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New York City, N.Y., Oct 11, 2016 / 03:57 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Today is International Day of the Girl Child, declared by the United Nations as a day to raise awareness of programs and services that are needed to empower girls around the world, particularly in the areas of health, safety, education, and rights.But millions of girls won’t experience this day, because their right to be born was never acknowledged.That’s what Reggie Littlejohn, president of advocacy group Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, said in her message about the International Day of the Girl Child.An estimated 200 million girls in the countries of India and China, where male children are valued more than female children, have fallen victim to sex-selective abortions.“The message of sex-selective abortion is that girls and women do not deserve to live. The selective elimination of 200 million women demands the passionate outrage of the women’s movement. It should be the number one prio...
Denver, Colo., Oct 11, 2016 / 04:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Colorado ballot proposal to legalize assisted suicide relies too much on fear and anxiety and ignores the ways better hospice care can provide for the terminally ill, a local hospice leader has said.“Hospice is the antidote to physician assisted suicide because it’s a highly specialized area of medicine that focuses on education, symptom management and compassionate support,” said Kevin Lundy, CEO at the Colorado-based Divine Mercy Supportive Care.He warned that the promotion of assisted suicide ignores realities at the end of life.“People are amazingly resilient and every terminal illness situation is completely different based on the individual responses to the disease and the treatment they're receiving,” Lundy said.“People facing end of life can be inspiring, more honest than any time in their lives and completely selfless,” he added. “Their pain truly is manageable, bu...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chris Keane, ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic Charities agencies joined emergency response efforts in coastal communities in four Southeastern states as residents and parish staffers began returning to assess the damage Hurricane Matthew left behind.Some evacuation orders remained in effect in South Carolina, where the storm came ashore Oct. 7, dumping up to 18 inches of rain in communities near Charleston. High water blocked some roads, preventing people from returning to their homes in South Carolina and North Carolina and others were prevented from leaving their homes as they awaited the delivery of food and water.In Florida, churches sustained serious damage and the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine in St. Augustine experienced flooding, preventing Mass from being celebrated indoors the weekend of Oct. 8-9.One Catholic Charities official in North Carolina said that in discussions with some residents he learned that the damage and...
ST. ANTHONY, N.D. (AP) -- Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that's near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- More than 1,000 mourners were packed into the funeral hall, including some of the most powerful figures in Yemen's rebel movement. Ali al-Akwa, who was just about to start reciting the Quran, heard warplanes overhead - but that wasn't strange for wartime Sanaa. Surely a funeral would be safe, he thought....
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The "shackles" gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency "the way I want to."...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district pulled back from a threatened strike after a tentative last-minute contract agreement that Chicago officials acknowledged Tuesday may amount to a temporary fix and parents worried would fall apart....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press PhotoBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The story of how an Albanian priestendured decades of imprisonment, torture and forced labor during his country'scommunist crackdown against the church brought Pope Francis to tears.During the pope's 2014 visit to Tirana,Cardinal-designate Ernest Simoni moved many listeners when he described thebrutality a militant atheist regime wielded against people of every faith, andpaid tribute to God's infinite goodness, grace and love for allowing him tosurvive.Dedicating his life to drawing people away from hatredand revenge, the octogenarian priest will be one of 17 prelates elevated tocardinal in a consistory Nov. 19 at the Vatican. Of the group, 13 are eligibleto elect Pope Francis' successor in a conclave. Cardinal-designate Simoni isone of four who are older than 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote.Cardinal-designate Simoni, whose 88th birthday is Oct.18, told Vatican Radio he heard the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule that racial bias in the jury room provides a limited basis for breaching the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations....
