To the consternation of humanitarian, health and civic activists, the budget proposal includes deep cuts or restructuring of international aid and social service programs.

Hannah Brandt is a forward for the U.S. Olympic team. Marissa Brandt, who was adopted as a baby from South Korea, used her birth name, Park-Yoon Jung, for the Olympics and plays defense for the combined Koreas.

The process needs to be more transparent, Father Hans Zollner said.

"The Catholic Church clearly teaches that contraception is an immoral action that contradicts the truth of marital love."

Political unrest in and around the capital, Kinshasa, is just the latest malady to afflict the Congolese citizens.

In November 2016, the International Medical Committee of Lourdes confirmed the nun's "unexplained healing, in the current state of scientific knowledge."