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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican Museums has installed 18 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and trained 300 staff in their use to become the first museum in Italy to be “Heart Friendly,” in order to provide greater protection to the 6 million people who visit the Museums every year.The programme – explained on Wednesday – was created in collaboration with the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital and the Department of Health and Welfare of the Governorate of Vatican City State, with training supervised by the American Heart Association.“For us, it is an honour and a duty to make available to the Vatican Museums our years of expertise to help protect the lives of the thousands of people who each day admire the masterpieces preserved in this place,” said Mariella Enoc, the President of the Bambino Gesù.This video from the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital demonstrates the use of the AED in the Vatican MuseumsThe AED ...
(Vatican Radio) Children across Syria have signed a petition calling for peace in their homeland that will be delivered to the EU headquarters in Brussels and the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. Called “Peace for Syria,” the petition has been signed by young Catholics and Orthodox Christians from 6 Syrian cities and will be delivered to the EU and the UN buildings by three Patriarchs.Aleppo divided into 2 halves like a new BerlinMeanwhile, daily life in the fiercely contested Syrian city of Aleppo becomes worse by the day. In an interview with Vatican Radio, the Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo, Joseph Tobji said nowhere is safe in the war-torn Syrian city which he called a “new Berlin” on account of being divided into two opposing halves. The archbishop described how the residents of Aleppo are living with death on a daily basis as a result of the frequent bombardments and shelling, saying they celebrate at least 10 funerals every day for those k...
(Vatican Radio) The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says Anglicans and Catholics “have found renewed impetus and momentum” in how they “work and walk together”.The leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion spoke to Vatican Radio following a papal audience at the conclusion of a two day visit to Rome marking half a century of Anglican-Catholic dialogue.Philippa Hitchen reports: Archbishop Welby has spent two days in Rome, accompanied by 17 other leaders of Anglican Provinces worldwide and by pairs of Anglican and Catholic bishops who’ve been discussing ways of forging closer partnerships in mission.At the audience in the Vatican on Thursday the Pope said it was “a beautiful sign of fraternity” to see the Primates of so many Anglican Provinces celebrating the fruits of the first meeting 50 years ago between Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey.“Let us never grow tired of asking the Lord together and insistently for t...
Vatican City, Oct 6, 2016 / 09:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The theme for the 2018 Synod of Bishops has been released, and will focus on how to best teach the faith to young people and help them to discern God's will for their lives.Set to take place in October 2018, the 50th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will discuss “Young People, the Faith and the Discernment of Vocation,” an Oct. 6 Vatican communique said.The theme, it explained, is in continuity with topics that emerged from the 2014-2015 Synod on the Family, as well as with the contents of Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” which was written largely on the basis of the synod’s concluding document.According to the communique, the theme “aims to accompany young people on their way of life towards maturity so that, through a process of discernment, they can discover their life's plan and realize it with joy.”By doing so, youth will not only ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Nancy WiechecBy Nancy WiechecPHOENIX(CNS) -- A popular Alaskan retreat has been designated a national shrine by theU.S. bishops.BishopEdward J. Burns of Juneau, Alaska, announced the news on the Oct. 1 feast ofSt. Therese Lisieux, the patroness of Alaska after whom the Catholic shrine isnamed.TheNational Shrine of St. Therese, located about 23 miles north of Juneau alongGlacier Highway, has served as a place of spiritual refuge since its dedicationin 1941."Theshrine is a place of tremendous spiritual and natural beauty for all whovisit," Bishop Burns said in a statement. "We are happy the bishops haveconfirmed what so many shrine visitors have felt in their hearts -- that theNational Shrine of St. Terese, Juneau, is a gift from God and a treasure to allwho pilgrim to her shore."The46-acre site in a forest of Sitka spruce and western hemlock overlooks thewaters of the Inside Passage. Along the shrine's many paths, visitors can enjoywide vistas of water and ice-froste...
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's fractious, right-wing U.K. Independence Party erupted into violence Thursday that left a member of the European Parliament hospitalized with a head injury after an "altercation" at a party meeting....
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. envoy for Syria called on militant fighters to leave Aleppo and for the Syrian and Russian governments to end their bombing campaign against rebel-held areas of the embattled Syrian city, warning that otherwise thousands of people could be killed by year-end and Aleppo could be "destroyed."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The arrest of a National Security Agency contractor accused of stealing classified information represents the second known case of a government contractor being publicly accused of removing secret data from the intelligence agency since 2013....
