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BRYAN, Texas (AP) -- Police say a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student who rear-ended a squad car told an officer she was taking a topless selfie....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The foul-mouthed Philippine president, who once called the pope a "son of a bitch" and told Barack Obama to "go to hell," says he has promised to God he won't spew expletives again....
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The countries that decide the fate of Antarctica reached an historic agreement on Friday to create the world's largest marine protected area in the ocean next to the frozen continent....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's campaign plane slid off a runway during a rainstorm at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Thursday, tearing up concrete before coming to rest on a patch of grass....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A jury delivered an extraordinary blow to the government in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in rural southeastern Oregon....
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Rome, Italy, Oct 27, 2016 / 03:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Helping the victims of human trafficking is not enough – we must go to the root to solve the problem, said one survivor at an event with Pope Francis on Thursday.“When we are spending money only for the victims, more are coming (through trafficking), hearing the news that if you come, you have a place to stay, you have food to eat, you have clothes to wear, and you can go to school,” Princess Inyang told CNA Oct. 27.Inyang herself became a victim of human trafficking in 1999, when she was promised that she would receive a good job in Europe as a cook, the job she had in her home country of Nigeria.But instead, she was trafficked. Her captors brought her through London and France and eventually to Italy, where she was forced into prostitution and to pay back her “debt” of 45,000,000 euros. She was eventually able, with help, to escape her traffickers, and has since founded the organization PIAM Onlus...
Vatican City, Oct 27, 2016 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Doctrine and theological reflection are to be formed by its evangelizing purpose and by pastoral concerns, Pope Francis told the faculty and students of the John Paul II Institute on Thursday.“Theology and pastoral care go hand in hand,” the Pope said Oct. 27 at the Vatican's Clementine Hall. “Theological doctrine that doesn’t let itself be directed and formed by its evangelizing purpose and by the Church’s pastoral concerns is no less unthinkable than pastoral activity that doesn’t know how to use revelation and tradition to better understand the Faith and preach it as Jesus commands.”Francis' address marked the opening of the new academic year for the institute, which will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. The address to open the academic year had been scheduled to be delivered by Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, but he was replaced by ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Laura Elizabeth Pohl, By Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Many mornings Carolyn Y. Woo has arrivedto the relative solitude of a chapel at the Baltimore headquarters of CatholicRelief Services, and as the bustling city comes to life, she has looked insidethe serene space for a particular quiet spot, the place where she arms herselfwith prayer."That plant is my coffee table," she said inside the chapel,pointing to a leafy pot nearby where she hides papers, coffee or whatever shemight be holding on her way in."I do my readings for the day," she said, explaining hermorning routine during an October interview with Catholic News Service, one ofthe last she'll do as CEO of the agency. "I sit with the Blessed Mother.There's one chair there ... that's where I do my prayer and then I start the day."Prayer is something she's needed while managing one of thelargest charities in the country. The days have meant little sleep and lots ofmeetings, lots of visitors, lots of travel an...
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for an immediate investigation of an attack on a school in Syria's Idlib province that the U.N.'s children's agency is calling one of the deadliest of its kind in the country's six-year war....
