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IMAGE: CNS/Dennis SadowskiBy Dennis SadowskiMODESTO,Calif. (CNS) -- Affirming that all human life is sacred and all people are "protagonistsof their future," more than 600 grass-roots leaders echoed the call of aU.S. bishop to disrupt practices that cause oppression and violate human dignity.Theleaders attending the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements concluded thefour-day meeting Feb. 19 saying in a final message that a "small elite isgrowing wealthy and powerful off the suffering of our families.""Racismand white supremacy are America's original sins. They (the elites) continue tojustify a system of unregulated capitalism that idolizes wealth accumulationover human needs," said the "Message from Modesto."Themessage broadly echoed Pope Francis' regular critiques of the world economy inwhich he has said the accumulation of wealth by a few people has harmed the dignityof millions of people in the human family.Therepresentatives from dozens of faith-based and secular com...
With the Los Angeles Lakers mired in the worst years in franchise history, owner Jeanie Buss has turned to Magic Johnson to lead them back to championship contention....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts....
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation's deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic personal experience to attack the problem....
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats full of people, some with babies and pets, on Tuesday from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned recent threats against Jewish community centers in the U.S. as "painful reminders" of lingering prejudice and evil, his first full-throated comments on the rise of anti-Semitic venom after pressure for him to speak out forcefully....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Assertions from the White House that immigration-enforcement agents had their hands tied in the last administration are difficult to square with the massive deportations of Barack Obama's presidency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation - including people simply arrested for traffic violations - under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration....
The Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has called for calm and restraint amid fears that the planned march against foreigners in Pretoria on Friday could spark xenophobic attacks. Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in South Africa blamed on high unemployment, with foreigners being accused of taking jobs from locals and getting involved in crime. In a 21 feb. statement, the chairperson of the commission, Bishop Abel Gabuza‚ said the planned march by the Mamelodi Concerned Residents against the foreigners in Pretoria is "cause for serious concern" and called for “calm and restraint.”Bishop Gabuza has also condemned the recent violence and destruction of property of foreigners in Pretoria West and in Rosettenville.He urged communities to look for other ways to raise their concerns against foreign nationals instead of resorting to violence. Below is the full statement: ...
The members of the Managing Board of the John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel are meeting in the Senegalese capital Dakar to examine projects awaiting funding and those that received funding last year. The foundation’s board is made up of bishops representing the nine countries of the Sahel region: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.It is currently chaired by Bishop Lucas Kalfa Sanou of Banfora in Burkina Faso. The foundation was established by Pope John Paul II in 1984 after his first trip to Africa four years earlier. The custody of the foundation’s funds, generated on behalf of the Holy Father by the bishops conferences of Italy and Germany, as well as the local churches, was entrusted until recently to the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum,” which is now part of the new Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development.Also attending the Feb. 21-25 meeting in Dakar are the secretary of ...
