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(Vatican Radio) UN human rights experts have denounced widespread and systematic use of excessive force and arbitrary detentions against demonstrators in Venezuela. The team’s findings also uncovered other abuses, including violent house raids, torture and ill-treatment of those detained in connection with the protests.Listen to our report: In the absence of a response from the Venezuelan authorities to requests for access, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein deployed a team of human rights officers to conduct remote monitoring of the human rights situation in the country from 6 June to 31 July.The team conducted interviews with victims and their families, witnesses, civil society organisations, journalists, lawyers, doctors, first responders and the Attorney-General’s Office.Witnesses spoke of security forces firing tear gas at close range and without warning at anti-Government protestors.At least 125 people have died since a wave of anti...
IMAGE: EPABy SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Salvadorans plan to walk more than 90miles in three days to mark the centennial of Blessed Oscar Romero's birth.Participants will leave the Metropolitan Cathedral in SanSalvador Aug. 11 and are scheduled to arrive in Ciudad Barrios, the easterncity where Blessed Romero was born, Aug. 13. The pilgrimage, "Caminando hacia la cuna del Profeta"("Walking toward the prophet's birthplace"), will go through four dioceses-- San Salvador, San Vicente, Santiago de Maria and San Miguel.Blessed Romero was born Aug. 15, 1917, and the actualcentennial will be marked by a Mass at San Salvador's cathedral. ChileanCardinal Ricardo Ezzatti of Santiago, Pope Francis' special envoy to the celebration,will be the main celebrant.Masses also are scheduled in other parts of the country. OnAug. 12, in the western Santa Ana Diocese, Archbishop Leon Kalenga Badikebele, apostolicnuncio to El Salvador, will deliver the homily at a commemorative Mass, whileSalvador...
By Simon CaldwellMANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- Pope Francis has given aBelgian religious order until the end of August to stop offering euthanasia topsychiatric patients.Brother Rene Stockman, superior general of the order, toldCatholic News Service the pope gave his personal approval to a Vatican demandthat the Brothers of Charity, which runs 15 centers for psychiatric patientsacross Belgium, must reverse its policy by the end of August.Brothers who serve on the board of the Brothers of Charity Group,the organization that runs the centers, also must each sign a joint letter totheir superior general declaring that they "fully support the vision ofthe magisterium of the Catholic Church, which has always confirmed that humanlife must be respected and protected in absolute terms, from the moment ofconception till its natural end." Brothers who refuse to sign will face sanctions under canon law,while the group can expect to face legal action and even expulsion from thechurch if it fails ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- David Letterman, who said goodbye to his long-running talk show two years ago, will say hello to TV again with a new show for Netflix....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Cook, whose shimmering soprano made her one of Broadway's leading ingenues and later a major cabaret and concert interpreter of popular American song, has died. She was 89....
U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers, a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk....
Republican Danny Tarkanian, a prominent Las Vegas businessman, announced Tuesday he is mounting a primary challenge to Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, considered one of the Senate's most vulnerable Republicans in 2018....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- From the Indian Ocean coast to Rift Valley towns to Nairobi's slums, Kenyans turned out in large numbers to vote Tuesday in an election pitting President Uhuru Kenyatta against challenger Raila Odinga in this East African economic hub known for its relative, long-term stability and ethnic allegiances that shadow its democracy....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's supreme court ordered the removal and arrest of a Caracas-area mayor at the heart of recent anti-government protests and President Nicolas Maduro's all-powerful constitutional assembly planned to meet again Tuesday, forging ahead on vows to punish the socialist leader's foes....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shuttling across the country aboard Air Force Two, Vice President Mike Pence has been a loyal messenger for President Donald Trump. At the same time, he has been carving out his own political identity as the steady understudy to a mercurial president....
