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As a result of dwindling donor support, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has embarked on constructing the “Great Jubilee mini-mall” at the Jubilee Centre along Nairobi’s Langata road situated near the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). The mall will serve to support and sustain the Bishop Conference’s pastoral and social development programs.Speaking during the groundbreaking ceremony at the site early this week, KCCB Chairman and Homabay Diocese Bishop, Philip Anyolo announced that the over 500 million Kenya shillings project would host a supermarket, exhibition stalls, food courts and a 240 vehicle parking area. The mall project, he said, was the beginning of the next phase towards financial sustainability.Bishop Anyolo revealed that the Church in Kenya would also be embarking on another bigger project to provide student hostel accommodation next to CUEA. “Besides accommodation, we expect the hostels to create an oppo...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday spoke of the importance of promoting and supporting young people so they can face the challenges of life.“Providing formation for young people is an investment for the future: young people must never be robbed of their hope for tomorrow” he said.The Pope was addressing members of the John Paul II Foundation that is celebrating the 35th anniversary from its foundation.To those present in the Vatican for the occasion, Pope Francis said the anniversary is a good moment to look back and draw up a balance of the work done in the past years, but it is also a time to look to the future with new goals and objectives. The John Paul II Foundation was established by a Papal Decree on October 16, 1981 as a religious, educational, charitable and non-profit organization.Pointing out that the work of the Foundation spans many countries and has benefited many students – especially in Eastern Europe – the Pope said: &...
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest on the developments in Iraq where Iraqi forces and their allies launched a major offensive this week to retake Mosul, the country's second-largest city from the Islamic State group (all times local):...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Do you prefer Chicago's Benny the Bull or Boston's Wally the Green Monster? The deviousness of Arizona State's Sparky the Sun Devil or the goofiness of South Carolina's Cocky? Or maybe you're more traditional, and like Penn State's Nittany Lion. If you're offbeat, go for Stanford's Tree....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa will soon submit a bill in parliament to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, its justice minister said Friday, making the country the second this week, after Burundi, to move to leave the tribunal that pursues the world's worst atrocities....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government on Friday opened a new corridor for rebels and civilians who want to leave the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, but the U.N. said planned medical evacuations haven't begun as planned because of a lack of security assurances from the warring sides....
(Vatican Radio) Hunger, homelessness and the threat of a new cholera epidemic. These are just some of the most critical needs facing the people of Haiti in areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew at the end of September.More than 900 people died as a result of the storm, which also passed over Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and St Vincent and the Grenadines, before heading to the U.S. Florida coast.Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis will be in Haiti from October 21st to 25th, visiting the worst affected areas of Les Cayes, Jérémie and Nippes in the west of the country.The global Catholic aid and development confederation is launching an international appeal for €250.000 for Haiti, where the local Caritas director, Fr Jean Hervé François, describes the situation as “catastrophic”.The Caritas appeal will provide 13.500 people with food, blankets and hygiene kits. Priority will be given to people in shelters,...
(Vatican Radio) Russia says a break in fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for one more day. The announcement came moments after German's chancellor Angela Merkel pressed anew for a long-term ceasefire in the devastated city following her talks in Berlin with European leaders meeting in Berlin.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a "humanitarian pause" in airstrikes and other attacks in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for another day on the instructions of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. He added that the extension was supported by the Moscow-backed Syrian government. Russia already allowed a dawn-to-dusk break in fighting in Aleppo Thursday to allow both civilians and militants to leave the rebel-held districts. The announced further extension of the ceasefire came moments after German Chancellor Merkel appealed for a long term ceasefire in Aleppo when talking to reporters a...
Denver, Colo., Oct 21, 2016 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For years, Cecilia Cunningham and her husband took their children trick-or-treating in their then-suburban Philadelphia neighborhood.“It was the kind of neighborhood outside of Philadelphia where everybody knew each other, and it was a really fun neighborhood thing,” Cunningham told CNA. “People were just out talking while kids were trick or treating, and it had been really nice up until that point.”That point, Cunningham recalled, was in the early 1990s, when pop culture saw a resurgence of the character “Freddy Krueger,” a skinless serial killer who slashes and kills his victims with a razored glove and first appeared in the 1984 film “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”Cunningham’s youngest at that point was a year and a half, “and she spent the entire night crying upstairs because of all these kids coming to our door; every other kid was Freddy Krueger.”That year, H...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One win away. Two chances at home. Seven decades of waiting....
