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By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will be visitingColombia in mid-September as the Latin American nation works to implement a newpeace deal and rebuild after 52 years of war.The Vatican announced March 10 that the pope had acceptedthe invitation of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Colombian bishops.The trip, Sept. 6-11, will include visits to the citiesof Bogota, Villavicencio, Medellin and Cartagena. Details of the trip were tobe published at a later date.Pope Francis will be the third pope to visit the nationafter Blessed Paul VI and St. John Paul II. The previous papal visit there was 31years ago in 1986.The bishops' conference posted on their website the triplogo: the pope smiling and walking flanked by the white and yellow colors ofthe Vatican on one side and an early indigenous symbol on the other. The mottois "Let us take the first step" ("Demos el primer paso").Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, apostolic nuncio toColombia, said: "The pope wants to come to mee...
SEATTLE (AP) -- A joke book "written" by a conservative author and filled with blank pages in a dig at Democrats is the top selling book on Amazon....
CAIRO (AP) -- Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a massive statue in a Cairo slum that may be of Ramses II, one of the country's most famous and longest ruling ancient pharaohs....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Gone are the days when cyclists had to put away their bikes for the winter. These days, hard-core riders are staying outdoors year round thanks to "fat bikes" that allow them to conquer winter's worst instead of staying indoors on a stationary bike....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rookie doctors can work up to 24 hours straight under new work limits taking effect this summer - a move supporters say will enhance training and foes maintain will do just the opposite....
DETROIT (AP) -- Volkswagen pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a brazen scheme to get around U.S. pollution rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles by using software to suppress emissions of nitrogen oxide during tests....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Women seeking abortions and some basic health services, including prenatal care, contraception and cancer screenings, would face restrictions and struggle to pay for some of that medical care under the House Republicans' proposed bill....
A North Carolina district attorney said Friday that two assistant prosecutors no longer work for him after The Associated Press reported ex-members of a church said the men, who belong to the sect, derailed criminal investigations into possible abuse by church leaders....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added a robust 235,000 jobs in February and raised pay at a healthy pace, making it all but certain that the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates next week....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named Bishop Daniel Miehm as the new Bishop of Peterborough, Canada. Bishop Miehm has been serving as an auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Hamilton.BIOGRAPHYBishop Daniel Miehm was born in 1960 in Kitchener, Ontario. After studies at St. Jerome's College, University of Waterloo and St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto, he was ordained to the Priesthood on May 6, 1989, at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton. He was ordained Bishop at the Cathedral on May 7, 2013.Bishop Miehm holds a Master's degree in Divinity from St. Augustine’s Seminary and a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.Bishop Miehm has served as a Priest in the Diocese of Hamilton since his ordination in 1989. During his ministry, he served as Associate Pastor at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Stoney Creek and the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton and as Pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Ham...
