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NEW YORK (AP) -- A Minnesota woman who calmly put live footage of her dying boyfriend online after he was shot by police brought a shocking new immediacy Thursday to the issue that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement....
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- A woman who watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend during a traffic stop broadcast the gruesome aftermath of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide audience that her companion had been shot "for no apparent reason" while reaching for his wallet as the officer had demanded....
(Vatican Radio) The so-called Islamic State have warned that last Friday’s attack at a café in Bangladesh was just a glimpse of what is to come.In recent weeks, Bangladesh has experienced a rise in extremist violence, with a string of targeted killings on secular bloggers and religious minorities, with the most deadly attack taking place on July 1st, which saw 20 civilians of different nationalities murdered. However the Bangladeshi government has discredited claims that the so-called Islamic State carried out the attacks, instead blaming homegrown local militant groups.A spokesperson for the South Asia Team for Christian Solidarity Worldwide spoke to Georgia Gogarty, about the current situation in Bangladesh and what needs to be done to stop this rise in violent extremism.Listen: People in Bangladesh are extremely fearful and there is a sense of insecurity and instability according to CSW’s spokesperson. When asked why there has been such a rise in violent extr...
Eid ul-Fitr in Bangladesh has been dampened this year with a shocked nation still trying to get over its worst nightmare. In the deadliest terror attack ever in its history, 20 hostages were slaughtered after 7 heavily armed attackers stormed a restaurant on the night of July 1, in Dhaka’s upscale Gulshan neighbourhood. Security forces killed six of the attackers and freed 13 hostages in the rescue operation the following morning. The slain hostages included 9 Italians, 7 Japanese, an Indian and 3 students at American universities. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The total death toll from the attack stood at 28, including 2 Bangladeshi police officers and 6 terrorists. It w.as the worst in a recent series of militant attacks in Bangladesh, and the escalating violence has raised global concerns about whether the predominantly Muslim nation is capable of coping with Islamist terrorism rearing its ugly head in its deadlies...
A 36 years old Nigerian asylum seeker, Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, has died Wednesday in the Italian town of Fermo, situated in the central region of Marche. Emmanuel died of injuries sustained in a racist attack by right-wing football fans.According to Italian media, Emmanuel and his partner were walking along via 20 September Street in the town centre Tuesday evening. As they walked, supporters of a local football club accosted them and began to insult and heap racial abuse on them. They referred to Emmanuel’s partner, Chinyere aged 24, a “Monkey.” Emmanuel reacted to the racist insults directed at Chinyere and in the process of defending her from the abuse, one of the group beat Emmanuel with a steel bar that was ripped out of a road sign.The Italian Catholic newspaper, Avvenire reports Thursday that Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told the press that an Italian man, Amedeo Mancini, has been arrested and charged by the Police for killing Emmanuel. T...
Vatican City, Jul 7, 2016 / 06:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision to nominate Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago as a new member of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.The Pope’s appointment of Archbishop Cupich to the Vatican department was announced in a July 7 communique from the Vatican.The Congregation of Bishops, currently headed by Cardinal Marc Oullet, is responsible for what pertains to the “establishment and provision of particular Churches and to the exercise of the episcopal office in the Latin Church” – primarily, overseeing the process of selecting and appointing bishops.Cupich’s nomination to the congregation comes just two years after he was tapped to lead the Archdiocese of Chicago. He was appointed as Archbishop of Chicago by Pope Francis Sept. 20, 2015, replacing Cardinal Francis George.He was also among the 45 bishops appointed by Pope Francis to participate in the 2015 Ord...
Washington D.C., Jul 7, 2016 / 06:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After the Supreme Court struck down Texas’ abortion clinic regulations last week, a new report claims that these clinics are ignoring health standards and continuing to put women at risk.“It just shows that, over and over again, the abortion industry is more concerned about putting profit ahead of the safety of women,” said Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood employee and founder of the pro-life “And Then There Were None” ministry, which helps abortion clinic workers leave the industry.The #NotOver campaign is a “multi-phase” project launched after the Supreme Court struck down safety regulations of Texas abortion clinics on June 27. It aims to draw attention to poor health standards at abortion clinics and push Congress to pass clinic regulations.In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the Supreme Court ruled that Texas regulations of abortion clinics – that they be...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Three months after the publication ofPope Francis' exhortation on marriage and family, bishops and bishops'conferences around the world are studying practical ways to apply it. Somestill disagree on what exactly the pope meant.In the first week of July, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput's pastoralguidelines for implementing the exhortation's teaching in his archdiocese wentinto effect; an Italian blog published reflections on the document by CardinalEnnio Antonelli, former president of the Pontifical Council for the Family; andLa CiviltaCattolica, an Italian Jesuit journal, released a long interview with CardinalChristoph Schonborn of Vienna, the theologian Pope Francis chose to present thedocument to the press.Pope Francis continually insists that the exhortation,"Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), is about theimportance and beauty of marriage and family life and the church's obligationto support and strengthen ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican tribunal has declared it had no jurisdiction to put two journalists on trial for publishing confidential documents that exposed greed, mismanagement and corruption in the Holy See, ending an eight-month ordeal that drew scorn from media rights groups....
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Islamic extremists in Bangladesh hurled homemade bombs and traded gunfire with police guarding an Eid prayer service attended by hundreds of thousands of people on Thursday, killing two officers, a woman and an assailant....
