(Vatican Radio) An attempt to remove one term Presidential limits in Paraguay, has resulted in riots during which the Congress building in the Capitol Asuncion has been attacked, looted and burned. Listen to the report by James Blears: President Horacio Cartes` Administration ends next year. However Senators have narrowly approved a bill, which means a President can run yet again. This overturns a law added to Paraguary`s Constitution in 1992 restricting a President to one single five year term. Paraguayans are determined NOT to ever again be in the repressive grip of a dictator. General Alfredo Stroessner launched a coup in 1954. His dictatorship lasted 35 long years. He himself referred to it as "State of siege." He was ousted in 1989, and died at the ripe old age of 93, in Brazil in 2006. Demonstrators chanting that this won`t be repeated, smashed windows in the Congress Building, gained access and trashed offices of...
(Vatican Radio) An attempt to remove one term Presidential limits in Paraguay, has resulted in riots during which the Congress building in the Capitol Asuncion has been attacked, looted and burned.
Listen to the report by James Blears:
President Horacio Cartes` Administration ends next year. However Senators have narrowly approved a bill, which means a President can run yet again.
This overturns a law added to Paraguary`s Constitution in 1992 restricting a President to one single five year term.
Paraguayans are determined NOT to ever again be in the repressive grip of a dictator. General Alfredo Stroessner launched a coup in 1954. His dictatorship lasted 35 long years. He himself referred to it as "State of siege." He was ousted in 1989, and died at the ripe old age of 93, in Brazil in 2006.
Demonstrators chanting that this won`t be repeated, smashed windows in the Congress Building, gained access and trashed offices of legislators who`ve supported this amendment. Mounted riot police were rapidly deployed on the streets, water cannon and volleys of rubber bullets were launched. One activists has been killed and thirty people have been injured including Legislators. Scores have been arrested.
Father Eduardo Chávez has been immersed in the study and dissemination of the message of the Virgin of Guadalupe for more than 40 years. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 14, 2024 / 15:52 pm (CNA).Father Eduardo Chávez, director of the Higher Institute of Guadalupan Studies and postulator of the cause for canonization of St. Juan Diego, was recently confirmed as "master Guadalupan theologian" by Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, the primatial archbishop of Mexico.The decision was made May 9 in conjunction with the Chapter of the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, headed by its rector, Father Efraín Hernández.Chávez, who also holds a doctorate in Church history from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, shared with ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, his gratitude for this appointment, committing himself to "deepen knowledge of the Guadalupan event, to disseminate it throughout the world."Chávez noted that "the Virgin of Guadalupe places Je...
null / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 16:22 pm (CNA).An English pediatrician who led a comprehensive review of the safety and efficacy of prescribing transgender drugs to children is warning that health associations in the United States may be misleading the public.In an interview with the New York Times published on Monday, Dr. Hilary Cass warned there is no comprehensive evidence to support the routine prescription of transgender drugs to minors with gender dysphoria. Cass published the independent "Cass Review," commissioned by the National Health Service in England, which prompted England and Scotland to halt the prescription of transgender drugs to minors until more research is conducted.As England, Scotland, and other European countries scale back their use of transgender drugs for minors, most doctors' associations and health associations in the U.S. continue to endorse these medical inter...
Members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, biological women's sports activist Riley Gaines, and lawyers from the Independent Women's Law Center approach the 10th Circuit Courthouse in Denver on May 14, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Independent Women's ForumWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 18:11 pm (CNA).Six members of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming are suing their sorority for admitting a man who identifies as a woman.Represented by the Independent Women's Law Center (IWLC), the sisters argued their case before a three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Tuesday. The women are alleging that the sorority's decision in fall 2022 to admit a man, Artemis Langford, violated its bylaws, which state that all members be women. The sisters have also said that Langford has harassed them in their sorority house by watching them change, taking photos, and asking "invasive" sexual questions. Allie Coghan, a Kappa Kappa Gamma a...