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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the board game Monopoly. In their place will be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky....
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Perched atop an Adirondack mountain, the 325-acre site for sale seems to have everything a developer could want: spectacular views, a man-made lake and close proximity to the tourist destination of Saratoga Springs. Oh, and former President Ulysses S. Grant lived out his final days in a home next door....
LONDON (AP) -- A spokesman for Britain's prime minister says the White House has promised that it won't repeat a claim that U.K. spies snooped on U.S. President Donald Trump....
A long-acting cholesterol medicine cut the risk of having a heart attack or some other serious problems by 15 to 20 percent in a big study that's likely to spur fresh debate about what drugs should cost....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House and some House conservatives agreed Friday to make changes in the troubled Republican health care bill in hopes of easing deep party divisions over the overhaul plan. But other conservatives expressed continued opposition and it remained uncertain that party leaders had won enough support to push the high-profile measure through the House next week....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States signaled a tougher strategy toward North Korea on Friday that leaves open the possibility of pre-emptive military action and rejects talks with the communist nation until it gives up its weapons of mass destruction....
The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, says the correct and total formation of priests must be a shared responsibility of parents, seminarians themselves and the Church as a whole.He noted that “The challenges are not to be underrated, but they are to be kept in sight and players, parents and guardians and society, are also to be kept on their toes for the good of the subject, the child or the student and for the greater good of the society and Church as a whole.”He said, “it is the duty and the primary responsibility of parents to form or educate seminarians, while the seminarian himself has the onerous responsibility to be involved and committed to his own formation if he wants to become truly what God the Father has willed.”Archbishop Palmer-Buckle was delivering a keynote address on the theme: “Sixty Years of Priestly Formation for the Church in Ghana and the Universal Church-A Shared Responsibility.” This was a...
(Vatican Radio) The new director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Vatican will be the former head of the Anglican Church in Burundi, Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi.A statement from Lambeth Palace on Friday said Archbishop Bernard will take up his new post in September, succeeding the outgoing director, Archbishop David Moxon.Listen to Philippa Hitchen’s report: Born in 1948, Archbishop Ntahoturi grew up in a small village in southern Burundi, the son of a poor farming family. After training at theological College in Uganda, he was ordained in 1973 and then continued his studies in England at Cambridge and Oxford universities.After his training, he returned to Burundi where he joined the civil service, becoming chief of staff to President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza. When the government was overthrown in a military coup in 1987 he spent four years in jail.In 1992 Ntahoturi became Provincial Secretary of the Anglican Church ...
(Vatican Radio) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to tear up a controversial migrant deal with the European Union that was aimed at halting the influx into Europe of people fleeing war and poverty. Hungary has used the controversy to raise support for its decision to build fences and a new law to detain all asylum seekers, including children.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkey's hardline President Erdogan says the European Union "can forget" about Turkey re-admitting failed asylum seekers who have reached Europe via Turkey. It is a key part of an agreement with the EU after more than a million often desperate migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in 2015, with thousands feared drowned. Turkey's president also says that the EU's top court is leading a "crusade" against Islam.His comments come at a time when Ankara has been enraged by the Netherlands, Germany and other nations' decisions to block its mini...
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican's Permanent Observer to the United Nations has urged the international community to protect and reaffirm woman's dignity in the workplace.Archbishop Bernadito Auza's statement was addressed to a UN Commission on the Status of Women on the theme of "Women's Economic Empowerment in a Changing World of Work" taking place in New York from 13 to 24 March.Auza also emphasized the difficulties faced in particular by women and girls fleeing war and poverty and how they are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation and trafficking.Please find below Archbishop Bernardito Auza's full statement:Mr. Chair,The Holy See is pleased to participate in the Sixty-First Commission on the Status of Women, and would like to thank you for your leadership as we address the topic of the empowerment of women in the changing world of work. We also commend the Commission for its efforts to identify, assess and concretely address in its agreed conclusions the m...
