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Immigration

Family left behind in Slovenia evokes memories of WWII

All travel is a search for meaning, a pilgrimage. No less was our trip to the Adriatic Coast. Americans love stories of immigrant success. Some bright lights have come as refugees from discrimination and murderous governments. Some have waved the flag of enterprise and made a name for themselves. These

Faith

Report: Religious freedom deteriorating around the world

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Religious freedom remains under "serious and sustained assault" around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. "At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve," commission chairman

Faith

Stories of ISIS victims are emerging, and they’re unbelievably brutal

New York City, N.Y. (CNA) — (Editor's note: This article includes explicit descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised.) The stories were graphic, brutal and raw.

boston

Media ignore the big issues, focus on the trivial

This week, at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City for Catholic high school seniors, I heard a student speak eloquently about faith being the greatest of all virtues. We then heard Cardinal Dolan in his homily talk about the

Faith

‘You are not forgotten,’ Cardinal Dolan tells Iraq’s Christians and Yazidis

Dohuk, Iraq (CNA/EWTN News) — On his second full day in Iraq, Cardinal Timothy Dolan traveled three hours to Dohuk, the city where the majority of those who fled Mosul, including the members of the minority Yazidi population, escaped to when ISIS overran the city. After the lengthy ride, Cardinal

ISIS

Kerry determines ISIS committing genocide in Iraq, Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. officials, as he acted to meet a congressional deadline. But Kerry's finding, set to be announced Thursday, will

congress

Kerry still waffling on ISIS genocide as deadline passes

(CNSNews.com) – The administration "certainly respect[s]" deadlines laid down by Congress in legislation, but Secretary of State John Kerry needs more time to make a determination on whether atrocities by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other religious minorities amount to

Barack Obama

ISIS unanimously condemned for genocide in House resolution

(CNSNews.com) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted 393 to 0 tonight in favor of a resolution declaring that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is committing "genocide" against Christians, Yezidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East. The vote on the resolution,