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Cotabato, Philippines, May 25, 2017 / 01:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Filipino cardinal has prayed for the release of Catholic hostages held by Islamist militants who have seized parts of a city on Mindanao, appealing to Muslim leaders to help secure their release.“I pray for the safety of all the hostages. I appeal to the consciences of the hostage takers not to harm the innocent as the Islamic faith teaches. I appeal to religious leaders of Islam to influence the hostage takers to release the hostages unharmed,” Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato told Radio Veritas.“For God’s will is the safety of innocent people. May the loving God protect the people of Marawi,” said the cardinal, whose see is also on Mindanao.Militants of the Maute group stormed the city of Marawi, on the southern Philippines island Mindanao, on Tuesday. The group, formed in 2012, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2015.The militants' violence began after a failed army an...
IMAGE: CNSBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The 3,000 people attending the upcoming Convocation of CatholicLeaders are being seen as members of diocesan teams who will return home to acton what they see and learn while discussing the church's role in a changingsocial landscape.A combinationguidebook and journal has been developed to help the delegates prepare for thegathering in Orlando, Florida, set for July 1-4.The68-page book offers activities for the diocesan teams as they meet during theweeks leading to the gathering, allowing them to reflect and pray on Scriptureand the teachings of Pope Francis, particularly his apostolic exhortation "EvangeliiGaudium" ("The Joy of the Gospel")."Toget something done, we want people to have prepared as teams before they comein to get more out of (the convocation)," said Jonathan Reyes, executivedirector of the U.S. bishops' Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development and a convocation planner."What you get out of this is what you pu...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was injured after a letter bomb exploded inside his car in a central Athens on Thursday in an attack that also left two Bank of Greece employees wounded....
Forty-eight years after she gave her first commencement address at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton returns on Friday to offer another - and once again, she's at a crossroads in her life....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After two years of silence amid an onslaught of sexual assault allegations, comedian Bill Cosby is sending carefully targeted messages about racial bias across the media landscape ahead of his June 5 trial in suburban Philadelphia....
The case of a Montana congressional candidate accused of body-slamming a reporter is being blamed by some media watchers on a wave of hostility toward journalists that President Donald Trump helped generate....
People shopping for insurance through the Affordable Care Act in yet more regions could face higher prices and fewer choices next year as insurance companies lay out their early plans for 2018....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States acknowledged Thursday that bombing an Iraqi building in March set off a series of Islamic-State planted explosives, resulting in more than 100 civilian deaths and underscoring the difficulty of rooting out the extremist group's fighters from its remaining urban strongholds....
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- A Republican congressional candidate in Montana charged with shoving a reporter to the ground on the eve of a special election kept a low profile Thursday even as supporters prepared a hotel ballroom for a possible victory party....
