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(Vatican Radio) The body of a priest abducted in Mexico a week ago has been found, just hours after Pope Francis appealed for an end to drug-related violence in the country at his Sunday Angelus address. He'd been shot dead at point blank range.Listen to James Blears' report: The Archdiocese of Morelia announced that Father Jose Lopez Guillen's body was found near to the town of Puruandiro, in the western Mexican State of Michocan.Fr. Lopez had been robbed and abducted from his home at the parish house in Janamuati. His car was found overturned on a nearby road.On the very day this happened, the bodies of two priests were found in the eastern State of Vera Cruz. They too had been shot dead, but the two incidents are not thought to be linked.The Catholic Multi Media Center states that 15 priests have been murdered in Mexico in less than four years. Although these latest killings occurred in the east and the west of Mexico, both areas where they happ...
Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; II Tm 1:6-8, 13-14; Lk 17:5-10The October 5th, 1988 issue of Christian Century carried the story of a couple who have found a meaningful way of expressing their Faith. Millard Fuller was a successful lawyer. But he was dissatisfied. He had it all, and he decided he had virtually nothing. One day he decided to do something about it. He and Linda, his wife, walked out of the law practice, sold all their possessions, gave the money to the poor, and joined Clarence Jordon at Koinonia Farms, a Christian Community outside Americus, Georgia. Together with other Christians of the community, they searched for a focus for their lives that would have meaning. Eventually, they established an organization that has come to be called Habitat for Humanity. You have read about them. President Carter worked with them, pounding nails. The wonderful idea is simply, in Millard Fuller’s words, that "all God’s people ought to have simple, decent, affordable housing.&quo...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Get ready for talk of a rookie quarterback showdown on Oct. 30 between the sudden stars of the NFC East: Philadelphia's Carson Wentz and the Cowboys' Dak Prescott in Dallas....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte lifted its midnight curfew, signaling movement toward normalcy after a state of emergency was imposed following the shooting death of a black man by police last week that brought National Guard troops and armored vehicles to downtown street corners....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said in a TV interview broadcast Monday that an internationally-brokered cease-fire for Syria is still viable, as rescue workers in Aleppo cleaned up from what they said were the worst airstrikes on rebel-held areas of the northern city in five years....
(Vatican Radio) Hungary's anti-migration prime minister says the European Union should set up a "giant refugee city" on the Libyan coast to process African asylum seekers before they reach Europe. Viktor Orbán spoke while Hungary's capital Budapest was rocked by an apparent bomb blast overnight, seriously injuring two police officers, a week before a controversial referendum on the EU's plan for mandatory relocation of migrants.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Orbán was among those attending a summit in Vienna, Austria, where European leaders agreed to work on improving protecting Europe's outer and inner borders. Speaking at rhe gathering of several European Union and west Balkan leaders, Austria's chancellor Christian Kern vowed to better protect the EU's outer borders to curb illegal migration.He and his German counterpart Angela Merkel also agreed to consider strengthening the EU's border agency Frontex not only along ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- THE ISSUE: Tepid income growth and shrinking opportunities for blue-collar workers have kept many Americans anxious about jobs and the economy, seven years after the Great Recession ended....
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia will take a big step toward emerging from its long nightmare of bloody violence Monday when the government and the country's largest rebel movement sign a peace accord that emerged from four hard years of negotiations....
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) -- At the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which draws about 2,000 people each Friday for communal prayers, the talk is about how this year is different....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte lifted its midnight curfew, signaling movement toward normalcy after a state of emergency was imposed after the shooting death of a black man by police last week that brought National Guard troops and armored vehicles to downtown street corners....
