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For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults....
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- After manning a machine gun on a combat helicopter as a U.S. Marine during the liberation of Kuwait, Antonio Romo came back to the United States traumatized by the death and carnage he saw....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Legal challenges against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order....
HONOLULU (AP) -- The Latest on Hawaii's lawsuit and legal efforts by other U.S. states challenging President Donald Trump's travel ban (all times local):...
SAN JOSE PINULA, Guatemala (AP) -- A blaze that killed at least 33 girls at a shelter for troubled youths erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution, the parent of one victim said Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The call came from what looked like a government number. When an immigrant in New York City answered, the voice on the other end told him he was in the U.S. illegally and would have to pay $1,550 to stay....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- WikiLeaks will work with technology companies to help defend them against the CIA's hacking tools, founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The move sets up a potential conflict between Silicon Valley firms eager to protect their products and an intelligence agency stung by the radical transparency group's disclosures....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Determined House Republicans won early victories Thursday on divisive legislation to undo former President Barack Obama's health care law, winning approval in key committees after marathon all-night sessions despite Democratic protests and intense opposition from doctors and consumer groups....
The Catholic Church encourages its faithful to practice the seven corporal acts of mercy in order to come closer to and touch Christ in the suffering and the needy. These corporal works of mercy were particularly recommended during the Jubilee Year of Mercy by Pope Francis, himself leading the way. And visiting prisoners is one of the seven corporal works of mercy. In this regard, we recall the Last Judgement scene evoked by Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 25, where the judge says, “I was in prison and you came to visit me,” and concludes, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did to the least of my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.’’ Prison Ministry India (PMI) is a nation-wide voluntary organization, operating under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), for the release, renewal and rehabilitation of prisoners, regardless of religion, class or nationality. Based in Bangalore, in southe...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Massimiliano Migliorato, Catholic Press PhotoBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- Women and men from around the globe gathered for an event inside VaticanCity that celebrated and encouraged the need for women's voices to be heard inthe church and in the world. Theannual Voices of Faith conference was held March 8, coinciding with thecelebration of International Women's Day.Accordingto its website, the Voices of Faith event "provides what has been a notablyabsent -- the voices of Catholic women and their capacity to exercise authoritywithin and outside the church and faith that emerges not from abstracttheological ideals but in confronting the reality of the poor."Theevent featured several guest speakers, including Dr. Mireille Twayigira, a survivor of the Rwandangenocide, and twin sisters Nagham and Shadan, whose last name was not given; the two are refugeesfrom Homs, Syria, who work with Jesuit Refugee Services helping others forcedto flee violence in their...
