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PHOENIX (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama has emerged as perhaps the most effective Donald Trump critic in the Democrats' lineup, and she's done it without ever uttering two key words: Donald Trump....
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) -- Mocking his critics, Donald Trump pledged Thursday to fully accept the outcome of next month's presidential election - if he wins. The Republican said he reserved the right to contest questionable results, deepening his unsubstantiated assertions that the race against Hillary Clinton could be rigged against him....
(Vatican Radio) South African Jesuits have released a statement regarding recent events at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Johannesburg which has been providing a space for dialogue between facilitators of an ongoing standoff between Wits University of Johannesburg and student leaders.The Church, under the ministry of Jesuit Father Graham Pugin, had also been providing a place of refuge and emergency first aid for those fleeing violence during protests.Father Pugin himself was injured by a rubber bullet during one such situation when he interposed himself between riot police and the open gate leading into the Church. Protests have raged on South African campuses since October last year as students demand free university tuition for all in a nation still divided by inequality and racial divisions.In recent weeks, “#FeesMustFall” protests have swept across most of South Africa’s 26 universities, with violent clashes between students and police at some campuse...
Vatican City, Oct 20, 2016 / 10:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the recipients of this year’s Ratzinger Prize is Greek-born Orthodox professor Ioannis Kourempeles, who is widely known for his extensive teaching career and work in dogmatic theology.The two winners of the 2016 prize were announced Oct. 18, and, in addition to Kourempeles, include Italian priest Msgr. Inos Biffi, whose career has focused largely on the history of theology and medieval philosophy.Born in Athens in 1965, Kourempeles studied Theology at the Faculties of Theology in Thessaloniki, Erlangen and Heidelberg before going on to teach the History of Dogmas and Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the “Aristotle” University of Thessaloniki.He is the first-ever Orthodox to be awarded the Ratzinger Prize.Msgr. Biffi originally comes from the northern Italian city of Lomagna. He was born there in 1934 and is professor emeritus of Systematic Theology and the History of Medieval ...
Washington D.C., Oct 20, 2016 / 11:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the final presidential debate on Wednesday, the major party candidates were pressed to explain their positions on abortion. Hillary Clinton defended her earlier support of partial-birth abortion, while Donald Trump reiterated the assertion that he is pro-life.“I am pro-life and I will be appointing pro-life [Supreme Court] justices,” Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, stated at the debate.Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, said about mothers’ decisions to have abortions, “I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions.”Trump and Clinton debated for the final time on Wednesday evening at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They answered questions from debate moderator Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” on topics including abortion, the Supreme Court, foreign policy, and health care.The ...
NIZHNY ARKHYZ, Russia (AP) -- A remote Russian observatory housing what was once the world's largest mirrored telescope has become the setting for an art installation that explores the near-infinite reaches of both outer space and the human imagination....
Snoopy has been handed the pink slip....
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) -- Six months after someone shot eight members of an extended family to death in their homes, surviving relatives are still waiting - for an explanation, for an arrest, for a hint of closure....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency had sufficient authority and information to issue an emergency order to protect residents of Flint, Michigan, from lead-contaminated water as early as June 2015 - seven months before it declared an emergency, the EPA's inspector general said Thursday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Turkey escalated its offensive Thursday against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, pounding them with airstrikes and artillery, and complicating the battle against the Islamic State group by Ankara and Washington, both NATO allies....
