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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends were cleared Wednesday in a $21.5 million lawsuit that accused them of gang raping his ex-girlfriend when she was incapacitated from drugs or alcohol....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Revisiting a crime that shattered a bygone era's sense of safety, prosecutors on Wednesday launched their second bid for a conviction in one of the nation's most influential missing-child cases, the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz....
QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) -- For Saif, an Iraqi army corporal, the battle for Mosul is intensely personal. Over the course of two years of Islamic State rule, the extremists destroyed his home, arrested his father, killed his brother and forced his fiancee into a marriage with an IS fighter....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was barely three weeks ago that Donald Trump opened the first presidential debate by asking, with faux deference, if it was OK to refer to his opponent as "Secretary Clinton."...
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....
Oasis Forum Chairperson, Fr Cleophas Lungu has condemned the Zambian government’s attempt to diminish space for dissent in the country.Speaking on behalf of other Oasis Forum Convenors, Fr. Cleophas said in a statement made available to the Africa Service of Vatican Radio that the Zambian government needs to respect the freedoms of citizens.“The Oasis Forum is becoming increasingly alarmed at the trend of political intimidation and physical attacks against citizens and members of the private media, most recently against Komboni Radio and Prime TV and generally the violation of human rights on Zambian citizens.” He added, “We believe that violence of this nature has no place in a Christian democracy such as ours. We recall the intimidation of the Post Newspaper and the Muvi TV. These attacks appear to be an attempt by the government to diminish dissenting voices of citizens to achieve their own end. The Republic of Zambia is still a constitutional democracy....
(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....
