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United is getting pummeled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as "We'll drag you all over the world" and "We have red eye and black eye flights available." On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1 billion in market value before its stock regained much of the loss....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on U.S. response to recent chemical weapons attack in Syria (all times local):...
Pakistan’s teenage Nobel Prize winner and children and girl’s rights activist, Malala Yousafzai on Monday was named the youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls' education. “[You are a] symbol of perhaps the most important thing in the world, education for all,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on April 10 at a ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York. "It is an enormous pleasure to have you as our Messenger of Peace," he said, praising her "courageous defense of the rights of all people, including women and girls, to education and equality" and her "unwavering commitment to peace."Yousafzai, who was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for attending classes, is the youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace and the first one to be designated by Secretary-General Guterres since he assumed office in January this year. Accepting the accolade, the 19-year old un...
The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) has sought the release of Rohingya children detained in a Myanmar army crackdown last year on the Muslim minority. Children as young as 10 were among hundreds of Rohingya detained on charges of their association with insurgents, Reuters revealed last month, citing a previously unreleased police document.Thirteen juveniles were among more than 400 arrested since Oct. 9, when insurgents attacked three police border posts in northern Rakhine State near the frontier with Bangladesh, according to the March 7 document. The attacks by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's government, prompting more than 75,000 Rohingya to flee the ensuing army crackdown to Bangladesh.Bertrand Bainvel, the UNICEF representative to Myanmar said on April 10, “The issue was discussed in high-level meetings and UNICEF felt encouraged that the issue was known to auth...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy John E. KozarBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The next few months will determine whether Iraqi Christians can returnto their homes in areas where Islamic State had been routed, according to Msgr.John E. Kozar, international president of the Catholic Near East WelfareAssociation.Msgr.Kozar, who was in Iraq March 31-April 5, cited several daunting challenges forIraqi Christians who return to their country: infrastructure woes, burned- and bombed-outbuildings, desecrated churches and security issues."Threeliberated villages outside of Dahuk (in northern Iraq) are being resettled aswe speak," Msgr. Kozar told Catholic News Service in an April 7 telephoneinterview from CNEWA headquarters in New York."Thereason people are very hesitant to go back there is the reason of security. Theyhold very close to them the reign of terror ISIS had produced. They're lookingfor some reassurance from the Iraqi government and the Kurdish Peshmerga government,"the military forc...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- Three bishops, in a joint letter to the measure's sponsor, voiced their supportof the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would permit social serviceagencies to refuse on religious grounds to provide adoption or foster services for households headed by same-sex couples.The bishops, who chair three U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committees,called it a "needed bill.""TheInclusion Act protects the freedom of all child welfare providers by ensuringthey will not be discriminated against by the government because of theirreligious beliefs or moral convictions," said the April 10 letter, signedby Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. bishops' AdHoc Committee for Religious Liberty; Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln,Nebraska, chair of the bishops' Subcommittee for the Defense and Promotion ofMarriage; and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla., chairman of theirCommittee on Domestic Justice and Human Development."Theact prevents the...
IMAGE: CNSBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis and cardinals present inRome will formally approve the canonizations of two of the children who sawMary in Fatima, a large group of Brazilian martyrs, three child martyrs from Mexico and two priests.The Vatican announced April 11 that the "ordinaryconsistory," as the gathering is called, will take place April 20, a little more thanthree weeks before Pope Francis is scheduled to travel to Fatima, Portugal.Although it cannot be confirmed until the consistory isheld, the pope is expected to canonize the children, Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed JacintaMarto, during a Mass at the Fatima shrine May 13, the 100th anniversaryof the first time Mary appeared to the siblings and their cousin, Sister Lucia dos Santos.The other causes to be approved formally April 20 are:-- The "Martyrsof Natal," Brazil, including: Blessed Andre de Soveral, a Jesuit priest; Blessed Ambrosio Francisco Ferro, adiocesan priest; BlessedMateus Moreira,...
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Silence and stillness settled over the deep, sunbaked gorge as a pair of photographers sat on a cliff, waiting....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Another "Great Spot" has been found at Jupiter, this one cold and high up....
CHICAGO (AP) -- An influential U.S. government advisory panel is dropping its opposition to routine prostate cancer screening in favor of letting men decide for themselves after talking with their doctor....
