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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- The United States has put a $10 million bounty on his head, labeling him a terrorist. He is one of the most wanted men in India. Yet, Hafiz Saeed walks free in his home country of Pakistan, denouncing Washington and New Delhi in public speeches....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conceding her outspoken criticism of Donald Trump was "ill advised," Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Thursday in an effort to quiet mounting complaints that she improperly crossed a line into partisan politics....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is on the verge of picking his vice presidential running mate, with top contenders on standby Thursday afternoon for the Republican nominee's decision....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans have mixed feelings on which presidential candidate will do better on health care, trade, the economy, terrorism and other important issues. But when they simply consider whether they personally would be better off, they prefer Democrat Hillary Clinton....
A documentary film that captures the agony of Kandhamal villagers of the eastern Indian state of Odisha is all set for release in Kerala, India.Directed by K P Sasi, “Voice from the Ruins – Kandhamal in search of Justice,” will be screened at three different places in Kerala, southern India, in the second half of July.The 90-minute film “not just captures the agony of the people; but narrates their journey and struggle to secure justice,” says Fr. Ajaya Kumar Singh, a social activist who has been working among the survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal.V S Achuthanandan, a former Kerala chief minister and noted Communist leader, will open the film’s screening at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state capital, on July 19. Fr Singh and Dhirendra Panda, coordinator of the National Solidarity Forum, are scheduled to lead the discussion on the film after the screening.The film will be first screened at Jawahar Bal Bhavan, Thrissur...
(Vatican Radio) Caritas Europa and its local partners have called on the French and Italian governments to take action to respect the human dignity and fundamental rights of migrants stuck in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia. Caritas says more than a thousand migrants are stranded in “dire conditions” in Ventimiglia, having being denied entry into France by border police. The standoff has escalated tensions between the two neighbouring countries over the free movement of migrants to northern Europe. Marie Tempesta is the Policy and Advocacy Officer for Caritas Europa and she spoke to Susy Hodges about this issue.Listen to the interview with Marie Tempesta of Caritas Europa: Stranded in Ventimiglia with no proper reception centre, Tempesta said most of the migrants are having to sleep out in the open in what she described as “almost disastrous conditions” and they include pregnant women, children and babies. The fortunate ones are bei...
(Vatican Radio) South Africa’s bishops have called on the country’s parliament to intervene in a censorship crisis regarding the reporting of violent protests ahead of elections next month.Bishop Abel Gabuza, head of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, has urged the parliament’s communications committee to urgently reconvene to discuss the crisis.Philippa Hitchen reports: South Africa’s parliament is currently in recess until after the local government elections, due to be held on August 3rd. But Bishop Gabuza is urging its communications committee to meet and discuss the crisis engulfing the South African Broadcasting Corporation, or SABC.In a statement, published on Wednesday, the bishop says “through its editorial policy and subsequent crisis, an impression has been created that the SABC is failing to report fully and objectively on events that have the capacity to diminish the holding of free...
Washington D.C., Jul 14, 2016 / 09:35 am (CNA).- In the wake of last week’s horrific deaths of Dallas police officers Brent Thompson, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, and Patrick Zamarripa, there was a loud national cry lamenting the loss of life and demanding that the violence against police “must stop.”I wholeheartedly share these sentiments, especially since I have family members who serve in law enforcement.However I wonder why some do not lament the tragic loss of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile too?As Catholics, we believe Alton and Philando are made in the image and likeness of God and are worthy of inestimable dignity and respect.Why then the comparable silence with regard to their lives and deaths?I believe that the national conversation misses the point: nothing about a person negates who they are and whose they are. They are made in the image and likeness of God. By trivializing, minimizing, and ultimately dehumanizing our brothers and sist...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dale GavlakBy Dale GavlakNAOUR,Jordan (CNS) -- Exuberant Syrian refugee children sang, danced and played withcolorful clowns as they celebrated graduation at their Caritas-sponsored schoolin this sleepy suburb of the Jordanian capital, Amman. Some170 Muslim children, ages 5-17, proudly strode up on the outdoor platform ofthe Latin Patriarchate School of Naour, festooned for the occasion with red, yellow and orangeballoons. They wore big smiles as they collected their certificates allowingthem to move from primary to secondary school, while others completed highschool. Thegraduation march, "Pomp and Circumstance," played in the backgroundas Father Rifat Bader called out the students' names and congratulated eachone: Abdel Fattah Hisham al-Auda, Omar Karim Mohamed, Leen Nizar Laham ....Thegraduation came at a time when many Syrian children are deprived of receivingan education. UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, estimates that more than 2.1million children inside Sy...
