WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics Monday in the court's biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century.
The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state.
(CNSNews.com) – Pope Francis joined an Armenian leader Sunday in lamenting the persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East – and angered Turkey by once again referring to the atrocities committed against Armenian Christians a century ago as "genocide."
The pontiff and Armenian Apostolic leader Karekin II in a joint statement spoke of the "immense tragedy" of "countless innocent people" being killed, displaced or exiled as a result of conflicts carried out on ethnic, religious, political or economic grounds
