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CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Latest on Game 4 of the NBA Finals (all times local):...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Fighting to save his job, Brazilian President Michel Temer got a huge boost from the decision by the country's top electoral court to reject allegations of illegal campaign finance and keep him in office....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte of Montana will plead guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before being elected the state's only congressman last month, a prosecutor said Friday....
This is part of Tobit's song of praise includes the invitation to turn back to God ...
Vatican City, Jun 9, 2017 / 02:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During Mass on Friday, Pope Francis urged Christians to more prayer and hope, especially during the difficult times, instead of finding pleasures in vanity.He reflected on the suffering endured in the Book of Tobit – blindness, exile, strained marriages – which tempted Tobit and Sarah to desire death; but rather than giving into despair they committed themselves to prayer and hope.“This is the attitude that saves us in bad times – prayer. Patience – because both of them are patient with their pains. And hope – that God will listen to us and help us tide over these bad moments,” said the Holy Father at the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta June 9.“In moments of sadness, little or much, in moments of darkness, prayer, patience and hope. Do not forget this."Pope Francis recognized that everyone will suffer, and “know how it feels in times of darkness, in moments of pain, in ti...
Washington D.C., Jun 9, 2017 / 03:42 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As President Donald Trump and Congress get set to undertake tax reform, some are concerned that Republican tax proposals could lead to drastic reductions in charitable giving.“I don’t think that it was intended, by any means, that they want to harm charitable giving,” Brian W. Walsh, executive director of the Faith & Giving Coalition, told CNA of research that claims GOP tax reform proposals could give Americans less incentive to make tax-deductible charitable donations. Religious charitable groups like Catholic Charities, USA are coalition members.Yet, he added, “unintended consequences can be just as damaging as those that are intended.”Walsh referred to two Republican tax proposals for his claim – Trump’s proposal released in April, and another “blueprint” by House Republicans last summer.Both feature two policies, doubling the standard deduction and decreasing the ...
Vatican City, Jun 9, 2017 / 04:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis participated in a Google Hangout on Friday with youth from around the world, emphasizing that “everyone has meaning,” even though the world will try to exclude certain people.Combatting a world which promotes elitism and exclusion, the Pope said June 9, “you have a meaning, everyone … has meaning, you have a meaning, it is in your hands to discover the meaning I have in life, what I am like, with the potentiality that you can … and how to give this meaning to others.”The hangout, Pope Francis’ third time for the meeting, was organized for the inauguration of a new Vatican office of the Scholas Occurentes, a world-wide initiative in schools to encourage social integration and the culture of encounter through technology, arts, and sports.Society “is accustomed to exclude, to select, to attack, to shut out people,” he lamented.However, he said Scholas isn’t ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man accused in a bar shooting in suburban Kansas City that left one Indian national dead and another wounded was indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Roman Polanski's sexual assault victim made an impassioned plea Friday to end the court case against the fugitive director, saying she felt more abused by the legal justice system than by the man who she said drugged, raped and sodomized her when she was 13....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil's top electoral court gave embattled President Michel Temer a big victory late Friday, voting to reject allegations of campaign finance violations that would have removed him from office....
