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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked 45,000 children preparingfor confirmation to promise Jesus they would never engage in bullying.Turning stern during a lively and laughter-filled encounterMarch 25, Pope Francis told the youngsters he was very worried about thegrowing phenomenon of bullying. He asked them to be silent and reflect on if there weretimes when they made fun of someone for how they looked or behaved. And, as acondition of their confirmation, he made them promise Jesus that they wouldnever tease or bully anyone.The pope ended his daylong visit to Milan by participatingin an expanded version of the archdiocese's annual encounter for pre-teenspreparing for confirmation. An estimated 78,000 people filled the city's famedSan Siro soccer stadium; the archdiocese expects to confirm about 45,000 youngpeople this year.A boy named Davide asked the pope, "When you were ourage, what helped your friendship with Jesus grow?"First of all, the pope sa...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Oregon lost one of its best players to an injury just before the NCAA Tournament, had to survive two nail-biters to reach the Midwest Regional finals, and then faced a top-seeded Kansas team that had romped to the brink of the Final Four....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. counterterrorism airstrike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed an al-Qaida leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said Saturday....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man riding on a double decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip pulled a gun and started shooting, killing one person and wounding another before barricading himself inside in a standoff that lasted hours before he finally surrendered....
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Laughter, music and the tapping of dancing shoes reverberated throughout a public memorial to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, which loved ones say is just how the actresses would have wanted it....
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State is trying to turn the corner on the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, but the former FBI director who authored a scathing report on it more than four years ago says more changes are needed, even after the conviction of the university's former president....
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) -- In the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State group became infamous for its spectacular variations on explosive vehicles. For attacks in the West, it has suggested a simpler method, encouraging followers to use regular vehicles to kill people on foot....
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