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Vatican City, Jun 18, 2017 / 05:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Sunday, following the Angelus, Pope Francis asked pilgrims in St. Peter's Square to pause for a silent moment of prayer for all those affected by forest fires still raging in central Portugal.“I express my closeness to the dear Portuguese people for the devastating fires that are destroying the woods around Pedrógão Grande and causing numerous victims and wounded. We pray in silence,” Francis said June 18.At least 57 people have been killed in huge forest fires in the central part of Portugal Saturday and Sunday, many dying in their cars as they tried to escape the flames, the Portuguese government said Sunday.Dozens more have been injured in the blazes, with 1,700 firefighters battling the 60-some fires.The blazes began on Saturday afternoon in the municipality of Pedrógão Grande, before quickly spreading and by evening had taken hold across Portugal.The Iberian Peninsula has been su...
LONDON (AP) -- The British government Sunday scrambled to contain political fallout from the London high-rise inferno that has claimed at least 58 lives....
AVELAR, Portugal (AP) -- Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 58 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what the prime minister on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Southeast Asia's jihadis who fought by the hundreds for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in the southern Philippines. It's a scenario raising significant alarm in Washington....
WYOMING, Ohio (AP) -- More than 15 months after he publicly begged North Korean officials to let him go home to his family, a 22-year-old college student is back in Ohio....
AVELAR, Portugal (AP) -- Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 39 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."...
PARIS (AP) -- French voters are casting ballots Sunday in the final round of parliamentary elections that could clinch President Emmanuel Macron's hold on power, as his fledgling party appears set to rout mainstream rivals and turn politics as usual on its head....
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan was called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Northwest CatholicBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Maybe it's no surprise the SeattleArchdiocese is sending a delegation of 12, as in the number of apostles, to the"Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America"in Orlando, Florida, July 1-4.DeaconEric Paige, one of the 12, is the executive director for the archdiocese'sOffice of Evangelization, Formation and Discipleship. For him, it could seemlike a busman's holiday to spend four days at a gathering with 3,000 otherCatholics talking about something he works on every day.But whenasked if he hopes to either gain wisdom from the event or share what he haslearned with other participants, Paige said it would likely be a combination ofthe two.Onething he hopes to get a better grasp of during the gathering -- with itsworkshops, keynote addresses and time for prayer -- is advice on how to use moderntechnology to spread the Gospel message. But even with that goal in mind, he also is cautious that ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe....
