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AGIOS ATHANASIOS, Greece (AP) -- As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new continent. Now, the Yazidi - whose faith is older than Christianity - are at the center of a new European dilemma....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is serving notice he's ready to "send in the Feds" if Chicago can't reduce its homicide figures....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- At least eight people were dead and 14 injured Wednesday as Somali security forces ended a siege by extremist fighters who stormed a hotel in the capital, police said....
How you ever felt like you've fallen too far, that your sins are just too great to forgive? Today the Catholic Church celebrates the conversion of St. Paul. In light of all the good...
Manila, Philippines, Jan 25, 2017 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic leaders have spoken out against a drug war that has left thousands dead, and the Philippines' new president is not taking the criticism well.President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war is “not any more in accord with the legal processes, and the moral norms are being violated and so now is the time for the Church to speak up,” Jerome Secillano, public affairs chief for the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, told Agence France Presse last week.He added that many priests and bishops are afraid to speak out against the killings, as well as the laity.Baclaran church put on an exhibit of poster-size pictures of Filipinos dying in pools of blood in a campaign against the killings of the war on drugs. Some churches have put up banners denouncing the extrajudicial killings.“When you speak to people on the ground, there is a lot of fear...many people, especially the urban poor, feel that a...
It was not a good night to be at the top of the AP Top 25....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Electrical tape on private parts. Really?...
HARGEISA, Somalia (AP) -- Gunmen from Somalia's violent Islamic extremist rebels fought their way into a hotel in the Somali capital after a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates, a police officer said Wednesday....
BEIJING (AP) -- Drowning in debt, metals trader Sinosteel Corp. got an unprecedented lifeline last month from the Chinese government - a multibillion-dollar debt-for-equity rescue that could be the first of many for struggling state-owned companies....
BARAKHAO, Pakistan (AP) -- Two ornate minarets pierce the evening sky. They frame the emerald green colored dome of an ornate shrine erected to honor Mumtaz Qadri, an assassin hanged for gunning down a politician who criticized Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law and defended a Christian woman sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam....
