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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops'Committee on International Justice and Peace met with the country's topdiplomat, Rex Tillerson, March 23, for a policy-packed 35-minute conversation about immigration,the Middle East, Africa and the role of the Catholic Church's efforts towardbuilding "the common good.""After some small talk about Texas," the two spoke about theMiddle East, about Iraq and Syria, reaching out to Central America and Mexico,and the situation in Africa, said Bishop Oscar Cantu of LasCruces, New Mexico, explaining his initial meeting in Washington withTillerson, the U.S. secretary of state, who, like Bishop Cantu, hails fromTexas.Bishop Cantu said the meeting was about letting Tillersonknow "that our only motive is to help build the common good, that we don't haveulterior motives," and explaining the bishops' peace and justice committee'swork in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Far East.Bishop Ca...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Barb FrazeWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The railroad runs more than 550 milesthrough 27 communities in the Brazilian Amazon. It runs so close to people'shomes that the houses have cracked, and some people have hearing loss.The trains carry minerals out of the rainforest to thecoast. But the tracks separate families from their schools, health centers andfields and, sometimes, the trains stop on the tracks.Sister Jakelyn Vasquez, a member of the Oblate Sisters ofthe Sacred Heart of Jesus who works with communities along the tracks inMaranhao and Para states, said the trains often sit for hours, sometimes an entire day.In early March, a 336-car train stopped on the tracks in oneof the villages. Sister Vasquez told Catholic News Service that the closest ramp tocross over the tracks was more than four miles away. So, as local residentssometimes do, a mother and her baby climbed under the train to cross -- and thetrain began to move.The mother lost her fingers; the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts prepped the International Space Station on Friday for a new parking spot reserved for commercial crew capsules....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries, with workers as young as 14, supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for a host of Western brands, a nonprofit group that investigates supply chains says....
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A woman who was once a black civil rights leader in Washington state, then lost her job after her parents exposed her as white struggles to make a living these days....
CAIRO (AP) -- Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was freed from custody Friday morning after six years of legal proceedings and wrangling that frustrated activists who had hoped he would face justice for the deaths of hundreds defying his rule....
LONDON (AP) -- British police are combing through "massive amounts of computer data," have searched more than 20 sites and have contacted thousands of witnesses in a vast operation to trace how a British man became radicalized and launched a deadly attack on Parliament, a senior official said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared it a "great day for American jobs" on Friday as he formally green-lighted the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project to finally be completed....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, a key figure in investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, has volunteered to be questioned by lawmakers as part of a House probe of the Kremlin's alleged meddling in the 2016 election....
