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(Vatican Radio) The head of the Catholic aid and development agency, Caritas Internationalis, has warned the conflict in the Iraqi city of Mosul will cause heavy civilian casualties and will not be “a clean war” to rid the city of so-called Islamic State militants.The Secretary General of the global Caritas confederation, Michel Roy also accused world leaders of “double standards” and of pursuing national interests in Syria and Iraq, rather than considering the interests of the civilian populations of those two countries.Listen to Michel Roy’s interview with Philippa Hitchen: Voicing his fears to Vatican Radio, Roy warned there are 1.250.000 civilians in Mosul, and so the “war which is starting now on the city” means that “there will be lots and lots of civilian people killed in Mosul”. His words came as thousands of people fled from the city on Wednesday while Iraqi troops and tanks moved in to try and recapture it from ...
Washington D.C., Oct 19, 2016 / 12:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With the Nov. 8 election approaching, the Knights of Columbus have released a novena addressed to Mary, the Immaculate Conception, who is the patroness of the United States.The novena consists of nine days of prayer, starting Oct. 30 and running through Nov. 7, the eve of the election.In 1791, America’s first bishop, John Carroll, entrusted his diocese – which was the entire country at the time – to Mary in 1791. The U.S. bishops affirmed that dedication in 1846, declaring Mary the Immaculate Conception to be patroness of the United States.The novena prayer comes from the 1959 dedication of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. It was approved that year by Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle, then-archbishop of Washington. Parishes, Knights of Columbus councils, families and individuals are invited to participate in the novena.“The Church teaches that Cath...
IMAGE: CNS/Oscar DurandBy Oscar DurandISTANBUL(CNS) -- Yako Hanna, 36, always keeps an eye on his phone waiting for a callthat would change his life."Anytimeit rings, you think it is the U.N., so you have to be careful. Even if you go tothe bathroom, you have to take your mobile with you," Hanna said,referring to the call he might receive from the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, whichis handling his resettlement application to Australia, where he has relatives.Hannais one of the thousands of Iraqi Christians that are in Turkey waiting, from afew months to a few years, for an answer to their resettlement applications toWestern countries. They are waiting for an appointment or a visa, a documentthat will allow them to restart their lives in a new country. And not knowingwhen that will happen is leading them to live a life in limbo.Hannagrew up in a Chaldean Catholic family in the al-Dora district of Baghdad. Thememories from his childhood include summer picnics, soccer games and otheracti...
MIAMI (AP) -- Conservative activist James O'Keefe has released secretly recorded, selectively edited video footage that includes a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at rallies held by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump....
ACKERMAN, Miss. (AP) -- Pulled over for traffic violations, Jessica Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail. She was charged with a felony based on a secretly recorded video that prosecutors finally acknowledged showed her committing no crime....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Painting a picture of a crime that shattered a bygone era's sense of safety, prosecutors Wednesday opened the retrial of one of the nation's most influential missing-child cases, the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz....
DACULA, Ga. (AP) -- A year ago, Cindy Martinez was struggling to walk even just a few feet and lift just five pounds....
AL-HUD, Iraq (AP) -- The mutilated bodies of Islamic State group fighters were still strewn on the ground of this northern Iraqi town on Wednesday. One was burned. Another's face was flattened by abuse....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- As the long and rancorous campaign lurches toward an end, Donald Trump gets one of his last opportunities in Wednesday night's final debate against Hillary Clinton to turn around a race that appears to be slipping away....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing new challenges to a legacy law, the Obama administration on Wednesday set modest expectations for the president's final health care sign-up season. The biggest worry: rising premiums and dwindling choices....
