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(Vatican Radio) In this the final episode of a three part series on the famed Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, Vatican Radio continues its tour, this week exploring the Church’s lower level which includes a memorial to Saints Cyril and Methodius.The Basilica’s Rector Fr Thomas McCarthy is our guide through this labyrinth of humid rooms which reveal herringbone brickwork and explains why the curious sound of water echoes around this historic level.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Lydia O’Kane
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has called on the international community to protect the rights of unaccompanied migrant children and condemned their detention as a "grave error".The Vatican's Permanent Observer to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, made the remarks to the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents."The grave error of the detention model is that it considers the children as sole, isolated subjects responsible for the situations in which they find themselves and over which they have little, if any, control. This model wrongly absolves the international community at large from responsibilities that it regularly fails to fulfill," Archbishop Jurkovic said.He also appealed on behalf of the Holy See for the international community "to protect the dignity and fundamental rights of every person and to implement, without reserve, humanitarian law, principles and polici...
Sri Lanka police have arrested five people including a member of a hardline Buddhist organization for instigating religious violence against Muslims and a Muslim for defaming Buddhism, police said on Sunday. The arrests come a week after diplomats condemned violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka and urged the government to uphold minority rights and freedom of religion. Earlier, legislators blamed the government for failing to stop a spate of attacks on minority Muslims.More than 20 attacks on Muslims have been recorded since April 17, including arson at Muslim-owned businesses and petrol-bomb attacks on mosques while the police said at least 16 such cases had been reported since April.President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe have ordered police to uphold the law, but the violence against Muslims has not ended.Muslims, who account for around 9 percent of Sri Lanka's population of 21 million, have blamed the attacks on Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) or ...
Issele-Uku, Nigeria, Jun 12, 2017 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It was supposed to be a quiet retreat weekend last April for Fr. Sam Okwuidegbe, a Nigerian Jesuit priest and director of a local spirituality center.Before he left, he chatted with his new provincial, Fr. Chuks Afiawari, who joked with Fr. Sam: “Make sure where you are going they don't kidnap you."“We laughed about it,” Fr. Sam recalled.Little did the priests know that the joke would be an unfortunate foreshadowing of what was to come. In a testimony posted on the website of the Jesuit Superiors of Africa and Madagascar, Fr. Sam recalled how his faith carried him through a traumatic and harrowing experience of kidnapping.On his way to the retreat, which was to be in Onitsha, in the state of Anambra, Fr. Sam took a familiar, seemingly safe highway on which he had traveled many times.That’s why he was so surprised when he heard gunshots.“On glancing back I saw all the vehicles behind...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Even Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to be challenged trying to top this....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Church bells throughout Orlando will ring 49 times at noon Monday, a year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Protests spearheaded by prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny were taking place across the country on Monday, but Navalny himself was reportedly arrested outside his Moscow home en route to the centerpiece demonstration in the capital city....
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a message to the President of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) on the occasion of its 33rd General Assembly.Addressing his letter to Ms. Blanca Alcalá, the Parlatino president, Pope Francis reflects on migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, the theme of the Assembly.He said the initiative “aims to help and make life more dignified for those who, having a homeland, regrettably do not find in their countries adequate conditions of security and subsistence, and are compelled to migrate to other places.”The Holy Father goes on to highlight three words related to migration: reality, dialogue, and commitment.Related to reality, he said that behind every emigrant lies “a human being with a history of his own, with a culture and ideals.”“Dialogue,” he said, “is essential to foster solidarity with those who have been deprived of their fundamental rights, as well as to ...
SYDNEY (AP) -- A plane heading to Shanghai returned safely to Sydney after an in-flight problem left a gaping hole in the engine casing....
