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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian police on Friday released the only North Korean it had detained in the killing of the half brother of North Korea's leader, as it condemned the use of a banned nerve agent in the attack and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesians are by turns shocked and bemused by Donald Trump's volatile presidency, but many in the world's most populous Muslim nation say his personality and actions - including his controversial travel ban - haven't changed their positive view of the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Where's the Republicans' embryonic health care bill?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence used a private email account to conduct public business as Indiana's governor, according to public records obtained by the Indianapolis Star....
Many are held down by poverty, injustice, substance abuse, domestic....
Trieste, Italy, Mar 2, 2017 / 02:52 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As Catholics continue to debate pastoral and doctrinal approaches to marriage, they should remember that the Catholic approach to marriage and the Eucharist has a direct impact on what the Church teaches about society as a whole, an expert on the Church’s social teaching has said.“Protecting marriage as a social institution has protected all of society and its order,” Stefano Fontana, director of the Cardinal Van Thuan Observatory, said in the Feb. 28 edition of its newsletter. The Church’s protection of marriage would suffer if adultery changes “from an intrinsic evil to a situation to be interpreted case by case,” if this interpretation is left simply to individual conscience and if the divorced-and-remarried are administered the Eucharist, Fontana said.“A diminished theological consideration of the Eucharist would also imply worrying consequences in terms of the Catholic commit...
Cairo, Egypt, Mar 2, 2017 / 03:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A spike in attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt, spurred by a video threat from ISIS, has drawn the prayers and concern of advocates, who are urging global leaders to take notice.“Americans need to know that one of the oldest Christian communities in the world is under threat from being completely pushed out of Egypt,” which would be disastrous both for Egypt and for Christianity itself, Philippe Nassif, executive director of the advocacy group In Defense of Christians, told CNA.“We pray for those suffering terrorism and violence, for God to grant them peace and reassurance that they are not forgotten by Him or by all those who not only witness their plight but strive to advocate for them,” His Grace Bishop Angaelos, general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, said Tuesday.There have been 40 reported murders of Christians in Egypt in the last three months, Bishop Angaelos said in ...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- There is no getting around fastingduring Lent.Notonly is it one of the three pillars of spiritual practice along with prayer andalmsgiving, but it also bookends the period of preparation for Easter.Fastingand abstinence is required of adult Catholics, ages 18-59, at the start of Lent on AshWednesday and at its end on Good Friday. This means eating only one full meal andtwo small meals that equal one meal as well as no snacks in between meals andno meat consumption.CreightonUniversity's Online Ministries program, "Praying Lent 2017," says thepurpose of fasting is to "experience the effects of not eating. It alsoserves to be a penance or a sacrifice for the purpose of strengthening us.""Whenwe get hungry, we have a heightened sense of awareness," it adds, notingthat the practice helps people to clarify their thoughts. "It is purifyingand prepares us to pray more deeply," the resource from Jesuit-runCreighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, points...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Stay classy, Trojans."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. Travel Association on Thursday said the Trump administration's immigration policies are hurting tourism....
