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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners at a church was allowed Monday to act as his own attorney, opening the door to courtroom spectacles at his death penalty trial, including Dylann Roof questioning survivors of the attack and relatives of the dead....
HAVANA (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of Cubans bade farewell to Fidel Castro on Monday, pledging allegiance to his socialist ideology and paying tribute before images of the leader as a young guerrilla gazing out over the country he would come to rule for nearly half a century....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus, The Associated Press confirmed Monday, the same day Petraeus was meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York....
As police responded to the attack at Ohio State University, school officials blasted an ominous message to students with a set of instructions: "Run Hide Fight."...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man plowed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Police said they are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack....
(Vatican Radio) The President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís, spoke with Vatican Radio in the wake of Pope Francis’ appeal for prayer and concrete solidarity with all those affected in his country and throughout the region by hurricane Otto, which passed through the southern parts of Central America late last week.Pope Francis made his appeal during remarks to the faithful gathered for the Angelus prayer on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square.“The people and the government of Costa Rica have received with great joy the message of His Holiness, Pope Francis, who remembered the difficult times we have endured just a few days ago, as we experienced the passing of hurricane Otto,” President Solís told Vatican Radio.Click below to hear the extended remarks of Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solís to Vatican Radio “The words of the Pope have brought joy,” he explained, “and also a balm of understanding to our people,...
The University of Zimbabwe students’ Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace celebrated the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy with generous book donations to Chikurubi maximum prison.The visit is the second this year where the young and motivated Catholic students interacted with inmates under the theme, “Donate a book, help mend a broken life”.According to Zimbabwe’s classification at Chikurubi maximum prison, the D- Class Section includes inimates convicted of murderer and those whose escape would be highly dangerous to the public or national security. Most people might, therefore, wonder why university students would donate books to D- Class Section prisoners who have no hope of ever being re-integrated back into society. The answer lies in our history: Some of the unique ideas that have led to great changes in the world came from men and women who were serving time.From the Bible, we see that Joseph, who was wrongly imprisoned for rape, b...
(Vatican Radio) The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking was among those present at an audience with Pope Francis for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.The Academy is meeting in Rome for its plenary session, on “Science and Sustainability: Impacts of Scientific Knowledge and Technology on Human Society and its Environment.” On Saturday, Dr Hawking gave a presentation on his No-Boundary proposal concerning the beginnings of the universe.The plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences concludes on Tuesday.
Priests of the Catholic Church have been called upon to see their vocation as a call that emanates from God out of his Fatherly love for them to be part of the Salvific mission of Christ. The call was made by the Catholic Bishop of Ijebu-Ode Diocese, Albert Fasina in his homily at the celebration of the Mass to declare open the meeting of the priests of the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lagos and Ibadan.The celebration of the Mass was held at the St Sebastian Catholic Cathedral, Ijebu-Ode and attended by priests from all dioceses that constitute the two Ecclesiastical provinces. The meeting after the Mass was a fruitful deliberation held at the Bishop Anthony Sanusi Hall.Pointing out that Jesus is the only one who redeems, restores and revives Bishop Fasina; noted that every moment of Jesus' life was in complete relationship with his Father adding that, “Jesus lived his life in total consecration to his father.” He continued, “Even when Jesus was personally att...
Washington D.C., Nov 28, 2016 / 07:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Gregory John Mansour, a Maronite bishop with experience in Middle East issues, will be the next chairman of Catholic Relief Services, the foreign aid arm of the U.S. bishops.“It is my honor and privilege to be appointed as chairman of the CRS board of directors,” Bishop Mansour said Nov. 22. “As a member of the CRS board, I've witnessed CRS’ tremendous work among the most vulnerable. I have seen firsthand the suffering of Christians and others violently forced from their homes in the Middle East. Witnessing their plight was difficult, but it is heartening to see the compassionate work that CRS continues to do in the midst of chaos.” Since 2004, Bishop Mansour has headed the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn. He is currently on the relief agency’s board.Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, named...
