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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's parliament convened Tuesday amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, with the United States and South Korea conducting their biggest-ever military exercises and the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier heading to the area in a show of American strength....
CHICAGO (AP) -- After people were horrified by video of a passenger getting dragged off a full United Express flight by airport police, the head of United's parent company said the airline was reaching out to the man to "resolve this situation."...
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Trump administration veered toward deeper conflict with Russia Tuesday as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow, gambling that an unpredictable new president armed with the willingness to threaten military action gives the U.S. much-needed leverage to end Syria's carnage....
(Vatican Radio) A key U.S. official is meeting with Hungary's government after some 70,000 people rallied in Budapest against new legislation that they fear will force the closure of the famed Central European University (CEU) founded by American billionaire George Soros. The university is among several institutions and groups targeted by hardline Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who views them as a threat to his declared "illiberal" policies. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Tens of thousands of protesters, many of them students and professors, marched to the Hungarian Parliament into the early hours of the morning.They asked Hungarian President János Áder not to sign a new education law which was rushed through parliament on Tuesday. The legislation will require the Budapest-based CEU to change its name and open a campus in the United States. It also calls for binding agreements about the University between Hungary and ...
Vatican City, Apr 11, 2017 / 10:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The caresses born of love are the most important medicine, Pope Francis told a group of patients, families, and doctors from Rome's Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital on Monday.“There is the danger, the risk of forgetting the most important medicine that only a family can give: caresses! It is a form of medicine that is too costly, because to have it, to be able to do this, you must give everything, you must give all your heart, all your love,” Pope Francis said April 10. “And you give them this affection, the caresses of the doctors, the nurses, the director, everyone.”The patients, ages 5-18, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he told them that “Each of you is a story. Not only the sick children, but also the doctors, the nurses, those who visit, the families.”He recalled his Dec. 15, 2016 meeting with the group, saying that on that occasion the physicians “introduced the pe...
Vatican City, Apr 11, 2017 / 10:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis will hold an ordinary public consistory on April 20, where the cardinals of the Church are expected to pave the way for the canonization of the Fatima visionaries.There are five causes of canonization waiting for approval by the cardinals. Most prominent is the cause of Francesco and Jacinto Marto, two of the shepherd children who witnessed the 1917 Marian apparitions at Fatima.The cardinals’ approval at the consistory is the final step in the process leading up to canonization. Pope Francis has already given approval for the causes to move forward. Following the consistory, canonization dates will be set.It has been widely speculated that Pope Francis will canonize the Fatima visionaries during his trip to Fatima for the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions there. That trip will take place May 12-13.Francisco, 11, and Jacinta, 10, were the youngest non-martyrs to be beatified in the history of the Chu...
IMAGE: CNS photo/EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As extraordinary as the apparitions atFatima, Portugal,nearly 100 years ago were, the sanctity of the shepherd children did not hingeon their having seen Mary, a cardinal said."The apparition of the Virgin Mary was an occasion, but it has nothing todo with or has not influenced the reason" Blesseds Francisco and Jacinta Marto will be declared saints,Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, former prefect of the Congregationfor Saints' Causes, told Catholic News Service."It was the children's heroism in their lives, theirlife of prayer, their turning to God that was truly holy," he said. The Vatican announced April 11 that Pope Francis has convened cardinals living in Romefor a consistory April 20 to approve the canonizations of the two Fatimachildren. With the approval of a miracle attributed to theirintercession and the announcement of the consistory, many people are hoping PopeFrancis will preside over the canoniza...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, ReutersBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Two weeks after the U.S. State Departmenthonored her as a Woman of Courage, a Salesian sister from Syriatold reporters President Donald Trump's decision to bomb a Syrian air base isanother step back from peace."I always hope for peace," said Salesian SisterCarolin Tahhan Fachakh, who runs a nursery school in Damascus, Syria, andreceived the International Woman of Courage Award award from first lady Melania TrumpMarch 29 in Washington."Everything ends," she told reporters in RomeApril 11. The war will end, too, she added."Every time we say there is hope for peace and let's moveforward, something happens to set us back. The situation is ugly now,"Sister Carolin said, referring to Trump's decision to bomb government militaryinstallations.The Syrian nun, who stopped in Rome on her way back to Syriafrom the United States, said she truly doubts that Syrian President BasharAssad launched a chemical weapon attack in early...
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) -- The Latest on the explosions near the bus carrying German soccer team Borussia Dortmund (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" - a comment at odds with Hitler's use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust....
