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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump hammered rival Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign for failing to prevent the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state. Soon he'll be the one responsible for protecting America's diplomats, but he's offered virtually no insight into how he'll do that....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carrie Fisher, a princess onscreen and off, played both roles in her own gutsy way....
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- The leaders of Japan and the United States sought to remind the world that even the most bitter enemies can become allies, during a historic pilgrimage to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbor....
PUERTO CABELLO, Venezuela (AP) -- When hunger drew tens of thousands of Venezuelans to the streets in protest last summer, President Nicolas Maduro turned to the military to manage the country's diminished food supply, putting generals in charge of everything from butter to rice....
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec 27, 2016 / 02:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nestled in a sleepy neighborhood in the hills rising over Pittsburgh lies a small chapel. Inside St. Anthony’s Chapel lies a piece from the Crown of Thorns, a tooth of St. Anthony of Padua, and more than 5,000 other verified relics, or remains, of saints from around the world.Indeed for the fragments from the bodies and scraps of the belongings of countless saints, these relics continued to have earthly adventures long after the saints’ deaths. Many of the relics traveled across the world to escape war, confiscation, and desecration to make it into the safe hands of a Belgian-born physician and priest, Fr. Suitbert Mollinger, who founded the chapel.The chapel now holds the largest collection of relics outside of Rome.“Fr. Stewart Mollinger, well, he had an unusual hobby in which he liked to acquire relics of the saints,” Carole Brueckner, chairperson of the committee for St. Anthony’s Chapel, ex...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A stray backpack prompted the partial evacuation of Trump Tower on Tuesday, though bomb squad technicians quickly determined the unattended bag contained children's toys and was harmless....
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- In a historic pilgrimage, the leaders of Japan and the United States took to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbor on Tuesday to prove that even the bitterest enemies can become allies. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not apologize, but conceded Japan "must never repeat the horrors of war again."...
(Vatican Radio) A bleak 2017 is staring Venezuela in the face, with hyper inflation, food queues and a long winter of discontent. In his "Urbi et Orbi" message on Christmas Day, Pope Francis wished peace upon our broken world and highlighted the situation in Venezuela saying: “May courage motivate the beloved country of Venezuela to undertake the necessary steps to put an end to current tensions, and build together a future of hope for the whole population”.James blears reports on the economic and social difficulties faced by the population and on a political impasse which does not bode well for the future.Listen: THE 100 bolivar banknote will soon be replaced by a five hundred. but this cant keep pace with rampant inflation, which is more than 200 percent, and could treble in this coming year. Long food queues, acute shortages of basic commodities, even toilet paper, a currency which is reminiscent of the wheel barrows of banknotes, in...
(Vatican Radio) Romania plunged into political turmoil Tuesday as the president refused to nominate as prime minister an economist who could have become the country's first female Muslim premier. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: President Klaus Iohannis made clear that he used the Christmas holiday to decide whether to nominate the 52-year-old Muslim Sevil Shhaideh to the post of prime minister. On Tuesday he urged the Social Democratic Party, the winners of the December 11 elections, to nominate someone else as government leader. "I carefully examined the pros and cons and I have decided not to accept this nomination," he told reporters. "Consequently I request the PSD-ALDE coalition to put forward another name."He did not say why he would not name Shhaideh as the country's first female Muslim prime minister of this mainly Eastern Orthodox Christian nation of some 22 million people. UNDER PRESSUREHowever she had been criticized f...
