US surgeon general says preventing spread of virus must be top priority

Calling the Covid-19 pandemic the challenge of a lifetime, the United States’ top public health official travelled to Florida seeking help in slowing the deadly outbreak. He also came to learn how one urban community has managed a particularly low incidence of infection spread among the homeless. Dr Jerome Adams, the 20th US surgeon general,... Read More

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July 25, 2020

US Church to focus on engagement with young people

The US Catholic Church will convene a yearlong intercultural process with young adults and ministry leaders from today, Saturday 25th July. Called ‘Journeying Together’, the initiative aims to explore the Catholic Church’s engagement with young people of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and mobilise US Catholics on issues and concerns related to culture and race... Read More

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July 21, 2020

Court orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to begin accepting new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA. Judge Paul W. Grimm of the US District Court for the District of Maryland said his order “restores the DACA policy to its pre-5th September 2017 status”, referring to the day the Trump... Read More

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July 17, 2020

US judge stops Georgia’s ‘heartbeat law’ from ever taking effect

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta said he was “deeply disappointed that a federal judge struck Georgia’s so-called “heartbeat law” on abortion. “All life is precious from the moment of conception until its natural end. As a people of faith, we must defend and protect life in all its stages,” he said, adding he was... Read More

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July 10, 2020

Trump’s decision to withdraw US from WHO ‘deeply regrettable’, CHA says

The Catholic Health Association said it is “deeply regrettable” that President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the US from the World Health Organisation during a global pandemic. Instead, the US should be “leading a co-ordinated global response to protect the lives of millions of people around the world”, the organisation said in a statement released... Read More

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July 10, 2020

Cardinal asks Trump to grant clemency to federal death-row inmate

Federal death-row inmate Dustin Lee Honken was convicted of “heinous” crimes but killing him ‘will do nothing to restore justice or heal those still burdened by these crimes,’ Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin has said in a letter to President Donald Trump. ‘Instead, his execution will reduce the government of the United States to the level... Read More

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July 9, 2020

Supreme Court decision on contraceptives called a win for religious freedom

Several organisations praised the US Supreme Court decision that upheld Trump administration regulations giving employers more ability to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage in their health plans. Groups as diverse as Students for Life of America and the Heritage Foundation hailed the 8th July decision as a victory for the free exercise of religion... Read More

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July 3, 2020

Report marks 20th year of US efforts to address trafficking worldwide

Government-sponsored trafficking is “a perversion of any government’s reason for existence”, which is “to protect rights, not crush them”, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during the release of the 20th annual Trafficking in Persons Report. “The United States will not stand by as any government with a policy or pattern of human trafficking subjects... Read More

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July 2, 2020

Judge strikes down Trump administration’s ‘third-country asylum rule’

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration unlawfully implemented its 2019 policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don’t first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States. Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said the policy might have been legal but the administration... Read More

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July 1, 2020

Bishop denounces activist’s call to destroy statues of Jesus

A bishop in the United States has denounced comments by a Black Lives Matter activist who said statues of Jesus Christ that depict him ‘with European features’ need to come down ‘because they support white supremacy’. As a shepherd of the Catholic Church, “I cannot remain silent. I need to denounce such a call to... Read More

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