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CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- On a rainy Saturday that only accentuated the grief, 20,000 people filled a tiny stadium under umbrellas and plastic ponchos to say goodbye to members of the Chapecoense soccer club who died in a plane crash....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled to get to bodies in the rubble Saturday after a fire tore through a converted Oakland warehouse during a late-night electronic music party, killing at least 9 people and making the charred structure unsafe for emergency crews to enter. Officials said they feared the death toll could rise as high as 40....
(Vatican Radio) Europe could move further to the right when Austrians go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president in an election that has been overshadowed by concerns over Europe's migration crisis and sanctions against Russia. Far-right candidate Nobert Hofer, of the Freedom Party, will face Alexander Van der Bellen, a former leader of the leftist Greens Party. Hofer has already made clear he wants to end sanctions and a tougher policy towards migrants fleeing war and poverty. Sunday's elections are therefore seen as a test for the political direction of Austria and other European Union member states. Polls show the rightwing populist Hofer and Green-backed Van der Bellen neck and neck for the vote.A victory for the 45-year old Freedom party candidate, Hofer, would make him the first far-right head of state in the EU since the second world war. Van der Bellen narrowly won the original vote in May, but it was annulled because of irregularities in the co...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The next Congress will begin work immediately next year toward repealing President Barack Obama's health care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday....
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The head of North Dakota's emergency management services says the state is prepared to respond to Dakota Access pipeline protesters who may need help during a winter storm or some other crisis....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local):...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Fire tore through an Oakland warehouse converted into artist studios during a late night dance party, killing at least nine people, and officials said Saturday that the death toll could rise as high as 40....
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) -- Syrian warplanes, artillery and mortar rounds pounded areas in eastern Aleppo on Saturday drawing rebel rockets, as government troops gain new ground in the shrinking opposition-held enclave....
(Vatican Radio) The 3rd December marks the feast of St Francis Xavier who was a Jesuit priest and is a patron of the missions. In 1541 he left for India, arriving at the city of Goa.For the next ten years this missionary priest traveled from Goa to Cape Comorin in south India, then to the East Indies, Malacca, and the Moluccas, and onward to Japan.The Head of Vatican Radio’s English for India Section, Jesuit Father Melwyn Pinto spoke to Lydia O'Kane about St Francis’ missionary zeal and the indelible mark it has left on his country.Listen:
The Church in Asia has the mission to help families discover Christ: said Cardinal George Alencherry, major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, in Kerala, president of the Syro-Malabar Bishops' Council, during the plenary assembly of the Federation of the Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), being held in Colombo from November 28 to December 4."We all need to find Christ in ourselves, to help others to discover him in the lives of our families and of our peoples: this is evangelization", stressed the Cardinal before the assembly made up of more than 140 Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops from about 40 Asian countries, as well as some representatives as theologians and lay people involved in the Church in Asia.The assembly, which is held every four years, is centered on the theme "The Asian Catholic family: The local Church of the poor in the mission of mercy”. The Churches in Asia are wondering how to make Catholic families a tool to announce the Gospel of...
