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IMAGE: CNS photo/Helen Manson, U.S. Embassy in UgandaBy Carolyn MackenzieWASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Catholiccongressman fresh from a fact-finding trip to East Africa, conscious of thehuman rights concerns brought on by famine and military violence, aims toincrease funding for affected areas and urge reappointment of a special envoyto the region under the Trump administration.Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey,recently returned from leading a congressional delegation to South Sudan andUganda. Along with Rep. Karen Bass, D-California, Smith traveled to East Africato address the famine and violence plaguing the area.Smith and Bass met withPresident Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan and President Yoweri KagutaMuseveni of Uganda. Smith said the appointment of Gen. James Ajongo Mawut asmilitary chief of staff in South Sudan will likely mark a turning point fromprevious leadership."Now if he (Ajongo) can succeedand inculcate the values of protection and human rights observance within themilitary, ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Public Theater is refusing to back down after backlash over its production of "Julius Caesar" that portrays a Donald Trump-like dictator in a business suit with a long tie who gets knifed to death onstage....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reason for keeping people from six mostly Muslim nations from coming to the country....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A friend of the president says Donald Trump is considering "terminating" special counsel Robert Mueller....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte avoided jail time after pleading guilty Monday to an election-eve assault on a reporter that turned the race for Montana's lone U.S. House seat into a full-fledged political spectacle....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Shefveland's body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune cells, engineered them into cancer assassins and unleashed them into his bloodstream....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Great president or greatest?...
Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 10:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis met on Thursday with a delegation from a Nigerian diocese which for the last four and a half years has refused to recognize the bishop who was appointed as its shepherd.He demanded that the clerics of the Diocese of Ahiara accept the bishop appointment that has been made, or face suspension and loss of office.Fr. Peter Okpaleke was appointed Bishop of Ahiara in December 2012 by Benedict XVI. But the Ahiara diocese is dominated by the Mbaise ethnic group. As an outsider from the nearby Diocese of Awka, Fr. Okpaleke was rejected by much of Ahiara's clergy and laity, who wanted one of their own to be appointed bishop over them.The Mbaise are among the most Catholic of Nigerian peoples – 77 percent of the diocese's population of 670,000 are Catholic. Nearby dioceses range between 19 and 70 percent Catholic.Families in the rural diocese foster priestly and religious vocations, with at least 167 priestly or...
Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 12:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Consolation is never self-reliant, Pope Francis said during Mass on Monday, noting it is only possible to receive the Lord’s encouragement through another.“No one can console himself, no one – and whoever tries to do it ends up looking into the mirror – staring into the mirror and trying to ‘make oneself up,’” said the Pope during his June 12 Mass at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.“The experience of consolation, which is a spiritual experience, always needs ‘someone else’ in order to be full.”He reflected on the day’s readings, in which Saint Paul described the need for the Lord’s consolation in his second letter to the Corinthians, and the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew.He said the “doctors of the law” will not have true consolation because they are the ones who console themselves. “One ‘consoles’ ...
