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NEW YORK (AP) -- Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS' "NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits, from lowering educational requirements to forgiving some prior drug use, to try to attract more people to their ranks....
QAYARA, Iraq (AP) -- On the main shopping street of the town of Qayara, murals put up by the Islamic State group that told people how to dress and behave have been hastily painted over. New signs touting nationalism and unity now line a main highway since Iraqi forces drove the extremists from the Tigris River Valley town in August....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vouching for the successor he never imagined having, President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States under Donald Trump would remain the "indispensable nation" for global security and praised the president-elect for vowing to maintain America's alliances....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is starting to sound an awful lot like President Barack Obama on immigration....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on protests of the Dakota Access pipeline (all times local):...
The Archbishop of Tokyo on Sunday dedicated a shrine inside the cathedral that includes relics of two famous Polish apostles of Divine Mercy as a perpetual commemoration of the Year of Mercy. During a Mass on Nov. 13 marking the close of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Archbishop Takeo Okada declared that St. Mary's Cathedral would be the archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Mercy. Following Mass, Archbishop Okada enshrined the relics of Sts. Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament and Pope John Paul II in the cathedral. The relics were sent from the Archdiocese of Krakow, Poland, last December. Before being enshrined, the relics toured dioceses throughout the country during the jubilee year, which also marked the 35th anniversary of St. John Paul's visit to Japan. In giving his blessing at the ceremony, Archbishop Okada said, "I pray that all who trust in the Divine Mercy may grow spiritually here."The cathedral has two other...
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops have issued a pastoral statement released Monday to the media. Among other things affecting Kenyan society, the Bishops, in particular, call on Kenyans to unite and live in harmony notwithstanding the looming 2017 general election. The pastoral statement signed by Homa Bay Bishop and President of the Episcopal Conference, Philip Anyolo together with other Bishops, makes a strong appeal to priests and the faithful not to allow politicians make political statements in Churches or at Church functions.“We have further stated in our earlier statements that as Catholic Bishops we are not going to allow our Churches and Church functions to be used as campaign platforms and forums of hate speech. As much as politicians and those aspiring to elective positions are free to worship and pray where they want, they should not use such opportunities to make their campaign statements. Consequently, politicians should not be allowed to address the congregations...
(Vatican Radio) A so-called “Ecological Island” has sprung up in the Vatican with the aim to recycle and dispose waste in the most sustainable manner.As from Monday, 14 November, a special area has been set aside inside Vatican City State to optimize waste management in accordance with the most advanced waste legislation and technological means available.Although the Vatican’s territory is extremely small, the tiniest State in the world does produce waste and started a formal waste and recycling collection program back in 2008.More than 200 drop-off containers for household trash and recyclables were strategically placed throughout the 110-acres that make up Vatican City State. 42% percent of those were designated for source-separated paper, glass, plastic and aluminum containers. The newly inaugurated ‘ecological island’ provides a space where all types of waste will be dealt with and disposed of according to the specific indications of its cate...
Indonesian police on Monday arrested five people in connection with an Islamic militant's attack on Sunday on a church on the island of Borneo that killed one infant and injured three. East Kalimantan police spokesman Fajar Setiawan said 2-year-old Ade Intan Marbun died on Monday from complications after suffering burns to more than three quarters of her body. President Joko Widodo said that “the bomb case in Samarinda has to be investigated thoroughly.”The attacker, identified by police as Johanda a 32-year-old former terror convict from the West Java town of Bogor, who on Sunday threw a Molotov cocktail from a motorcycle as he rode past Oikumene Church in Samarinda, the provincial capital of East Kalimantan province. The man was captured by locals after jumping into a nearby river. TV footage showed the injured man lying on the deck of a motorboat. He was wearing a black shirt emblazoned with the words ``Jihad, Way of Life.'' ...
