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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators on Monday pressed to wrap up a must-do spending bill to prevent an election-season government shutdown and finally provide money to battle the threat of the Zika virus, but numerous sticking points remain....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A black man fatally shot by a white Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer responding to a stalled vehicle had no weapon on him or in his SUV, the city's police chief said Monday....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, global leaders on Monday approved a declaration aimed at providing a more coordinated and humane response to the refugee crisis that has strained resources and stoked divisions from Africa to Europe....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's military on Monday declared that the week-long U.S.-Russian brokered cease-fire was over as the government and opposition traded accusations over mounting violations....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving "aid and comfort" to Islamic terrorists Monday, declaring after a weekend of violent attacks in three states that his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps groups like ISIS recruit new fighters. Trump showed no sign of changing, casting "many" foreigners coming to the U.S. as a "cancer within."...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- The stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall look to be the work of a "lone attacker," officials said Monday, and federal authorities are looking at whether it was a potential act of terrorism in an the immigrant-rich state that has struggled to stop the recruiting of its young men by groups including the Islamic State....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on explosive devices being found in two states (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections, while a rising right-wing anti-immigrant party will enter the regional parliament for the first time, amid public anger over her open-door policy towards refugees. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were ousted from the state governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), just weeks after losing an election in another state.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: However members of the anti-immigrant and European Union skeptic Alternative for Germany Party (AFD) had reasons to celebrate in Berlin.Preliminary results from Sunday's elections showed they had won over 12 percent of the vote in the state, enough to secure a presence in Berlin’s regional assembly.Voters appear to have punished German Chancellor Merkel for allowing some 1.1 million migrants fleeing war and poverty to be registered in Germany, after several other EU countries ...
(Vatican Radio) The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections, while a rising right-wing anti-immigrant party will enter the regional parliament for the first time, amid public anger over her open-door policy towards refugees. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were ousted from the state governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), just weeks after losing an election in another state.
Listen to Stefan Bos' report:
However members of the anti-immigrant and European Union skeptic Alternative for Germany Party (AFD) had reasons to celebrate in Berlin.
Preliminary results from Sunday's elections showed they had won over 12 percent of the vote in the state, enough to secure a presence in Berlin’s regional assembly.
Voters appear to have punished German Chancellor Merkel for allowing some 1.1 million migrants fleeing war and poverty to be registered in Germany, after several other EU countries such as Hungary showed open hostility towards them.
With the count all but completed Merkel's CDU came in second with just over 17 percent, down from 23 percent in 2011, while the SPD was first with 23 percent, much lower than in the previous election.
AFD warning
AFD's State chairman, Georg Pazderski, told supporters that it was the first time in 66 years that a party went zero to double-digits points in Berlin. "With the hands on heart: who would have believed that we could reach such a result," he said. "I had hope, but this outcome is fantastic." He also claimed that the relative high voter turnout was linked to AFD's service.
Pazderkski said the grand coalition had been voted out in Berlin and warned that this would also happen at at the "federal level in national elections next year."
Berlin's city mayor warned that a double-digit score for the anti-immigrant AFD would be seen around the world as the rebirth of the Nazis.
Analysts view the losses for both the biggest parties as a wake-up call for the national government and a sign of further fragmentation of Germany’s political landscape.
(Vatican Radio) Three days of dialogue have been organized ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi.The Sant’Egidio community has organized the series of presentations, round tables, and panel discussions on a host of themes, from social justice and equality as keys to peace, to the local effects of –and responses to – global challenges, to the need once again and with an ever more unified voice decry the misuse and abuse of religion in the service of unworthy causes.Listen to Chris Altieri's report: Thirst for Peace: religions and cultures in dialogue, is the theme of this 30th anniversary iteration of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, first convoked by Pope St. John Paul II in 1986. “We’ve made important progress,” the Archbishop-emeritus of Barcelona,Card. Lluis Martinez Sistach told Vatican Radio on the sidelines of one of the events in the city of St. Francis.He went on to express his gratitude to the Sant’Egidio comm...
(Vatican Radio) Three days of dialogue have been organized ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi.
The Sant’Egidio community has organized the series of presentations, round tables, and panel discussions on a host of themes, from social justice and equality as keys to peace, to the local effects of –and responses to – global challenges, to the need once again and with an ever more unified voice decry the misuse and abuse of religion in the service of unworthy causes.
Listen to Chris Altieri's report:
Thirst for Peace: religions and cultures in dialogue, is the theme of this 30th anniversary iteration of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, first convoked by Pope St. John Paul II in 1986. “We’ve made important progress,” the Archbishop-emeritus of Barcelona,Card. Lluis Martinez Sistach told Vatican Radio on the sidelines of one of the events in the city of St. Francis.
He went on to express his gratitude to the Sant’Egidio community for their three decades of leadership in organizing the international event.
If the “Spirit of Assisi” is alive and well, and bears the mark of the visionary saint who began it, Pope Francis has brought a renewed sense of urgency to the common search for peace. “These,” Card. Sistach said, “are the things to which we bear witness when we come here.”
The desire – the thirst – for peace, is constitutive of human nature: to be human is to thirst for peace.
Here in Assisi, more than 500 people representing scores of religions have come together to show their desire to discover within their traditions the wherewithal to serve the cause of peace, and to bear witness and give exercise to the enduring presence of that desire and the hope for its fulfilment.
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is to attend the signing of the ‘Final Accord for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Durable Peace’ between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).A statement released on Monday by the Holy See Press Office confirmed Cardinal Parolin’s presence at the signing, which is set to take place 26 September 2016.
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is to attend the signing of the ‘Final Accord for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Durable Peace’ between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
A statement released on Monday by the Holy See Press Office confirmed Cardinal Parolin’s presence at the signing, which is set to take place 26 September 2016.
