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St. Cloud, Minn., Sep 28, 2016 / 02:58 pm (National Catholic Register).- In the aftermath of the mall stabbing of nine people by a Somali-Muslim Sept. 17 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Muslims called on their friends at the Greater St. Cloud Area Faith Leaders and others for support.Leaders from various faiths came together to pray and strategize a sensible reaction to the violence. They emerged from their meeting ready to show a united front to a community whose racial-cultural stress points where under heavy pressure.This wasn’t just a crisis response, but the fruit of almost two years of ongoing Muslim-Christian dialogue.“It has allowed us to build bridges in the past, and it seemed natural that we would have conversations and stand in solidarity when this happened,” said Kathy Langer, director of social concerns for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud and a member of the Greater St. Cloud Area Faith Leaders group. “We’re friends, so of course w...
Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2016 / 04:37 pm (CNA).- More than 8,900 students, parents and school community members are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect a restroom privacy policy for students in a Virginia school district.“Placing students in circumstances where their privacy is compromised and they are at risk of bodily exposure in the vicinity of members of the opposite sex is not only demeaning and humiliating, but also denies individuals’ personal dignity,” said a legal brief filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of the concerned individuals.“Courts have thus refused to require schools to open sex-specific locker rooms, showers, and restrooms to all students because permanent emotional impairment could result from the deprivation of students’ bodily-privacy rights,” the brief continued. “Instead, they have allowed schools to craft common sense solutions that respect every student’s privacy.”The brief, filed Wednes...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Latest on the death of former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres (all times local):...
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Police in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon shot and killed a black man a minute after arriving near a strip mall to investigate a report of a mentally unstable person walking in and out of traffic, an official said Wednesday....
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) -- Unmoved by harsh debate reviews, a defiant Donald Trump showed no sign Wednesday of making any big changes before his second faceoff with Hillary Clinton, pressing ahead with a strategy focused on speaking directly to his white working-class loyalists across the Midwest....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a resounding rebuke, Democrats joined with Republicans Wednesday to hand Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia and its allies are warning that U.S. legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks will have negative repercussions....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A teenager killed his father at their home Wednesday before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a handgun, wounding two students and a teacher, authorities said....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting at an elementary school in South Carolina that left two students and a teacher wounded (all times local):...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Abir Sultan, EPBy Judith SudilovskyJERUSALEM (CNS) -- One of the last ceremonies in which former IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres participated as a public figure took place in theVatican Gardens in June 2014, the last month of his presidency. Along withPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, he planted an olive tree at the invitationof Pope Francis.The evening of peace prayers and the tree planting had been initiated by thepope following his pilgrimage a month earlier to the Holy Land, where he metwith both men, and just weeks after American-sponsored peace talks hadfoundered.At the meeting, Peres, who died Sept. 28 at 93, called the act of makingpeace a "holy mission.""I was young. Now I am old," media reports quoted him as sayingafter the ceremony. "I experienced war. I tasted peace. Never will Iforget the bereaved families -- parents and children -- who paid the cost ofwar. And all my life I shall never stop to act for peace, for generations tocome. Let's all of us jo...
