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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's security Cabinet met Sunday to review a decision to install metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem holy site, following a week of escalating tensions with the Muslim world, mass prayer protests and Israeli-Palestinian violence....
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- At least 10 people died after being crammed into the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong....
Bishop Augustine Shao of Zanzibar, says he wants issues relating to interreligious dialogue and solidarity to be empahsised in the next Plenary Assembly of the regional grouping of bishops’ conferences of eastern Africa, AMECEA.In an interview with AMECEA News Online, the bishop said coming from a diocese where Islam is the main religion, he feels disappointed that the issue of interreligious dialogue has not been given the emphasis it deserves, adding that, the issue of solidarity with the dioceses and countries in the region where Catholic Christians are in a minority also needs to be looked at.The bishop proposed that the Commission on Interreligious Dialogue and Solidarity be one of the key issues to be considered for deliberations during the 19th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa in July 2018.“Previously there was strong Pastoral care to the Nomadic Communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, this ensured that people who mo...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday reminded the faithful of God’s infinite patience and of the fact that “we are all sinners”.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Addressing those gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, the Pope reflected on the Gospel of the day remarking on the fact that “the boundary between good and evil runs through the heart of each of us”. The reading in question tells of how wheat and weeds were sown in the same field illustrating, the Pope said; “the problem of evil in the world” and emphasizing the Lord’s patience. God, he said, sows good seed while Satan sows weeds. In the parable the householder’s slaves would like to pull the weeds out, but the master objects saying the wheat might be uprooted along with the weeds and he invites them to let them grow together until harvest.“With this image - the Pope explained - Jesus tells us that in this world good and ev...
LONDON (AP) -- Some of the BBC's most prominent female journalists and TV presenters are banding together to demand that the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately rather than in several years as management has proposed....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, a prominent figure in the controversy over Russia's possible involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has ended his assignment in Washington....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When O.J. Simpson told a Nevada parole board last week that he's led a "conflict-free life," he seemed to overlook a few episodes that had him cycling in and out of courtrooms and jail cells for nearly 20 years before the Las Vegas hotel-room heist that sent him to prison in 2008....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House is set to vote soon on a sweeping Russia sanctions package that defies the White House by demanding that President Donald Trump get Congress' permission before lifting or easing the economic penalties against Moscow....
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Authorities called to a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio overnight found eight people dead and 20 others in dire condition in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer, in what police are calling a horrific case of immigrant smuggling....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appealed for moderation and dialogue after a surge of violence and killings over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.Addressing the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, the Pope said he is following “with trepidation the grave tensions and violence of the last days in Jerusalem.”Last week Arab gunmen, shooting from the site – which is Holy to Jews and to Muslims - killed two Israeli policemen sparking a wave of violence in which three Palestinians were killed in street clashes and a Palestinian fatally stabbed three members of an Israeli family.“I feel the need to express a heartfelt appeal for moderation and dialogue” Francis said and he invited all faithful to join him in prayer so that the Lord may inspire all sides to come together with proposals for reconciliation and peace. Tensions over the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, have surged in the...
