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More than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to end "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State. At least 86 people have been killed in a military crackdown in Rakhine State, launched after attacks on police posts near the border with Bangladesh on Oct. 9.The government of predominantly Buddhist Myanmar has blamed Muslim Rohingyas supported by foreign militants for the coordinated attacks which killed nine police officers. More than 30,000 people have fled to Bangladesh, escaping the violence which has renewed international criticism that Aung San Suu Kyi's government has done too little to help the Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.In an open letter to the Security Council, Tutu and 22 others including fellow Nobel Peace laureates José Ramos-Ho...
The Legislative Assembly of India’s West Bengal state on Dec. 16 approved a 2016 draft law of Saint Xavier University of Kolkata, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university. The campus of the new university in New Town, Rajarhat, will cater to the growing demand for valid facilities for the state’s secondary education. According to information sent by the General Curia of the Jesuits to the Vatican’s Fides news agency, the project envisages that the University can be composed of several institutions of Bengal realized and managed by the Jesuits. The Educational Foundation of St. Xavier of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, will administer the institutions of higher education throughout West Bengal entrusted to the Jesuits Foundation.The university will provide education, teaching, training and research in various disciplines and specialized fields. These include science, technology, law, administration, social sciences, medicine, performin...
LONDON (AP) -- Police say an initial autopsy of George Michael has been "inconclusive" and more tests must be carried out to establish a cause of death....
NEW YORK (AP) -- After 79 years of serving up heaps of cured meat to tourists, theater patrons and workaday New Yorkers, the Carnegie Delicatessen will slice its last ridiculously oversized sandwich on Friday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dying of a broken heart is real....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- U.S. Coast Guard crews searched Lake Erie on Friday for a plane carrying six people that disappeared shortly after takeoff from a small Cleveland airport along the shore....
WOODSTOCK, Vt. (AP) -- This picturesque town, which has provided a backdrop for early environmentalists, the Rockefellers and even the Budweiser Clydesdales, is fighting a battle over how to keep the charm that has become its trademark. At issue: window shutters....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A winter storm brought more than 2 feet of snow to parts of northern New England overnight, and more than 100,000 homes and businesses were without power by Friday morning in hard-hit Maine....
For some college-bound students distressed by the election of Donald Trump, Canada is calling....
(Vatican Radio) Among the many anniversaries of 2016, one in particular has passed unnoticed: the quincentenary of the first edition (editio princeps) of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus of Rotterdam.Listen to Devin Watkins' report on this historic work: Though not actually the first edition of a compiled New Testament in Greek, Erasmus’ editio princeps became an important landmark. Martin Luther used the second edition of Erasmus’ work for his translation of the New Testament into German, the so-called ‘September Testament’. The third edition was used as the textual base for the King James Version of the Bible.As an article in the Osservatore Romano notes, Erasmus of Rotterdam studied at Paris, Oxford, and in Italy and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1492 in the Augustinian Canons Regular. He was a constant critic of ecclesiastic institutions but maintained a healthy distance from Martin Luther and other reformers, with whom he engaged in fre...
