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(Vatican Radio) The United Nations has warned that the threat of famine is a real possibility in Yemen and has launched an appeal for urgent funds.Listen to Lydia O’Kane's report An ongoing civil war in Yemen has brought the country to its knees and now 12 million people are living under the threat of famine.Speaking on Wednesday as he launched an appeal for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving aid, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien told a news briefing that "A staggering 7.3 million people do not know where their next meal is coming from".According to UN figures nearly 3.3 million people, including 2.1 million children are acutely malnourished.Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen said people are struggling to survive."Fishermen can't fish, farmers can't farm, civil servants don't get paid…; people are having to make life and death decisions, do you feed your child or your child...
Denver, Colo., Feb 9, 2017 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Women's healthcare is reaching a new dawn in the state of Colorado, courtesy of a new Catholic Charities initiative whose goal is to eliminate abortion from the definition of women's healthcare.The new initiative, called Marisol Health, hopes to empower women by offering a holistic option for healthcare, which also includes aid with housing and every spectrum of human services.Just ask Marisol's Vice President, Jan McIntosh. She has been involved with the evolution of Marisol Health from its establishment in 2016, with dreams to empower women in a big way.“It was really during 2016 that we developed the whole Marisol concept with expanded medical care – a continuum of care to meet the urgent and ongoing needs of vulnerable women experiencing unexpected pregnancies, as well as women living in poverty with children,” McIntosh told CNA.“Trying to eliminate the need for abortion is really at the ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jeff Hornacek was told to expect days like this in New York....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump just can't seem to separate the presidency from his family's businesses....
TOKYO (AP) -- President Donald Trump's salvos on trade and currency are rattling Japan Inc., but many here hope Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can sell him a "win-win" package of job creation and investment when they meet this week, averting a return of the Japan-bashing of the 1980s....
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- U.S. officials stopped screening refugees held on Nauru for potential resettlement in the United States this week but will return to the Pacific atoll to continue working toward a deal that President Donald Trump has condemned as "dumb," an Australian minister said Thursday....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline said it plans to resume work immediately to finish the long-stalled project....
BOSTON (AP) -- The northeastern U.S. is bracing for a powerful, fast-moving storm that is expected to bring more than a foot of snow in some places....
COCOLI, Panama (AP) -- Loaded with more than 6,000 cargo containers, the ship Ever Living prepared for the final leg of its journey through the newly expanded Panama Canal when things hit a snag: The last of the massive steel lock doors failed to open all the way....
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....
