Responding to the lower house of the Algerian Parliament adopting today legal amendments that expand the scope of the death penalty after more than three decades without any executions, Amnesty International’s Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “Today’s decision by the Algerian People’s National Assembly to approve these […]
Isabella Spohn put the Spartans on the board first with this second-half touchdown. Dialog screenshot/Mike Lang WILMINGTON — Points were at a premium when Saint Mark’s and Ursuline met for a flag football battle on Sept. 30. The Spartans managed one more than the Raiders and captured a 7-6 victory at Fusco Fields at Salesianum. […]
Father Joshua J. Whitfield writes for OSV News. Scripture readings for Sunday. Oct. 4,2026, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 5:1-7 Ps 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 Phil 4:6-9 Mt 21:33-43 Most people probably picture in their minds St. Francis with birds, preaching to them. Giotto’s fresco is beautiful, rightly famous, and it captures something […]
Ahead of the trial of human rights defenders Tommy Olsen and Panayote Dimitras on 6 October in Rhodes on charges relating to their work in support of refugees and migrants Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe said: “The criminal charges against Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen are a gross misuse of anti-smuggling legislation […]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks at a reception after celebrating Mass at the Church of Our Saviour in New York City Sept. 21, 2026. The cardinal was in New York Sept. 20-26 to participate in the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He attended high-level U.N. meetings and delivered several […]
Msgr. Arturo J. Bañuelas, now a retired priest in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, is pictured in a 2017 photo. On Sept. 28, 2026, he was named the recipient of Catholic Extension Society’s 2026-2027 Lumen Christi Award. A priest for 50 years, Msgr. Bañuelas has helped form approximately 80,000 lay leaders through the Tepeyac […]
A nurse gives a patient medication at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, 2024. Pope Leo XIV’s forceful defense of human life during his Sept. 25-27, 2026, visit to France has reignited debate over the country’s newly approved assisted-dying law, which lawmakers had largely considered settled after its […]
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington Jan. 22, 2026, calling on President Donald Trump’s administration to ban the abortion pill. In a Sept. 29, statement, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, urged the faithful to mark […]
BATAM, Mediabatam.id – Dugaan aktivitas pengumpulan dan pengiriman barang dari Batam menuju Tanjungpinang melalui jalur yang diduga tidak resmi menjadi sorotan. Berdasarkan informasi dan penelusuran lapangan yang dihimpun, terdapat dugaan alur pengiriman barang yang dimulai dari rumah pelanggan, kemudian dibawa ke sebuah gudang di kawasan Ruko Glory Paris, Batam Center, Belian, Blok E2. Dalam skema […]
Narasi Pada Senin (7/9/2026), beredar sebuah video (arsip cadangan) di X oleh akun “blackrengers” (@blackrenge85717) yang menampilkan beberapa orang yang mendorong patung Ganesha ke dalam air dengan narasi: “Setelah banjir kehancuran melanda Nepal,sebagian besar penduduk di sana telah memeluk Islam,mereka tampak membuang berhala mereka ke laut.Segala puji bagi Allah atas nikmat Islam Kitab Allah Sunnah […]