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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday conducted its fifth atomic test, producing its biggest-ever explosive yield, South Korean officials said after monitors detected unusual seismic activity near the North's northeastern nuclear test site....
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Norwalk, Conn., Sep 8, 2016 / 02:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After 14 years of serving the Church’s apostolate for men and women with same-sex attraction, Fr. Paul Check will step down from his current position as Executive Director in order to take up his new position as rector of the seminary in his diocese. “I will leave my current role with a measure of both peace and sadness,” Fr. Check wrote in an announcement. “I am peaceful because I trust in my Bishop's decision, and I am grateful for and humbled by the confidence that he has placed in me.”“At the same time, however, I will be sad to leave what is such a unique and vital apostolate in the life of the Church today - ‘a light that shines in the darkness’ - and one that offers hope to many. Pope Benedict once wrote that Jesus is both logos and agape. I believe the Courage/EnCourage ministry reflects that twofold character of Christ in its clarity and charity, even as it rem...
Washington D.C., Sep 8, 2016 / 04:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the United States has declared that genocide is taking place against Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq, what is the next step for genocide victims displaced from their homes?“Together, we will advocate for the Christian, Yazidi, and other communities in Northern Iraq that they may return to their homes on the Nineveh Plain to be secured there by coalition and successive international forces,” Andrew Doran, senior adviser to the group In Defense of Christians, stated at the Sept. 7 press conference beginning the group’s advocacy convention in Washington, D.C.The Nineveh Plain is a 1,600 square mile area in northern Iraq that has been home to various ethnic and religious minorities, including Assyrian Christians who have lived there for centuries as one of the earliest Christian communities.When militants of the Islamic State swept across northern Iraq in 2014, they displaced hundreds of ...
Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 8, 2016 / 04:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics can learn a lot about evangelization from the liturgy, say organizers of an upcoming conference in Los Angeles“This year in particular, we are looking at the relationship of the liturgy and the New Evangelization and discussing the ways in which liturgy is at the heart of the effort to re-evangelize Catholics who have fallen out of the practice of their faith,” Dr. Anthony Lilles, conference coordinator for the Society for Catholic Liturgy, told CNA.“We live at a time when too many of us sacrifice at the altar of productivity – we worship the works of our hands,” he continued. “The liturgy of the Catholic Church teaches us to surrender the works of our hands to the worship of God and the care of our neighbors.”The Society for Catholic Liturgy’s 2016 conference, called "The Liturgy and the New Evangelization", will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at the Cathedral ...
By Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- It'sbecoming increasingly difficult for Chicagoan Mary Jennett to see and hear daily about the hardship andpersecution Christians face, especially in the Middle East. So Jennett decided to dosomething about it by attending a Sept. 7-9 convention in Washington organizedby In Defense of Christians, a group trying to find solutions to thepersecution of Christians in the Middle East and the preservation ofChristianity in areas of conflict around the world."They're part of our faith family," Jennett said of the Christians facing persecution.Jennett and about 50 others attended an evening prayerservice Sept. 7 at Washington's Holy Rosary Church, where organizers brought inroses symbolizing the life of Christian martyrs killed in the Middle East. Theywere followed by lighted candles carried in by various faith leaders. FatherAndre Mahanna, who guided the ecumenical prayer service, said the leaders wanted toremind those who attended the event that even af...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The first NASA explorer of its kind took off on a seven-year quest Thursday, chasing after a big, black, unexplored asteroid to gather a few handfuls of gravel for return to Earth....
NEW YORK (AP) -- An American flag raised at ground zero on Sept. 11 in a defining moment of patriotic resolve took its place at the site Thursday after disappearing for over a decade....
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -- Police video shows a Nevada homicide suspect handcuffed to a table in a police interview room twisting his body to muscle the hinge of handcuffs attaching his right wrist to one of the table's metal bars....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Obama administration officials told Congress on Thursday that Iran wanted "immediate access" to $1.7 billion paid by the United States in cash to settle a decades-old arbitration claim between the two countries....
