christians and Muslims will walk for 140 km through the Nineveh Plain in the name of peace and the end of violence in a once mostly Christian inhabited area.The peace march is supported by the Chaldean Patriarchate, which declared 2017 as “the Year of Peace”.The march started in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil city in northern Iraq, after participants took part in Palm Sunday Mass. The march will continue through Holy Week and will end in Qaradosh, close to the ruins of the Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh, about 32km from the city of Mosul.The Nineveh Plain is filled with ancient, religious sites. When the area was captured by so-called Islamic State terrorists in the summer of 2014, historic architecture and archeological remains, including the UNESCO world heritage site Hatra, were destroyed. Part of the territory was liberated in November 2016 by Iraqi forces. However, many towns and villages occupied by Christians were abando...
(Vatican Radio) The President of the U.S. Bishops Conference, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, has issued a statement in response to the bomb attack on Coptic churches in Egypt.The bombings occurred on Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, which culminates in Easter Sunday celebrations. More than forty people were killed, and scores more injured.In his statement, Cardinal DiNardo expressed “our deepest sadness at the loss of those killed, our prayers for healing for all those injured, and our condolences to those who suffer the loss of loved ones.”Cardinal DiNardo also expressed the solidarity of the Church in America with the Coptic Church in Egypt, “an ancient Christian community that faces mounting persecution in its historic home from violent extremism.”Below, please find the full text of the statement by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB):In the early hours of Palm Sunday, as Christians began the c...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged scientists and experts in biotechnologies to always be aware of the effects their decisions can have on human life and on creation.The Pope was addressing members of the National Committee for Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences at an audience in the Vatican.The main issues addressed by the Committee’s various working groups include: genetic testing, gene therapy, tissue engineering, development of biotechnology, cloning, Italian and European legislation, clinical trials, GMOs, infrastructure, information, genetic testing, biobanks, and bio nanotechnology.Remarking on the fact that the themes and issues that the committee faces are of great importance for contemporary man, both as individuals and in relation to the social dimension, the Pope said: “your task is not only to promote the harmonious and integrated development of scientific and technological research that relates to the biological processes of plant, animal and ...
India’s Catholic Church has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attacks at two Coptic churches in northern Egypt on Palm Sunday killing at least 44 people and expressed its closeness with Egypt’s Christians and people. “Such inhuman acts cannot be tolerated and while we welcome the decision of the Egyptian Government to declare a three month Emergency, we also hope that the perpetrators of this brutal inhuman acts will be traced and punished,” wrote Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) wrote in a statement issued on Monday. Suicide bombers struck hours apart at St. George’s Church in Tanta city and St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria on April 9, killing 44 people and turning Palm Sunday services into scenes of blood, horror and outrage. However, Coptic Pope Tawadros II who was leading the Palm Sunday service in St. Mark’s was unhurt. &n...
London, England, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. John Reid, a Roman Catholic priest serving in County Durham, England, has been spared an 18-month jail sentence for stealing more than £50,000 from his parish, which he had been spending on his housekeeper and her two daughters.According to media reports, the 70-year-old priest was given an 18-month suspended sentence after admitting to fraud by abuse of position at an earlier hearing. He has agreed to repay the money within three months. “The defendant was arrested in May 2014 at St. Patrick's Presbytery, Stockton. It appeared that the defendant was virtually living as a family with Gillian Leddy and her daughters, Veronica and Alice,” said Jane Waugh, the prosecutor in Fr. Reid's case, according to the Telegraph.“There had been dramatic increases within the categories of General Administration, House Keeping, and Hospitality. This would appear to be because Gillian, Alice, and Veron...
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the latest Pope Francis-inspired initiative for the poor opened up in Rome – a new laundromat, with washing, drying and ironing services for those without a home or a fixed living situation."The Pope's Laundry,” as it is being called, is organized in partnership with the Community of Sant'Egidio and will be run by volunteers who will wash, dry and iron the clothes and blankets of those who otherwise can’t clean their belongings.The initiative was born out of an invitation from Pope Francis in his apostolic letter Misericordia et misera, “to give a ‘concrete’ experience of the grace of the Jubilee Year of Mercy,” an April 10 communique from the Vatican stated.As Francis wrote at the end of the Year of Mercy, the announcement said, “To want to be close to Christ demands to be near to our brothers, because nothing is more pleasing to the Father than a concrete ...
