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IMAGE: CNS photo/Laura Elizabeth Pohl, By Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Many mornings Carolyn Y. Woo has arrivedto the relative solitude of a chapel at the Baltimore headquarters of CatholicRelief Services, and as the bustling city comes to life, she has looked insidethe serene space for a particular quiet spot, the place where she arms herselfwith prayer."That plant is my coffee table," she said inside the chapel,pointing to a leafy pot nearby where she hides papers, coffee or whatever shemight be holding on her way in."I do my readings for the day," she said, explaining hermorning routine during an October interview with Catholic News Service, one ofthe last she'll do as CEO of the agency. "I sit with the Blessed Mother.There's one chair there ... that's where I do my prayer and then I start the day."Prayer is something she's needed while managing one of thelargest charities in the country. The days have meant little sleep and lots ofmeetings, lots of visitors, lots of travel an...
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for an immediate investigation of an attack on a school in Syria's Idlib province that the U.N.'s children's agency is calling one of the deadliest of its kind in the country's six-year war....
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Trailing with time running out, Donald Trump denounced both Hillary and Bill Clinton Thursday as creatures of a corrupt political system who would use another pass at the Oval Office to enrich themselves at the expense of American families. Clinton turned to popular first lady Michelle Obama to rally voters in North Carolina, a state that could deliver a knockout blow to Trump....
NEW YORK (AP) -- An airplane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence has slid off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Law enforcement officers in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact that has simmered for months....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the Dakota Access oil pipeline protest (all times local):...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber was followed by fans with cameras and cellphones. A couple of pitchers from the Cleveland Indians played hacky sack in the outfield....
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- As first ladies they could hardly have been more different. But as Democrats looking to fire up female voters, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton were firmly bonded on Thursday....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Archbishop of Juba said on Thursday that Pope Francis told him that he would like to visit South Sudan, a nation wracked by a bitter civil war. Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro said the dire situation in his homeland was described to the Pope during an earlier audience between the Holy Father and a delegation of Christian religious leaders from South Sudan. In addition to Archbishop Loro, the delegation included the Archbishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, the Rev. Daniel Deng Bul, and the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, the Rev. Peter Gai Lual Marrow. South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, has seen in recent months the resurgence of a brutal civil war between government troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and opposition forces following former deputy Reik Machar.Archbishop Lukudu Loro said all the religious leaders spoke during the papal audience about South Sudan’s war, the killings, the refugees an...
(Vatican Radio) Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize for their advocacy work.Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Basharwere among thousands of Yazidi girls and women abducted by IS militants and forced into sexual slavery in two years ago.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Its a long way from the luxurious surroundings in Brussels to receive the Sakharov award to where their ordeal began. They were abducted along with other Yazidi women in August 2014 when their home village of Kocho in northern Iraq was attacked by Islamic State militants as part of a wider campaign. Murad was captured alongside her sisters and lost six brothers and her mother, as the militants killed the village’s men and any women considered too old to be sexually exploited.Aji Bashar, whose brother and father were killed by Islamic State fighters, was also used as a sex slave by...
