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DALLAS (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs....
QUEBEC CITY (AP) -- A French Canadian known for far-right, nationalist views was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder over the shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque that Canada's prime minister called an act of terrorism against Muslims....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- U.S. combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan say they are outraged at the temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and the suspension of the U.S. refugee program that has blocked visas for interpreters who risked their lives to help American troops on the battlefield....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on refugees is likely to turn on questions of a president's authority to control America's borders and on whether the new immigration policy unconstitutionally discriminates against Muslims....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since taking office 10 days ago, President Donald Trump has moved to consolidate power within a small cadre of close aides at the White House....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban. Protests persisted at major airports, and concern mounted from U.S. diplomats and members of his own party....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a Democratic appointee, directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend President Donald Trump's controversial executive refugee and immigration ban, declaring Monday that she was not convinced that the order was lawful....
The Chairperson of the Laity Council in Southern Africa has reminded Catholic lay persons in the Southern African region that they have ‘a distinct and very real role’ in the spreading of the Gospel, which the Church desperately needs them to carry out with authority. Malatsi Leonard Kope said this, recently, when he spoke in the presence of Southern African Bishops. This was during the launch of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference Laity Council.The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) have been meeting at St John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. The Bishops’ conference comprises Botswana, the Republic of South Africa and Swaziland.“To many of us, lay faithful, there is a notion that the only real vocation in the Church is in the ordained or vowed priesthood and religious life. We still believe the Church is the ordained office of priests and the religious. (We think) of them as being the only ones who are c...
Vatican City, Jan 30, 2017 / 10:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Monday the strength of the Church does not reside primarily in grand gestures, but in the quiet faith of Christians in minority areas, who continue to practice even in the face of persecution and martyrdom.“We are pleased when we see a great ecclesial act, which has been a great success, the Christians revealing themselves,” he said in his homily during Mass at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta Jan. 30. “And this is beautiful! Is this strength? Yes, it is strength.”“But the greatest strength of the Church today is in the small Churches, tiny, with few people, persecuted, with their bishops in prison,” he continued. “This is our glory now, this is our glory and our strength today.”In his homily, Francis called out those who do not experience this kind of persecution, yet complain about small grievances: “This is the glory of the Church and our...
