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(Vatican Radio) The civic body of Mumbai in western India pulled down a cross in a suburb on Saturday, drawing sharp reactions from Catholic officials and the faithful. Not long after officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the civic body that governs Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra state, pulled down a cross near Bazar Road in Bandra on April 29, local Catholics put up a a makeshift cross to “reassure” the community. A group staged a protest outside Bandra police station demanding action against the BMC officials for hurting religious sentiments. The Archdiocese of Bombay plans to go to court against the demolition. Catholics say the demolished cross was on private land and was erected 122 years ago. “It has religious and historical significance,” said archdiocesan spokesperson Father Nigel Barrett in a statement on April 30. He said the tearing down of the cross without following due process has dis...
IMAGE: Catholic News ServiceBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Carrying banners and signs with quotes from Pope Francis' encyclical "LaudatoSi'," hundreds of Catholics joined the People's Climate March to call formoral and prayerful action to protect creation.On asweltering day that reinforced the message about the need to respond to climatechange -- the 91-degree temperature at 3 p.m. April 29 tied a 43-year-oldWashington record for the date -- many in the Catholic contingent said theyfelt they had a moral obligation to witness in the streets."Wemarch for our grandchildren. Stop global warming," read one sign proppedup in the back of St. Dominic Church in Washington, where about 300 peoplegathered before the march for Mass celebrated by Dominican Father Hyacinth Marie Cordell, theparish's parochial vicar."TheVatican is solar. What about US?" read another. "We resist, we build,we rise," read a sign from St. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker Community in Worcester,Massachusetts....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The only thing stopping Gordon Hayward in the playoffs was a case of food poisoning....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ryan Seacrest was named co-host of the morning chat show "Live" with Kelly Ripa on Monday, ending a yearlong search for a marquee name as Michael Strahan's successor....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Workers and activists marked May Day around the world Monday with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A U.S.-based human rights group says President Donald Trump should not roll out the White House red carpet for Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, whom it accused of being a "mastermind" of mass murder because of his anti-drug crackdown in which thousands have died....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A man sat calmly with a gun on his lap and opened fire on seven people enjoying a birthday party at an apartment complex pool near the University of California, San Diego, killing one woman before officers fatally shot him, witnesses and authorities said....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump made puzzling claims about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War in an interview, suggesting he was uncertain about the origin of the conflict while claiming that Jackson was upset about a war that started 16 years after his death....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers on Monday unveiled a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund most government operations through September but would deny President Donald Trump money for a border wall and rejects his proposed cuts to popular domestic programs....
