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Nigeria’s Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan has spoken out against elements of Nigerian society bent on fanning the flames of religious discord in his country.On 28 April, Cardinal Onaiyekan himself survived an attempt on his life while travelling on the Benin-Uromi road in Nigeria. Gunmen shot at his vehicle. No one was hurt in the incident. Nevertheless, the bullets shattered the passenger window glass and made huge holes on the panel of the door.Speaking in the wake of recent massacres attributed to Fulani herdsmen in the southeast of Nigeria, the Cardinal was quoted by Agenzia Fides calling on Moslems and Christians not succumb to those inciting hatred."There is a terrible wind blowing around our country right now. There are so many people who are fanning the flames of discord and hatred, and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity and mutual natural love and there are those who are already envisaging a clash between Christians and Muslims".Car...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 11, 2016 / 06:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last year, Sandra Raquel Nogueira Pereira was diagnosed with uterine cancer.But while the months that followed were filled with the pain and fear typical to a cancer diagnosis, Sandra’s story was also one with intense joy, as she finally fulfilled a longtime wish of marrying her boyfriend of 16 years. Several months into her hospital stay, Sandra married Sérgio Pereira da Silva on May 2, according to the Diocese of Crato, Brazil. The couple has three children.The diocese said in a statement that she had been admitted to the Cariri Regional Hospital in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, located in Ceará State in northeast Brazil.While at the hospital, Sandra shared with the staff her greatest dream: to get married. Everyone decided to help make her wish come true.Ticiane Oliveira, the hospital social worker, was responsible for organizing the ceremony, and Zilma Casimirio, a member of the Legion o...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Salvation has nothing to do withthe tidy business of bartering -- earning God's love in return for goodbehavior, Pope Francis said."If you do well you get a reward; if you do poorlyyou get punished. This is not the logic of Jesus," whose ability to love andforgive is unconditional and infinite, the pope said May 11 during his weeklygeneral audience.The pope reflected on the Gospel parable of the prodigalson, which teaches everyone is a child of God not because of one's merits oractions, but because of God's "unchanging love and ready forgiveness."The father patiently waits for his sinning son andrejoices with a celebration when he returns home, the pope said.Even though the son tells his father, "I no longerdeserve to be called your son" because of the extent of his sins, thefather immediately seeks to restore "the signs of his dignity,"because in his eyes, he never stopped being his child, the pope said.No one can take away...
CANNES, France (AP) -- The 69th Cannes Film Festival has opened amid stormy skies, heightened security and the premiere of a new Woody Allen film that prompted a letter from his son Ronan Farrow questioning the festival's and the media's continued embrace of the 80-year-old director....
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's little doubt: Zika is coming to the continental United States, bringing frightening birth defects - and, most likely, newly urgent discussions about abortion and contraception....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota doctor questioned by investigators in Prince's death is an experienced family care physician who worked for a Minneapolis-area health care system until recently....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- A man described by his family as mentally disturbed went on a stabbing rampage hours after leaving a hospital, killing two people and assaulting and stabbing more in a house and a shopping mall before being fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff's deputy, authorities said....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Three separate car bombings in the Iraqi capital Wednesday killed at least 93 people and wounded at least 165....
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The Latest on the debate and vote in Brazil's Senate on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (all times local):...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Senators in Brazil began debate Wednesday on whether to oust President Dilma Rousseff, a movement that has built up steam and turned into a referendum on her leadership amid several spiraling crises besetting Latin America's largest nation....
