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(Vatican Radio) Ten tones of humanitarian aid have, in the past few days, been handed over to the flood-stricken population of Mocoa, in Colombia’s southern Putumayo region thanks to a special collection set up by the Colombian Catholic Church and the local Caritas office.The Bishop of Mocoa, Luis Albeiro Maldonado, said food, blankets, personal hygiene products and clothes are providing some relief to the needy children and families of Mocoa which was all but swept away on April 1 by landslides that killed at least 300 people and left many injured and displaced.President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of emergency in the region.Pope Francis offered prayers for the victims and solidarity to all those affected by the devastating landslides. Father Luis Fernando Carvajal, Vicar General of the Diocese of Mocoa and coordinator of a special committee set up to respond to the crisis, said that first aid, urgent medical provisions and essential equipment are being d...
Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya has invited his compatriots in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not yield to discouragement and a spirit of fatalism. The Cardinal said this at the weekend in a homily read in all parishes of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa on Easter Sunday. The Archbishop of Kinshasa recalled that the resurrection of Christ gives hope to a new world and humanity. This resurrection also gives men and women of today the possibility of relating to each other and Christ in a new way.The Cardinal’s message of hope comes in the context of serious political and social uncertainties facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "As Congolese people, we can sometimes feel as if we were an insignificant seed of grain thrown on the floor: We are ignored and continually trampled upon. We live in a country and at a time of confusion, obscurity, despair. But we know that in the depths of the night, the dawn is already looming on the horizon. Theref...
Vatican City, Apr 19, 2017 / 06:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Church jumps into the Easter season, Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a reflection on Christ’s Resurrection and the start of Christianity, saying it’s not about us and what we do, but what the Lord has done for us.“(Christianity) is not so much our search for God, but rather God's search for us. How beautiful to think that Christianity, essentially, is this!”Jesus, the Pope said April 19, “has taken us, has seized us, has conquered us in order to not leave us anymore.”In his catechesis for his first general audience of the Easter season, Francis spoke about the “grace” and “surprise” found in our Christian faith, saying we need hearts able to wonder, because hearts that are closed-off cannot understand the truth of what Christianity is.Even though we are sinners and might look at our lives realizing how many times we have failed to live out our good intenti...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christian faith is a grace and can be perceived onlyin the hearts of those willing to be surprised by the joy of the Resurrection,Pope Francis said. "A closed heart, a rationalistic heart" isincapable of understanding the Christian message which has God's love --manifested in Christ's victory over death -- at its center, the pope said at hisweekly general audience April 19."How beautiful it is to think that Christianity isessentially this: It is not so much our search for God -- a search that is, truthfully, somewhatshaky -- but rather God's search for us," the pope said. The pope, bundled up in a white overcoat due to the unusuallychilly and windy weather, entered a packed St. Peter's Square in hispopemobile. Immediately, he invited two girls and a boy, dressed in their altar server robes, to board the vehicle and ridewith him around the square. Pope Francis also took a moment to greet an elderly womanwho, overcome...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Orthodox Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew of Constantinople was scheduled to attend a peace conference inCairo with Pope Francis and Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar University.While Patriarch Bartholomew's office did not release a detailedschedule of events he would be attending during the pope's April 28-29 visit toCairo, the Vatican confirmed reports April 19 that Patriarch Bartholomew wasinvited to take part in the conference and was planning to attend.Pope Francis also was scheduled to meet Pope Tawadros II,head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, soon after the conference April 28, makingit a day the heirs of the Apostles Peter, Mark and Andrew all would be presentin the ancient land of Egypt.While Pope Francis is the successor of St. Peter, theOrthodox ecumenical patriarchate traces its lineage to St. Andrew and theCoptic Orthodox Church has St. Mark as its patron. The Catholic, EasternOrthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches are not ...
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks:...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The Latest on opposition and pro-government marches in Venezuela. (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaires, corporations and NFL owners opened their wallets in a big way to help President Donald Trump raise a record-shattering $107 million for his inaugural festivities, records released by the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday show. The amount about doubled the record set by President Barack Obama eight years ago....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who doggedly investigated Hillary Clinton before the 2016 presidential election but declined to investigate President Donald Trump, said Wednesday he won't run for re-election or any other office in 2018....
