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IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, ReutersBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Two weeks after the U.S. State Departmenthonored her as a Woman of Courage, a Salesian sister from Syriatold reporters President Donald Trump's decision to bomb a Syrian air base isanother step back from peace."I always hope for peace," said Salesian SisterCarolin Tahhan Fachakh, who runs a nursery school in Damascus, Syria, andreceived the International Woman of Courage Award award from first lady Melania TrumpMarch 29 in Washington."Everything ends," she told reporters in RomeApril 11. The war will end, too, she added."Every time we say there is hope for peace and let's moveforward, something happens to set us back. The situation is ugly now,"Sister Carolin said, referring to Trump's decision to bomb government militaryinstallations.The Syrian nun, who stopped in Rome on her way back to Syriafrom the United States, said she truly doubts that Syrian President BasharAssad launched a chemical weapon attack in early...
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) -- The Latest on the explosions near the bus carrying German soccer team Borussia Dortmund (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" - a comment at odds with Hitler's use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines' parent company, sent employees a letter Tuesday that was more contrite than his statement a day earlier about a passenger being dragged from a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines' parent company, has released three written statements in response to the backlash against the company since a customer was dragged from an oversold flight Sunday evening at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The statement by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the reign of President Bashar Assad's family "is coming to an end" suggests the U.S. is taking a much more aggressive approach about the Syrian leader....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The man dragged from a full United Express flight by airport police in Chicago is a Kentucky physician who was convicted more than a decade ago of felony charges involving his prescribing of drugs....
United is getting pummeled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as "We'll drag you all over the world" and "We have red eye and black eye flights available." On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1 billion in market value before its stock regained much of the loss....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on U.S. response to recent chemical weapons attack in Syria (all times local):...
Pakistan’s teenage Nobel Prize winner and children and girl’s rights activist, Malala Yousafzai on Monday was named the youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls' education. “[You are a] symbol of perhaps the most important thing in the world, education for all,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on April 10 at a ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York. "It is an enormous pleasure to have you as our Messenger of Peace," he said, praising her "courageous defense of the rights of all people, including women and girls, to education and equality" and her "unwavering commitment to peace."Yousafzai, who was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for attending classes, is the youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace and the first one to be designated by Secretary-General Guterres since he assumed office in January this year. Accepting the accolade, the 19-year old un...
