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IMAGE: CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, ReutersBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Agencies and organizations that helprefugees start new lives in the U.S. worry about the fate that awaits migrantsin transit as well as those who will not be allowed into the country as thepartial ban that the U.S. Supreme Court set in motion with its late June rulinggoes into effect in early July."The immediate priority is the safety of those refugees whoare en route, ensuring they reach their destination," said Ashley Feasley,policy director for Migration and Refugee Services at the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops in Washington. "We are also very concerned about theindividuals who have assured cases that are scheduled for travel after July 6 whomay not be able to arrive now due to the interpretation of the Supreme Courtdecision and the executive order."The Supreme Court announced June 26 itwould temporarily allow the Trump administration's plan to ban of refugees fromsix majority-Muslim countries, un...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A rapper shot someone in the neck days before performing at a concert in Little Rock that was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured, federal prosecutors said Monday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Monday that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of an Obama administration rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whether by whim or design, President Donald Trump keeps adding fuel to his incendiary Twitter battle against the media. The press is an easy target for the Republican president, and one his supporters love to hate....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Rolando Arriaza has visited hospitals, morgues and even the harsh, mesquite-covered terrain in South Texas that his brother trekked nearly two years ago after illegally crossing into the U.S. - all as part of an ongoing effort to find his sibling's remains and bring his family closure....
Nigerian parents are up in arms against a Nigerian Social Studies textbook used for learners in the first year of Junior Secondary School (JSS 1). According to the parents represented by the Association of Concerned Mothers (ASCOM), the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) being offered to their children, in school, is nothing but the promotion of an “unwholesome and dangerous ideology.” “Research has clearly shown that CSE is one of the most insidious attacks on the safety, health and innocence of our children. CSE claims to have an evidence-informed approach to effective sex, relationships and HIV/STI education. However, this ideology, which is already in use in government schools and some private schools in our country, promotes such things as abortion, homosexuality, masturbation and other controversial sexual ideologies to our children as young as eight years,” say Ngozi Agu and Chinelo Ujubuoñu of ASCOM.Parents find particul...
Athens, Greece, Jul 3, 2017 / 11:21 am (Church Pop).- Pope Francis has donated 50 thousand euros to the island of Lesbos, Greece, which is recovering from a June earthquake.The donation comes just a few days after the Holy Father received a full report on the extent of the damage.Archbishop Nikolaos Printezis, Bishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos, said the Pope's donation was a sign of the closeness of the Pontiff to the people who have suffered the consequences of the earthquake.On June 12, a powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 hit the western coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos , killing one person, displacing approximately 800, and destroying infrastructure from the Turkish Aegean province, Izmir, to the Greek capital, Athens.The earthquake's epicenter was located about 50 miles northwest of the Turkish coastal city of Smyrna and nine miles south of Lesbos, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC).Pope Francis vis...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Dennis SadowskiORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Being Christian is more than accepting Jesus as savior, but requires the faithful to go to the peripheries of society where people are struggling materially and spiritually, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles told the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America.""Jesus calls us to follow him. That is an action, a decision that implies a way of life," Archbishop Gomez said during a plenary session July 3, the third day of the convocation.He said Pope Francis has focused the mission of the church on going to people on the sidelines of society, he said, calling it a responsibility not just for bishops, clergy and church professionals, but for the entire church.The pope, the archbishop explained, sees the peripheries as both a physical place and existential. They are places that reflect a society that has determined that some people can be pushed aside or discarded."They are places on a map,...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The town of Newtown and its Board of Education asked a judge to throw out the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of two children killed during the Sandy Hook shootings in December 2012....
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump offered to help a terminally ill British baby on Monday, saying on Twitter that "if we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so."...
