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By Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Marking the first anniversary of Pope Francis'encyclical on the environment, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peacelaunched a new website dedicated to the document and efforts around the worldto put its teaching into practice.The site -- www.laudatosi.va-- "witnesses not only to the impact of the encyclical, but also thecreativity and generosity of the people of God everywhere in the world,"said Cardinal Peter Turkson,council president.The council celebrated the first anniversary of thedocument, "Laudato Si'," June 20 with a small conference at Rome's Basilica of St. Mary inMontesanto.ChristianaFigueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in avideo message, said that as scientists, governments, economists and concernedcitizens were pushing for an international agreement to combat climate change,Pope Francis' encyclical provided the "moral imperative to take boldaction."Published six months before the Paris summ...
PARIS (AP) -- While fans from other countries have damaged their reputations amid ugly scenes at the European Championship, Irish supporters have been winning friends across France with their antics and goodwill....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Boeing Co. said Tuesday it signed an agreement with Iran Air "expressing the airline's intent" to buy its aircraft, setting up the biggest business deal between the Islamic Republic and America since the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran....
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives barreled through Syria's border with Jordan on Tuesday, setting off a blast that killed six members of the Jordanian security forces and wounded 14....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Routine commercial use of small drones was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology....
LONDON (AP) -- Boris Johnson has made his move. He should find out Friday morning if it pays off....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited Orlando on Tuesday to meet with prosecutors, first responders and families of the victims of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation's economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul's policies....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that he is struggling to rally fellow Republicans as new fundraising reports show him badly lagging Hillary Clinton in campaign cash....
(Vatican Radio ) Blessed Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Successor of Peter on the 21st June 1963. Gone down in history as the Pope who inherited a council some say he would never have called, he was not always fully understood. In fact this first pilgrim pope was described at the time as a man full of contradictions, bafflling yet brilliant, austere yet personable, enigmatic yet firm in his authority.Join Veronica Scarisbrick as she steps back in time to bring you the testimonies of some of those who lived through that era and personally knew Paul VI, as well as Vatican Radio archive sound...A programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
