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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on a man who fired an assault weapon in a pizza restaurant while investigating an internet conspiracy theory (all times local):...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- She survived the first stone that struck her, then the second....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government's capture of eastern Aleppo, held for more than four years by rebels, marks a horrific new chapter for Syria's largest city. Here's a look at key events in Aleppo since the start of Syria's uprising nearly six years ago:...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A newly blond Kanye West visited Donald Trump on Tuesday, and Trump said later they talked about "life."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, calling the oil executive with close to ties to Russia one of the most accomplished "international dealmakers in the world."...
(Vatican Radio) Officials say Macedonia's governing conservatives have won the country's closely-fought early parliamentary elections, despite a massive wiretap scandal and allegations of corruption and wrongdoing. The state election commission said that the governing VMRO-DPMNE party secured 51 out of 123 seats in parliament in Sunday's vote, while the opposition social democrats took 49 seats.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Though the key Social Democrats opposition leader had urged his supporters to celebrate victory, overnight results showed that the ruling conservative coalition of Nikola Gruevski were in fact the winner of Sunday's vote in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.That surprised friends and foes as it followed scandals. The political crisis began after the opposition accused Gruevski's conservative government of an illegal wiretapping operation that targeted 20,000 people, including politicians, judges, journalists, police and rel...
(Vatican Radio) Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez of Opus Dei died in Rome on Monday, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, at the age of 84.Bishop Echevarría was head of the Opus Dei organization and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.A statement released by Opus Dei said he died at Rome’s Biomedical Campus, where he had been since 5 Dec for treatment of a lung infection.Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its worldwide membership was around 94,000 people in 2015, including more than 2,000 priests.Spanish Bishop Echevarría was the second successor to head Opus Dei after St. Escrivá.
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio to the UN, addressed a working group on Ageing, inviting them to “recognize that dignity does not disappear with age or with a decrease in market productivity”.The open-ended working group is entitled ‘Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons’.Archbishop Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, recalled Pope Francis’ commitment to building a more inclusive society.“As a person ages, he or she normally grows in maturity and, even if the nature of one’s social contribution may change, one can still contribute much to society. In this regard, Pope Francis recently affirmed that each of us is called to commit to building a more welcoming and inclusive society, but ‘to do this we must counter the harmful throw-away culture that marginalizes the elderly, considering them unproduct...
(Vatican Radio) The spirit of clericalism is an evil that is present in the Church today, Pope Francis said, and the victim of this spirit is the people, who feel discarded and abused. That was the Pope’s message in the homily at the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.Among those taking part in the Mass were the members of the Council of cardinals, who are meeting with the Pope this week in Rome.In his homily, Pope Francis warned pastors of the dangers of becoming “intellectuals of religion” with a morality far from the Revelation of God.The poor and humble people who have faith in the Lord are the victims of the “intellectuals of religion,” those who are “seduced by clericalism,” who will be preceded in the Kingdom of Heaven by repentant sinners.The law of the high priests is far from RevelationThe Pope directed his attention to Jesus, who in the day’s Gospel turns to the chief priests and the elders of the people, and focuses pre...
