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His Eminence Cardinal Berhaneyesus, C.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa, President of CBCE and AMECEA Chairman has called on parents to be a primary and reliable means of information for their children.He said that this post modern era is a challenging time for the youth to make an informed decision about their life and the path they want to choose. His Eminence said this in the speech he delivered at the national forum on building integral being of adolescents and youth organized by the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth and Sports in Addis Ababa.The forum focused on the many challenges youth and adolescents in Ethiopia are facing today such as different addictions, identity crisis and others and the effects of such challenges on the overall development of the youth and their achievements.Speaking on the occasion H. Em. Cardinal Berhaneyesus, C.M., said that the youth are the main actors called by God for a country’s religious, political, cultural and economic advan...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed his appreciation for the people and Catholics of Bangladesh who regard the appointment of the country’s first cardinal as a blessing. “I expressed all the feelings and joys of the people of Bangladesh and the Catholic community, and the blessings they have received through this appointment,” Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario of Bangladesh told Vatican Radio, referring to his private meeting with Pope Francis on May 5. “I communicated it to him and he really liked it, and he also saw the much deeper meaning… of the appointment he has made,” the Archbishop of Dhaka said on the sidelines of a Mass and felicitation programme organized on May 7 by Bangladesh’s Catholic community of Rome, at the Parish of Santa Maria Maggiore in San Vito. The 73-year old cardinal is in Rome for a formality to take possession of a titular church in the city on Saturday, May 13. The Pope tradi...
IMAGE: By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Indian Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil,who was kidnapped in Yemen more than a year ago, in a video message pleaded forthe Indian government and the Catholic Church to do more to secure his release.The video was posted on YouTube by the news site Aden TimeMay 8; the heavily bearded and very thin Father Uzhunnalil is shown seated witha cardboard sign in his lap with the date April 15, 2017. A similar video wasposted in December.An official at the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia,which includes Yemen, said May 9 the person in the video is the kidnapped Salesian,but he would not comment further. Bishop Paul Hinder, the apostolic vicar, isaway from the vicariate headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on apastoral visit.Father Uzhunnalil was kidnapped in Aden March 4, 2016, in anattack in which four Missionaries of Charity and at least 12 others were killedat a home for the aged.In a meeting May 3 with Salesian novices studying i...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Indicted for killing thousands and kidnapping children to become soldiers and sex slaves, Joseph Kony has been Africa's most notorious warlord for three decades. Now that the United States and others are ending the international manhunt for him and his Lord's Resistance Army, it appears Kony may never be brought to justice....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Dozens of universities and organizations that applied for federal grants to help young people from poor families prepare for college were turned down by the U.S. Education Department because of mistakes that consisted mostly of incorrect margins, the wrong size type or lack of double-spacing....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is taking the unusual step of hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since an earthquake destroyed much of their country....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's go-it-alone foreign policy is weakening America's standing at a time of tumult, Kofi Annan told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview, lamenting how the U.S. leader's flip-flopping "makes it difficult for your friends" who still seek U.S. leadership....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States watched Russians hack France's computer networks during the election and tipped off French officials before it became public, a U.S. cyber official told the Senate on Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top aide to Hillary Clinton did not forward "hundreds and thousands" of emails to her husband's laptop as FBI Director James Comey recently testified to Congress, according to a person familiar with the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Three New Yorkers remained jailed Tuesday after authorities said they started a near-riot at Fort Lauderdale's airport after Spirit Airlines canceled nine flights, leading to chaos in its terminal....
