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MIAMI (AP) -- A quarter-century after he vanished on the eve of a major drug indictment, the last of Miami's fabled "cocaine cowboys" was in custody Thursday, nabbed on a suburban bike ride with his wife near Disney World....
PHOENIX (AP) -- Mexican authorities have arrested the man accused of shooting and killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose 2010 death exposed a bungled gun-tracking operation by the federal government....
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Four young men found dead in a park from injuries inflicted by a sharp-edged object were killed in a way that is consistent with the methods of the MS-13 street gang, according to police, who declared war against gang violence in the suburbs of Long Island....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a maximum security prison on Holy Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual meant to show his willingness to serve society's most marginal and give them hope. Francis urged the prisoners to help one another out and similarly "be the servant of others."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What happened to Donald Trump the "America First" trade warrior?...
CHICAGO (AP) -- The passenger dragged from a United flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and a concussion, his lawyer said Thursday, accusing the airline industry of having "bullied" its customers for far too long....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said....
Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle told his priests on Holy Thursday that outside expectations could “narrow their mission” and called on the clergy not to let it determine evangelization. In his homily during the Chrism Mass at Manila Cathedral on April 13, the Archbishop of Manila urged priests to expand their concerns and not allow themselves to be enslaved by the pressure to be great and be noticed”. During Holy Thursday’s Chrism Mass, the Bishop of a diocese joins his priests in renewing their priestly promises and blesses the oils of the infirm, the catechumens and the holy Chrism used in various sacraments. At Manila’s Chrism Mass was present among others, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto.“Having expectation is not entirely bad but sometimes it narrows our mission and when the evangelizer is carried away by pressure, sometimes the mission gets narrow,” Card. Tagle told his priests. “It’s a...
Christians in Sri Lanka will be caught between two very different celebrations on Good Friday which is also their New Year's Day. Observed not only by the Sinhalese people but by most Sri Lankans, Aluth Avurudda or the Sinhalese New Year celebrates the traditional Lunar New Year, which this year fall on April 14. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, drums and family celebrations, it will be tough for Christians to rein in with Good Friday prayer, fasting, the Way of the Cross and visiting churches, to commemorate the passion and death of Jesus.However, Ajitha Ranjani, a Catholic teacher, has a compromising solution. "Even though the New Year falls on Good Friday there will be no change in the way we will experience the passion, suffering and death of Jesus. We will celebrate the New Year with our Buddhist friends the following day," she said. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo said that when Catholics celebrate Good Friday this year they should ...
In what is becoming an annual tradition, priests gather during Holy Week across Indonesia for a two-day spiritual retreat with their bishop to prepare for the Chrism Mass during which they celebrate thier priesthood and renew their priestly promises. During the Chrism Mass, traditionally celebrated on Holy Thursday morning, the Bishop of a diocese joins his priests in renewing their priestly promises and blesses the oils of the infirm, the catechumens and the holy Chrism used in various sacraments.The Chrism Mass of Jakarta Archdiocese was observed on Holy Thursday with hundreds of priests and religious joining Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo in the capital’s cathedral. Other dioceses held it earlier, to give time to their priests to return to their local communities to celebrate the solemn Holy Week liturgies. In Semarang, more than 330 priests attended the Chrism Mass in the local cathedral on Tuesday, with great participation of the loca...
