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By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Denouncingthe "demonization of migrants," hateful rhetoric, the militarization of the border and a system that dividesfamilies, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, called on Catholicsto heed the church's teachings to welcome the migrant. In a July 18 pastoral letter "Sorrowand Mourning Flee Away," on migration and addressed to the "People of God in the Diocese of El Paso,"Bishop Seitz, who serves a border community near Mexico, said the country'ssecurity cannot be used as a "pretext to build walls and shut the door tomigrants and refugees.""God did not create aworld lacking room for all at the banquet of life," he wrote. He said that whilesome might question his reflections, "I am not substituting politics for theteaching of the church," but as a pastor, his "duty is to the Gospel of JesusChrist," he wrote. And the Gospel in the Old Testament is clear, he said: "Youshall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Vick has some advice for Colin Kaepernick if he wants another shot in the NFL: Get a haircut....
PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) -- A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cake and conversation, it seems, can go only so far to mend longstanding economic rifts between the United States and China....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a young woman who wore a miniskirt in public and who had posted the video online, sparking an outcry from people who say she flagrantly violated the kingdom's conservative Islamic dress code....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. last year had drawn attention from U.S. government officials even before that now-famous encounter for her work fighting U.S. sanctions that had angered the Kremlin....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration slapped 18 Iranian individuals and groups with sanctions Tuesday for aiding the country's non-nuclear weapons programs, in a bid to show that President Donald Trump is staying tough on Iran despite his moves to let the nuclear deal stay in place for now....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs while sharply boosting military spending, a blueprint that elicited criticism from conservatives and moderates....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and "a few Republicans" Tuesday over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed a vote on a backup plan simply repealing the statute, but that idea was on the brink of rejection, too....
