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Washington D.C., Aug 4, 2016 / 03:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With the number of displaced persons at its highest ever recorded – more than after World War II – troubling stories have surfaced of the U.S. disobeying its own protocol in detaining or removing asylum-seekers.“We are facing a crisis at the border,” Kristina Arriaga, a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), told CNA.“But as a result of DHS’ flawed policies,” she said, asylum-seekers “are being returned to their country of origin without the United States assessing whether these are credible fears.”The commission published a new report, examining “Barriers to Protection: the treatment of asylum-seekers in expedited removal.”“Those seeking refuge from persecution deserve to be treated with dignity and should not be confined in prison-like conditions simply for seeking freedom and protection in the United States,” F...
By Michael SwanTORONTO (CNS) -- Cardinal MarcOuellet, whose writings were once strongly identified with resistance to anychange to the ban on Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics,has given a ringing endorsement to "Amoris Laetitia," the apostolicexhortation by Pope Francis that sums up two synods on the family."In all honesty, I thinkthat controversies around 'Amoris Laetitia' are understandable," Cardinal Ouellet,head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, told about 2,000 Knights ofColumbus gathered in Toronto for their annual convention.But Cardinal Oullet said ratherthan demand clarifications, his audience -- which included dozens of bishops -- should reread the 250-page documentwith its 400 footnotes."It is a document worthreading and re-reading slowly," he said. "Especially Chapter 4 onlove."As the 2015 Synod of Bishops onthe family approached, Cardinal Ouellet re-published and updated his 2007 book,"Mystery and Sacrament of Love: A Theology of Marriage a...
IMAGE: CNS/Greg TarczynskiBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- To help before tragedy occurs, aWashington-based priest and psychologist is conducting a free webinar at theend of August to prepare priests, religious and other church members to deal withthe trauma that follows a natural disaster, an act of terrorism or any otherlarge-scale tragedy that they and the communities they serve might face."Just because you're a priest or a (religious) sister or abrother does not mean you have the training to deal with these large-scaledisasters," said Msgr. Stephen Rossetti. He's conducting the free Aug. 31 onlinewebinar "Shepherding in Tragic Times: Caring for Self and Others in Trauma" viaSt. Luke Institute in Maryland.Msgr. Rossetti, a licensed psychologist, first dealt withlarge-scale tragedies after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005 and hewas dispatched to help priests in Biloxi, Mississippi.Since then, Msgr. Rossetti, past president of St. Luke Institute,has seen a way to app...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The IOC approved the entry of 271 Russian athletes for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday, meaning 70 percent of the country's original team will compete in the games after the scandal over state-sponsored doping....
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- A jury recommended 2 1/2 years in prison for a white former police officer convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man who had been accused of shoplifting....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Hoping to capitalize on the criticism battering Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has begun portraying support for her candidacy as a patriotic duty of voters. She's broadening her message and appealing directly to Republicans to keep him out of the White House....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama vigorously denied on Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was ransom to secure the release of four Americans jailed in Tehran. He defended the transaction as evidence that the nuclear accord with Iran has allowed for progress on other matters....
(Vatican Radio) The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is on Friday, but as things stand today: is Rio De Janeiro ready to host the biggest extravaganza in sport?. Listen to the report by James Blears: Hundreds of protesters were met with Police tear gas and pepper spray as the Olympic torch arrived in Rio, by boat after a three month odyssey around Brazil. It`s estimated that the Olympics, which have happened just two years after the soccer World Cup, will cost Brazil in excess of fifteen billion dollars. That`s less than other venues in other countries, but Brazil isn`t economically match fit, with a deep recession matched by a political crisis, which has seen President Dilma Rousseff ousted. Those Brazilians who are demonstrating argue that the money expended could have been better directed and more wisely used, by helping the poor, who live in their teaming overcrowded thousands, in the poor run down favelas, skirt...
(Vatican Radio) At the beginning of every month Pope Francis makes known his prayer intention for the month to come.In August it has to do with Sport and his desire that sports may build a culture of encounter among everyone for a world of peace.In July the Pope’s prayer intention was for Respect for Indigenous Peoples.In a video message he said that he prays that “indigenous peoples, whose identity and very existence are threatened, will be shown due respect”.Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni looked into the question of the rights of Indigenous and Tribal peoples with Lewis Evans who works for Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights.Listen: Pointing out that this is not the first time Pope Francis has called for respect for indigenous people’s rights, Lewis Evans says “it is great the Pope is putting the issue at the heart of his agenda”.Commenting on the Pope’s words when he says &...
