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Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2017 / 05:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United States has ended funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), saying the agency's support for Chinese population control programs violates an amendment banning funds for partners of coercive abortion or sterilization programs.“This determination was made based on the fact that China's family planning policies still involve the use of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization, and UNFPA partners on family planning activities with the Chinese government agency responsible for these coercive policies,” the U.S. State Department said in a letter to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker.The move ends $32.5 million in funds for the 2017 fiscal year, Reuters reports. The money will instead go to the State Department’s Global Health Programs fund. Those monies are used by the U.S. Agency for International Development to support family planning and maternal an...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- One bidder wants to cover President Donald Trump's border wall with solar panels. Another suggests building a wall large enough for a deck that would offer tourists scenic views of the desert....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arrests of people caught trying to sneak into the United States across the Mexican border plummeted in March to the lowest monthly figure in more than 17 years, the head of the Department of Homeland Security reported....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed the votes Tuesday to bust a planned Democratic filibuster of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee as a showdown neared that could change the Senate, and the court, for generations....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is ratcheting up the urgency over North Korea's nuclear pursuit ahead of President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping's first meeting, with a senior U.S. official warning that the "clock has now run out" on Pyongyang....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean officials said, in a continuation of its weapons launches made as the country is angrily reacting to annual military drills between U.S. and South Korean troops....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Tuesday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53-year-old law....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A chemical weapons attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria killed dozens of people on Tuesday, leaving residents gasping for breath and convulsing in the streets and overcrowded hospitals. The Trump administration blamed the Syrian government for the attack, one of the deadliest in years, and said Syria's patrons, Russia and Iran, bore "great moral responsibility" for the deaths....
Angola’s Catholic Bishops have accused the Angolan government of lacking the political will needed to allow Catholic-owned Radio Ecclésia’s expansion plans. The Church has for the past fourteen years been requesting permission to extend the radio' signal nation-wide.Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of the Archdiocese of Luanda and President of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) made the remarks at a press conference held to coincide with the end of CEAST’s first plenary assembly for the year 2017.The Bishops’ meeting that ended last week took place in the Diocese of Benguela.Answering a question from the media, Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias told the media that the Angolan government lacked the political will needed to allow the extension of Radio Ecclésia’s signal to the whole country.The Angolan prelate told journalists that the matter of Radio Ecclésia was one o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met in the Vatican on Tuesday with the heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.The meeting came on the fourth day of an Italian tour which has taken the prince to the northern city of Vicenza for a First World War commemoration, to the earthquake hit town of Amatrice in central Italy, and to Florence, where he visited a Caritas-run project for immigrants, the elderly and single mothers.The Duchess also spent a day in Naples meeting with trafficked women and youngsters with learning difficulties at a former Mafia villa which was confiscated by the State.Listen to Philippa Hitchen’s report: A press release from the British embassy to the Holy See said that during the papal audience in the Paul VI hall the pope and the prince talked about a number of topics of mutual interest.They also exchanged gifts: Pope Francis gave the royal couple a bronze representation of an olive branch, and copies of hi...
