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Various representatives from several African countries have this week participated in the 30th anniversary ceremonies of the death of former Mozambican President, Samora Machel. The commemoration ceremonies held at the Samora Machel Monument in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga, South Africa were attended by the country’s Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa. According to SABC news, the focus of the commemoration ceremonies on Wednesday shift to Mozambique.Samora died on 19 October 1986 when he and other officials were returning from an African leaders' meeting in Lusaka, Zambia. His plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains, an 800 km long, narrow range of mountains in Southern Africa.Samora Machel led his country to its independence from the Portuguese in 1975. He espoused a Marxist-Leninist approach to government.Vatican Radio’s Portuguese programme correspondent, in Maputo, Herminio Jose, went around to talk to some of Mozambique’s clergy about Samora’s l...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Nancy WiechecYELLOWSTONENATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNS) -- Jesuit Father Rick Malloy very much enjoys summersin Yellowstone National Park."I'ma fanatical fisherman," he admitted. "And a good one, too."Butexceptional fishing is not the main thing that brings him to Wyoming summerafter summer. He said it's the privilege and beauty of park ministry that keepshim coming back.Massin Yellowstone is "an experience of God unlike any other," he said. "It's areal privilege to be able to celebrate the Eucharist with people here in thepark."FatherMalloy is a cultural anthropologist, professor and chaplain at the Jesuit-runUniversity of Scranton in Pennsylvania. For the past seven summers, he has gonewest to minister in Yellowstone, do some writing and, of course, fish.CatholicNews Service caught up with him in early August, one of the park's busiestmonths.Itwas a late Saturday afternoon, and Yellowstone's Canyon area was teeming withpeople. A steady stream of cars and RVs m...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low raises. The adjustment adds up to a monthly increase of less than $4 a month for an average recipient....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian-American businessman and his father have been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran, a state-run judicial news agency reported Tuesday, the latest dual nationals imprisoned since the nuclear deal....
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest on the Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local):...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- From liberal California to conservative Missouri, there are few places Sen. Elizabeth Warren won't go this election season. The Massachusetts Democrat is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, for Senate Democratic candidates and for liberal policies....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For years, the U.S. housing market looked bleak for young couples hoping to buy their first homes but struggling with high student debt, low pay and meager down-payment savings....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- On the eerily quiet streets of Mosul, fighters from the Islamic State group are killing suspected spies, blocking roads and planting bombs ahead of a showdown with Iraqi forces....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday tore into Donald Trump for sowing suspicion about the integrity of the U.S. election, telling the Republican presidential nominee to "stop whining" and focus on winning votes....
(Vatican Radio) Promoting reconciliation and dialogue in a divided and wounded world is a top priority for the Society of Jesus under its new leader, Venezuelan Father Arturo Sosa, the first non-European to be elected as the Jesuit superior general.Fr Sosa held a press conference on Tuesday morning to discuss his election last week by Jesuits from around the world who are meeting in Rome for their 36th General Congregation.Philippa Hitchen went along to find out more about the reactions of the new ‘black pope’, as he’s popularly known, and the direction in which he’ll be leading the Church’s largest order of religious men…..Listen: Fr Sosa said he was serene, surprised, grateful and “ready to respond with joy” to the challenges currently being discussed by the Jesuits holding their 36th general congregation since the order was founded by St Ignatius of Loyola, nearly five centuries ago. Speaking at the Jesuit headquarter...
