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Jerusalem, Israel, Jun 7, 2016 / 02:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Jewish youths’ stone-throwing attack on Catholics attending Mass in the Israeli city of Rehovot last month has drawn a rebuke from Church authorities.“It is sad that people in prayer, for [the] most part, women working in Rehovot Jewish homes, were the victims of a hail of stones,” said Bishop William Hanna Shomali, an auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.The faithful were attending Mass May 28 in the courtyard of the small chapel of the Community of St. Therese of Lisieux. The Catholic community in Rehovot, located 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem, is mainly composed of migrant workers from Africa, India, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, as well as university students.A group of Jewish boys about 14 years old hurled stones at the large congregation. The stones “did hit a few of the people although again thank the Lord no one was seriously hurt,” the Saint James Vicariate for Hebrew-...
Vatican City, Jun 7, 2016 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While many in the developed world might consider leprosy a thing of the biblical past, the illness – officially called Hansen’s Disease – is still a problem for less-advanced nations coated with social stigma.In order to address the problem, representatives of the world’s major religions will gather in the Vatican to discuss ending the discrimination and marginalization of those infected with Hansen’s Disease, as well as prevention and treatment research.“It is a great power to have the leaders from all these major religions get together and talk about leprosy because the leaders from the different religions have the influential power to convince their believers,” Yohei Sasakawa told CNA June 7.These leaders, he said, will be able to ensure that their believers are aware that Hansen’s Disease is curable, and that the medicine to treat it is being distributed free of charge by vario...
Mexico City, Mexico, Jun 7, 2016 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Just a few weeks after Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto announced measures to legalize gay marriage and homosexual adoption throughout the country, his party suffered a severe setback in the June 5 elections.Leading pro-family advocates have described the situation as a “protest vote” against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), to which the president belongs.Elections were held June 5 for governor in 12 states. According to the preliminary tally, waiting for official results on June 8, the PRI lost the elections in 7 states.The Mexican press has called the vote a “severe setback” and “black Sunday” for the PRI. These elections, according to many analysts, serve as an indication as to what the 2018 presidential vote may be like.The president of the Mexican Council for the Family(ConFamilia), Juan Dabdoub Giacomán, told CNA that he clearly sees in the defeat of ...
Brooklyn, N.Y., Jun 7, 2016 / 04:49 pm (CNA).- A swimming pool in New York City has recently come under fire for its women-only swimming hours.The policy was put in place to allow Hasidic Jewish women in the area, whose religion forbids them to swim with men, a chance to use the pool on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, and Sunday afternoons.Although the Brooklyn pool has kept some women-only hours since the 1990s, the practice only came to the attention of the wider public when someone complained about it to the city's Commission on Human Rights, the Associated Press reports.Critics suggest the policy could be a violation of the establishment clause or of the city's human rights law, which bans sex discrimination in public accommodations.Dr. Daniel I. Mark, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University, said the women-only hours seem like a reasonable accommodation.“It’s not a violation of the separation of church and...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California judge is facing demands for his removal after sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman behind a campus dumpster....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gay, transgender and other groups blocked from participating in a high-level U.N. meeting on AIDS represent the populations most affected by the disease and should take center-stage at the event, advocates said Tuesday....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The federal death penalty trial of a white man charged with shooting and killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at their Charleston church will be held in November, a judge announced Tuesday....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on a car bomb attack Tuesday in Istanbul all times local):...
DETROIT (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday threw out the murder convictions of a young Detroit man who pleaded guilty to killing four people when he was 14, a remarkable turnaround in a case that has been in doubt for years after a professional hit man stepped forward and took responsibility for the slayings at a drug den....
NAYMIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- After securing the southern edge of militant-held Fallujah, seven battalions of Iraqi special forces units have been unable to advance for two days - a delay that commanders say isn't due to counterattacks or difficult terrain, but rather to disagreements about battlefield strategy among the disparate Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State group....
