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Vatican City, Sep 17, 2016 / 05:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a world marked by increasing war and conflict, Pope Francis said a generous and merciful response to those fleeing violence is needed in order to combat hatred and foster a greater sense of fraternity and solidarity.“At this place and time in history, there is great need for men and women who hear the cry of the poor and respond with mercy and generosity,” the Pope told a group of Jesuit alumni Sept. 17.He noted how there are “tragically more than 65 million” forcibly displaced persons around the globe, calling the number “unprecedented” and “beyond all imagination.”“The displaced population of today’s world is now larger than the entire population of Italy,” he said, but cautioned that beyond the statistics, each refugee is no different from our own families, and has “an inalienable right to live in peace and to aspire to a better future for their sons ...
MUNICH (AP) -- Heavy rain and stricter security did little to dampen the spirits of beer lovers at the start of this year's Oktoberfest, which opened Saturday in the Bavarian city of Munich....
(Vatican Radio) The President of the European Council says Britain is expected to launch the formal process of leaving the European Union early next year. Donald Tusk made the announcement in Bratislava, Slovakia where EU leaders discussed the future of their fractious Union, saying he had been speaking separately with the British prime minister. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Tusk said in a statement that British Prime Minister Theresa May told him that Britain could be ready to begin talks on leaving the EU, or Brexit, by February.It is the clearest indication yet when the two-year withdrawal process is likely to start Earlier May's office said that Britain would not start the talks this year, citing the need for more preparations. Formal negotiations over the withdrawal cannot begin until Britain triggers Article 50 of what is known as the Lisbon Treaty, the formal mechanism for leaving the Union of 28 nations.Britain made the decision following a...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Snoop Dogg hosted the BET Hip-Hop Awards for three straight years....
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 81....
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- As night fell over Happy Valley on Friday, hundreds of Joe Paterno's former players gathered outside the school's baseball stadium to celebrate their accomplishments and the coach who inspired them before he left a polarizing legacy....
COKER CREEK, Tenn. (AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service has ripped up a portion of the Trail of Tears in the Appalachian Mountains, reopening wounds for Native Americans who consider sacred the land where thousands of their ancestors died during their forced migration westward....
MIAMI (AP) -- An accused al-Qaida bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona told military officials at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was part of an effort to recruit him for violent extremist acts before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a newly released transcript....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump's renouncement of birtherism came with some media gamesmanship that compelled television news networks to air 20 minutes of endorsements by retired military men before the candidate briefly got to the point....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even as Donald Trump sought to close the door on the false conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, he peddled another lie by claiming that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, was behind it. There is no evidence that is true....
