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IMAGE: CNS photo/Carol GlatzBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Women religious are often the firstpeople to discover problems emerging in society because they work directly withso many people in need, an anti-trafficking advocate said.However, because religious focus more on providingassistance than publicizing their efforts, the rest of the world is oftenslower to catch on to where there is trouble, said Ivonne van de Kar, thecoordinator of the Foundation of Religious Against Trafficking of Women in theNetherlands.Women religious in the Netherlands, for example, "hadstarted to work with women in prostitution when there was absolutely no attention(given to) them," and they provided a safe space for women to rest andchat, she told Catholic News Service Nov. 4.Offering coffee and a listening ear, the women religiouswere finding out as early as 1981 that some women were being forced into thesex trade and that marked the beginning of the sisters' work againsttrafficking. The religious...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Country singer Kenny Chesney wants the Beyhive to know they've got it all wrong - he loves Beyonce....
NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News says it is investigating one of its producers after seeing evidence that a live camera shot on "Good Morning America" Friday was enhanced by falsely stringing police tape in the background....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who became a nationally known name with last year's HBO documentary "The Jinx," made his long-awaited arrival in California to face charges of killing a friend 16 years ago, authorities said....
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) -- A woman who was "chained up like a dog" for weeks in a dark storage container was lured to her captor's South Carolina property for a cleaning job, a family friend said Friday as search teams digging up the area found one body and looked for more....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department on Friday released a 2009 email chain that shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton forwarding to her daughter material that the department classified last year....
ATKINSON, N. H. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton sped across battleground states Friday trying to energize minority and female supporters and seal a historic presidential victory, while Donald Trump traveled to small-town America to fire up the white, working-class voters he insists will bring the crown to his outsider campaign....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has told the Bishops of France to help the people of their country to “strengthen their hope” and to “contribute to the search for the common good” in the context of nation still “marked by the attacks which have ravaged your country,” which is also facing “important” elections.The message were conveyed by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, as the Bishops begin their Plenary Assembly.The theme of the meeting is on “having the courage to reach the peripheries in need of the Gospel” (Evangelii Gaudium, n. 20); including in a rural world facing change, “which will, in no doubt, be an opportunity for a new start for the mission of the Church in France.”“A few days before the closing of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Pope asks the Lord to help you open new paths so ‘the years to come will be steeped in mercy, so that we can go out to every man and woman, bringing th...
Irondale, Ala., Nov 4, 2016 / 11:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the first acts of the next president of the United States will be the appointment of a new justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, comprised currently of eight members since the February death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.In the short term, the new president will appoint Scalia’s successor — someone who will be a deciding factor in whether Catholic entities like EWTN and the Little Sisters of the Poor should be forced by the federal government to violate their religious beliefs by providing contraception and abortifacient drugs in their health insurance plans. The new justice will also help decide whether or not a Virginia girl, who now identifies as a boy, should be allowed access to the restroom that corresponds with her self-chosen sexual identity.We have already witnessed the Supreme Court redefine marriage. With another liberal activist on board, we will witness the court redefine discrimination to in...
IMAGE: CNS photo/LionsgateBy Joseph McAleerNEW YORK (CNS) -- Ever since thesuccess of 2004's "The Passion of the Christ," viewers of faith have waitedanxiously for a follow-up from the film's director, Mel Gibson.Recently, Gibson revealed that heis indeed planning a sequel -- centered on the resurrection of Jesus -- but itsdebut is still several years away.In the meantime, fans will findat least a thematic successor to Gibson's Bible-based work in his latest movie,"Hacksaw Ridge." This new release could easily be subtitled, "The Passion ofDesmond T. Doss."A committed Seventh-dayAdventist and World War II conscientious objector, Doss (portrayed on screen byAndrew Garfield) was unwilling to take lives but anxious to save them.Overcoming derision and abusefrom his peers -- and a push by his superiors to expel him from the Army with adishonorable discharge -- he was allowed to remain in the service as a medic.During the bloody Battle of Okinawa in the closing months of World War II, Dos...
