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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill....
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Having declared that finding a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is "maybe not as difficult as people have thought," President Donald Trump will make his first visit to Israel with few concrete ideas of solving a problem that has vexed presidents for decades....
Our first reading today is from the Acts of the Apostles and we all know they weren't having an easy time of it...
Vatican City, May 21, 2017 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Eiffel Tower, the Roman Coliseum, the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal; are just some of the universal monuments that a Colombian teacher makes to scale out of little wooden sticks (toothpicks).One of his recent works is Saint Peter's Square and he dreams of showing it to Pope Francis during the visit the pontiff will make to this country in September.Alberto Antonio Cruz Serna has been building models with toothpicks since he was 12.He currently resides in the town of Puerto Berrio, in the Antioquia district teaches natural science to high school students at the Antonio Nariño Educational Institution, and has built more than 200 artistic creations with his own unique style.Among his works there are also small-scale replicas of Catholic buildings such as Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Puerto Berrio and Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican.Cruz, who is the father of five children, has displayed his works in a nu...
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- Sweden won the ice hockey world championship with a 2-1 victory on penalties over two-time defending champion Canada on Sunday....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Sacramento-area man credited with helping prevent an armed attack on a French train is celebrating his college graduation - a year late, owing to all the attention that followed the 2015 train crisis....
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus began its final show Sunday evening after 146 years of wowing audiences with its "Greatest Show on Earth."...
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) -- His skull and jaw wrapped in bandages, the young Syrian refugee stared nonchalantly into a small black box at a supermarket in this sprawling, dust-swept refugee camp. The box scanned his iris to identify him, charged his account and sent him on his way....
(Vatican Radio) Day 50 of the protests against the Venezuelan Government was marked by more huge demonstrations and violence. More than 150,000 people protesting in Venezuela's Capitol Caracas, led by former Presidential Candidate and opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Before it all started, he said: "The more the repression, the more we resist and fight for Venezuela." After his passport was seized by officials who barred from leaving the country, to deliver a report to the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights, one of Capriles' lawyers has fulfilled the commitment.The demonstrators tried to reach the Ministry of Interior building, but were held back by riot police firing umpteen rounds of tear gas. On the other side of town a small pro government protesters danced and cheered President Nicolas Maduro, who reportedly wasn't able to receive them. An estimated 50,000 protested in the city of San Cristobal. ...
(Vatican Radio) For the first time in nearly 1,000 years bone fragments of Saint Nicholas, one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most revered figures, have been moved from an Italian church to Russia where huge crowds of Orthodox faithful were expected to visit the relics. The historic move follows talks between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill.After reaching Moscow's Vnukovo airport, a glass-topped metallic ark bearing the relics was visited by a long stream of Russian pilgrims who bowed and kissed the container.It was to be taken to Christ the Savior Cathedral, the enormous Moscow church that is a reconstruction of a cathedral dynamited in 1931 by officially atheistic Soviet authorities.Earlier, the relics of Saint Nicholas were brought into the crypt of the Saint Nicholas Basilica in Bari, Italy, before their 3,000 kilometer-long journey to Moscow. It marks the first time in some 10 centuries that the bone fragments from the man who became the inspiration of the legenda...
