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By Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS) --U.S. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample was preparing to celebrate Mass Oct. 26with Benedictine monks in Norcia when the first of two powerful earthquakesstruck."I hadno sooner finished (the vesting) prayer to be protected from the assaults ofSatan when bang: It just hit and it hit with a vengeance. It didn't last verylong, but it really shook the building we were in," Archbishop Sample ofPortland, Oregon, told Catholic News Service in Rome the next morning.No casualties were reportedfrom the quakes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquakemeasuring 5.5 struck shortly after 7 p.m. local time and a 6.1 magnitude quakefollowed two hours later. Both were centered in Italy's Marche region, not farfrom Norcia.ArchbishopSample and other Portland pilgrims were visiting Norcia, the birthplace of St.Benedict, during a trip to Italy for the fifth annual Populus SummorumPontificum pilgrimage, an international gathering for Catholics devoted to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The vast majority of U.S. students still lack a solid grasp of science despite some modest gains by fourth and eighth graders, especially girls and minorities....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter, seemingly unable to find a buyer and losing money, is cutting about 9 percent of its employees worldwide....
NEW YORK (AP) -- As roaring flames consumed an apartment building in New York City early Thursday, a firefighter dangling from a rope plucked a trapped person from a window on the fifth floor and safely lowered him to the ground....
VISSO, Italy (AP) -- Authorities scrambled to find housing Thursday for thousands of people displaced by a pair of strong earthquakes that struck the same region of central Italy hit by a deadly quake in August, hoping to prevent a second night for them on the street or in cars....
CAIRO (AP) -- The Libyan navy said on Thursday that at least 90 migrants are believed to have perished when their rickety boat started to fall apart in the Mediterranean Sea, after leaving the Libyan coast....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The UN's children's agency on Thursday raised the death toll from a brutal attack the previous day on a school in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province to 28, including 22 children and six teachers, and suggested it may have been the deadliest attack on a school in the country's civil war....
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi special forces east of Mosul probed a network of underground tunnels and uncovered a bomb-making facility on Thursday in a village recently retaken from the Islamic State group as their allies battled the militants in a push toward the city from the south....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With a dozen days left until Election Day, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are refusing to commit to working with each other after the election, putting in question their abilities to heal the country's wounds after a volatile presidential race....
(Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, wrote an address delivered to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday which said “the protection of civilians should be one of the central elements of [United Nations] peacekeeping mandates.”“In the early 1900s, around 5 percent of fatalities were civilians, while in the 1990s; over 90 percent of the fatalities were non-combatants,” – the Vatican diplomat said – “And it continues to get worse: All the recent reports and studies on this theme unanimously affirm that the deliberate targeting of and indiscriminate attacks on civilians are still increasing and tragically are becoming routine in defiant violation of international humanitarian law.”Archbishop Auza also encouraged the United Nations to work harder to achieve a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on abuse by UN peacekeepers in conflict zones.“Despite speci...
