Eight people have been murdered in an around the Mexican International tourist resort of Acapulco over the weekend. James Blears reports a destination which was once famous for attracting movie stars and the ultra rich, is descending into a battleground between competing drug cartels. Listen: A bar fight left three men dead and another critically wounded. The bodies of two men and a woman found in a car, two more men shot dead in their cars. An anonymous tipoff led Police to dig up three corpses in a shallow grave. While in the near the City of Tixla, also in the State of Guerrero, gunmen assasinated Judge Juan Octavio Morales.International tourist organizations now list Acapulco as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the World. Last year The Mexican Government launched a coordinated campaign to promote and boost Acapulco. It was once the annual host for the Country`s Tourism Convention. Sadly due to rival drug cartels, who`ve included ...
Eight people have been murdered in an around the Mexican International tourist resort of Acapulco over the weekend.
James Blears reports a destination which was once famous for attracting movie stars and the ultra rich, is descending into a battleground between competing drug cartels.
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A bar fight left three men dead and another critically wounded. The bodies of two men and a woman found in a car, two more men shot dead in their cars. An anonymous tipoff led Police to dig up three corpses in a shallow grave. While in the near the City of Tixla, also in the State of Guerrero, gunmen assasinated Judge Juan Octavio Morales.
International tourist organizations now list Acapulco as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the World. Last year The Mexican Government launched a coordinated campaign to promote and boost Acapulco. It was once the annual host for the Country`s Tourism Convention. Sadly due to rival drug cartels, who`ve included the hotel zone and principal beaches in their pitched battles, the bold and brave plan has fallen flat.
Paris, France, Aug 1, 2016 / 11:55 am (CNA).- Following the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel by terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, Muslims across France and Italy attended Mass on Sunday in a show of solidarity with Catholics.“We're very touched. It's an important gesture of fraternity,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen told a French television station July 31, the BBC reported.“They've told us, and I think they're sincere, that it's not Islam which killed Jacques Hamel.”The initiative was created by the French Center for Muslim Worship, which was joined by the Italian Muslim Religious Community.“We want to say no to this new racism,” a Catholic who attended a Mass along with several imams at the Roman minor basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere told CNA. “We are not afraid … we are here because we are all brothers, as Jesus teaches us.”Fr. Hamel was killed July 26 by two Islamic State ter...
Paris, France, Aug 1, 2016 / 11:55 am (CNA).- Following the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel by terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, Muslims across France and Italy attended Mass on Sunday in a show of solidarity with Catholics.
“We're very touched. It's an important gesture of fraternity,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen told a French television station July 31, the BBC reported.
“They've told us, and I think they're sincere, that it's not Islam which killed Jacques Hamel.”
The initiative was created by the French Center for Muslim Worship, which was joined by the Italian Muslim Religious Community.
“We want to say no to this new racism,” a Catholic who attended a Mass along with several imams at the Roman minor basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere told CNA. “We are not afraid … we are here because we are all brothers, as Jesus teaches us.”
Fr. Hamel was killed July 26 by two Islamic State terrorists while saying Mass in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen. The assailants took hostages, and were themselves shot dead by police.
Mohammed Karabila, head of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray's mosque, was among those who attended Mass on Sunday. He said that “for me, it is very important to be here today. It should be shown physically, because until now the Muslim community did a lot of things that were not seen.”
“Today we wanted to show physically, by kissing the family of Jacques Hamel, by kissing His Grace Lebrun in front of everybody, so they know that the two communities are united.”
Manuel Valls, the French prime minister, has said the state should avoid “paternalism” toward Islam, but that “there is an urgent need to help Islam in France to rid itself of those who are undermining it from the inside.”
He added that “if Islam doesn't help the Republic to fight those who challenge public freedoms, it will get harder for the Republic to guarantee this freedom of worship.”
Recent estimates suggest that Muslims constitute between seven and nine percent of France's population; and many French immigrants are Muslim.
There have been concerns that Muslim immigrants are not well integrated into France's mainstream culture, where laïcité, a strict form of public secularism, has been official government policy since 1905.
Wichita, Kan., Aug 1, 2016 / 12:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The body of a Kansas seminarian who drowned after rescuing a woman in the Arkansas River has been found.Wichita Police said Brian Bergkamp’s body was discovered July 28 in the Arkansas River, according to the Wichita Eagle.Bergkamp, age 24, had finished his second year at seminary. He was scheduled to be ordained a priest in 2018.The seminarian was kayaking with four friends July 9 on the Arkansas River. They hit rough water, and one of the women in the group fell out of her kayak.Bergkamp plunged in after the woman and was able to help her reach safety, but he was then pulled under by the strong current, according to officials.A July 18 memorial Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was attended by more than 1,000 people.Those who knew the seminarian described him as selfless and said they were not surprised by his act of self-sacrifice to save the life of another.“He would go out of his way to help so...
Wichita, Kan., Aug 1, 2016 / 12:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The body of a Kansas seminarian who drowned after rescuing a woman in the Arkansas River has been found.
Wichita Police said Brian Bergkamp’s body was discovered July 28 in the Arkansas River, according to the Wichita Eagle.
Bergkamp, age 24, had finished his second year at seminary. He was scheduled to be ordained a priest in 2018.
The seminarian was kayaking with four friends July 9 on the Arkansas River. They hit rough water, and one of the women in the group fell out of her kayak.
Bergkamp plunged in after the woman and was able to help her reach safety, but he was then pulled under by the strong current, according to officials.
A July 18 memorial Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was attended by more than 1,000 people.
Those who knew the seminarian described him as selfless and said they were not surprised by his act of self-sacrifice to save the life of another.
“He would go out of his way to help someone and forget about his own, probably, self in the process. So what he did was a very natural thing for him,” said Mt. St. Mary’s University Vice Rector, Father Kenneth Brighenti, to KSN News.
“He said he just had a desire to help people, to save people. He thought about being a fireman or a paramedic or a policeman, but decided the priesthood was what he wanted to do,” added Jan Haberly, director at Lord’s Diner, which serves meals to those in need. Bergkamp had been an intern at the diner this summer.
Fellow seminarian Jimmy Schibi described Bergkamp as deeply faithful and generous.
“He was never about himself, always looking to do something for others, never thinking of himself,” Schibi told the Wichita Eagle. “He cared. He totally cared about each little individual job he was doing.”
“He gave up his life to be a priest, but before he could do that, he gave up his life for another,” Schibi said. “Probably one of the most selfless individuals that I’d ever met.”
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