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JERUSALEM (AP) -- An escalating dispute over metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem shrine turned violent on Friday, setting off widespread clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Three Palestinians were killed and several dozen injured by live rounds, rubber bullets and beatings, medics said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American citizens will be barred from traveling to North Korea next month following a prohibition on using U.S. passports to enter the country, the State Department said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary Sean Spicer is resigning his position, according to two people with knowledge of the decision....
(Vatican Radio) Two young men have died and nine others have been injured during Venezuela's twenty four hour nationwide strike.Listen to James Blears' report Masked protesters built baracades on deserted streets torching some CARS and throwing stones at riot Police, who responded with tear gas rounds. The Opposition claims that 85 percent of Venezuelan workers throughout the country heeded their call and joined the strike. While the Government said the majority of companies are working normally with minimal disruption. President Nicolas Maduro is warning: "I've ordered the capture of all the fascist terrorists." President Maduro is still going ahead with the July 30th election for the Constituent Assembly he announced on Mayday. The Opposition is boycotting the process and stress they'll oppose it.The Constituent Assembly will divert power away from the opposition controlled National A...
Vatican Weekend for July 22nd, 2017 features part 2 of our 3-part series where we delve deeper into the history and art of Rome’s three-tiered Basilica of San Clemente, an official from the Caritas network speaks of the severe acute malnutrition afflicting many people in parts of East Africa and we end with an inspirational story of a former prostitute who left the profession and set up a shelter to help others escape from the sex trade.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 23rd, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” South Africa’s Ambassador to the Holy See shares with us his memories of the late President Nelson Mandela and we explore why the holy city of Jerusalem so often becomes a flashpoint.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
The Catholic Church in India’s extreme northeast has just concluded a vocational training programme for dropout girls and women to enable them to earn a living and help their families. Seva Kendra Arunachal East (SKAE), the social service wing or the local branch of Caritas of the Diocese of Miao in east Arunachal Pradesh state, concluded a six-month tailoring course and awareness programme for dropout girls and women on 20 July. The course that started on January 19, concluded with a function at its training centre in Namphai-I, Changlang district, during which certificates and sewing machines were distributed to the best trainees.Speaking to those who completed the training, Bishop Pallipparambil of Miao advised them to use the training to make a living for them and their family. “The certificate and the tailoring machine you receive today have no meaning if you keep them locked in your suitcases,” said the bishop who is presi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has donated €25 thousand to the efforts of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, in support of people facing famine and food insecurity in East Africa.The Holy Father had pledged personal assistance in a message to FAO's Conference on 3 July 2017, in which he said he was "inspired also by the desire to encourage Governments".In February of this year, famine was declared in parts of South Sudan (where civil strife has largely interrupted daily life). While the situation has eased after a significant scaling up in the humanitarian response, some 6 million people in the country are still struggling to find enough food every day.Meanwhile, there are an estimated 16 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in five other East African countries: Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. That figure represents an increase of about 30 percent since late 2016.Below, please find the official s...
Washington D.C., Jul 21, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While there is talk of criminal justice reform in the U.S., something must also be done about a decades-long spike in female inmates, experts and members of Congress of both parties said.“We talk a lot about racial disparities in our system, but for some odd reason, we've really not focused on women, and it’s been to the detriment of public safety,” Holly Harris, executive director of the Justice Action Network, told CNA.Harris spoke at the event “Women Unshackled,” sponsored by both the Justice Action Network and the Brennan Center for Justice, and was held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on July 18.It featured a keynote address by Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma (R) and speeches by members of Congress of both parties, Rep. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rep. Sheila Jackson lee (D-Tex.), Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah).“If we as a country val...
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) -- When Beth Sanden crashed her bike after speeding over a wet, broken patch of asphalt 15 years ago, the elite endurance athlete was left paralyzed. She figured her competition days were over, along with her career as a personal trainer and triathlon coach....
