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(Vatican Radio) To mark Pope Francis' 80th birthday, Our Sunday Visitor's new Managing Editor, Don Clemmer, put together a podcast with recollections from people who have known the Holy Father since his days as a schoolteacher in his native Argentina. You can find Part 1 by clicking here
(Vatican Radio) Here is the second installment of a 2-part collection of reminiscences and recollections produced by the Managing Editor of Our Sunday Visitor (and long-time friend of Vatican Radio), Don Clemmer, in honor of Pope Francis' 80th birthday. This second part brings together a series of reactions from people who knew the man, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, when they heard he had been elected 265th Successor to Peter. Click here to listen to Part 2
Pakistan's Railways and Human Rights ministries plan to run a special train over Christmas to express solidarity with the minority Christian community and promote inter-faith harmony. State-run APP news agency quoted unnamed officials saying that the special "human rights train" would be the first rail service run to celebrate a minority festival. It will depart from Islamabad on Dec. 22.Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique and Federal Minister for Human Rights Kamran Michael, who is the only non-Muslim minister in the cabinet, will see the train off. It will reach Peshawar the same day before leaving for Rawalpindi on Dec. 23. It will travel to Lahore on the final leg of its journey, on Dec. 24. The train will consist of five carriages decorated with messages of religious tolerance, brotherhood and love.Minister Kamran Michael told the Daily Times that the Christian community was an equal partner in the struggle for ensuring sustained development, stabil...
Vatican City, Dec 17, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis will receive thousands of gifts for his 80th birthday Saturday, from heads of state and the ordinary faithful.Among these gifts are a wood-framed pair of glasses made from part of a 1,600-year-old olive tree. That gift is from Viktor and Sand Jeromil of Croatia, the newspaper Croatia Week reports. Gifts like these from the faithful are often presented to the Pope in the form of pictures. Gifts from heads of state, however, are officially delivered. By tradition, the most precious gifts are given to the Vatican Museums, the Vatican Library, or the Sacristy and Treasury Museum. The other gifts are handled by the Floreria Apostolica, an institution within the Vatican walls that provides for furniture and decorations of the Holy Palaces and for the setting of St. Peter’s Square during the general audiences. The Floreria runs the Pope’s so-called “private warehouse.” Gifts are gene...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 percent....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Foreign Minister in a letter to the European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called for a joint commission meeting on the nuclear deal over the extension of U.S. sanctions against Iran....
BEIRUT (AP) -- An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and a monitoring group said....
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Protesters say the North Carolina legislature's actions limiting the next governor's influence before he even takes office were unconstitutional power grabs by GOP legislators unhappy their candidate didn't win re-election....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- With Ivanka Trump, the typically minor role of a first daughter could get a major makeover....
