For more than 70 years, the popes and Catholic leaders around the globe have echoed the judgment that the nuclear bomb as “the most terrible weapon that the human mind has ever conceived.”
Consistently anti-nuke: Pope continues papal pleas for disarmament
Chaldeans protest ICE detentions outside federal building in Detroit
The organizer of a June 16 protest in Detroit against federal agents’ rounding up more than 100 Iraqi-American immigrants told local media that those who were detained had no prior warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be arresting them the morning of June 11.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds injunction on Trump’s travel ban
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a White House request to overturn an injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries adding that it violated an immigration law that prohibits discrimination based on nationality.
Catholic organizations decry U.S. decision to abandon climate accord
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change agreement sets in motion a long formal process for withdrawal from the agreement which states no nation can withdraw until November 2019.
Safeguarding creation is religious obligation, Vatican officials say
In the Vatican’s annual message as this year Ramadan ends June 24, to both Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, conveys the obligation to safeguard the world God created.