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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus....
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Spies don't work for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men and women who served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II wouldn't mind some recognition....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is set to begin its new term as it ended the last one, down one justice and ideologically deadlocked on a range of issues....
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that still puts Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba in the path of potentially devastating winds and rain....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most people who are drawn to third party candidates in the presidential election aren't sold on their choice, making these voters wild cards in an already unpredictable contest....
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- In West Virginia, the Democrat running for governor has defended the coal industry while decrying his party's presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton....
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation presented by Monsignor Carlito J. Cenzon C.I.C.M. from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Baguio (Philippines), and has appointed Msgr. Victor B. Bendico, from the clergy of the Archdiocese of Capiz, until now parish priest of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, in Roxas City. Msgr. Victor B. Bendico was born in Roxas City, January 22, 1960. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at the University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary in Manila. From 1996 to 2000 he studied in Rome at the Pontifical Institute of St. Anselm, receiving his Doctorate in Sacred Liturgy. He was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Capiz, on April 14, 1984.As an ordained priest he was: Spiritual Director of St. Pius X Seminary, Roxas City (1984-1988); Vicar at St. Theresa parish of Roxas City (1992-1995); Rector at St. Maria Mater et Regina seminarium maius, (Saint Mary, Mother and Queen, Major Seminary) Roxas City and pastor of St. ...
(Vatican Radio) The 2016 Day for Life is being marked across Ireland this Sunday highlighting the meaning and value of human life at every stage. The theme for this year is, “Everything is Connected.In their Day for Life pastoral message the Bishops of Ireland have drawn inspiration from Pope Francis’ encyclical letter “Laudato Si” on the care for our common home.The Bishops also comment in their message that, “when we recognise and grow in wonder that we are all brothers and sisters living in one common home, it will not only affect how we care for the environment, but also how we care for one another and how we welcome and accept those with different needs and abilities, refugees, the elderly, the unborn, the forgotten and the abandoned.”Listen to Lydia O'Kane's interview with Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin Speaking on this year’s Day for Life theme, Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin and the Bishops’ Conference ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ meeting with Assyrian-Chaldean community in Georgia was an opportunity to show his closeness to the Church in Syria and Iraq, said the director of the Holy See press office.“This is extremely important,” Greg Burke told Vatican Radio about the meeting, which took place on the first day of the Pope’s visit to the Caucasus nation.He observed while it is currently impossible for the Holy Father to travel to either Syria or Iraq, nonetheless they are “both places very close to his heart, with the Church suffering there.”Listen to Gabriella Ceraso’s interview with Greg Burke, director of the Holy See press office: Burke also commented on Pope Francis’ meeting with Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia, Ilia II earlier in the day at the Patriarchal palace in the capital city of Tbilisi.“I think the important thing is this: It’s the relations with the Orthodox,” he said. He recalled how th...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent greetings in a message to the Jewish community of Rome and throughout the world to mark three upcoming Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah 5777, (the Jewish New Year), the Yom Kippur Day of Atonement and Sukkot, the Feast of the Booths or Tabernacles. In the message addressed to the chief Rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, the Pope expressed his hope that the upcoming holidays would bring “abundant blessings.” He wrote: "May the Almighty grant us the untiring desire to promote peace and strengthen the cordial links of friendship between us.”
