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IMAGE: CNS photo/Toru Hanai, ReutersBy Lise AlvesRIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) -- Glued to theimprovised screen set up on the patio of the Caritas house, the refugees yelledand they cried. But most of all, they cheered. They cheered for their two Congolesecolleagues, Popole Misenga, 24, and Yolande Mabika, 28, who were competing injudo as part of the United Nations' Refugee Olympic team."They represent all of us today,"said an emotional Mirelle Muluila, also from Congo. "They represent thestrength it takes to come from nothing and being considered a 'nobody,' tobecoming a champion," she cried out as others around her agreed. Muluila studied international relations inher country, but here in Brazil, where she has lived for the past 23 months,she continues to struggle with the language and the lack of opportunities. "We want to tell the world that we aresomebody. ... We are doctors and engineers and teachers," she said, "wehave education but had to flee our countries, not because we wanted to...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Nate Ebner couldn't really have set up more of a grandstand finish for the U.S. team at the Olympics....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man spent more than 2 ½ hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to safety through an open window....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia. Two decades later, after forging a new life in Minnesota, she appears on the brink of becoming the nation's first Somali-American state legislator....
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) -- A police "shoot/don't shoot" demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said was real ammunition used by mistake at an event designed to bring police and the public together....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been saying for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, often for no reason....
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) -- In the 2016 presidential campaign, it's long been an article of faith: The rules of political gravity don't apply to Donald Trump....
Washington D.C., Aug 10, 2016 / 10:17 am (CNA).- Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was met with heated criticism after suggesting that a Trump administration may ban Christian and Jewish refugees fleeing from terrorism.Speaking on a conservative radio show Monday, Pence was asked about his support for religious liberty in light of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s previous proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.Pence responded that a general halt on immigration from certain countries would be “appropriate” for security concerns.“The position that Donald Trump is advocating today is that we should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, which I think is altogether fitting and appropriate,” he said.“The simple fact is that both our Homeland Security and the FBI have said there are countries like Syria where people are coming in through routine means, the ref...
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2016 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Bonifacio Buzzi, a Brazilian priest convicted of child abuse and who was mentioned in the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ committed suicide in his prison cell over the weekend.According to Reuters, Fr. Buzzi, 57, hung himself with a sheet inside his jail cell in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Aug. 7 after having been arrested Friday.In 1995 the priest was found guilty of abusing several youth in a mental hospital, and sentenced to four years of house arrest. In 2004, he was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy in Mariana, Minas Gerais and was jailed from 2007-2015 for the crime.He was arrested Aug. 5 in the southern state of Santa Catarina following criminal complaints that he had molested two more boys, aged 9 and 13, and taken back to Minas Gerais.The Vatican was in the process of taking action against the priest, but the process had not yet concluded at the time of his death.Fr. Buzzi was among the c...
