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ROME (AP) -- Posing with Pope Francis before Michelangelo's masterpiece "The Last Judgment" at the Vatican, European Union leaders started their weekend pilgrimage in Rome hoping that a visit to the cradle of their unity project could somehow rekindle the vigor of the bloc's youth....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jewish groups had pointed to scores of bomb threats against their communities as the most dramatic example of what they considered a surge in anti-Semitism. Some blamed a far-right emboldened by President Donald Trump. Now, that picture has been complicated by the arrest of an Israeli Jewish hacker who authorities say is responsible for the harassment....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin made his preferences in the French presidential election clear Friday by hosting far-right candidate Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin, but analysts are skeptical about Russia's ability to sway the outcome of the vote....
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -- Long before his short stints in jail turned into years behind bars, Khalid Masood was known as Adrian Elms, with a reputation for drinking and an unpredictable temper....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, a key figure in investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, has volunteered to be questioned by lawmakers as part of a House probe of the Kremlin's alleged meddling in the 2016 election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a humiliating setback, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders pulled their "Obamacare" repeal bill off the House floor Friday after it became clear the measure would fail badly....
Vatican Weekend for March 25th, 2017 features: a report on Pope Francis’ general audience, a look at the figure of St. Thomas More whose prayer on good humour is prayed by the Pope every day, a priest from Liverpool tells us about the story behind the famous Beatles song ‘Let It Be,’ archive sound of Pope Pius XII’s words on the Treaty of Rome, a review of the encyclical Populorum Progressio on its 50th anniversary and a Lenten reflection on the theme of blindness.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for March 26th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
(Vatican Radio) Thousands of vulnerable South Sudanese are at imminent risk of death from hunger and lack of medicines. A worsening crisis in the world’s youngest nation sees a famine being declared in the midst of civil war.Caritas Internationalis and other aid agencies say that currently 1 million people in South Sudan are in imminent danger of famine and in total 5.1 million are in urgent need of food and livelihood help. At least 270,000 children are suffering acute malnutrition.They are warning that if large-scale aid of food and medicines does not arrive before the imminent rainy season there are going to be a lot more deaths very soon.Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe, President of Caritas South Sudan and Bishop of Yei, is in Rome for a high level Caritas Internationalis meeting that aims to plan a scaling-up of the emergency response in an enhanced cooperation across all Caritas agencies in the region.Speaking to Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni, Bishop Lodu Tombe a...
