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TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) -- A powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through Mexico's best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, killing at least 29 people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky....
IMAGE: CNS photo/iconographer Vivian Imbruglia, courtesy Archdiocese of Denver By DENVER (CNS) -- DenverArchbishop Samuel J. Aquila Dec. 18 formally opened the sainthood cause ofJulia Greeley, a former slave who spent her days caring for the poor, during aMass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Denver.Born into slavery in Missouri inthe 1840s, Julia Greeley gained her freedom after the Civil War and worked as ananny. She moved to Denver, where she was employed to care for the children ofWilliam Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado.Known for her love of childrenand the poor, Greeley also was a known for her piety, often passing out prayercard devotions to the Sacred Heart. She was a convert to Catholicism.Despite working long hourstaking care of children, cooking and cleaning, she would often be seen walkingat night through the streets of Denver pulling a small wagon of food andsupplies, which she would deliver to poor families. She was k...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The last few years have been grindingly tough for state government in Oklahoma as plunging oil prices decimated tax revenues, forcing agencies to lay off employees, shutter offices and scale back services....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the development in the Syrian civil war and the aftermath of the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's children may see his move to the White House as a way to raise money for their favorite causes....
HONOLULU (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing....
BERLIN (AP) -- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a truck attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market that German authorities said came right out of the extremist group's playbook, inflicting mass casualties on a soft target fraught with symbolic meaning....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):...
The Catholic Church in Ethiopia has joind other religious leaders and the government to promote peaceful coexistene in communities in conclict.The head of the Justice and Peace Department of the bishops' conference says in the past year the Church managed to bring together disputing ethnic groups in different parts of the country. Conflicts have arisen in some parts of the vast nation due disputes over grazing land and the stealing of herds.Below is a report by Makeda Yohanes from Addis AbabaThe Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat (ECS) through Justice and Peace Department in collaboration with local elders, different religious leaders and government officials is working tirelessly throughout the country to promote peace and tolerance among all peoples and nationalities in the country.Speaking to AMECEA Online News Correspondent recently in Addis Ababa, Mr. Guelay Gebreghiorgis, ECS Justice and Peace Department Head, said that in the past year the Church managed to bring together d...
Vatican City, Dec 20, 2016 / 12:25 pm (CNA/Vatican Insider).- Pope Francis has officially granted clemency to Spanish priest Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, who had already served half of his 18-month jail sentence for leaking confidential Vatican documents.The Vatican announced Dec. 20 that the Pope had given Msgr. Vallejo Balda the "benefit of conditional release" and that the priest will now fall under the jurisdiction of his home diocese of Astorga, Spain.In July of this year, after an eight-month trial weighing the guilt of five individuals in the leaking and disseminating of confidential financial documents, the Vatican reached a verdict, sentencing a Vatican official and a laywoman for the crime.The defendants in question were Msgr. Vallejo Balda, Italian PR woman Francesca Chaouqui, Nicola Maio (Vallejo’s secretary), and journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi.On July 7, Msgr. Vallejo was found guilty of leaking the documents and sentenced to 18 ...
