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IMAGE: CNS photo/Thaier Al-Sudani, ReutersBy Doreen Abi RaadBEIRUT(CNS) -- The Syriac Catholic patriarch said he was horrified to see widespreaddevastation and what he called "ghost towns" during a recent visit tonorthern Iraq.Patriarch IgnaceJoseph III Younan wrote in an email toCatholic News Service that there was little left in some of the communities that hetoured Nov. 27-29 and that "the emptiness of the streets except formilitary people ... the devastation and burned-out houses and churches"was shocking.About100,000 Christians -- among them more than 60,000Syriac Catholics -- were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the IslamicState group in the summer of 2014 as themilitants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.Patriarch Younan also called for understanding from the incoming administrationof President-elect Donald Trump about the plight and ordeal of all minorities,including Christians affected by violence in the region.The patriarch told CNS about "walking throughthe Ch...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The San Francisco home featured in television's "Full House" has sold to the producer who created the show....
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- At the moment when shooters unleashed terror on San Bernardino a year ago, county employees remembered their fallen colleagues with a moment of silence late Friday morning....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Three weeks after Sherri Papini disappeared, the question of whether she was dead or alive was answered when the young mother and wife was spotted waving frantically for help along a California freeway early on Thanksgiving morning. But the mystery over what happened to her during those 22 days just seemed to grow stranger....
SEATTLE (AP) -- The gunman had already shot a police officer, threatened to kill two children and barricaded himself upstairs in a house for 11 hours when one of the kids, a 6-year-old boy, escaped....
CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- This Brazilian hometown of the soccer team whose dream season ended in tragedy this week prepared Friday for the sad return of so many whose lives were cut short on an Andes mountainside, hanging origami figures of peace in the team's green and white colors from the fence of the local soccer stadium....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. jobs report on Friday made one thing clear: President-elect Donald Trump will inherit the same two-track U.S. economy that bedeviled his predecessor....
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Residents and business owners in Gatlinburg got their first look at the wildfire destruction on Friday, and many walked around the once-bustling tourist city in a daze, sobbing....
An "odious crime committed against a peaceful and defenceless servant of God," is how the Christians of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu are mourning the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire Kahambu. Sr. Marie-Claire, a Franciscan religious sister, was killed in Bukavu this week on Tuesday as she worked in her office at a girls’ training centre that she was running. According to Jimmy Ndumba of “Beni Lubero Online,” two men wielding knives, on the afternoon of 29 November, scaled the wall of the Mater Dei Parish, burst into the office of Sr. Marie Claire and savagely stabbed her several times. They got away with some money belonging to the centre.Hundreds of furious residents later demonstrated at the parish seeking justice. Two men have since been apprehended and charged with the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire. The two have been committed to the Bukavu High Court.Ironically, as the court case in Bukavu got under way, the Church, was celebrati...
