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Jose Rangel Chavez and 18 other Mexican guest workers were dozing as their bus hurtled down Interstate 40 in a light rain. After nine months away from home, the 22-year-old was about to complete a meandering round trip of nearly 5,000 miles - from the citrus groves of Florida to farms in Michigan, where he harvested beets, broccoli, pumpkins and cauliflower, and finally back to their homeland....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate....
BERLIN (AP) -- Twelve people were killed and dozens were injured Monday when a truck smashed into a Berlin Christmas market. German authorities have described it as a terror attack most likely perpetrated by a Tunisian with ties to Islamic extremists. Authorities say six of the dead identified so far came from Germany, one each from Poland, Italy and Israel....
BERLIN (AP) -- German officials presented mounting evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe pressed ahead with their feverish manhunt for the 24-year-old Tunisian, who has evaded capture since the attack....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Less than a month from taking office, President-elect Donald Trump has yet to hold the traditional news conference that most incoming presidents have held within days of their victory....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability" until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government took full control of Aleppo on Thursday for the first time in four years after the last opposition fighters and civilians were bused out of war-ravaged eastern districts, sealing the end of the rebellion's most important stronghold....
Christmas is just a couple of days away – this Sunday. And in view of the festivities ahead, we thought of hearing from Bangladesh’s new Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, the Archbishop of Dhaka. He is one of the 17 new cardinals that Pope Francis created during a ceremony in the Vatican on Nov. 19. The selection s well as creation of Archbishop D’Rozario as cardinal by Pope Francis is indeed historic. The 73-year old Holy Cross prelate is not only Bangladesh’s first cardinal but he is also the first cardinal from among the Bengali-speaking people on either side of the divided Bengal, inhabiting Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal state.Card. D’Rozario earlier served as Bishop of Rajshahi from 1990 to ’95, and then Bishop of Chittagong from 1995 to 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of Dhaka. He became the Archbishop of Dhaka the following year. We called Card. D’Rozario on his...
Over 2,000 inmates at the Tihar complex, the largest jail in India, took part in the Christmas celebration organized by the Prison Ministry of India (PMI) on Monday. PMI is a national voluntary organization recognized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India. It has around 6,000 volunteers, including priests, nuns and lay people, helping the jail inmates in about 800 prisons across the country. PMI annually organizes Christmas and other cultural programs for the prisoners across the country to bring joy to the inmates and advocate a message of peace and love in society.Father Savari Raj, PMI regional coordinator, told ucanews.com that for the past 10 days PMI has been organizing Christmas programs, including cultural events and Christmas carols, for prisoners in different jails across the country. "PMI organizes cultural performances by school children for inmates on patriotic and festive themes. It is just a way of making the prisoners feel part of society," Fat...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis, in his sollicitude for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta -- a lay religious Order (cfr. Constitutional Charter, art. 1, para. 1) that has, among its ends, that of “service to the faith and to the Holy Father” (ibid., art. 2, para. 1) – has ordered the establishment of a group of five authoritative members with the mandate of gathering evidence in order to inform the Holy See completely and in a short time about the event that has recently concerned the Grand Chancellor of the Order, Albrect Freiherr von Boeselager. This group is composed of Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, CS; Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, SJ; Avv. Jacques de Liedekerke; Mr Marc Odendall; Mr Marwan Sehnaoui.
