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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI broke with the president in key areas Wednesday, rejecting the idea that an investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump election campaign is a "witch hunt" and promising not to cave to any pressure from a White House that has challenged boundaries with the nation's top law enforcement agency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to question the former chairman of the Trump campaign and will subpoena him if necessary, the panel's Republican chairman said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the controversy surrounding a meeting last summer between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton (all times local):...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told Congress Wednesday that the Fed is carefully watching a recent slowdown in inflation and if it persists, it could lead the central bank to rethink its plans on rate hikes....
(Vatican Radio) Indonesia's president has issued a decree giving the government the power to ban radical organizations, in a move aimed at outlawing groups which have caused a sharp rise in the political weight of extremist Islam. The measure announced on Wednesday by the country's top security minister follows months of sectarian tensions in the world's most populous Muslim nation that shook the government and undermined its reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam.It amends an existing law regulating mass organizations, allowing the government to sidestep a potentially lengthy court process to implement a ban. Analysts say it is aimed at groups such as the Hizbut Tahir Indonesia (HTI), that promotes the adoption of sharia and the establishment of a caliphate in Indonesia, similar to the Islamic State (IS). However, Wiranto, the coordinating minister for politics, security and law, explained that the decree signed by President Jok...
The Jesuit-run St. Xavier's College in in eastern India’s Kolkata city began functioning as the nation’s first Jesuit university on July 7, opening its first academic year 6 months after achieving the new status. West Bengal state chief minister Mamata Banerjee unveiled the plague of the new building of St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, along with business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, a former student of St. Xavier's College who funded the building. "Education makes one a real human being. Minority institutions have a very vital and important role,” said the chief minister commending quality education imparted by missionary institutions such as by Christians and Ramakrishna Mission. “I believe, in three-four years, St Xavier's would be able to compete with institutions like Harvard and Oxford,”” she added.The university as well as the college is named after the 16th century Spanish missionary and co-founder of t...
(Vatican Radio) European Churches on Wednesday called on the European Union to avoid opening way for the militarization of its budget and structures but to strengthen its role as an actor for peace and reconciliation.Following a meeting on Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, the Conference of European Churches (CEC) released a statement in which it expresses opposition to policies that “could transform the EU into a military alliance”.The statement was penned in light of three recent papers on defence policy by the European Commission which would fund military research and subsidise the defense industry.It says that such increases in military funding would have adverse effects on security, while similar levels of investments in other sectors would increase “reconciliation, stability, and prosperity—the very basis of security”.“As churches living out gospel values, we urge the EU to gather all human and financial capacities for peacebuilding as the...
A visiting Yemeni minister has assured the Indian government that an Indian Catholic priest kidnapped in the Arabian state last year is still alive and efforts to trace him are continuing. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday held extensive talks in New Delhi with Yemen’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi, during which she conveyed India's concern for the safety of Father Tom Uzhunnalil, and requested for "continued assistance from the Yemeni authorities in securing his safe and early release." The 56-year-old Salesian priest was kidnapped March 4, 2016, after suspected Islamic terrorists stormed a home for elderly people managed by the Missionaries of Charity nuns in the port city of Aden. The assailants shot dead 16 people, including four nuns before kidnapping the priest, who served as the chaplain of the house. Al-Mekhlafi who began a 4-day India visit, assured Swaraj on...
Catholic church leaders in Sierra Leone are calling for peaceful and credible general elections slated for 7 March 2017. In a recent Pastoral Letter, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference appealed to priests, religious and lay faithful to promote unity, reconciliation and peace. The bishops also urged all Sierra Leoneans, especially those who are of voting age, “to strongly reject all acts of violence, unnecessary provocations, various forms of fraud that distort results, as well as anything that can lead to destabilization and disorder.”Sierra Leone has held three peaceful general elections since the end of the civil 15 years ago. Below is the full text of the Bishops’ pastoral letter JOURNEYING TOWARDS PEACEFUL AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONSA Pastoral Letter on the Elections in March 2018IntroductionWe greet you in the name of the Risen Lord; and pray that we may all pass over from death to life and that raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we t...
