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Washington D.C., Jun 28, 2017 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With an estimated 20 million victims of human trafficking today, all governments must step up their enforcement efforts, a new report by the State Department insists.“We are all confronted with a choice: Do nothing or do something,” Ambassador Susan Coppedge of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons said Tuesday at a press conference launching the 2017 Trafficking in Persons report.“When it comes to human trafficking, everyone has a role to play and an obligation to act,” she added. “We must choose to do something to end modern slavery.”The annual Trafficking in Persons report was released by the State Department on Wednesday, over 400 pages in length and detailing the state of human trafficking around the world.There are an estimated 20 million persons being trafficked today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson noted on Tuesday at the launch of the r...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, ReuterBy Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S.Senate must reject any health care reform bill that will "fundamentallyalter the social safety net for millions of people," said the chairmanof the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice andHuman Development."Removing vital coveragefor those most in need is not the answer to our nation's health care problems,and doing so will not help us build toward the common good," BishopFrank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, said in a letter to U.S. senators releasedlate June 27.He urged senators to reject suchchanges "for the sake of persons living on the margins of our health caresystem."A day earlier, Bishop Dewaneissued a statement saying that the loss of affordable health care under theRepublicans' proposal was "simply unacceptable."The Senate released its BetterCare Reconciliation Act in "discussion draft" form June 22. In an analysisof the proposal aimed at replacing the Obama adminis...
NEW YORK (AP) -- K'lyssa Moore wasn't that much older than the elementary school students she now teaches when she first fell in love with Harry Potter soon after the books first started coming out....
CAIRO (AP) -- Dozens of Sudanese activists living in Egypt as refugees, many of whom fled fundamentalist Islamic militias and were close to approval for resettlement in the United States, now face legal limbo after the Supreme Court partially reinstated President Donald Trump's travel ban on six Muslim nations, including Sudan....
GANZHOU, China (AP) -- After a month behind bars, three Chinese investigators who went undercover at a factory that made Ivanka Trump shoes walked freely out of the local police station Wednesday. But they still face an uncertain future and the threat of a trial....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Homeland Security Department is demanding that airlines around the world step up security measures for international flights bound for the United States or face the possibility of a total electronics ban for planes....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell explored options for salvaging the battered Republican health care bill Wednesday but confronted an expanding chorus of GOP detractors, deepening the uncertainty over whether the party can resuscitate its bedrock promise to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a platform most politicians can only hope for: A captivated, 6,000-person crowd and more than an hour of live, prime-time television coverage to hype the Republican vision for a new health care system....
Detroit, Mich., Jun 28, 2017 / 11:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Venerable Solanus Casey, an American-born Capuchin priest who died in 1957 known for his ability as a spiritual counselor, will be beatified at a Nov. 18 Mass in Detroit, the local archdiocese announced Tuesday.“We are filled with joy at receiving the final date of the beatification of Father Solanus,” Father Michael Sullivan, OFM Cap. and Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, said June 27. “It is a beautiful way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his passing.”Venerable Casey was known for his great faith, attention to the sick, and ability as a spiritual counselor.The beatification Mass will be said at Ford Field in Detroit, which can accommodate as many as 60,000.Venerable Casey will be the second American-born male to be beatified.Born Bernard Casey on Nov. 25, 1870, he was the sixth child of 16 born to Irish immigrants in Wisconsin. At age 17 he left home to work ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Octavio DuranBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- As El Salvador's first cardinal receiveshis red hat June 28 at the Vatican, he will have the eyes of his flock at home butalso of the Washington area, home to approximately 260,000 Salvadorans -- oneof the largest communities of Salvadorans outside of the Central American nation.Cardinal-designate Gregorio Rosa Chavez has been a pastor,not just inside El Salvador, said Capuchin Franciscan Father Moises Villalta.For years, he has frequently visited Salvadorans abroad, includingmany who were forced to flee their native country during its civil conflict fromthe late 1970s until the early 1990s, said Father Villalta, a native of ElSalvador and pastor at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington. He hastried to learn about the diaspora and even spent time teaching someexpats and their children El Salvador's national popular spiritual hymn, whichis an ode to Christ as "savior of the world." "He has come (to the United St...
