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Ministry in America

September 28, 2015

Vol. 213 / No. 8

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SAFE AT LAST? Syrian refugee children covered with dust arrive on Sept. 10 at the Jordanian border with Syria and Iraq, near Amman, Jordan.
Signs Of the Times
Kevin ClarkeSeptember 16, 2015

The Obama administration announced on Sept. 10 that it would seek to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees during the next fiscal year in response to a growing crisis that has shocked consciences around the world. That number would reflect a significant increase from the 1,293 admitted in fiscal year 2015, b

Israel school protest
Signs Of the Times

As Israeli students began their second week of classes on Sept. 6, thousands of students and teachers from Christian schools converged in front of the Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s office to protest government budget cuts to their schools. • During his homily on Sept. 10, Pope Francis s

Pope Francis meets with bishops from South Africa at Vatican
Signs Of the Times
Anthony Egan, S.J.September 16, 2015

That such ministries are sinister is obvious. They rely on mass, possibly hypnotic, suggestion, group hysteria and unscrupulous manipulation.

INDISSOLUBLE. The sacrament of marriage depicted in St. Isabel Church in Sanibel, Fla.
Signs Of the Times

Pope Francis’ reformed rules for marriage annulment cases, making the process simpler, quicker and less expensive, respond to calls that bishops from around the world have been making since before the 1980 meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the family convoked by St. John Paul II. With the new

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks June 9 during the Catholic Health Association's annual assembly in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Signs Of the Times

Religious leaders from different faith traditions urged President Obama in a letter on Sept. 10 to continue to permit government-funded faith groups to employ people with like beliefs. Their request comes less than a month after a coalition of religious and secular organizations sent the president a

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellSeptember 16, 2015

The crackdown against Christianity has taken various forms.