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(Vatican Radio) Hungary says it has completed two controversial border container camps where asylum-seekers, including children, have to wait until their cases are decided. Besides opening the camps authorities are also cracking down on foreign-backed groups that criticize these refugee policies. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: It isn't always easy for foreign reporters to record what is really going on near the additional border fence Hungary is building next to other barriers to halt migrants fleeing war and poverty.Security forces make clear reporters are are not welcome shouting "switch off". And those asking asylum are moved into containers. Hungary's Interior ministry now says that prison inmates have been used to put 324 additional shipping containers in the camps built on the Serbian border at the towns of Röszke and Tompa.Across from Tompa on the Serbian side of the border, farm worker József Pat...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis is praying for the victims of Colombia`s mudslide tragedy, grieving relatives and also for those involved in the ongoing rescue operation.James Blears reports, the eventual death toll is likely to exceed 300, with more than 400 injured.Listen: The City of Mocoa, in Colombia`s South Western Region of Putumayo, has been devastated by a sea of mud and rocks after torrential rain caused a river to burst its banks and mud to drown and suffocate many of its inhabitants. The Red Cross, Armed Forces and other specialist services, have been working around the clock since the disaster stuck on Saturday. Colombia`s President Juan Manuel Santos who`s visiting the stricken area has declared a State of Emergency. A massive airlift is underway, as electricity and water are down. Food, water, medicines and shelter are urgently needed as life savers and life preservers, for those who` ve lost everything including many ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was the Republican talking point of the Sunday talk shows: If Democrats delay Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court this week, Republicans said, it would be an affront to history - the first time a nominee to the high court had been filibustered....
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MOCOA, Colombia (AP) -- People in a small city in southern Colombia searched desperately Sunday for loved ones after heavy rains sent floodwaters, mud and debris surging through homes, killing at least 207 and leaving many injured or missing....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday told the faithful not to remain trapped in the rubble of life, but to rise from the rubble and rebuild their lives with the help of God.The Pope’s words came during the homily as he celebrated Mass for about 70 thousand people gathered in the central square of Italy’s northern town of Carpi.His one-day visit to the Emilia Romagna region comes after a pair of deadly earthquakes five years ago and where extensive restoration efforts have been cited as exemplary.Reaching out to those who lost loved ones and livelihoods during the 2012 quake, Pope Francis said God does not magically make bad things vanish, but He is close to those who suffer and faith has the power to transform that suffering.Reflecting on the Gospel reading that tells of the resurrection of Lazarus, the Pope recalled that Jesus himself wept for the death of Lazarus, but “within the mystery of suffering in which rationality is shattered and crushed like flies ag...
