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BEIJING (AP) -- In halting televised confessions and emotional courtroom testimony, Chinese lawyers and activists held in a government crackdown have voiced the same ominous message: Shadowy foreign forces are funding, directing and encouraging activities bent on destabilizing China's government and smearing its reputation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Islamic State group will probably continue to be a threat to the U.S. even after it is ousted from key strongholds in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama said Thursday, warning that lone-wolf believers will still be inspired to launch attacks that are harder to detect and prevent....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most young Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties don't represent them, a critical data point after a year of ferocious presidential primaries that forced partisans on both sides to confront what - and whom - they stand for....
The Nigerian men's soccer team didn't show any fatigue from a last-minute trip that brought the players to Brazil just hours before their Rio Olympics opener, beating Japan 5-4 Thursday night....
BELMOPAN, Belize (AP) -- Tropical Storm Earl pushed over Mexico's southern Gulf coast early Friday after drenching Belize and northern Guatemala....
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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....
