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Vatican City, Jan 8, 2017 / 07:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis announced that his “urgent” prayer for the month of January is for all those who live on the streets with no shelter, expecially during the cold winter weather.“During these very cold days, I think of and I invite you to think of all the people who live on the streets, affected by the cold and many times by indifference,” he said Jan. 8.“Unfortunately some didn’t make it. Let us pray for them, and let us ask the Lord to warm our hearts so as to be able to help them.”The Pope made his appeal looking out over frozen St. Peter's Square and the thousands of pilgrims bundled up below the window to the Apostolic Palace. Temperatures in Rome have made a significant drop over the past few days, lowering enough to cause the fountains inside the square to freeze over, with ice on the cobblestone beside them where the water had splashed over.Last week the Vatican ann...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a wily political survivor and multimillionaire mogul who remained among the ruling elite despite moderate views, died Sunday, state TV reported. He was 82....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Although his signature law is in jeopardy, President Barack Obama's work reshaping health care in America is certain to endure in the broad public support for many of its underlying principles, along with conflicts over how to secure them....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- The FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein alone for months after the former Iraqi leader's capture is now leading the investigation into the Florida airport shooting rampage blamed on an Iraq war veteran....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida, the suspected gunman was charged and could face the death penalty if convicted....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four soldiers and wounding 17 others in one of the deadliest attacks of a more than yearlong campaign of violence....
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- The first big snowstorm of the year in the Northeast dumped more than a foot of snow in areas of southern New England after leaving a glaze of ice and snow and bitterly cold temperatures across the South. Below freezing temperatures persisted throughout much of the eastern U.S. on Sunday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to interfere in the American presidential election, his incoming White House Chief of staff said Sunday....
The Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Ignatius Kaigama, has reacted with disbelief and anger at the “casual and deliberate manner” in which lives of innocent citizens are being lost in Nigeria.The Bishop’s reaction comes as news of the mass killings in Southern Kaduna unfolds. There are reports of killings across 53 villages in the four local government areas of Souther Kaduna in Nigeria.According to Nigerian media, the Vicar-General of Kafanchan Catholic Archdiocese, Fr. Ibrahim Yakubu was widely quoted as saying 808 people were killed in mass killings that happened notwithstanding a 24 hours curfew in place. The Kafanchan Archdiocese also says 1,422 houses, 16 Churches, 19 shops, and one primary school were torched and destroyed in the brutal violence. Fulani herdsmen, blamed for the killings, are said to have targeted mostly Christian, ethnic minorities and Shiite Muslims in the killings.“I woke u...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday baptised 28 babies during Mass in the Sistine chapel, telling their families that Jesus’ first sermon was the sound of his crying in the stable at Bethlehem.Surrounded by the sounds of baby noises, the Pope gave a short, off-the-cuff homily on the faith which is given to children in Baptism. Faith, he said, does not just mean reciting the Creed on Sundays, but rather it means believing in the truth, trusting in God and teaching others with the example of our lives.Faith, the Pope continued, is also the light which grows in our hearts – that’s why a lighted candle is given to every person being baptized. In the early years of the Church, he noted, baptism was called ‘illumination’ to show the way in which faith helps us see things in a different light. To the parents who had brought their children to be baptized, he said “you have the task of making that faith grow, of nurturing it, so that it may bear witne...
