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(Vatican Radio) Germany's government says the human rights situation in Libya is "catastrophic" with migrants trying to reach Europe bearing the brunt of abuse in the North African nation. The concern over Libya comes ahead of an upcoming summit of European Union leaders. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Internal German Foreign Ministry memos, leaked to German and international media, say detention camps for refugees in Libya are terrible. One memo describes how migrants fleeing war and poverty face torture and even execution at the camps. The ministry says "Europe mustn't look away but try to make the living conditions bearable now" and adds that Europe's "credibility is on the line here."Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer declined to confirm or deny the authenticity of the memos publicly. But he did confirm that "the human rights situation in Libya is catastrophic" and that "It hits the weakest of the weak m...
MOSCOW (AP) -- In the days since it emerged that four men had been arrested on treason charges linked to cyber intelligence and Russia's domestic security agency, conspiracy theories and speculation about the case have swept through Moscow....
BOSTON (AP) -- Universities across the nation say President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as medicine, public health and engineering, with untold numbers of scholars blocked from entering the U.S....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming White House visit aims to cement ties to a surprisingly supportive U.S. president - but it also presents a political minefield....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats forced delays Tuesday in planned Senate committee votes on President Donald Trump's picks for Health and Treasury secretaries and attorney general, amid growing Democratic surliness over the administration's aggressive early moves against refugees and an expected bitter battle over filling the Supreme Court vacancy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was poised Tuesday to announce his choice to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, one of the most consequential moves of his young administration and a decision with ramifications that could long outlast his time in office....
The Catholic Church in India, on Jan 30 has endorsed a Supreme Court (SC) order that invalidated Church courts or ecclesiastic tribunals annulling marriage of a Catholic couple.The president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) Cardinal Oswald Gracias said at a press conference, organized at the Bhopal Pastoral Centre that there is no contradiction in the SC order as they have been following it even before.The prelate also made it clear that the annulment of the marriages by the church courts does not violate any civil law and hence, make no offence.The SC in its January 19 order declared the divorce granted by the ecclesiastical tribunal under the Christian personal law as invalid as it cannot override the laws of the land while dismissing a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought direction to legalize the marriage annulment by the church courts.The vice president of the CCBI, Bishop Filipe Neri Ferrao, secretary general of the CCBI, Bishop Vargh...
Is 58:7-10; I Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5: 13-16There is a story about a duck that broke his wing during the flight home for the winter. A sympathetic farmer retrieved the fallen duck and took him home. The farmer's children adopted the duck as their pet and began to feed him from the table and take him along as they performed their daily chores. By the next fall, the children were heartbroken as they watched the duck look at the other ducks who were flying south for the winter, but his wing still wasn't strong enough for the flight. Every time a flock flew south, the duck would look longingly into the sky and then return to play with the children. Well, the second year the duck's wing had grown much stronger, but the children had fed the duck so well that when he attempted to take off he was too fat to get off the ground. After one or two attempts he gave up and returned to play with the children. The third year the duck was completely healed. But as the other ducks quacked their...
(Vatican Radio) Educating for peace is the theme of a proposed joint document to be drawn up by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Council of Churches’ Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation.The proposal was the main subject under discussion at a meeting of staff members of the Pontifical Council and colleagues from the WCC office this week. During the encounter in the Vatican on Monday and Tuesday, participants also discussed recent and future activities, underlining the urgency of interfaith dialogue “in today’s global context”.Below please find the full statement:The staff-members of the Office of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation (IRDC) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) as well as their colleagues from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID), held their annual meeting at the PCID Offices on 30th-31st January 2017.Both the delegations expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to...
