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Boston, Mass., Oct 13, 2016 / 11:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Four churches and their pastors are challenging a Massachusetts law which they say could regulate their speech regarding gender identity.“This case is about who controls Massachusetts churches,” said the churches’ legal motion to halt enforcement of the law. “Are pastors and churches still free to teach their religious beliefs and use their houses of worship to reflect and reinforce those beliefs?”The four churches and their pastors filed the motion in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Eastern Division. They have also filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts officials.“The First Amendment forbids government intrusion into ecclesiastical matters like church teaching and administration,” the legal motion continued. “Yet Massachusetts officials have ignored these boundaries and injected themselves into what churches teach, believe, and promote. Fearing devastating ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Thought the universe was crowded with 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies? Try 1 trillion or even 2 trillion galaxies and more....
BOSTON (AP) -- A man who shot two police officers responding to a report of a domestic disturbance was armed with a tactical shotgun and wearing body armor but didn't have a gun license, authorities said Thursday....
BANGKOK (AP) -- In an age when most of the world's blue bloods cut ribbons and meekly approved whatever their governments proposed, the 70-year reign of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej stood out in sharp relief, perhaps a throwback to a long-vanished past....
POOLER, Ga. (AP) -- Waist-deep floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew coursed down the street in Pooler and seeped under Lori Galemore's doors, swamping the carpets and furniture as she and her three sons retreated upstairs, where they stayed until firefighters arrived by boat....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. In the book world's equivalent of a Supreme Court ruling, the Nobel judges declared Thursday that Dylan is not just a rock star but a poet of the very highest order....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign tried to move the Illinois presidential primary to a later date, saying a contest held after the Super Tuesday primaries might stop momentum for a moderate Republican candidate and emphasizing that Clinton and her husband "won't forget" a political favor, emails made public on Thursday show....
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Michelle Obama said Thursday that Republican nominee Donald Trump bragging on a 2005 tape about his fame allowing him to "do anything to women" shook her to the core....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Rocked by allegations of sexual assault, Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at his female accusers as "horrible, horrible liars" as the deeply divisive presidential campaign sank further into charges and countercharges of predatory treatment of women....
The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) have expressed concern with the current economic scenario in the country. The fall in the price of crude oil, on the international market, has plunged Africa’s second largest crude producer into dire straits. Notwithstanding its oil and the fact that Angola has vast mineral wealth, the country has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world. This is according to the World Health Organisation.The Bishops raised the concern during the opening of their second plenary meeting which started on 12 October and will end on 19 October. President of CEAST, Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, who is the Archbishop of Luanda spoke of the very low purchasing power of many households in Angola. Another concern of the Angolan Bishops relates to the issue of demolition of homes and forced evictions in the capital city, Luanda. The Bishops say that in the space of a few months, more than two thousand houses ha...
