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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday gave the White House a plan to "rapidly defeat" the Islamic State group, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The strategy includes significant elements of the approach President Donald Trump inherited, while potentially deepening U.S. military involvement in Syria....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Monday that "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier....
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -- A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A look at how the Academy Awards' winners envelopes are handled before being opened live onstage:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes said Monday that Congress should not begin a McCarthy-style investigation based on news reports that a few Americans with ties to President Donald Trump had contacted Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign....
(Vatican Radio) Calls for the Albanian prime minister Edi Rama to step down have continued ahead of elections slated to take place on June 18. Listen to the report by correspondent Nathan Morley in Tirana: Hundreds of protestors gathered again in the blazing sunshine in front of the main government offices in Tirana, demanding change.The leader of Albania's main opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, made an appearance at the rally on Monday telling correspondent Nathan Morley that he defended his decision to boycott parliament, which is causing delays to much-needed judicial reforms required by EU."This is now a republic run by crime and drugs”, Basha said."We are not blocking the justice reform; we want the vetting to be done. But we want it to be done according to the constitution - not according to the criminals that control this government and its agenda".Existing judges and prosecutors are being vetted due to a lack of confidence in t...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has said he wishes to travel this year to war-ravaged South Sudan together with the Archbishop of Canterbury.Answering questions put to him on Sunday by parishioners of All Saints’ Anglican Church in Rome during his visit to the Anglican community, the Pope said his “staff is studying the possibility of a trip to South Sudan in response to an invitation from the Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic bishops of the country whom, he said, “hope the presence of the Bishop of Rome and the Primate of the Anglican Communion can help pacification”.Last week Pope Francis made a strong appeal for South Sudan asking for concrete aid for the population which is suffering a severe food crisis which, he said, “condemns to death by starvation millions of people, including many children”.Vatican Radio’s Debora Donnini asked the South Sudanese Bishop of Yei, Erkolano Ludu Tombe, whether his people would be happy to welcome the P...
India’s home minister has honoured a Catholic priest on the occasion of Arunachal Pradesh’s 31st statehood day. Salesian Father Cyriac Pulinthanathumalayil of Dimapur province received a state award Gold Medal for Excellence in Youth work from home minister Minister Rajanath Signh at a function on February 20 in the state capital of Itanagar. The priest set up two youth centers in the northeastern Indian state over past 16 years. Fr. Pulinthanathumalayil set up the first youth center at Khonsa in East Arunachal, district headquarters of Borduria, in 2000. In 2007 he started the Don Bosco Youth Centre in Itanagar in West Arunachal. The citation reads, “The Don Bosco Youth center has helped hundreds of young people from the state to find jobs in various parts of the country.”The award function, held at Indira Gandhi Park in Itanagar, was attended by Chief Minister Pema Khandu; federal Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju; Depu...
On Monday, Pope Francis received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes:MARTYRDOM- Servant of God Tito Zeman, Slovakian professed priest of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco (1915-1969).HEROIC VIRTUES- Servant of God Octavio Ortiz Arrieta, Peruvian bishop, of the Salesians of St. John Bosco (1878-1958);- Servant of God Antonio Provolo, Italian diocesan priest, founder of the Society of Mary for the Education of the Deaf-Mutes, and the Sisters of the Society of Mary for the Education of the Deaf-Mute (1801-1842);- Servant of God Antonio Repiso Martínez de Orbe, Mexican professed priest of the Society of Jesus, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Shepherd (1856-1929);- Servant of God María de las Mercedes Cabezas Terrera, Spanish founder of the Missionary Workers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1911-1993);- Servant...
(Vatican Radio) The bishops of Malta have issued an invitation to Catholics on the island nation to show “mercy and pastoral discernment” to those living in difficult family situations.In a letter, to be read out in churches all over Malta and Gozo, the two Bishops Charles Scicluna and Mario Grech explain that they have recently issued guidelines for priests, aimed at accompanying couples and families “in complex situations, especially those involving separated or divorced persons who have entered a new union”. The bishops say that although these people may have “lost their first marriage”, many of them “have not lost their hope in Jesus” and “earnestly desire to live in harmony with God and with the Church”.The bishops note that people in this situation “ are asking us what they can do in order to be able to celebrate the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.” The Church leaders urge such people &ld...
