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Pakistan on Saturday buried one of its most loved and admired sons who was revered as a ‘living saint” and “Pakistan’s Mother Teresa”. The state funeral of Abdul Sattar Edhi, one of Pakistan’s best-known philanthropists, was held at the National Stadium in Karachi, before he was buried on the outskirts of the city. Edhi died July 8, at age 88 at a hospital in Karachi, where he was suffering from renal failure. In an outpouring of grief, the nation of 190 million paid its last respects to a man whose service transcended social, ethnic and religious divisions. For over nearly 60 years Edhi's charitable arm, the Edhi Foundation, established clinics and orphanages across Pakistan and ran a vast fleet of ambulances, offering help to poor communities failed by inadequate public health and welfare services. At his funeral, Fr. Saleh Diego, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Karachi, laid a wreath of flowers on beh...
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is expecting an “explosion of mercy” at the 3rd Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE3) that will be held in Manila next week. This year’s theme is “Awa, Unawa, Gawa: The Filipino Experience of Mercy” and PCNE 3 is recorded in the Vatican as an official activity for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The three-day event, from July 15-17 will be held at the University of Santo Tomas Quadricentennial Pavilion in España, Manila. The Manila archbishop will be moderating a sharing of personal stories of mercy and celebrating the Liturgy of Mercy on the first day, and giving the main conference talk on “Missionaries of Mercy” on the third day.Cardinal Tagle sees this PCNE3 as a way of going deeper into mercy. At the Mass for the organizers, staff, volunteers and workers, he said PCNE3 “can be dangerous because it will confront the fa...
Des Moines, Iowa, Jul 9, 2016 / 06:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Iowa church fears the state civil rights commission could penalize it for preaching and following its views on homosexuality and transgender issues – including penalties for single-sex bathrooms.The Iowa Civil Rights Commission has produced a self-described guide to Iowa law for public accommodations providers concerning sexual orientation and gender identity.The brochure-sized guide says the 2007 Iowa Civil Rights Act applies to churches “sometimes.” It acknowledged that the law does not apply to religious institutions in the matter of a “bona fide religious purpose.”“Where qualifications are not related to a bona fide religious purpose, churches are still subject to the law’s provisions. (e.g. a child care facility operated at a church or a church service open to the public),” the pamphlet says.The pamphlet says the law bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientatio...
LONDON (AP) -- Serena Williams insisted she was not focused on No. 22....
MILAN (AP) -- Sophia Loren has been made an honorary citizen of Naples, the city that formed her and became the backdrop of many of her films....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco, say goodbye to those squeaky, Styrofoam-like coffee cups that have long been a staple of picnic outings....
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- In another nod to primary rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is proposing to increase federal money for community health centers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- When police officers fatally shot Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, a powerful tool conveyed the brutal reality of their deaths to millions of people and helped fuel public outrage: cellphone video captured at the scene....
