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BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Latest on the fighting in Iraq (all times local):...
QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) -- The Islamic State group appears to be using tens of thousands of people as "human shields" in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging a large-scale offensive aimed at retaking the country's second largest city, the U.N. human rights office said Friday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Fierce fighting broke out around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday as rebels announced a large-scale offensive to break the government's nearly two-month siege of opposition-held areas....
(Vatican Radio) The Year of Mercy may be coming to an end in the next few weeks, but for the past year the faithful of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia have been journeying together and heeding Pope Francis’ call to delve more deeply into the mystery of God’s Mercy.The Archdiocese headed by Archbishop Mark Coleridge has been offering a series of initiatives such as pilgrimage walks and visits to seven nominated Mercy Churches in the Archdiocese, an emphasis on prayer and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, a focus on welcoming and settling refugees and a Jubilee of Prisoners.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's interview with Archbishop Mark Coleridge Reflecting on this Extraordinary Year, Archbishop Coleridge says, “it certainly has struck a powerful chord in many many hearts here, in a way that’s surprised me a little I confess, but I’m delighted… somehow this year, and I think it’s got to do with Pope Francis, has spoken a kind of idiom...
Vatican Weekend for October 29, 2016 features a conversation with the head of the US bishops conference, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz about what US Catholics should be thinking about as they go to the polls this November to elect a new President. This is followed by a focus on Nostra Aetate on the 51st anniversary of this landmark Church document which paved the way for better relations with the Jewish people. The programme concludes with a pilgrimage back in time – through early Christian decorative art in the Vatican Museums.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for October 30, 2016 features Jill Bevilacqua's reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading in her programme, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye” and Dr. Timothy O’Donnel, the president of Christendom college in the U.S. and a Vatican Consultor, gives us his take on Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on the joy of love in the family.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
Erbil, Iraq, Oct 28, 2016 / 12:03 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- Iraqi Christians stranded in Kurdistan have some reason for hope, now that the battle for Mosul and the Nineveh Plane has begun. However, the Chaldean archbishop who, for two years now, has played a pivotal role in taking care of the humanitarian and spiritual needs of the exiled community, urges caution in painting too rosy a picture for Iraq’s embattled minorities.“Iran, Turkey and the Kurds all have a stake in Mosul” and the surrounding area, Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, told international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need; even after Mosul is retaken from Islamic State – and odds are that will happen before the end of the year – a bitter power struggle would likely put Christians seeking to return to their abandoned homes in harm’s way.For now, the prelate stressed, no concrete plan is in place to protect the Christians and other minorit...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself deeper into debt. He knows he will never be able to pay back what he owes to the kiln owner who lent him a few thousand dollars for a family emergency, and that when he dies, his children will inherit the burden that will ensure his family remains enslaved for generations....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Shiite rebels in Yemen fired a ballistic missile toward the holy Muslim city of Mecca overnight, Saudi Arabia said Friday, the insurgents' deepest strike yet into the kingdom amid the country's stalemate civil war....
