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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Vice President Mike Pence's visit Friday to Colorado to celebrate the anniversary of Focus on the Family comes at a time of change for the religious right during the age of President Donald Trump....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military chiefs will seek a six-month delay before letting transgender people enlist in their services, officials said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Friday that will make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees, part of a push to overhaul an agency that is struggling to serve millions of military vets....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Friday he opposes the GOP bill that would scuttle much of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, complicating the task party leaders face in guiding the banner legislation through the Senate....
(Vatican Radio) A traumatic tale of five children, sexually abused by their father, formed the centrepiece of an international child protection conference that concluded at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Thursday.The annual Anglophone Safeguarding Conference brought together 111 delegates from bishops conferences and religious congregations around the world to discuss ways of ‘Celebrating Hope’ for survivors of abuse, for those working in child protection, and even for the abusers themselves..The conference was organised by the bishops conferences of Scotland and Malta, together with the Gregorian University’s Centre for Child Protection, which has pioneered training in all aspects of safeguarding in the Church.To find out more, Philippa Hitchen spoke to one of the principle organisers, Tina Campbell, who serves as national safeguarding coordinator for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of ScotlandListen: Tina recalls the 2016 conference, co-hosted by E...
Zambia’s Father Paul Samasumo has been elected as one of the two SIGNIS World Vice Presidents for the period 2017 - 2021.The Italy-based Fr. Samasumo who is head of Vatican Radio’s English Africa and Ki-Swahili Services becomes the first African to hold one of the top three positions in the worldwide association for Catholic media professionals known as SIGNIS.The election of Fr. Samasumo took place on the occasion of the SIGNIS World Congress 2017 which has just ended. The meeting was held at Laval University in Canada’s Québec City from 19 June to 22 June.American National Ms Helen Osman was elected SIGNIS World President taking over from Mr Gustavo Andujar who did not seek re-election. The two 2017 - 2021 Vice Presidents are Fr. Samasumo of Zambia and Mr LJ Sinniah of Malaysia. The three together with the Treasurer constitute SIGNIS world’s executive committee.The SIGNIS World Congress 2017 in Quebec was held under the theme "Media for ...
(Vatican Radio) Russia's Foreign Ministry has condemned new U.S. sanctions against Russians involved in the Ukraine conflict saying the move puts at "serious risk" the entire bilateral relationship amid mounting tensions between Washington and Moscow.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his American counterpart Rex Tillerson on Thursday that new sanctions imposed by Washington on Russia would damage relations between the two nations, Moscow said.Sanctions target mainly Russian people and companies linked to the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia anneced the Crimean peninsula and allegedly supports pro-Russian seperatists in the east of the country.The Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Lavrov as saying in the phone call that "Actions of this kind, put the entire sphere of Russian-American relations at serious risk."Before the phone call, Lavrov already complained about what he called America's Russophobic obsession.B...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Shawn Thew, EPABy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The Senate's Better Care ReconciliationAct contains "many of the fundamental defects" that appeared in theHouse-passed American Health Care Act "and even further compounds them," said the bishop who heads theU.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.The Senate released its health care reform bill in "discussion draft" form June 22."Asis, the discussion draft stands to cause disturbing damage to the human beingsserved by the social safety net," Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice,Florida, said in a statement released late June 22. "It is precisely the detrimental impacton the poor and vulnerable that makes the Senate draft unacceptable as written."BishopDewane criticized the "per-capita cap" on Medicaid funding, whichwould no longer be an entitlement but have its own budget line item under theBetter Care Reconciliation Act. The effect, he said, "would provide evenless to those in need than the H...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- As the nation's opioid epidemic intensified, Indiana cracked down on over-prescribing doctors and "pill mills" catering to people with addictions. The state also took aim at doctor-shopping - the practice of visiting multiple physicians to score more painkillers....
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- The Flint, Michigan, airport officer stabbed in the neck during what authorities are investigating as a terrorist act is recovering well from a 12-inch "slash" that caused significant bleeding but spared major arteries and a nerve by "millimeters," one of his doctors said Friday....
