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NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a frog in a lot of throats across the country as news has circulated that Kermit the Frog is getting a new voice....
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- There's an upswing in monkey business in and around a state park in Florida, where bands of non-native rhesus macaques live along a river that's popular with kayakers and tourists....
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sealed a deal Tuesday to intensify Qatar's counterterrorism efforts, tackling a central issue in the spat pitting the besieged Gulf nation against four other American allies lined up against it....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans find themselves in a no-win situation as they struggle to pass health care legislation in the Senate: Success could alienate a majority of the population, but failure could anger the crucial group of GOP base voters the party relies on to build election victories....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the ongoing investigations into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump Jr. eagerly accepted help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to emails he released publicly on Tuesday....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State, as his Special Envoy for the bicentennial celebrations of the founding of the Diocese of Cuneo in Italy.Celebrations will be held on 16 July in the Cathedral, St. Mary of the Woods.Cardinal Bertello is to be accompanied by Msgr. Giovanni Battista Riberi, Vicar General of the diocese, and Msgr. Don Roberto Mondino, Secretary of the Presbiteral Council.Pope Francis sent the following letter to Cardinal Bertello for the occasion.Venerabili Fratri NostroIOSEPHO S.R.E. Cardinali BERTELLOPraesidi Praefecturae Civitatis VaticanaeCuneensis dioecesis, quam Decessor Noster Pius VII rec. mem., pastorales necessitates attente considerans, die XVII mensis Iulii anno MDCCCXVII bulla "Beati Petri Apostolorum Principis" condidit, laetanter ducentesimam celebrat anniversariam suae fundationis memoriam. Dilecti quidem fideles Cuneenses, actuoso Pa...
The Catholic bishops of the Philippines have called for "intra-faith dialogue" to fight "violent extremism" as government forces continue to battle Islamist terrorists in the southern city of Marawi. In a statement at the end of their plenary assembly in Manila, July 8-10, members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement appealing for a "return to normalcy and peace ... as soon as possible." They appealed for dialogue with Muslims so that the various faiths in the country “may not be exploited and abused for the sake of terrorism or violent extremism." The church leaders urged parents, schools, churches, and mosques to "ensure that none may be lured by the recruitment efforts of terrorists."Terrorists belonging to the Maute group that alleges links to the so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked Marawi on May 23, burned the Catholic cathedral and a Protes...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will beatify two martyred Colombian clerics when he travels to visit their South American nation in September.The director of the Holy See Press office, Greg Burke, said that Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve of Arauca and Father Pedro Ramirez Ramos will be beatified on September 8th during an open-air Mass in the city of Villavicencio presided over by the Pope. Linda Bordoni reports: It was thanks to Bishop Jaramillo’s work of evangelization and promotion of the local Church in a vast territory where contraband and drug trafficking were rampant that development was made possible. Jaramillo was taken hostage in 1989 by armed bandits some 800 kilometers east of Bogota, and found dead the following day, shot with four bullets to the head.Francis also recognized the martyrdom of Father Pedro Ramirez who was killed at the start of the Colombian civil war in 1948 when guerrilla factions set upon him as he sought refuge in his parish church....
(Vatican Radio) Across East Africa, millions of families face starvation because of drought, lack of food, and civil war. The UN has described this as the largest humanitarian crisis in more than 70 years. The Disasters Emergency Committee, of which the Catholic Development Charity CAFOD is a member, has launched an appeal to provide urgent supplies to the 16 million people facing severe hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. The CAFOD East Africa Crisis Appeal also aims to target more than 800,000 children under five who are severely malnourished.Nana Anto-Awuakye, head of world news at CAFOD UK, told Linda Bordoni of her recent visit to Northern Kenya to monitor the work done by CAFOD’s Church partners in response to the devastating drought that is affecting around 2.7 million people there. Listen to the full interview: Nana Anto-Awuakye says that the figure itself may seem quite meaningless to many, however when one is in the field ...
