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(Vatican Radio) In Haiti, survivors of Hurricane Matthew are mourning the victims as fears of an increase in cholera cases grow. This category four storm tore through Haiti with 230 kph winds and one meter of rain, leaving widespread devastation and severe flooding.Hurricane Matthew is believed to have killed as many as 900 people in the Caribbean country. At least 18 people died in the United States as the hurricane made its way north.Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for the victims and said he is “confident in the sense of solidarity of the international community, of Catholic institutions and people of good will” in bringing relief.One humanitarian organization in Haiti is Malteser International, the worldwide humanitarian relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta. The organization has mobilized their staff on the ground to aid the people in the affected areas.Malteser International has been working in Haiti since the crippling earthquake ...
Vatican City, Oct 11, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- There once was a Pope called “The Green Pope.”He earned the title from both the religious and the secular alike, because he wrote frequently about the environment and asked all Catholics to be better stewards of God’s creation. Under this pope’s pontificate, the Vatican became the world’s first sovereign state to become carbon-neutral, meaning that all of the small country’s greenhouse gas emissions are offset by renewable energies and carbon credits, thanks to extra trees and solar panels. He also made use of a more energy efficient, partially electric popemobile.No, “The Green Pope” is not Pope Francis.It’s his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, which may come as a surprise to those who believe Benedict’s legacy was his staunch conservatism. During the World Day of Peace celebration in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI chose the theme “If You Want to Cultivate P...
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters, cruising past a mortuary, grocery and homes in part of this city that flooded when a river swollen by Hurricane Matthew overflowed....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it is discontinuing production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after stopping global sales of the ill-fated devices....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday greeted members of the General Assembly of the Pallottine Fathers and Brothers.Pope Francis spoke of the charism of St. Vincent Pallotti, who founded the order in Rome in 1835, saying he was “blessed to recognize that Jesus is the Apostle of the Father - rich in mercy and full of mercy - [Christ] is the one who fulfills his mission by revealing to everyone the tender love and the infinite mercy of the Father.”“Contemplating the life of Jesus and looking at our life as pilgrims in this world with its many challenges, we feel the necessity of a profound conversion and the urgency of reviving faith in Him,” – Pope Francis said – “This is the only way we can serve our neighbor in charity! Every day we are called to renew our trust in Christ and from his life draw inspiration to fulfill our mission because ‘Jesus is the first and greatest evangelizer. In every activity of evangelization, the primacy ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday met with Torsten Albig, the Minister President of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.“It was a very moving and powerful conversation with a very impressive personality,” Albig told German media after the meeting.According to a statement issued by the government of Schleswig-Holstein, concern was raised about the rise of racism and xenophobia in Europe. The statement also said the two men spoke about the Pope’s encyclical Laudato si’ and environment issues.The Minister President gave Pope Francis a faithful replica of a note from Blessed Eduard Müller, one of the “Lübeck Martyrs” – three Catholic priests and a Protestant pastor who were executed in 1943 for standing up to the Nazi regime. Müller and the two other Catholic priests were beatified in 2011.Albig is the second Minister President from Schleswig-Holstein to meet with a Pope in the Vatican. His predecessor Peter Harry Carste...
Rome, Italy, Oct 11, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As society becomes increasingly global, the question of how to spread the Gospel, particularly in the U.S., depends more and more on how effectively we engage with the varying cultures around us – just as the many missionaries to America did before, say Catholic leaders.“The whole point is, as the world globalizes, the Church becomes Christ himself, and the community of the Church become a center around which the world can find a certain kind of unity. And we need unity,” Dr. Jonathan Reyes told CNA.“I think of evangelization as (Pope) Paul VI emphasized – it's the evangelization of culture. And so you have to have sensitivity to cultures, as well as a shared sense of a common identity regionally, and in this case, in the Americas,” he said.Reyes, Executive Director of the USCCB Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, was a presenter at the symposium, “Witnesses of ...
Washington D.C., Oct 11, 2016 / 06:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As states around the country consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide, “death with dignity” looks markedly different for patients under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor.In her nearly 30 years with the order that cares for the “elderly poor,” Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. says she has never seen or heard a patient asking for a lethal prescription.“I think that’s because they are surrounded with a caring human and spiritual presence in our homes,” she told an audience at the Heritage Foundation.Sister Constance was part of a 2015 panel in Washington, D.C., on caring respectfully for the elderly sick. The event was titled “Living Life to Its Fullest.”End-of-life care was placed in the national spotlight the previous year, when 29 year-old Brittany Maynard publically announced her decision to take a lethal prescription rather than suffer terminal cancer.In des...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- They piled on Joe Panik at home plate in celebration, and just as has been the case so many times before with everything on the line in October, San Francisco's season was extended another day....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Students and teachers in Chicago were heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a threatened strike with a tentative contract agreement reached minutes before a Tuesday deadline....
