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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians always have hope, nomatter how bleak, bad or uncertain the journey, because they know God is alwaysby their side, Pope Francis said.In fact, "even crossing parts of the world (thatare) wounded, where things are not going well, we are among those who, even there,continue to hope," he said at his weekly general audience in St. Peter'sSquare April 26.Just a few days before his visit to Cairo April 28-29,the pope continued his series of talks on the nature of Christian hope, sayingit is rooted in knowing God will always be present, even to the end of time.The Gospel of St. Matthew, he said, begins with the birthof Jesus as Emmanuel -- "God with us" -- and ends with the risenChrist telling his doubtful disciples to go forth and teach all nations,assuring them that "I am with you always, until the end of the age."The apostle shows how "ours is not an absent God,sequestered in a faraway heaven. Instead he is a God 'impas...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia," and whose Talking Heads documentary "Stop Making Sense" is considered one of the greatest concert films ever, has died. He was 73....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ventured into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings....
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Sheila Abdus-Salaam agreed to speak this month at an alumni gathering at Columbia Law School, it was business as usual for someone in demand as the first black woman to serve on New York's highest court....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not since John F. Kennedy appointed his brother Bobby to be attorney general and his brother-in-law as director of the Peace Corps has a president leaned so heavily on his family. Even Donald Trump's 5-year-old granddaughter Arabella has pitched in....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel coming near it in the Persian Gulf, an American official said on Wednesday, the latest tense naval encounter between the two countries....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A proposal to revive the stalled Republican health care bill is gaining support, Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday, but he stopped short of saying the plan has garnered the votes the GOP would need to finally push the high-profile measure through the House....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- For the third time in two months, a federal judge has knocked down an immigration order by President Donald Trump and used Trump's own language against him....
They are young and old: a high school student who can't yet vote, a Vietnam vet who did so proudly. They hail from all corners of the United States and very different walks of life: a "downhome boy" from Kentucky, a third-generation Mexican-American from Texas, a stay-at-home mom in Pennsylvania, an Iranian immigrant in Los Angeles....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is proposing dramatically reducing the taxes paid by corporations big and small in an overhaul his administration says will spur economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to the middle class....
