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This weekend marks the start of summer and time for families with children to plan those summer camps.
Denver, Colo., May 27, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In response to Denver's large homeless population, the city is providing lockers for the homeless to place their belongings so they can take better advantage of local outreach programs.If the homeless are worried about where to place their belongings and “don't have access to safe, secure storage and those are all your possessions in the world,” then they aren't going to utilize available resources said Julie Smith, a spokesperson from Denver Human Services, to the Denverite May 23.Ten storage units were added to a street downtown, where many homeless shelters are located. Smith explained the containers will hold about as much stuff as will fit into a shopping cart, and can be reserved for 30 days with the option of an additional 30 day renewal. The sidewalk lockers cost about $3,000 for each installment.Teaming up with the Saint Francis Center, Denver is also planning on adding 200 more storage spaces ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Latest on a stabbing on a Portland, Oregon, train that left two dead (all times local):...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- British police on Saturday released surveillance-camera images of the Manchester concert bomber on the night of the attack as they appealed for more information about his final days....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- The mother of the CEO of the ride-hailing company Uber died in a boat accident Friday evening in Fresno County, the company said....
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Gregg Allman, a survivor of tragedy, knew the blues musically and in a painfully personal way....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis wrapped up an intense 1-day apostolic visit to the Italian port city of Genoa with the celebration of Mass.To the faithful present for the open-air ceremony in Genoa’s Kennedy Square, the Pope said Christians must never tire of working for the common good, they must never fear going out into the world with Christ’s message of peace and hope…Listen to the report by Robin Gomes: “Christian prayer is not a way of being a little bit at peace with oneself or finding some interior harmony; we pray in order to bring all to God, to entrust the world to Him,” Pope Francis said on Saturday. He was delivering a homily at an evening Mass in the Italian port city of Genoa. The Mass at the Kennedy Square seafront was the final event of his day-long visit to the city, during which he met the clergy and religious, youth, prisoners, children and staff of a pediatric hospital and lunched with the poor and the marginalized. &nbs...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis made an intense, 1-day visit to Genoa on Saturday. With a departure at 7AM, the schedule of the visit to the northern Italian port city on the Ligurian coast included six major appointments:• A meeting with the “world of labour”;• Another with the Bishops, priests, seminarians, and religious of Liguria, along with lay curial collaborators and representatives of other religious confessions at the Cathedral of San Lorenzo;• An encounter with young people attached to the Diocesan Mission at the Marian Sanctuary of the Madonna della Guardia; • Lunch at the sanctuary with a number of poor and homeless persons, refugees, and prisoners; • A moment with children from the various departments of the Giannina Gaslini Pediatric Hospital; • Solemn Mass at the Piazzale Kennedy named for the first Catholi...
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- The Libya connection in the May 22 Manchester concert suicide bombing and Friday's attack on Christians in Egypt has shone a light on the threat posed by militant Islamic groups that have taken advantage of lawlessness in the troubled North African nation to put down roots, recruit fighters and export jihadists to cause death and carnage elsewhere....
John F. Kennedy was born 100 years ago Monday, and a new book recounts his brief but eventful presidency - and the style and wit with which he shaped the hopes of a generation - through day-by-day reports drawn from coverage at the time, right up to his assassination in November 1963....
