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(Vatican Radio) Franciscan Friars in Assisi have appealed to the international community to stop the violence in Syria.A statement released on Friday by the Press Office and signed by Father Mauro Gambetti, Custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi said: “It is war. It is carnage upon carnage. War is the face of evil. The international community has the duty to stop the violence. It is the duty of us all. May human lives be saved and may humanitarian help be guaranteed. From Assisi a prayer is raised for all those who are suffering in this moment. The hope is that reasons of peace may prevail.”
Washington D.C., Apr 7, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “Ultimately, this report is about the sanctity of all human life.”This remarkable line opens up an international police group's flagship document on how to improve incidents of officer-involved shootings and the kinds of non-armed crisis situations that take place regularly across the United States.“The essence of policing is the preservation of life,” Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D.C., told CNA.“That's why we exist; life is very precious, and we have to remind ourselves of that.”This ethic of protecting human life extends even to the use of force in responding to incidents, Wexler argued: “Everything should be what we have to do to preserve human life – especially in the area of use of force.”This principle, that human life is sacred has found itself at the core of PERF's work as an independent research...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Charley Hoffman and William McGirt were the first to take advantage of Dustin Johnson's absence at the Masters....
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Some credit the rise of social media. Others attribute it to a flourishing culture of self-expression. Whatever the reason, colleges across the United States are seeing a boom in demand for courses on creative writing....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Can the U.S. economy deliver a third straight month of robust job growth?...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on events in Syria (all times local):...
BEIRUT (AP) -- World leaders rallied around the United States after it launched a missile strike early Friday on a Syrian air base in response to this week's chemical attack, while Russia condemned the move as "aggression" and suspended crucial coordination with Washington in Syria's congested skies....
Denver, Colo., Apr 7, 2017 / 12:48 am (CNA).- Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez of Denver didn’t tell a group of Hispanic parishioners at St. Mary Parish in Greeley, Colo., that the Catholic Church would deny sanctuary to an individual who needed help, but he didn’t want that question to be the sole focus of the community, either.“What we are trying to do [as a Church] is work from now so that we never come to the point of being in the situation where a family is living in a church basement,” he said. “We want to prevent that situation before it occurs.”The bishop said this Tuesday, Mar. 28, at the first of three meetings organized by Centro San Juan Diego, together with the Consuls General of Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, to inform the community of the current immigration policies, offer advice on what steps to take if they should find themselves in a crisis, and to confirm their solidarity with the immigrant community.When asked about sanctuary, or...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The cruise missiles that crashed down before dawn on a Syrian air base sent a clear message to President Bashar Assad: The use of chemical weapons will be met with U.S. force....
