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IMAGE: CNS photo/Ricardo Maldonado Rozo, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' decree to beatify twoColombian martyrs from two troubled eras in the South American country'shistory underscores his call for courageous witness amid violence andpersecution. "What does the church need today?" the pope asked earlierthis year at an evening prayer service honoring Christians killed under Nazism,communism, dictatorships and terrorism."Martyrs and witnesses, those everyday saints, thosesaints of an ordinary life lived with coherence. But it also needs those whohave the courage to accept the grace of being witnesses to the end, to thepoint of death," he said.The lives of Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca, who was murderedby Colombian Marxist guerrillas in 1989, and Father Pedro Maria Ramirez, who was killed at thestart of the Colombian civil war in 1948, seemingly fit the pope's description.Their beatification, which will take place during the pope'svisi...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican allies of President Donald Trump are intent on giving him a long-sought victory in Congress by finally making a down payment on his long-promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month, has been discharged from a Washington hospital....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new package of financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea has a hit a snag in the Senate, where the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has objected to the House's decision to include penalties targeting Pyongyang in the legislation....
LONDON (AP) -- Critically ill baby Charlie Gard will be transferred to a hospice and taken off life support unless his parents and a hospital agree on a plan that could potentially keep the child alive for a bit longer, a British judge ruled Wednesday....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Palestinian Muslims have been praying in the streets of Jerusalem every evening - creating a new, surprisingly effective form of protest in their long conflict with Israel....
Ten former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship church say they have been contacted by U.S. federal and state authorities investigating allegations of abuse, forced labor and visa fraud after a series of Associated Press stories about the North Carolina-based evangelical sect, which has branches in Brazil and Ghana and affiliations in other countries....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military "in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."...
(Vatican Radio) The biggest event of the Asian Catholic Church this year, is taking place in Yogyakarta city, Indonesia, next week. The 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD7) is being hosted by the Archdiocese of Semarang, August 2-6, with over 2000 young people from 21 Asian countries rallying around the theme, “Joyful Asian Youth: Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia!” The continent-level event has been held in various Asian cities since 1999 in intervals of 2, 3 and 5 years, with the last AYD in Daejeon Diocese in Korea in 2014, in which Pope Francis participated. Organizers have divided the entire AYD into three events spread across 11 days from July 30 to August 9. On arrival, the participants will head to the 11 of Indonesia’s 37 dioceses who will be hosting them from July 30 to August 2 in what is called Days in the Dioceses (DID). All the participants will then converge in Yogyakart...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal George Pell made a brief appearance at an Australian court on Wednesday in a preliminary hearing regarding the accusation of “historical sexual offences”.His lawyer said he would plead “not guilty” to the charges leveled against him by police in the state of Victoria.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: Escorted by Australian police, Cardinal George Pell made his way through a mass of journalists and protesters to arrive at a filing hearing before the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court.Once inside, his lawyer Robert Richter told the court Cardinal Pell would plead “not guilty”.He said, “For the avoidance of doubt and because of the interest, might I indicate that Cardinal Pell pleads not guilty to all charges and will maintain his presumed innocence that he has."Cardinal Pell remained silent throughout the six-minute hearing.At a Vatican press conference in June, Cardinal Pell announced he would be tak...
