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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has chosen, for the first time, a woman to head the Vatican Museums.Barbara Jatta, 54, is an Italian art historian and graphic arts expert, who had been serving as vice-director of the museums since June.The Vatican announced the appointment Dec. 20.She will begin her new role as director of the museums Jan. 1, 2017, replacing 77-year-old Antonio Paolucci, who had been director since 2007.Each year millions of people visit the Vatican Museums, which include the Sistine Chapel and more than 50 different galleries. It is one of the largest museums in the world with 200,000 objects in its collections -- 20,000 of which are on public display -- 27,000 square feet of frescoes, and 4.35 miles of exhibit space.Jatta started working at the Vatican in 1996 when she was hired to head the Vatican Library's departments of prints. In 2010, she was named curator of the artwork in the prints department at the library.She has d...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Expressinghis condolences to victims and their families, Pope Francis called for an endto terrorism following a string of deadly attacks in Berlin and Ankara.Similar to an attack with a truck that took place inJuly in Nice, France,a tractor-trailer veered into the crowded Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in Berlin and plowed through bystanders, killing 12 people and wounding nearly 50.In a Dec. 20 telegram sent byCardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin, the popeprayed for the families of the dead and the wounded, "assuring hiscloseness in their pain.""Pope Francis joins allpeople of good will who are workingso that the homicidal madness of terrorism does not find any more roomin our world," Cardinal Parolin wrote.Cardinal Parolin said the popereceived news of the attack with "profound emotion" and joined thefamilies of the victims in their mourning and "entrusts the dead to themercy of Go...
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BEIRUT (AP) -- Russia, Iran, and Turkey are ready to act as guarantors to a future settlement between the Syrian government and the opposition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, as hundreds more residents left the opposition's last foothold in eastern Aleppo....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia led the nation this year in the number of inmates put to death, an anomaly that's due at least in part to executions in Texas dipping into single digits for the first time in 20 years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting bipartisan calls for a special committee to investigate Russian interference in the U.S. election, which American intelligence says was aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- The Turkish policeman who assassinated Russia's ambassador was unlikely to have acted alone, a senior Turkish government official said Tuesday, as investigators from both countries hunted for clues as to who might have been behind the killing....
BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel already knew that her campaign for a fourth term as Germany's leader will be her most difficult yet. The deadly truck attack on a Christmas market may have made it tougher - and is already polarizing opinion....
BERLIN (AP) -- German authorities are calling the truck attack on a crowded Christmas market an "act of terrorism" that had all the hallmarks of Islamic extremism - but many questions remained over who carried out the attack that killed 12 people and wounded nearly 50 in the heart of Berlin....
