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Damascus, Syria, Oct 6, 2016 / 01:02 pm (Aid to the Church in Need).- This week, children at more than 2,000 schools across Syria are drawing images of peace and writing messages to the political decision-makers of the European Union and the United Nations under the motto “Peace for Children.” More than one million children are also signing a petition.This appeal for peace is a joint campaign sponsored by Catholic and Orthodox Christians in Syria, while all religious communities have been invited to take part.Children of all Christian denominations in Damascus, Homs, Yabroud, Aleppo, Marmarita, and Tartus are marking today as the Action Day for Peace. They are expressing their desire for peace through songs, dances, theatrical performances, prayers and other activities. Several children in Aleppo will also talk about their personal experiences.Sister Annie Demerjian, one of the local organizers of the event, said: “When a child talks about losing his father, for ex...
IMAGE: CNS/ReutersBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- If Christians are called to live theirfaith concretely, then they cannot leave out concrete signs of the unity towhich Jesus calls them.And just because the formal Anglican-Roman Catholictheological dialogue has been forced to grapple with new church-dividing attitudes toward issuessuch as the ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex marriages, it does not mean that commonprayer led by Anglican and Catholic leaders and concrete collaboration byCatholic and Anglican parishes are simply window dressing.Dozens of Catholic and Anglican bishops and several hundredpriests and laity from both communities gathered in Rome in early October tocelebrate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican meeting of Blessed Paul VI andAnglican Archbishop MichaelRamsey of Canterbury, almost 50 years of formal theological dialoguethrough the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (known as ARCIC)and the 50th anniversary of the Anglican Cen...
By NEW YORK (CNS) -- New YorkCardinal Timothy M. Dolan said Oct. 6 he hopes a new archdiocesan program toprovide compensation to survivors of clergy sexual abuse will "help bring ameasure of peace and healing" to those victims.He announced the new voluntaryIndependent Reconciliation and Compensation Program for those who have survivedabuse by priests or deacons of the archdiocese.At a news conference, he saidthat while the Catholic Church, and the New York Archdiocese in particular, "hasmade great strides" in addressing abuse, "we continue to hear fromvictim-survivors that more needs to be done to reach out to those who have beenhurt in the past."Cardinal Dolan noted that NewYork church officials have been working with 10 district attorneys who serve inthe area covered by the archdiocese, which has dismissed clergy found guilty ofabuse and put in place safe environment programs to prevent abuse.The new program is "another step"in efforts "to respond to the past scourge of sexual abu...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study finds that great apes show some key abilities to see the world from someone else's point of view - a trait that once was considered uniquely human....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Three-quarters of a century after he was killed during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the remains of a young Navy sailor finally are heading home to Kansas....
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Despite objections from religious hard-liners, lawmakers Thursday took the first significant move to curb mounting numbers of "honor" killings in Pakistan, stiffening the penalties and closing a loophole that allowed such killers to go free....
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) -- Haitian officials on Thursday dramatically raised the known death toll from Hurricane Matthew as they finally began to reach corners of the country that had been cut off by the rampaging storm....
MIAMI (AP) -- The Latest on Hurricane Matthew and Tropical Storm Nicole (all times local):...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland....
