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By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ata luncheon that was part reunion and part progress report, Pope Francis invited21 Syrian refugees to join him at the Vatican Aug. 11.The pope's lunch guestsincluded the 12 refugees -- three married couples and six children -- PopeFrancis brought back to Rome with him from Lesbos, Greece, in April and anothernine Syrian refugees who arrived in Rome in mid-June with Vatican assistance.While the Vatican iscovering the living costs of the 21 refugees, they are being housed andresettled by the Community of Sant'Egidio, a lay community based in Rome. Thecommunity runs a large Italian language school for refugees, which the Syriansare attending.Greg Burke, Vaticanspokesman, said both the adults and the children had a chance to talk to PopeFrancis about beginning their new lives in Italy. "The children gave theHoly Father a collection of their drawings, and the pope reciprocated with toysand other gifts."Joining Pope Francis andthe refugees for the lu...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A police officer was shot in the head after he and two others working security at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they mushroom into more serious and disruptive violence....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The nation's first offshore wind farm is set to open off the coast of Rhode Island this fall, ushering in a new era in the U.S. for the industry....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Ukraine's president put his army on combat alert Thursday along the country's de-facto borders with Crimea and separatist rebels in the east as a war of words between Russia and Ukraine threatened to heat up the largely frozen conflict over the Black Sea peninsula....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Huffington Post is going to be without a Huffington....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian activists said airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa on Thursday killed at least 20 civilians, as neighboring Turkey called for greater cooperation with Russia against the extremist group....
Jer 38: 4-6, 8-10; Heb 12: 1-4; Lk 12: 49-53God sends His prophets to give the world His message in every century. Blessed Oscar Romero, Blessed Mother Teresa, Pope St. John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dom Helder Camara, Maura Clark, Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford, Jeanne Donovan, and Ella Baker were all twentieth century prophets who had the courage of their Christian convictions to follow Jesus and proclaim his undiluted message which cast fire on earth and caused healthy division in the society as today’s Gospel points out. In 1980, in the midst of a U.S.-funded genocidal war against the so-called leftist rebels in El Salvador, Archbishop Blessed Oscar Romero who sided with the poor, exploited farm workers, declared: “If they kill all your priests and the bishop too, each one of you must become God's microphone, each one of you must become a prophet. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, ...
The African Regional Conference on Families is expected to take place in Nairobi, Kenya between 22 and 24 September 2016.The Conference will be a platform to celebrate the African Family; deliberate on what is currently ailing African families as well as be an opportunity for participants to look for ways forward.President of the Africa Organisation for Families, Anne Kioko told Waumini News Today, in Nairobi, that her organisation is concerned by the recent concerted push for the legalisation of abortion and implementation of controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education in schools. Kioko expressed concern for the innocence of children.“These programs go way beyond regular sex education and are designed to change all sexual and gender norms of society. They openly promote promiscuity, high-risk sexual behaviour and sexual pleasure even to very young children.” She saidThe African Regional Conference is being organised by the World Congress of Families in partn...
Belleville, Ill., Aug 11, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With the second anniversary of riots in Ferguson, Mo., this week, Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville has noted the downfalls of racial division and spoke about the importance of moral leadership as the best way to combat the growing division among citizens in the United States.“In a time of the breakdown of a sense of togetherness among people, there is an acute need for a new authenticity,” Bishop Braxton, whose diocese includes East St. Louis, wrote in a July 20 column for The Belleville Messenger.“When individuals bring the openness, understanding, humility, and compassion to their positions of leadership, the potential for establishing or re-establishing community is significantly increased,” he continued.On August 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot an unarmed African-American teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis.The incident in Ferguson sprouted riots, loo...
