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(Vatican Radio) The new U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has warned allies of the NATO military alliance that they must start increasing defense spending by year's end or the Trump administration will "moderate its commitment" to them. Mattis made the remarks at a NATO summit in Brussels which was also overshadowed by reports that Russia violated a Cold War-era treaty by deploying a cruise missile, charges Moscow denies. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Mattis echoed a demand made repeatedly by President Donald Trump: The alliance must adopt a plan this year to force governments to meet a military funding goal of two percent of gross domestic product. He did not detail what the United States might do if NATO members failed to fall in line. But he warned the Trump administration would "moderate its commitment to them". Mattis made clear that NATO face major challenges such as Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. &...
Washington D.C., Feb 15, 2017 / 12:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- More than 10,000 pro-life advocates gathered at some 227 protest locations in 43 states and the District of Columbia on Saturday to call for the defunding of Planned Parenthood.“This weekend was huge, but it was not the end,” said Mark Harrington of the pro-life group Created Equal. “We have momentum on our side. Now is the time to press forward.”“The time has come to defund America’s abortion giant,” Harrington told CNA Feb. 14. “Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain, killing over 300,000 babies each year, and nearly half of their billion-dollar budget comes from our tax dollars.”The protests, organized under hashtags like #ProtestPP, were headed by the leaders of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Created Equal and the Pro-Life Action League.Organizers reported a crowd of about 200 supporters in Pittsburgh, 300 in Orange, Calif., 400 in Cincinnat...
By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Americans are feeling more positive toward various religious groups than they did less than three years ago.While Americans still feel less positive about Muslims and atheists when compared with people of other religions, those participating in a Pew Research Center survey in January viewed people in those two religious groups more positively than in June 2014.The survey overall, part of Pew's American Trends Panel series of studies, found that warmer feelings toward various religions were expressed by people in all of the participating major religious groups. The same holds true when the sample of 4,248 respondents is divided into groups such as Democrats and Republicans, men and women, and younger and older adults.The study used a "feeling thermometer" that asked 93 percent of the respondents -- 3,939 -- to move a slider on a scale from zero to 100 degrees. The remaining 7 percent responded in other ways. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or mi...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a churchlaw expert and former head of the Vatican's highest court, arrived in Guam Feb.15 as the presiding judge in a church trial investigating allegations of sexualabuse leveled against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana.The Vatican press office confirmed a "tribunal of the firstinstance" was constituted by the Vatican Oct. 5 and its presiding judge isCardinal Burke. Four other judges, all of whom are bishops, also were appointed,the press office said."When an action is in a 'first instance' court, thatindicates that it is in the initial trial phase," according to the websiteof the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles accusations ofclerical sexual abuse.Three men have publicly accused Archbishop Apuron ofsexually abusing them when they were altar boys in the 1970s. The mother of afourth man, now deceased, also accused the archbishop of abusing her son.Archbishop Apuron ha...
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DELPHI, Ind. (AP) -- Two bodies found along a northern Indiana stream are those of two 13-year-old girls who went missing Monday and their deaths are being investigated as homicides, authorities said on Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fast food CEO Andrew Puzder's nomination to be President Donald Trump's secretary of labor appears to be in serious trouble....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- In an ultimatum to America's allies, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told fellow NATO members Wednesday to increase military spending by year's end or risk seeing the U.S. curtail its defense support - a stark threat given Europe's deep unease already over U.S.-Russian relations....
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Officials scrambled Wednesday to drain more water from a lake behind battered Oroville Dam before new storms hit Northern California and test the quick repairs made after water cascaded down an unpaved spillway and prompted a massive evacuation....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Trump administration appears to be easing away from longstanding U.S. support for Palestinian statehood as the preferred outcome of Middle East peace efforts, which may please some allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. But the alternatives are few, and each comes with daunting and combustible complications, including for Israel itself....
