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By Tom TracyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Asthe church in the U.S. has shown an increasing presence of Spanish-speakingCatholics, so will the tens of thousands of young people traveling to 2016edition of World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland. "There are more groupscoming from heavily Hispanic/Latino dioceses, and in a particular way fromapostolic movements like Charismatic Renewal, Focolare, and others," saidPaul Jarzembowski, World Youth Day USA national coordinator for the U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops. World Youth Day will takeplace in and around Krakow July 26-31, with Pope Francis leading events July27-31, including a closing overnight vigil and Mass that is expected to draw as many as 2million attendees from around the world. From the U.S., there are morethan 30,000 fully registered pilgrims and another 10,000 partially registeredpilgrims, which indicates at least some of those may translate into last-minutetravelers to Poland. The USCCB, Jarzembowski told CatholicNews Servi...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ralph Lauer, EPABy David SedenoDALLAS (CNS) -- Five Dallas lawenforcement officers were assassinated July 7 as at least one sniper openedfire in downtown Dallas as hundreds of demonstrators were winding down a marchprotesting recent fatal officer-involved shootings in other parts of thecountry.The suspected sniper -- who hadheld dozens of SWAT officers at bay for several hours by saying that there werebombs planted around the area, that "the end was coming" and that he would takedown more officers -- was killed overnight when police sent a robot toward himand detonated an explosive device attached to the robot. Neither the dead suspect, northree others arrested shortly after the shootings, would be identified becausepolice said they were continuing their investigation.The five officers -- four fromthe Dallas Police Department and one from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit -- wereshot around 9 p.m. local time by snipers who targeted law enforcement officialsfrom a parkin...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats tout they are "Made in USA." Not necessarily always the case, an Associated Press review found....
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The pendant around Patrick Lawson's neck reads "all things are possible." That's the hope that has kept him going since his 2-year-old daughter was placed on life support after choking on a popcorn kernel in May....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided House Benghazi committee has approved a report into the deadly 2012 attacks in Libya - and signaled the investigation of Hillary Clinton may continue....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both called off political events Friday, hours after five police officers were killed in Dallas during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The mother of the son of a man killed by Louisiana police on Friday denounced the killings of five police officers in Dallas during a protest over police shootings, including the one in which Alton Sterling died in Baton Rouge....
DALLAS (AP) -- Five Dallas police officers were fatally shot and seven others wounded during a protest over the deaths of black men killed by police this week in Louisiana and Minnesota - the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
DALLAS (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of police officers in Dallas (all times local):...
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say a suspect exchanged gunfire with a police officer in south Georgia, but it's unclear if anyone was wounded....
