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(Vatican Radio) A Myanmar government commission’s report denying allegations of serious human rights abuses against ethnic Rohingyas in Rakhine state, has been denounced as “without a credible basis” by a leading human rights group. The commission’s wholesale rejection of grave abuses despite considerable evidence from independent sources, coupled with the Myanmar army’s earlier inadequate investigation, demonstrates the urgent need for the government to allow full access to the United Nations-mandated international fact-finding mission, said Human Rights Watch (HRW). Commission - No evidence of crimesSpeaking at the release of the Rakhine Investigative Commission's final report on Sunday, Myint Swe, Vice President of Myanmar, formerly Burma, told reporters that ``there is no evidence of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights claimed.'' &nb...
Washington D.C., Aug 9, 2017 / 06:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- What can a missionary in North Korea do to preach the Gospel in a Communist dictatorship? Simply care for the sick patients he is there to help, says one priest in that situation.“We are the message of the Gospel, and we try to imitate it,” Fr. Gerard Hammond, M.M. of the Maryknoll Missionaries told CNA of his work in North Korea ministering to multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis patients.“How did people recognize the first Christians?” he asked. “Well they recognized them because they saw their love and concern for themselves and the small, tiny community.”“If you can just show a little love and concern, say, for the multi-drug-resistant TB patients in North Korea, you are fulfilling what the early Christians did.”Fr. Hammond was honored by the Knights of Columbus with the Gaudium et Spes Award last week for his missionary work in North Korea treating those suffering from multi-d...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God did not choose perfect people to form his church, but rather sinners who have experienced his loveand forgiveness, Pope Francis said. TheGospel of Luke's account of Jesus forgiving the sinful woman shows how hisactions went against the general mentality of his time, a way of thinking that saw a "clearseparation" betweenthe pure and impure, the pope said Aug. 9 during his weekly generalaudience. "There were some scribes, those who believed they wereperfect," the pope said. "And I think about so many Catholics whothink they are perfect and scorn others. This is sad."Continuinghis series of audience talks about Christian hope, the pope reflected on Jesus' "scandalous gesture" offorgiving the sinful woman. The woman, he said, was one of many poor women who were werevisited secretly even by those who denounced them as sinful.Although Jesus' love toward the sick and the marginalized"baffles his contempo...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- Tiger Woods has agreed to plead guilty to reckless driving and will enter a diversion program that will allow him to have his record wiped clean if he completes the program, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- For many "Game of Thrones" fans, the routine spoilers are bad enough: You miss an episode, then stumble on an unsought plot twist before you've had a chance to catch up....
LONDON (AP) -- Scientists have named a prehistoric crocodile described as "one of the nastiest sea creatures to have ever inhabited the earth" after late Motorhead frontman and British heavy metal icon Lemmy Kilmister....
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (AP) -- They have come from all over the United States, piling out of taxis, pushing strollers and pulling luggage, to the end of a country road in the north woods....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A British company hired to help train Afghan intelligence officers billed the U.S. government for more than $50 million in questionable expenses that included luxury cars and exorbitant salaries paid to the "significant others" of the company's top executives, according to a Pentagon audit....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top White House aide and a Fox News host are criticizing Mitch McConnell after the Senate majority leader said people think Congress hasn't achieved anything this year partly because President Donald Trump has created "excessive expectations."...
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France (AP) -- French police shot and arrested a man suspected of slamming a BMW into soldiers in a Paris suburb on Wednesday, injuring six of them in what appeared to be a carefully timed ambush before speeding away, officials said....
