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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's referendum on whether to leave the European Union was too close to call early Friday, with increasingly mixed signals challenging earlier indications that "remain" had won a narrow victory....
(Vatican Radio) A masked man who opened fire at a cinema complex in southwestern Germany has died.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The Minister of Interior of Germany's western Hesse state, Peter Beuth, said police shot and killed the man after he attacked the Kinopolis complex in the town of Viernheim, near Frankfurt. Heavily armed police surrounded the building. They had been told that the man fired several shots. Soon security forces were seen entering the compex. Initially reports emerged that Dozens of people were injured in the turmoil, most of them apparently because of tear gas. But authorities later denied that people had been hurt. The gunman's motive was not immediately clear. But security officials spoke of a confused man and declined to call the incident an act of terrorism. Yet the incident, which lasted some three hours, came amid heightened concerns about possible terrorism across Europe. Militants...
(Vatican Radio) After 51 years of conflict which has cost quarter a million lives and seven million displaced people, the Colombian Government and the main insurgent group the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, the FARC, are within reaching distance of a final peace settlement with an announced bi-lateral ceasefire. Listen to the report by James Blears: The peacefire-ceasefire, was jointly announced by both sides, and it`ll be independently verifiable. Later today there will be a summit like no other to highlight what this means and the issues, which have now been largely resolved.It`ll be chaired by Colombia`s President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC leadership. Guests will include President Raul Castro of Cuba, President Michele Bachelet of Chile and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. It`s taken more than three years of painstaking and sometimes agonizing negotiation in Havana, Cuba to resolve key issues, which will end the five decades conflict and e...
(Vatican Radio) As people across the United Kingdom went to the polls on Thursday, here in the Vatican, Pope Francis met privately with Britain’s ambassador to the Holy See, Nigel Baker, who had a farewell audience at the conclusion of almost five years in office.Ambassador Baker presented his credentials to Pope Benedict XVI in September 2011, just after Britain had seen an outbreak of rioting in London and other major cities. Since then, he has welcomed Queen Elizabeth II and many high profile government delegations to the Vatican, as well as spearheading initiatives to highlight policies from brokering peace in Somalia to preventing sexual violence in conflicts.Just after his papal audience, Ambassador Baker talked to Philippa Hitchen about the most memorable moments of his years here in the Vatican, about the challenges facing his country today and about the impact of Pope Francis’ vision of a strong and united European continent…Listen: The ambassador point...
Washington D.C., Jun 23, 2016 / 10:07 am (CNA).- A meeting with Donald Trump in New York City on Tuesday was intended to answer the questions that some Christian leaders have about the presumptive Republican nominee.But after the event, those in attendance had mixed reactions, with some saying it only raised further concerns.“Donald Trump definitely won over the room, but the bigger story to me was why weren’t the big leaders there?” asked Christopher Hale, executive director at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, who attended the meeting.“I think it’s important that a lot of the leaders within the Christian community are refusing to support him,” he told CNA, noting the absence of Christian leaders like Dr. Russell Moore, and adding that “I think they have the same concerns I do.”The billionaire-turned-politician has run a presidential campaign brimming with controversy. He has drawn criticism for what many consider inflammator...
Washington D.C., Jun 23, 2016 / 12:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A divided Supreme Court allowed a hold on the Obama administration’s immigration policy to continue, disappointing Catholic advocates of immigration reform.The Court’s decision “shatters the hopes of millions of immigrants who might otherwise have obtained temporary relief from immigration enforcement under two Obama administration programs,” the Catholic Legal Immigration Network stated on Thursday.With a 4-4 tie vote, the Supreme Court let stand the lower courts’ decisions in United States v. Texas. In 2015 the district court, had allowed a temporary block on the Obama administration’s executive actions on immigration. This was upheld by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court.The executive actions initially came in the form of a 2012 program entitled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The program would allow children of undocumented immigrants – children who were born in the U.S....
IMAGE: CNS/UCAnewsBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican said it has had no directcontact with Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai, who apparently wrotea blog post in June that gave many people the impression he had recanted anearlier decision to abandon the Chinese government's Catholic PatrioticAssociation.At his episcopal ordination in 2012 -- an assignment thatcame unusually with the approval of both then-Pope Benedict XVI and the Chinesegovernment -- Bishop Ma said he would no longer hold any position in theCatholic Patriot Association so that he could focus on pastoral work andevangelization. He was immediately placed under house arrest at SheshanSeminary and the government rescinded his appointment.Paying homage to the late Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian ofShanghai in a blog attributed to Bishop Ma June 12, he said cooperation withthe patriotic association was one of the reasons why Bishop Jin was sosuccessful in his ministry.With Bishop Ma under house arres...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrew Gombert, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- With a tie vote June 23, the U.S. SupremeCourt blocked the Obama administration's plan to temporarily protect more than4 million unauthorized immigrants from deportation.The court's4-4 vote leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the administration'simmigration policy with the one-page opinion stating: "The judgment isaffirmed by an equally divided court."Legal expertshave called it an ambiguous and confusing political and legal decision thatleaves many in a state of limbo. It also puts a lot of attention on the vacantSupreme Court seat that may determine how the case is decided in an appeal.Religious leaders were quick todenounce the court's action as a setback for immigrant families and stressedthe urgency of comprehensive immigration reform.Bishop Oscar Cantu of LasCruces, New Mexico, called the court's decision "a sad ruling" andsaid the president's immigration plan had been "the result of yea...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. John Lewis, who shed blood in Selma for civil rights, sat shoulder to shoulder with fellow Democrats on the House floor as the leader of an extraordinary protest demanding votes on gun control....
