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IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, ReutersBy WASHINGTON(CNS) -- Catholic organizations expressed distress and unease with PresidentDonald J. Trump's actions related to immigration while pledging to continueserving and supporting migrant people.Thereactions came within hours of Trump's signing of executive memorandums onnational security Jan. 25 during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security.The memorandums authorized the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexicoborder and directed John F. Kelly, secretary of homeland security, to look at how federal funding streamscan be cut for cities and states that illegally harbor those in the country without legal permission.Agencies cited the words of PopeFrancis in criticizing the president's actions and pledged to support and servemigrants in the United States."Pope Francis has urgedpeople not to close the door on migrants and refugees," Dominican Sister Donna Markham, presidentand CEO of Catholic Charities USA, said in a stateme...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tomas Bravo, ReutersBy Barb Fraze and Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- While U.S. elected officials have anobligation to protect the security of Americans, denying entry to desperaterefugees will not make the country safer, said the president and CEO ofCatholic Relief Services.Sean Callahan, head of CRS, said, "Welcoming those inneed is part of America's DNA.""CRS welcomes measures that will make our countrysafer, but (such measures) shouldn't jeopardize the safety of those fleeingviolence (and) should not add appreciable delay nor entail unjustdiscrimination," he said in a statement released Jan. 26.Callahan was anticipating a presidential memorandum onnational security, a draft of which calls for suspension of the U.S. RefugeeAdmissions Program for 120 days. The suspension would allow officials at thestate and homeland security departments to review the application anddecision-making process and determine the need for additional procedures toensure that refugees...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Can women be brilliant? Little girls are not so sure....
DALLAS (AP) -- Bodycam video from a white Fort Worth police officer who was suspended for wrestling a black woman and her daughter to the ground appears to show the officer using his foot to push the 15-year-old girl into a police car....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into people....
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) -- President Adama Barrow returned triumphantly to Gambia on Thursday, nearly two months after winning an election disputed by the country's longtime dictator, to the cheers of hundreds of thousands who jammed the roads in welcome....
LONDON (AP) -- It took more than a year's worth of beatings, sleep deprivation, psychological abuse and threats to his family before former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg said he cracked and confessed to being a member of the al-Qaida terror network. The only problem, he said, was that it was a lie....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is expected to ask the Pentagon for ways to accelerate the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, and officials said the options probably would include steps the Obama administration considered but never acted on, from adding significantly more U.S. troops to boosting military aid to Kurdish fighters...
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, signaling a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and one of its most important international partners just days into the new administration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former head of President Donald Trump's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts....
