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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- An unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime....
CHICAGO (AP) -- In his parting message to the nation, President Barack Obama is declaring his continued faith in the ability of all Americans to bring about powerful national change, despite the trials of the last eight years that so often stood between him and his goals....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Drenching winter rains combined with the punishing effects of six years of drought are causing trees to topple across California, in some cases with deadly results. At least two people have been killed in the past month....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions fervently rejected "damnably false" accusations of past racist comments Tuesday as he challenged Democratic concerns about the civil rights commitment he would bring as Donald Trump's attorney general. He vowed at his confirmation hearing to stay independent from the White House and stand up to Trump when necessary....
Manaus, Brazil, Jan 10, 2017 / 12:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After nearly 100 inmates died in gang-related riots at prisons in northern Brazil through Jan. 8, Church officials in the country have recommitted themselves to assisting in the rehabilitation of prisoners and parolees.Riots at prisons in the states of Amazonas and Roraima between Jan. 1 and Jan. 8 have left 97 dead.“There are a number of structural as well as technical problems today (in the prisons). In all this we have negligence of over a decade in the state of Roraima,” Father Gianfranco Graziola, deputy coordinator of prison ministry for the Brazilian bishops' conference, told CNA.The ministry “has an agenda of disincarceration and restorative justice as commitments for democratization, which gives justice, and for the realization of a world without prisons.”On Jan. 1, members of the First Capital Command gang were targeted by those of the Red Command at Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, the cap...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy FOCUSBy Ana Franco-GuzmanSAN ANTONIO (CNS) -- In need ofreigniting the fire for his Catholic faith, Jeremy Martins found the flame heneeded during SEEK 2017."SEEK is the log I was waitingfor," said Martins, a junior at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. "It has been twoyears since a real encounter with Christ."He told Catholic News Service thatthe conference, sponsored Jan. 3-7 by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, known as FOCUS,generated a new excitement even though he previously had committed two years ofhis life to mission work that involved evangelizing young people and help them overcome"the poverty of spirit" in their lives.Martins was not alone. About13,000 people, almost exclusively young adults, attended the biennial SEEK conferenceat San Antonio's Henry B.Gonzalez Convention Center. The five-day event focused on the theme"What Moves You.""I know that if they are from myuniversity and attended SEEK, we can now bring this experie...
IMAGE: CNS file photoBy SAN ANTONIO (CNS) -- Retired ArchbishopPatrick F. Flores, 87, the first Mexican-American bishop in the United States, diedof pneumonia and congestive heart failure Jan. 9 at Padua Place Residence forretired priests in San Antonio.Thebishop, who dropped out of school to be a migrant farmworker, was known for hissupport for farmworkers, Mexican-American civil rights and his love of hisculture and heritage.Funeralarrangements were pending, but services will be held at San FernandoCathedral in San Antonio.LosAngeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez described Archbishop Flores as his good friendand mentor and "a pioneer and role model not only for me but also for ageneration of Hispanic priests and Latino leaders."Hesaid the archbishop of San Antonio, who retired in 2004, "knew thestruggles of Hispanics in this country, and he was a friend to the farmworkerand a voice of conscience for dignity and human rights. He taught all of us tocelebrate our heritage and traditions a...
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Police Department Detective Steven McDonald, who was paralyzed by a teenage shooter's bullet in 1986 but publicly forgave the shooter and became an international voice for peace, died Tuesday at age 59....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security says closing the border to the "illegal movement of people and things" will be his top priority if confirmed....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate intelligence committee's top Democrat criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday for its slow response to allegations of Russian hacking during the presidential campaign as the panel heard from the director of the FBI, whom several Democrats criticized for announcing a new probe of Hillary Clinton's emails 11 days before the election....
