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IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike Blake, ReutersBy RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) -- U.S.Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Simone Biles says when she travels, shesometimes takes with her a statue of St. Sebastian, the patron saint ofathletes, and she also carries a rosary her mother gave her.Biles, who won gold in the women's gymnastics all-around competition Aug. 11 and helped lead the U.S. women to a team gold Aug. 9, made thosecomments to Us Weekly. "My mom, Nellie, got me arosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just praynormally to myself, but I have it there in case," the 19-year-old told themagazine in a July 8 interview.Her remark about herpatron saint was part of a list in an Aug. 9 article about Biles posted bythe magazine online with the headline, "25 Things You Don't Know About Me."Biles' hometown isSpring, Texas, which is in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. The London-basedCatholic Herald described her as "a Sunday Massgoer." Other news accounts saidthat Sund...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The three-time defending champion U.S. women's national soccer team won't win an Olympic medal for the first time after being ousted by Sweden on penalties following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals on Friday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel founder Rupert Murdoch on Friday appointed two longtime Fox executives as the new co-presidents of the news network as it restructures after last month's departure of Roger Ailes following sexual harassment allegations....
PHOENIX (AP) -- He is a lanky Hispanic man in his 20s who drives down the darkened streets of poor, predominantly Latino neighborhoods, blending in as he selects his targets. He either fires through an open window or gets out of the car to shoot from close range before driving off....
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian leader to rid himself of members of his old guard....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two months after the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub, residents say this city of newcomers is bonding in unprecedented solidarity, upending an old adage attributed to a former governor: "Florida isn't so much a community as a crowd."...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge blocked a state law aimed at diverting public money from Planned Parenthood, saying in a Friday ruling that the group stood to suffer "irreparable injury."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign Friday that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns....
Seminarians in select countries of Africa will be among some of the beneficiaries of a campaign, which the Catholic Charity organisation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is launching in honour of the murdered French Catholic priest, Father Jacques Hamel.A total of 1,000 seminarians from 21 countries around the world will benefit from the ACN collections in honour of Father Hamel who was murdered by ISIS sympathisers while celebrating Mass on 26 July in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France.The studies of future Catholic priests from Angola, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, DR Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia will be funded, in part, from the collection of funds by the Italian chapter of the pontifical foundation ACN.“Support for the formation of new priests is a concrete response to fundamentalism, because especially in countries where the extremist threat is the greatest, the ministers of God must possess the appropriate tools to promote dialogue a...
(Vatican Radio) The abuse of religious freedom is on the rise, with a vicious cycle of religious restriction and social hostilities fueling its increase, according to Brian Grim, Ph. D. of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.The US State Department recently released its annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2015. The report says one-in-four countries oppress religious freedom, affecting roughly 75% of the world’s population.Brian Grim, Ph. D. is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation and a leading expert on international religious demography and the socio-economic impact of restrictions on religious freedom. He spoke to Vatican Radio's Fr. Bernd Hagenkord about the cycle of restrictions on religious freedom and resultant societal hostility.Listen to the full interview: Mr. Grim said the statistics provided in the US State Department's report on religious freedom takes into account government restrictions on rel...
