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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump will unveil a proposed budget this week that would drive millions of people off food stamps and cut Medicaid, targeting the social safety-net programs for the poor in a new wave of spending cuts....
DETROIT (AP) -- Ford is replacing CEO Mark Fields as it struggles to keep its traditional auto-manufacturing business running smoothly while remaking itself as a nimble, high-tech provider of new mobility services....
FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) -- A pair of Oregon school districts were intent on identifying warning signs that students might be contemplating a campus shooting when they stumbled on a threat far more pervasive yet much less discussed - sexual aggression among classmates....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Thirteen years after a Temple University basketball team manager went to famous alumnus Bill Cosby's nearby home for career advice, her complaint that Cosby drugged and molested her that night will soon be a task for a Pennsylvania jury....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared Monday opened his first visit to Israel Monday, saying he sees growing recognition among Muslim nations that they share a "common cause" with Israel in their determination to counter the threats posed by Iran....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination on Monday when he declines to hand over documents to a Senate panel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, The Associated Press has learned....
(Vatican Radio) With 21 million viewers, 30,000 downloads on YouTube and millions of Facebook followers each week, SAT-7 Christian satellite TV is preparing to launch yet another project: it’s called SAT-7 Academy and it aims to respond to the urgent needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in the Middle East and North Africa. Propelled by the newly founded SAT-7 Education & Development entity, this educational channel has been conceived to address the physical, emotional, relational, and intellectual aspects of the region’s children, parents and teachers, and provide a much needed tool to tackle the education gap in the Middle East, especially in war-torn Syria.Passing through Rome for talks with partners inside and outside the Vatican, Kurt Johansen, the Executive Director of SAT-7 in Europe and in Asia, told Linda Bordoni that in over 20 years of service, SAT-7 has become a vital lifeline for millions as it provides information, enter...
It is only the Holy Spirit Who can teach us to say: “Jesus is the Lord.” That was the focus of Pope Francis’ reflections during the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta on Monday. The Holy Father emphasized that we must open our hearts in order to hear the Holy Spirit, and thus be able to bear witness to Christ.Listen: “Be calm, I will not leave you orphans; I will send you an advocate, the Holy Spirit, to defend you before the Father.” Pope Francis based his homily on the long discourse of Jesus to His disciples at the Last Supper. The Pope dwelt especially on the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, who accompanies us and “gives us the assurance of being saved by Jesus.”The Holy Spirit, the gift of Jesus, is the travelling companion of the Church It is only the Holy Spirit, the Pope said, Who teaches us to say, “Jesus is the Lord”:“Without the Holy Spirit, none of us is able to say it, to perceive it, to live it. Jesus, in other...
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Monday, met Equatorial Guinea’s Bishops in the newly-erected Diocese of Mongomo. The country has one of the highest Catholic populations by proportion.“Dear Brothers in the Episcopate, as the episcopal body of this country, I wish first to express my joy at being with you all at this particular moment,” Cardinal Filoni said. He then expressed his joy at the increase of new Bishops in the country. He said this was one of the signs that the Church in Equatorial Guinea was growing. Earlier on Saturday 20 May, at Mongomo, Cardinal Filoni ordained three new Bishops for Equatorial Guinea. The new Bishops are from for the new Dioceses of Evinayong and Mongomo respectively, as well as for the Diocese of Ebebiyin.The Cardinal is on a pastoral visit to the country. The visit began on 18 May and ends on 25 May.Meeting the Bishops on Monday, Cardinal Filoni expressed the ...
