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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):...
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State group that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. A moment later, on another topic, he referred to the president by his full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama....
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Washington D.C., Aug 10, 2016 / 03:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the biggest threats to religious freedom worldwide are blasphemy laws, the State Department said in its annual religious freedom report, released Wednesday.“I want to highlight this year the chilling, sometimes deadly effect of blasphemy and apostasy laws in many places of the world, as well as laws that purport to protect religious sentiments from defamation,” the Ambassador at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein said at the release of Wednesday’s report.Every year, the State Department publishes a report on the state of religious freedom worldwide, as mandated in the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act. It documents the religious liberty situation in almost 200 countries and territories, reporting the worst abuses while noting positive steps taken to protect the rights of citizens.“The purpose of this annual report is not to lecture,” Antony Blinken, Deputy Se...
Austin, Texas, Aug 10, 2016 / 05:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In Texas, two scheduled executions could kill innocent men, Catholic and other Christian leaders have warned.“In both cases, there are strong indicators that the defendants may be innocent. A gross misuse of justice does not serve the victims, our society or those who have been sentenced to death,” the Texas Catholic bishops said Aug 3.They urged Texans to write to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles regarding Jeff Wood and Robert Pruett. Wood is scheduled for execution Aug. 24.“Jeff Wood has not ever killed another person. He was not even in the building when the murder for which he is sentenced took place,” the bishops said. “His mental health and the witness of a now-discredited psychiatrist seem to be the primary reasons for his capital punishment.”In January 1996 Wood, then 22, waited in a car while Daniel Runeau robbed a Kerryville convenience store. Runeau...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Toru Hanai, ReutersBy Lise AlvesRIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) -- Glued to theimprovised screen set up on the patio of the Caritas house, the refugees yelledand they cried. But most of all, they cheered. They cheered for their two Congolesecolleagues, Popole Misenga, 24, and Yolande Mabika, 28, who were competing injudo as part of the United Nations' Refugee Olympic team."They represent all of us today,"said an emotional Mirelle Muluila, also from Congo. "They represent thestrength it takes to come from nothing and being considered a 'nobody,' tobecoming a champion," she cried out as others around her agreed. Muluila studied international relations inher country, but here in Brazil, where she has lived for the past 23 months,she continues to struggle with the language and the lack of opportunities. "We want to tell the world that we aresomebody. ... We are doctors and engineers and teachers," she said, "wehave education but had to flee our countries, not because we wanted to...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Nate Ebner couldn't really have set up more of a grandstand finish for the U.S. team at the Olympics....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man spent more than 2 ½ hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to safety through an open window....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia. Two decades later, after forging a new life in Minnesota, she appears on the brink of becoming the nation's first Somali-American state legislator....
