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Washington D.C., Jun 16, 2016 / 05:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite secularization in some countries, “the world is becoming more religious” and the United States needs to factor this into its foreign policy, one religious freedom expert said Thursday.“The reality, whether someone likes it or doesn’t like it, is that the world is becoming more religious, not less religious,” Dr. Robert George, former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, told CNA in a June 16 interview on Thursday.This refutes “secularization theory,” the sociological belief that “as modernization moves forward, religion will retreat, as people learn more about science they become less interested in religion,” George explained.George testified Thursday on the global state of religious freedom before the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights. He was joined by Rabbi David Saperstein, U.S. Ambassador at-Large for International Religious...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Like Moses before the burning bush, those talking about the real-life situations of families must take off their sandals because they are standing on holy ground, Pope Francis said.The pastoral care of families requires "a climate of respect capable of helping us listen to what God is saying," the pope said June 16, opening the Diocese of Rome's annual pastoral conference.The families, catechists, priests and bishops participating in the two-day meeting were focusing this year on outreach to families in Rome in light of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love").Pope Francis made a formal presentation, with several impromptu additions, and then answered questions at the end, speaking mainly from his pastoral experience in Argentina, but also as pope.In the question-and-answer session, he assured participants that his exhortation was thoroughly reviewed by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. battle against the Islamic State has not yet curbed the group's global reach and as pressure mounts on the extremists in Iraq and Syria, they are expected to plot more attacks on the West and incite violence by lone wolves, CIA Director John Brennan told Congress on Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The slaughter in Florida and an attention-grabbing filibuster in the Senate did little to break the election-year stalemate in Congress over guns Thursday, with both sides unwilling to budge and Republicans standing firm against any new legislation opposed by the National Rifle Association....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia became the first major American city with a soda tax on Thursday despite a multimillion-dollar campaign by the beverage industry to block it....
Jo Cox fought against poverty and discrimination in developing countries, worked in Parliament for a solution to the civil war in Syria and campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union. In charity work and politics, she took up causes across the globe, from some of the world's most dangerous countries to her home constituency in Yorkshire....
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) -- It's an unwritten rule for Florida residents: Keep your kids away from ponds and lakes because alligators are everywhere....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida (all times local):...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Embracing grieving Orlando families and appealing anew for national action, President Barack Obama claimed a threat to all Americans' security Thursday as a strong reason to tighten U.S. gun laws. Counterterror campaigns overseas, he declared, can never prevent all "lone wolf" attacks like the one that killed 49 people in Orlando....
(Vatican Radio) The president of the European Union's executive Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has urged the EU to maintain close ties with Russia despite its annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. However speaking at a top economic conference ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he also warned Moscow that the lifting of sanctions is linked to Russia's full implementation of a peace deal for Ukraine.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: European Commission President Juncker is the highest ranking EU official to visit Russia after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. That event and Moscow's support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine triggered American and European Union sanctions against Moscow.But after a two-year break, seen in Russia as a boycott, European leaders and chief executives of top multinational companies are back at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. That's Russia's answer to the more well-kn...
