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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Family, friends and fans paid their final respects to the rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry on Sunday, celebrating the life and career of a man who inspired countless guitarists and bands in the only way possible: with music....
When a train jumped the tracks this past week at New York's Penn Station, the seemingly minor accident led to a cascade of exasperating delays for hundreds of thousands of commuters....
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Russia was arrested Sunday in connection with an explosive device found near a busy subway station in Norway's capital that police defused before it detonated, authorities said....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Much like the flags on the Stockholm skyline - some still flying half-staff, others at their peak - people here were divided over their country's friendly immigration policies two days after an asylum-seeker from Uzbekistan allegedly killed four people in the city's deadliest extremist attack in years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's national security adviser on Sunday left open the possibility of additional U.S. military action against Syria following last week's missile strike but indicated that the United States was not seeking to act unilaterally to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad....
CAIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the bombing of two churches in Egypt (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis led the Church of Rome into Holy Week on Sunday – Palm Sunday, 2017 – with Mass in St. Peter’s Square.The Mass included a traditional procession to mark the triumphant entrance of Our Lord into the holy city of Jerusalem at the beginning of the week that would culminate in His Passion, Death and Resurrection.Click below to hear our report “This Jesus, who accepts the hosannas of the crowd,” said Pope Francis in his homily, “knows full well that they will soon be followed by the cry: ‘Crucify him!’ He does not ask us to contemplate Him only in pictures and photographs, or in the videos that circulate on the internet. No. He is present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own: they suffer from slave labour, from family tragedies, from diseases. They suffer from wars and terrorism, from interests that are armed and ready to strike. Women and men who are cheated, v...
(Vatican Radio) Egypt’s Christian community was the target of a pair of terror attacks in different cities on Sunday, in which dozens of people were killed and scores of others injured.Click below to hear our report In Alexandria, an explosion outside St Mark’s cathedral killed 11 people.Pope Tawadros II had been attending Mass inside, though he was unhurt.An earlier blast at St George’s church in Tanta in the Nile Delta north of Cairo killed more than two dozen people.The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for both attacks.
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus does not ask that people only contemplatehis image, but that they also recognize and love him concretely in all peoplewho suffer like he did, Pope Francis said.Jesus is "present in our many brothers and sisters whotoday endure sufferings like his own -- they suffer from slave labor, fromfamily tragedies, from diseases. They suffer from wars and terrorism, frominterests that are armed and ready to strike," the pope said April 9 as hecelebrated the Palm Sunday Mass of the Lord's Passion.In his noon Angelus address, the pope also decried recentterrorist attacks in Sweden and Egypt, calling on "those who sow terror,violence and death," including arms' manufacturers and dealers, to changetheir ways.In his prayers for those affected by the attacks, the popealso expressed his deepest condolences to "my dear brother, His HolinessPope Tawadros, the Coptic church and the entire beloved Egyptian nation,"which the pope was schedul...
KAWERGOSK CAMP, Iraq (AP) -- For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again....
