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By VATICANCITY (CNS) -- Here is the detailed schedule of events planned for Pope Francis'visit to Colombia Sept. 6-10. Theschedule was released by the Vatican June 23. All times are local, with EasternDaylight Time in parentheses:Wednesday,Sept. 6 (Rome, Bogota)-- 11 a.m.(5 a.m.) Departure from Rome's Fiumicino airport.-- 4:30p.m. (5:30 p.m.) Arrivalat CATAM military section of the Bogota airport. Welcoming ceremony. Thursday,Sept. 7 (Bogota)-- 9 a.m. (10a.m.) Meeting withgovernment authorities in the courtyard of Casa de Narino presidential palacein Bogota.-- 9:30a.m. (10:30 a.m.) Courtesy visit with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos atCasa de Narino presidential palace. -- 10:20a.m. (11:20 a.m.) Visit to Bogota cathedral.-- 10:50a.m. (11:50 a.m.) Greeting and blessing of the faithful from cardinal'sresidence.-- 11 a.m.(Noon) Meeting with Colombian bishops at cardinal's residence. Speech by pope. -- 3 p.m. (4p.m.) Meeting with theexecutive committeeof the Latin American bishop...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A former nurse who prosecutors believe could be responsible in the deaths of up to 60 Texas children has been indicted on two new murder charges....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Greta Van Susteren has lost her nightly show on MSNBC, not quite six months after she started at the network....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis suffered a major blow Thursday when his top financial adviser, Cardinal George Pell, was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago, bringing a criminal case in the long-running abuse scandal inside the frescoed walls of the Vatican for the first time....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House on Thursday pressed ahead with legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, a key priority for President Donald Trump....
IRBID, Jordan (AP) -- A month before Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency, Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, a 28-year old Syrian with a second child on the way, was taking cultural sensitivity classes in Jordan to prepare to start a new life in Illinois....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Senate Republicans on Thursday considered keeping President Barack Obama's tax increase on wealthier people's investments and using the money to bolster their proposed health care subsidies in a bid to mollify moderate GOP lawmakers and salvage the party's struggling bill....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's Prime Minister declared an end to the IS caliphate Thursday after Iraqi forces captured the compound of a landmark mosque in Mosul that was blown up last week by the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights....
In a not too distant future, the Catholic Church in India’s extreme north-east hopes to have its first martyr saints. If the process of beatification and canonization proceeds smoothly, the martyrdom of French missionaries, Fathers Nicolas-Michel Krick and Augustin-Etienne Bourry, could be recognized by the Vatican. Their cause is being promoted primarily by Salesian Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s easternmost state where the two were martyred over 160 years ago. Frs. Krick and Bourry were members of the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (M.E.P), or the Society of the Paris Foreign Missions, an institute of diocesan priests zealous to spread the Gospel of Christ in Asia. One of their important goals or destinations was Tibet. Back then, the only way to Tibet was through NE India, Arunachal Pradesh today. In fact, it was through Frs. Krick and Bourry that Arunachal P...
