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IMAGE: CNS photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, EPABy Bronwen DachsCAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) --Hunger levels are so severe in drought-ridden southern Madagascar that manypeople in remote villages have eaten almost nothing but cactus fruit for up tofour years, said a Catholic Relief Services official.Eating this fruit leaves crimsonstains on people's faces and hands, and there is a "shame of povertyassociated with these stains in Madagascar," an island nation 250 milesoff the coast of mainland Africa, said Nancy McNally, CRS information officerfor East and Southern Africa.The cactus plant "is theonly thing that grows" in southern Madagascar, and the plants "aregrowing everywhere" in earth "that looks like white silt," shesaid in a Nov. 23 telephone interview from Nairobi, Kenya.A father of three, sitting withhis wife and children outside the town of Beloha in southeastern Madagascar, "toldme that his family had been living on cactus fruit for a year," McNallysaid."With whatever money hecould m...
VERBANIA, Italy (AP) -- Italy's Emma Morano, the world's oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake....
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) -- Raging wildfires fueled by high winds forced the evacuation of thousands of people and were believed to have wiped out an entire resort of more than 100 buildings in the Great Smoky Mountains as National Guard troops arrived early Tuesday to help overwhelmed firefighters....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University complained on his Facebook account about U.S. interference in countries with Muslim communities, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The Latest on the Colombia plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local):...
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) -- A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 75 people and leaving six survivors, Colombian officials said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified "consequences," such as jail or a loss of citizenship - a move that was ruled out by the Supreme Court nearly three decades ago....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump made two Cabinet selections on Tuesday, choosing fierce Obamacare critic Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and Elaine Chao, who served in the Cabinet of George W. Bush, to serve as the secretary of the Department of Transportation....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said on Tuesday that true Christian humility is the virtue of the childlike and is never a theatrical humility. His words came at his morning Mass celebrated in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.Taking his inspiration from the day’s readings the Pope’s homily was a reflection on how God reveals himself to the humble and childlike rather than the wise and learned as recounted in the gospel of Luke. He noted that the day’s first reading from the book of Isaiah is also full of references to little things such as the small shoot that “shall sprout from the stump of Jesse” rather than an army that will bring about liberation. Pope Francis went on to explain how in the Christmas story too the leading figures are the small and the humble.“Then at Christmas, we see this smallness, this little thing: a baby, a stable, a mother, a father… little ones. (They have) big hearts but the attitude of a child. ...
(Vatican Radio) Scottish Catholics around the world are preparing to celebrate the feast of their patron saint tomorrow.As the Catholic Church prepares for the major feast day, Vatican Radio's Scottish intern Ryan Black reflects on the relationship between the Apostle and Scotland, and speaks with the Vice-Rector of the Pontifical Scots College and the President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland...Saint Andrew the Apostle is the patron of many countries worldwide, including Scotland. The Galilean fisherman was adopted by the early Picts and Scots at a time when the country needed a national symbol to rally around. In a story that echoes that of the Emperor Constantine’s victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312 AD), King Angus of the Picts saw a Saltire Cross in the sky ahead of his victory over the Saxons at the Battle of Athelstaneford (735 AD). From then, Saint Andrew and his distinctive cross became national symbols of an emerging Scotland.National he...
