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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- In theJuly 3 closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom, Baltimore Archbishop WilliamE. Lori called on Catholics to thank God for the gift of freedom and to praythat they "use this gift well and wisely.""It's too easy to let thisgift lie dormant or be neglected," he said in his homily at the Masscelebrated during the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of theGospel in America" in Orlando.Archbishop Lori, chairman of theU.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, had celebrated the fortnight'sopening Mass June 21 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumptionof the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.This is the sixth year of theU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Fortnight for Freedom -- a two-week periodof prayer, advocacy and education on religious freedom. It starts on the vigilof the shared feast day of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More -- martyrs whofought religious persecution -- and ends ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Delegatesat the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders. The Joy of the Gospel inAmerica" have their work cut out for them but they are equipped to do it,said speakers at the final plenary session July 4."The saints always loved agood fight and we should like a good fight too," said keynote speaker AuxiliaryBishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles.The bishop, known by many of thedelegates for hosting the documentary series "Catholicism" and thewebsite "Word on Fire," was unable to get to the Orlando hotel wherethe convocation was taking place because of problems with his flight, so hegreeted the crowd through a video hookup.At the start of his talk, hecited sobering church statistic about the decreasing number of Catholics todaythat some delegates heard at some of the breakout sessions. For every Catholic whojoins the church, six leave, he said, and also the number of "nones"-- those who claim no religious affiliation even...
LONDON (AP) -- Last year's runners-up were up first on the main showcourts at Wimbledon on Tuesday, and both came through in straight sets....
PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) -- An Oklahoma woman is accused of trying to hire someone via Craigslist to travel to Israel and kill her ex-husband using ricin....
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Teaching assistant Kelvin Holt watched as a preschool student fell to the back of a cafeteria line during breakfast in Killeen, Texas, as if trying to hide....
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Senate voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a $36 billion budget package Tuesday, including a $5 billion tax increase designed to start digging out of the nation's longest budget crisis since at least the Great Depression....
LONDON (AP) -- A terminally ill British child has attracted the attention of both the president of the United States and the pope. More than 1.3 million pounds ($1.68 million) has been raised to help 11-month-old Charlie Gard travel to America for treatment....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday congratulated his fighters on "this big victory in Mosul" - even as fighting with Islamic State militants continued in Mosul's Old City neighborhood where Iraqi forces are about 250 meters from the Tigris River and facing increasingly brutal resistance....
(Vatican Radio) Another “milestone” in ecumenical relations takes place in the German town of Wittenberg on Wednesday, as the World Communion of Reformed Churches signs up to the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.The signing ceremony takes place during an ecumenical prayer service, in the context of the WCRC’s General Council, taking place in Germany from June 29th to July 7th. The WCRC represents some 80 million Christians in Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed, United, Uniting and Waldensian churches in over a hundred countries around the world.Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is heading the Vatican delegation in Wittenberg for the signing ceremony. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the importance of this historic event…Listen: Bishop Farrell recalls that “one of the major problems of 16th century was the theological and spiritual understanding of how the salvation ...
Young girls from India's remote northeast are lured with promises of good jobs and trafficked to Southeast Asia and the Middle East on Nepalese passports, campaigners say, amid fears traffickers are finding new ways to escape checks. "Over a 100 girls from the northeast and northern part of West Bengal state were trafficked in the last two years, nearly 50 to 60 percent of them on passports issued by Nepal," said Hasina Kharbhih, founder of anti-trafficking charity Impulse NGO Network. "Obtaining visas for Middle East countries is difficult on Indian passports, so recruitment agents are getting them from Nepal. They are doing the paperwork for both passports and visas in Kathmandu," Kharbhih told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Shillong, capital of northeastern state of Meghalaya. Traffickers dodging checksTraffickers have been trying new ways, including transporting women on tourist visas to Gulf nations to get round Indian emigrati...
