MIAMI (OSV News) A leading Haitian-American pastor based in the U.S. said he agrees with a U.N. specialist that international special forces along with a weapons embargo are needed to stop Haiti s further slide as a failed state.
U.N. human rights expert William O Neill, who was appointed to assess the situation in Haiti in April, concluded in late June that a specialized international force is needed to help fight gang violence ravaging the impoverished Caribbean nation.
O Neill told rep
(OSV News) When the International Society for Stem Cell Research recently held its annual meeting in Boston, the more than 4,000 assembled scientists from 75 countries were promised the future starts here.
That future, they were told in a plenary address by professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge in England and the California Institute of Technology now includes synthetic human embryos. We can create human embryo-like models by the reprogramming of (embryo
(OSV News) While conversion and prayer are at the heart of Mary s messages at Fatima, Portugal, the miracles and unexplained phenomenon that accompanied the events 106 years ago continue to intrigue believers and nonbelievers alike.
With the newly granted title of venerable, the canonization cause for Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the longest-living Fatima visionary who died in 2005, has moved forward, renewing interest in the apparitions history. However, Mary s apparitions in 1917
(OSV News) Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last surviving Fatima visionary, died in the Carmelite cloister in Coimbra, Portugal, in February 2005 at the age of 97. At the time of her death, St. John Paul II recalled their bonds of spiritual friendship that intensified with the passing of time. I always felt supported by the daily gift of her prayers, especially in difficult moments of trial and suffering, the pope wrote in a message to Bishop Albino Mamede Cleto of Coimbra, less t
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S., announced that Pope Francis has named Burlington's 10th Bishop Christopher J. Coyne as the first ever coadjutor archbishop of Hartford. The Woburn native's transfer from the Green Mountain State to the Nutmeg State was effective on June 26. Until he arrives in Harford, he will also be the apostolic administrator of Burlington. Following Archbishop Coyne's Mass of Welcome at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph on Oct