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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled Friday that the Fed will likely resume raising interest rates later this month to reflect a strengthening job market and inflation edging toward the central bank's 2 percent target rate....
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) -- A Palestinian guesthouse packed with artwork of the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy unveiled itself Friday in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a sneak peek of what the owner sarcastically called the "hotel with the worst view in the world."...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It's an only in Silicon Valley kind of story: A well-to-do private Catholic high school makes a $15,000 investment five years ago in the company developing the Snapchat app, holds onto it for years and ends up with a windfall of $24 million....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As part of a sustained assault on the extremist group known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. warplanes have launched more than 30 airstrikes in Yemen the past two days, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former journalist fired for making up details in stories is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish institutions nationwide, as well as a bomb threat to New York's Anti-Defamation League, in an effort to harass and vilify his ex-girlfriend, federal officials said Friday....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump toured a private religious school in Florida on Friday, praising it as an ideal institution for "disadvantaged children" while re-emphasizing that his education agenda will focus on school choice....
Vatican Weekend for March 4th, 2017 features a report on Pope Francis’ general audience on Ash Wednesday, a leading Franciscan updates us on the situation in South Sudan, a nation the Pope said once again that he wishes to visit plus two reflections to mark the Lenten season.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for March 5th, 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) The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, said Friday that Pope Francis will hold an audience with the heads of State and government of the European Union on March 24, 2017.The EU leaders will be in Rome to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome.Their audience with Pope Francis is to take place in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace on the eve of a summit marking the EU’s founding treaty.The Holy Father previously addressed EU leaders last May at his acceptance speech for the Charlemagne prize for promoting European unity.
Myanmar’s prominent Catholic Church leader has warned that the world's ecological crisis is being fueled by greed, and that climate change has destructive powers equivalent to those of nuclear weapons. "Today we face an environmental holocaust. It is a scary moment…. Climate change is an atom bomb waiting to explode," Myanmar’s first Cardinal, Charles Bo Archbishop of Yangon said in his keynote speech at the Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious (AMOR) forum in Yangon on Feb. 27. Just over 130 men and women religious attended the forum held at St. Mary's Cathedral compound Feb. 27-March 3.The 69-year-old cardinal told the forum that greed has unleashed ecological terrorism upon the Earth while adding that the poor are the most affected. He cited Pope Francis' environmental encyclical “Laudato Si' saying that degradation to the environment was being caused by "economic terrorists and ecological terrorists."&...
