Catholic News Service

“While human trafficking always exploits the vulnerable, the trafficking of children and youth exploits those most vulnerable of all.”

The U.S. bishops argue that the act closes loopholes that are allowing states to mandate abortions be performed or covered by Catholic and other faith-based health care providers.

The National Black Catholic Congress issued a prayer and call to action on July 13 following a week of violence across the United States.

Cardinal Nichols: “I look forward to working with you across a wide range of issues in service of the common good.”

The bill is “a modest but important step in ensuring conscience protection to faith-based organizations and people of all faiths and of no faith who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”

The “police are not a faceless enemy” and “the suspects in crimes or routine traffic stops are not just a faceless threat,” but members of families in “need of assistance, protection and fairness.”

“We condemn all acts of violence without exception,” the South Sudan Council of Churches said, noting that it is “time to build a peaceful nation.”

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died on July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities of the Holocaust.When P

“At least 6.5 million people will be food insecure in the coming year, according to a May government assessment. Malawi has a population of 16 million people.”

Duterte, who won by a landslide in the May elections with 16.6 million votes, promised to “listen to the murmurings of the people” as he vowed to relentlessly fight the “problems that bedevil our country.”