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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican summit on organtrafficking called for greater efforts to prevent the exploitation of thosevulnerable to corrupt health professionals and criminal networks making thesale of human organs possible."We, the undersigned participants of the PontificalAcademy of Sciences summit on organ trafficking, resolve to combat these crimesagainst humanity through comprehensive efforts that involve all stakeholdersaround the world," said the final statement, released to the public Feb.9.The summit, held at the Vatican Feb. 7-8, broughttogether government ministers, judges, law enforcement personnel, medicalprofessionals, human rights activists and journalists -- in all, representingmore than 50 nations, especially those plagued by organ trafficking, likeChina, Mexico, India, Pakistan and Iran, where the sale of human organs islegal.One of the summit's goals, according to its brochure, wasto build an alliance comprised of prosecutors, legal experts, gove...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Anti-Semitism is absolutelycontrary to Christianity, and the church has a duty to denounce and repel suchhatred, Pope Francis said.There are no words, however, that could ever adequatelyaddress "the horrors of cruelty and sin" of the Holocaust, he added.There is only prayer "that God may have mercy and that such tragedies maynever happen again."The pope made his comments Feb. 9 at the Vatican duringan audience with a delegation of the Anti-Defamation League, an organizationthat fights anti-Semitism."Sadly, anti-Semitism, which I again denounce in allits forms as completely contrary to Christian principles and every visionworthy of the human person, is still widespread today," the pope said.He reaffirmed that the Catholic Church "feelsparticularly obliged to do all that is possible with our Jewish friends torepel anti-Semitic tendencies."More than ever, the fight against anti-Semitism needseffective tools of education and formation that teach resp...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- After months of fighting, Mosul residents can finally practice their favorite game again at a soccer field in the eastern part of the city - and this time without the restrictions imposed by Islamic State group militants....
NEW YORK (AP) -- At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- As President Donald Trump hurls unfounded allegations of colossal fraud in last fall's election, lawmakers in at least 20 mostly Republican-led states are pushing to make it harder to register or to vote....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian opened fire and stabbed shoppers with a screwdriver near a busy open air market in central Israel on Thursday wounding at least six people, police said....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish police detained four Islamic State group suspects who were allegedly planning to carry out a "sensational" attack in Turkey and seized 24 suicide attack belts, officials said Thursday....
The Latest on a fast-moving snowstorm sweeping through the Northeast (all times local):...
BOSTON (AP) -- The biggest storm to hit the Northeast this winter pushed its way up the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor with a potential for more than a foot of snow in places Thursday, making for a slippery morning commute and giving millions of people weather whiplash a day after temperatures soared into the 50s and 60s....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under a North Dakota reservoir has begun and the full pipeline should be operational within three months, the developer of the long-delayed project said Thursday, even as an American Indian tribe filed a legal challenge to block the work and protect its water supply....
