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The acquittal of the alleged rapists of a Catholic nun in India’s Chhattisgarh state "is a grave injustice, not only for our consecrated, but also for all women who have suffered a similar trauma”, said Card. Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay. The prelate who is also president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) was commenting to AsiaNews on the release of the two criminals accused of having drugged, tied up and gang raped the 48-year old sister of the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate (SMMI), at the nuns’ medical centre in the state capital, Raipur, in June 2015. The accused, 19 year-old Dinesh Dhurv, and 25-year old Jitendra Pathak, were released by a fast-track court on January 5 because of lack of evidence. Card. Gracias believes that investigations were compromised beyond repair by the "halfhearted attitude of the police," who failed to protect the crime scene and did not collect the...
BEIRUT (AP) -- At least 43 people were killed when a car bomb ripped through the center of a busy commercial district of a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, damaging buildings and leaving rescue workers searching for survivors amid the wreckage, activists and rescue workers said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the weeks after November's election, President-elect Donald Trump and incoming Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer sounded like potential allies....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's typically an unquestioned honor to participate in the inauguration of an American president. Who wouldn't want to be part of such a historic event?...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida appears to have traveled there specifically to carry out the attack, authorities said Saturday, but they don't know yet why he chose his target and have not yet ruled out terrorism....
(Vatican Radio) In a deadly week for prison inmates, Pope Francis has appealed for a reform of prisons and an improvement in the conditions of convicts around the world during his General Audience.Two incidents in Brazil's penitentiaries have caused the death of nearly 90 inmates in what officials say is gang-related violence.Deacon Thaddeus Horbowy is a retired prison chaplain for the United States Federal Bureau of Corrections. In an interview with Devin Watkins, he said the Pope's appeal is long overdue.Listen to the interview: At the Audience, Pope Francis renewed his appeal "that prisons might be places of re-education and re-integration into society; and that the conditions of life of prisoners might be worthy of human persons."Deacon Horbowy expressed his joy upon hearing the Holy Father's words, saying "the Jubilee Year calls for the release of prisoners". Noting that the United States houses two million prisoners, Deacon Horbowy ...
New York City, N.Y., Jan 7, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “Reality has never betrayed me.”Those were among the words of Monsignor Luigi Giussani on his deathbed.The priest, who as a theologian and the founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation, was convinced that God and his Catholic faith could be found within the realities of everyday life.The question of whether happiness, and God, can truly be found in reality is the theme of the upcoming New York Encounter event, the movement’s 9th annual cultural event in the United States.Communion and Liberation (CL) is a movement in the Church which has “the purpose of forming its members in Christianity in order to make them coworkers in the Church’s mission in all areas of society,” according to the movement’s website. It was founded in Italy in 1954 by Fr. Giussani.“We all have the intuition that life, even with all its hardships, is fundamentally good,&rdqu...
BEIRUT (AP) -- At least 43 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb went off in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, activists and rescue workers said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named retired Sen. Dan Coats as national intelligence director, saying the former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee was the right person to lead the new administration's "ceaseless vigilance against those who seek to do us harm."...
