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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities are trying to determine why a man went on a stabbing rampage in Massachusetts, killing two people and assaulting and stabbing more in a house and a shopping mall before being shot dead by a fast-acting off-duty sheriff's deputy....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine election officials challenged Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Wednesday to prove his allegation of irregularities in the counting of votes for vice president, where he has been overtaken by his closest rival....
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology....
CAIRO (AP) -- Hours after marching in a peaceful protest against the government late last month, Yassin Mohammed and his friends were lingering in the area in a district of the Egyptian capital when police descended on them, piled them into a minibus and took them to a police station. There, he said, he was blindfolded, handcuffed and beaten by security agents....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- When a measure to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was introduced to Congress late last year, the possibility that she would actually be removed from office seemed remote....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday - a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- As House Speaker Paul Ryan walks a fine line on Donald Trump - withholding his support, at least for now - some voters back home in his congressional district applaud his effort for the greater good of the GOP....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shifting swiftly to the general election, Donald Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to "five or six" people and is leaning against accepting public money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton....
Irapuato, Mexico, May 10, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Mexican bishop is seeking answers after recent attacks on Catholic churches and priests, and years of high murder rates.“The solution lies in changing people’s hearts, and in making peace to really be peace with God and with your brothers and sisters, otherwise we shouldn’t expect a good future,” Bishop José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda of Irapuato said in a recent interview with the Mexican weekly Desde la Fe.According to Mexico’s National Institute for Statistics and Geography, between 2007 and 2014 there were 164,345 reported homicides in the country. The period includes some of the bloodiest years of fighting between the drug cartels and the Mexican government, following the beginning of a “war on drugs” begun in 2006.Such violence came home to Irapuato last month. On April 26, four armed men assaulted Fr. Efren Silva while he was in the sacristy of Lord of Me...
Irapuato, Mexico, May 10, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Mexican bishop is seeking answers after recent attacks on Catholic churches and priests, and years of high murder rates.
“The solution lies in changing people’s hearts, and in making peace to really be peace with God and with your brothers and sisters, otherwise we shouldn’t expect a good future,” Bishop José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda of Irapuato said in a recent interview with the Mexican weekly Desde la Fe.
According to Mexico’s National Institute for Statistics and Geography, between 2007 and 2014 there were 164,345 reported homicides in the country. The period includes some of the bloodiest years of fighting between the drug cartels and the Mexican government, following the beginning of a “war on drugs” begun in 2006.
Such violence came home to Irapuato last month. On April 26, four armed men assaulted Fr. Efren Silva while he was in the sacristy of Lord of Mercy parish in Irapuato's Lazaro Cardenas neighborhood, stealing nearly $400.
Bishop Martínez lamented the crime.
“The robbers came in, tied him up and roughed him up so he would tell them where the money was. In reality, it's a very poor parish, when the money comes in and goes out on a daily basis.”
The prelate said this is not an isolated incident. He recently learned of a priest from Salamanca who had been attacked by some robbers. They “struck him on the forehead, inflicting such a wound that he had to go to a medical center to get stitches.”
“We hope these incidents will soon stop,” he said.
In 2015, three priests were murdered in Mexico, according to the Investigation Unit of the Catholic Multimedia Center.
Bishop Martínez told the faithful that there is no reason to lose hope, for “Christ has risen, the tomb is empty; we need to work so that the Resurrection of Christ encompasses our society.”
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Russell Westbrook had 35 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the San Antonio Spurs 95-91 on Tuesday night and take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinals....
