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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The United Nations is preparing to embark on talks to ban nuclear weapons.Negotiations are set to begin in March and are expected to take an indefinite time to complete.The end result is uncertain, but the 123 nations that voted Oct. 27 for a resolution within the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with international security matters to open the talks showcase a clear frustration with the slow pace of nuclear disarmament.The final tally showed 38 nations, including the nine nuclear weapons states and those under the nuclear umbrella, voting against the resolution; 16 nations abstained.The recent U.N. resolution was welcomed by several arms control advocates including those with the church involved for decades on the nuclear issue."What is important about this initiative is that it's coming from people who are not nuclear weapons states and who are saying, 'If you use these weapons, we're living on the same ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Reporters at The New York Times tweeted details from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as it happened on Tuesday, contrasting it with an off-the-record session Trump held a day earlier with leaders at the top television networks....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A New York woman seriously hurt protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces multiple surgeries and could lose an arm, her father said Tuesday, and protesters and law enforcement gave conflicting accounts about what might have caused the explosion that injured her....
MASON, Mich. (AP) -- A former USA Gymnastics doctor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in his home with a girl under 13, charges that Michigan's attorney general said are the "tip of the iceberg" as authorities investigate roughly 50 complaints....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A bomb stuffed inside a padded envelope exploded in a downtown apartment early Tuesday when a man opened the package, apparently thinking it contained medicine, police said. The man was hospitalized with hand and chest injuries....
DETROIT (AP) -- A spokeswoman for the Detroit Police Department said that an officer from a university in the city has been shot....
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A school bus driver was behind bars Tuesday after a crash killed five youngsters and plunged Chattanooga into mourning over what the mayor called the "most unnatural thing in the world" - a parent losing a child....
ATLANTA (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is again distancing himself from the alt-right movement as its white supremacist members claim his election as a boon for their agenda....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two weeks after his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump began backing off campaign promises Tuesday, including his hard line on climate change and his vow to jail "Crooked Hillary" Clinton that had brought thunderous "Lock her up" chants at his rallies....
Vatican City, Nov 22, 2016 / 11:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Death and God’s judgment should be on everyone’s mind, but faithfulness to God will conquer our fears, Pope Francis has said.“Fidelity to the Lord does not disappoint. If each one of us is faithful to the Lord, when death comes, we will say like Francis (of Assisi) 'come sister death...' we won't be afraid,” the Pope said Nov. 22.“And when the day of judgement comes, we will look at the Lord: 'Lord I have many sins but I have tried to be faithful.' And our Lord is good,” he said.“I give you this advice: 'be faithful until death – said the Lord – and I will give you the crown of life.' With this fidelity we won't be afraid of death, when we die we won’t be afraid of the day of judgment.”Pope Francis spoke in his homily for Tuesday morning Mass at the chapel of his Santa Marta residence.Reflecting on the daily reading from the Book o...
