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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is getting some self-help advice and gaining a bit of weight in prison under his new, tighter-security regime, but Mexico's formerly most wanted man is apparently not doing so well in the love department....
CHICAGO (AP) -- In this city's troubled history of police misconduct, Eric Caine's case may be unrivaled: It took more than 25 years and $10 million to resolve....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Merrick Garland's judicial record over nearly two decades indicates he would side more often than not with the Supreme Court's liberal justices on a range of cases splitting the court along ideological lines....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A suicide attacker detonated a bomb Saturday on Istanbul's main pedestrian shopping street, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others, including 12 foreigners, according to officials....
PARIS (AP) -- The Algerian gunman newly linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris joined the Islamic State group in 2014 and told the extremists he wanted to die as a suicide bomber, bypassing the choice to be a fighter. He was instead shot to death by a police sniper in the raid that led authorities to Europe's most wanted fugitive....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year's deadly Paris attacks, was discharged Saturday from a Brussels hospital, and quickly made it clear he will fight efforts to ship him to France for trial....
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said....
Vatican City, Mar 19, 2016 / 03:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The official Instagram account of Pope Francis launched on Saturday with a simple request for his followers: “Pray for me.”The inaugural post, which was translated into nine languages, features a photo of the Pope reverently kneeling in prayer.The post was made after noon under the handle @Franciscus – which is Latin for Francis. Within 30 minutes of going live, the account had more than ten thousand followers. Pray for me Rezad por mí Pregate per me ???? ?? ???? Priez pour moi Módlcie si? za mnie Rezem por mim Betet für mich Orate pro meA photo posted by Pope Francis (@franciscus) on Mar 19, 2016 at 4:24am PDT “Instagram will help recount the Papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis’ pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy,” said Msgr. Dario E. Viganò, prefect of the Secre...
Vatican City, Mar 19, 2016 / 03:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The official Instagram account of Pope Francis launched on Saturday with a simple request for his followers: “Pray for me.”
The inaugural post, which was translated into nine languages, features a photo of the Pope reverently kneeling in prayer.
The post was made after noon under the handle @Franciscus – which is Latin for Francis. Within 30 minutes of going live, the account had more than ten thousand followers.
Pray for me Rezad por mí Pregate per me ???? ?? ???? Priez pour moi Módlcie si? za mnie Rezem por mim Betet für mich Orate pro me
A photo posted by Pope Francis (@franciscus) on Mar 19, 2016 at 4:24am PDT
“Instagram will help recount the Papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis’ pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy,” said Msgr. Dario E. Viganò, prefect of the Secretariat for Communications, in a Vatican statement Friday.
The papal Instagram will feature photos from L'Osservatore Romano, as well as short videos, according to the Vatican's March 18 statement.
“In this way we can show those aspects of closeness and inclusion that Pope Francis lives every day,” Msgr. Viganò said.
He added that the Instagram account was intentionally established during the Year of Mercy, allowing the Jubilee to enter “into social media in a very concrete and natural way,” reads the March 18 press release.
The account launch comes a few weeks after Francis met with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom at the Vatican.
Today @Pontifex met with another major tech-head: Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram. Photo: @oss_romano pic.twitter.com/CYYciHR05N
— Elise Harris (@eharris_it) February 26, 2016
The Pope's Instagram account is his latest engagement with social media, with more than 25 million followers across 9 languages on Twitter alone.
Francis is not the first pope to engage with social media. In December 2012, Benedict XVI inaugurated the @Pontifex Twitter account with the Tweet: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
