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Nancy Pelosi in the Vatican with Cardinal Turkson / Twitter @VaticanIHD / Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development PrefectVatican City, Oct 8, 2021 / 11:30 am (CNA).House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussed the environment, migration, and human rights during a visit to the Vatican on Friday.The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced the visit on Oct. 8 in a post on its Twitter account.It said: "We welcome Speaker Pelosi from the U.S. Hou...

Former Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly is Biden's pick to be the top American in charge of relationships with Catholic Church leadership.

Blinken is visiting Rome before flying to southern Italy for the G-20 meeting of foreign ministers. Author: FRANCES DEMILIO Associated Press Published: 2:17 AM MST June 28, 2021 Updated: 2:17 AM MST June 28, 2021 ROME, Italy — As the U.S. works on its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, members of the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group met Monday to plot future steps against the extremist group. The meeting came just a day afte...

When John Kerry, the White House’s special envoy on climate change, visited Pope Francis earlier this month, the moment garnered popular attention mostly for an image that emerged from the meeting: ...

The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome displayed a rainbow flag in celebration of Pride Month on Tuesday.

US Bishops try to rein in the Biden administration, but the Vatican is all smiles

New Savannah charter school delayed by construction costs New Savannah charter school delayed by construction costs By Blair Caldwell | May 18, 2021 at 4:59 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 6:01 PM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A charter school had hopes to open this fall but is now delaying that start date because of complications from the COVID-19 pandemic. Savannah Exploratory Charter Academy (SECA) had 150 students apply for the 21-22 school year, but now they are making other plans. “This is cer...

Rome, Italy, May 12, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). For Gulchehra Hoja, the Chinese government’s systematic repression of Uyghur Muslims is personal: her mother, father, brother, and more than 20 relatives are detained in “reeducation camps” in Xinjiang. “Last week, I learned that one of my relatives … had died in Chinese prison. His body has not been returned to his family,” Hoja said May 11 at a virtual event hosted by the U.S. embassy to the Vatican. He was a “59-year-old father of thr...

May 12, 2021 editor “We are facing a genocide in every aspect of life,” Uyghur journalist and activist Gulchehra Hoja told the event. “I speak for my mother, my father, my brother, and the millions desperate to be safe.” ROME – Without even logging in, a physician and human rights activist named Harri Uyghur managed to steal the show during an on-line event Tuesday sponsored by the US Embassy to the Holy See on the plight of Uyghur people in China, offering a powerful reminder of the ...

Taunton Magistrates Courts in St Johns Road, Taunton A PROLIFIC thief has been jailed for more than six months for a string of shoplifting offences. Daniel Andrew Westcott, 30, who gave his address as a homeless hostel in Taunton, was sent down at Taunton Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to four offences. He was sent to prison for a total of eight weeks for the thefts from Tesco, Tesco Express and Boots. Westcott received a further 20 weeks after admitting breaching a suspended s...