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By GREENSBURG,Pa. (CNS) -- Bishop Edward C. Malesic of Greensburg in a pastoral letter calledthe opioid crisis in this country a scourge and urged the people of his dioceseto take action against it.In"A Pastoral Letter on the Drug Abuse Crisis: From Death and Despair to Life andHope" issued June 29, he addressed the epidemic that last year killed more than300 people in the four counties that comprise the Diocese of Greensburg andoutlined the Catholic Church's local response to the crisis.Besidesefforts that focus on prayer and education, he also discussed the church's cooperativeefforts with government and social service agencies that are already engaged inthe fight against addiction.Notingthat rarely a day goes by without news of a death from a drug overdose, he wrote,"One especially deadly expression of the crisis of addiction, which is becomingmore and more prevalent in our communities, is the current opioid epidemic."Inthe four counties of the diocese -- Armstrong, Fayette, Indi...
LONDON (AP) -- Venus Williams' publicist says the five-time Wimbledon champion will play at the Grand Slam tournament after a police report emerged in Florida saying the tennis star caused a car crash that led to the death of a passenger in another vehicle....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jay-Z gets personal and deep on his new album, opening up about his relationship with Beyonce, the elevator fight with Solange and his children....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Backyard cooks looking to grill this summer have another option: hot dogs without "added nitrites."...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police, federal agents and prosecutors are launching a new initiative Friday to stem the flow of illegal firearms in the city as part of efforts to curb rampant gun violence that President Donald Trump says is at "epidemic proportions."...
BERLIN (AP) -- German lawmakers voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, a move widely supported across the country that brings Germany in line with many of its Western peers. Chancellor Angela Merkel voted against the measure, but paved the way for its passage by allowing members of her conservative party to vote according to their conscience....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday the United States is renegotiating its trade deal with South Korea as he met the nation's new leader for talks also addressing the nuclear weapons threat from North Korea....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump urged divided congressional Republicans on Friday to break their logjam over dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law by "immediately" repealing it and replacing it later, a formula that GOP leaders dismissed months ago as politically unwise....
A Vietnamese court has sentenced a prominent Catholic blogger to 10 years in prison for distorting government policies and defaming the Communist regime in Facebook posts and in interviews with foreign media. Mary Magdelene Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as ``Mother Mushroom,'' was sentenced on Thursday at the People's Court of Khanh Hoa province in Nha Trang City, her lawyer Vo An Don said. Her conviction related to the content of 18 articles on her Facebook page and interviews with foreign news outlets such as Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, Don said.Quynh, 37, co-founded a network of bloggers and is very popular in Vietnam. She has written about human rights, civilian deaths in police custody and the release of toxic chemicals by a Taiwanese-owned factory that killed thousands of fish in one of Vietnam's worst environmental disasters.Quynh, the single mother of two young children, maintained her innocence throughout the trial, her lawyer sai...
Myanmar says it will refuse entry to a United Nations team probing allegations of killing, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims. "If they are going to send someone with regards to the fact-finding mission, then there's no reason for us to let them come," said Kyaw Zeya, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Naypyitaw. The government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi had already said it would not cooperate with a mission set up after a Human Rights Council resolution was adopted in March. "Our missions worldwide are advised accordingly," Zeya said, explaining that visas to enter Myanmar would not be issued to the mission's appointees or staff.Suu Kyi, who came to power last year amid a transition from military rule, leads Myanmar through the specially created position of "State Counsellor", but is also minister of foreign affairs. Although she does not oversee...
