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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Mass murderer Charles Manson was taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, according to several news reports. A prison official would only confirm that the 82-year-old Manson was alive Wednesday and gave no other information....
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- The rare manslaughter conviction Wednesday of an Israeli soldier who fatally shot a badly wounded Palestinian attacker exposed a deepening rift between proponents of the rule of law and a burgeoning nationalist movement....
BERLIN (AP) -- An acquaintance of suspected Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri who dined with him the night before the rampage is under investigation for possible participation in planning the attack, German prosecutors said Wednesday. He was arrested, but in a separate case....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Police increased security around Istanbul on Wednesday and detained some 20 people with suspected links to the deadly New Year's Eve night club attack as the hunt for the gunman stretched into a fourth day....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Democrat in the Senate is warning President-elect Donald Trump about his eventual Supreme Court choice: Name a "mainstream" nominee or Democrats will oppose the individual "with everything we have."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's "first order of business" as president will be to repeal and replace "Obamacare," but Republicans must avoid hurting consumers as they do it, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said at the Capitol on Wednesday....
The Catholic Church in Goa, India is hosting a six day Mother Teresa International Film Festival starting from January 5. The Festival will screen Indian and international films based on the life and work of the Albanian-born saint.A press statement issued by the Diocesan Centre for Social Communications Media, Goa, said that the aim of the festival "is to make known the life and works of Mother Teresa so that all may be inspired by her life to serve the society".The event is a part of a series of celebratory events being organised by the Church in honour of Mother Teresa, the statement added. As part of the festival, films will be screened at venues in Panaji as well as in Margao.Some of the films which will be screened at the six-day festival, which kicks off on January 5, are "In the name of God's poor" (USA), "All for God's Love" (India), "Mother Teresa and Me" (UK), "The Fifth World" (Spain) and "Nirma...
Vatican City, Jan 4, 2017 / 09:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Salesians in the Bangalore province of India held a prayer vigil Jan. 4 for the release of Salesian priest Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped in Yemen March 4, 2016.The prayer vigil, confirmed to CNA by the Salesian province of Bangalore, marks 10 months since the priest’s abduction during an armed attack on a Missionaries of Charity-run retirement home in Aden, the provincial capital of Yemen.Bangalore provincial superior Fr. Joyce Thonikuzhiyil requested the 11 Salesian communities of South Asia to mark Jan. 4 as “a day of prayer with an hour of Eucharistic adoration” for the purpose of “intensifying our prayerful efforts” for the safe release of the priest, according to religious news site Matters India.The day of prayer comes after a video was posted to YouTube Dec. 26 of Fr. Tom personally appealing to Pope Francis, and bishops all over the world, for help.“Dear Pope Francis…as ...
By AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) -- A federal judge in Texas Dec. 31blocked a regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services requiringCatholic hospitals and health care providers to perform or provide gendertransition services, saying it would place "substantial pressure" onthe plaintiffs -- a coalition of religious medical organizations who said theruling was contrary to their religious beliefs."Plaintiffswill be forced to either violate their religious beliefs or maintain theircurrent policies, which seem to be in direct conflict with the rule and risk thesevere consequences of enforcement," U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor wrote.The injunctioncomes four months after the same judge blocked a federal directive requiring publicschools to let transgender students use bathrooms consistent with their genderidentity.The regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services requires that Catholic hospitals and health care providers perform or provide gender transition services, h...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, ReutersBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thereligious makeup of the 115th Congress is significantly Christian -- 91 percent-- with Catholics comprising one-third of the House of Representatives and about a quarter of theSenate.Overall, there are six fewer Christians in the new Congress, at 485 members. But there are four more Catholics, who now total 168.The high percentage of Christians in Congress issimilar to the 87th Congress in 1961, when such information was first collected. At the time, 95 percent of Congress members wereChristian.The data on the religious makeup of the currentsenators and representatives was collected by Pew Research Center and announcedJan. 3.The Pew report notes that the large number ofChristians in Congress has shifted in recent years with a decline in the numberof Protestants. In 1961, Protestants made up 87 percent of Congress, compared with 56 percent today. Catholics, conversely, made up 19 percent of the 87th Co...
