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(Vatican Radio) The French President hasyvowed to have the migrant camp in Calais fully dismantled by the end of the year.His promise came in a speech on Monday to police forces securing the area and it addresses a major issue for his Socialist government ahead of next year's presidential election. Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Visiting Calais for the first time since winning office in 2012, Francois Holland described the migrant camp – known as “the Jungle” – as a humanitarian emergency.Some 10,000 people live in squalid conditions in the infamous camp near the port of Calais. They are all desperate migrants – men, women and children - hoping to make the channel crossing into Britain.In his speech to security forces in Calais, the President vowed to shut the camp "with method and determination" so that new camps don't appear near Calais or elsewhere across France, and said police forces will remain in the area &q...
Vatican City, Sep 26, 2016 / 07:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Less than a week after two Catholic priests in Mexico were found murdered after having been abducted from their parishes, the body of a third slain priest, Fr. José Alfredo López Guillén, has been found.Fr. López Guillén, pastor of Janamuato in Mexico’s central state of Michoacan, was taken from the rectory of his parish by unknown persons Monday, Sept. 19. His car had been found overturned on a road nearby.According to a message written on the archdiocese’s Facebook page, the priest had been killed several days before his lifeless body was found near the town of near Puruandiro.His abduction occurred on the same day that authorities found the lifeless bodies of previously-kidnapped Fathers Alejo Nabor Jiménez Juárez and José Alfredo Juárez de la Cruz, in the Diocese of Papantla, in Veracruz state.According to the Catholic Multi Media Center, 15 priests ...
IMAGE: CNS/Jonathan Ernst, ReutersBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The expression "in like a lion out likea lamb" turns on its head when comparing the end of the Supreme Court's lastterm to the start of its new one Oct. 3.The endof the court's last term ended with a flurry of decisions on high-profile caseson abortion, immigration and contraception that had the rapt attention ofCatholics and the general public alike.But asthe court readies for its next term -- always on the first Monday in October --that same sense of urgency is nowhere in sight. The court will take its usualload of about 80 cases, but it is not taking on cases likely to entice massivecrowds to the building's white steps with placards and megaphones."Inprevious years I've said: 'What a blockbuster year we have ahead.' But thisyear, not so much," said Caroline Fredrickson, president of the AmericanConstitution Society, during a Supreme Court overview Sept. 21 at the NationalPress Club in Washington.Fredrickson...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Diario Marcha, Handout via EPABy David AgrenMEXICOCITY (CNS) -- A priest abducted from his parish residence in the Mexican stateof Michoacan has been found dead, the Archdiocese of Morelia confirmed Sept. 25.He was the third priest murdered in Mexico within days.Stateprosecutors say Father Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen, pastor in the community ofJanamuato, 240 miles west of Mexico City, died of gunshot wounds shortly afterbeing abducted Sept. 19. His body was found wrapped in a blanket alongside ahighway.Familymembers, meanwhile, discovered personal items strewn across the floor of hishome, and one of two vehicles stolen from his parish was found flipped overalong a highway, Mexican media reported. Amotive for the crime is still uncertain, though family say they received noransom calls as might be expected in a kidnapping case. StateGov. Silvano Aureoles Conejo erroneously told Radio Formula that Father Lopezwas last seen on video in a local hotel with a teenage boy. T...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The bus winding its way through the pre-dawn darkness of Athens' empty streets marks the end of months of danger, hardship and uncertainty. After surviving war, smugglers and perilous sea crossings, its 31 passengers are finally about to start new lives in Europe....
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the first capital of the Confederacy is set to become home to a privately funded museum and monument that could make some visitors wince: a memorial to black lynching victims....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Close allies of Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose presidency was marked by confrontation with the West, said Monday that the country's supreme leader recommended he not run in next May's presidential election because he is a polarizing figure among hard-liners....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of murders reported by local law enforcement agencies jumped by more than 10 percent in 2015 from the year before, according to crime data released by the FBI on Monday....
Arnold Palmer charged across the golf course and into America's living rooms with a go-for-broke style that made a country-club sport popular for the everyman. At ease with presidents and the public, he was on a first-name basis with both....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Nine people were shot and wounded, one critically, in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning by a lawyer who had issues with his law firm, authorities said....
