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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's parliament ratified a treaty with Syria on Friday that allows Russian troops to stay indefinitely in the Mideast country, a show of support for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry called Friday for Russia and Syria to face a war crimes investigation for their attacks on Syrian civilians, further illustrating the downward spiral in relations between Washington and Moscow....
BEAUMONT, Haiti (AP) -- People across southwest Haiti were digging through the wreckage of their homes Friday, salvaging what they could from a deadly and devastating encountered with the full force of Hurricane Matthew....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida's Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to more than a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citing a Border Patrol union leader, Donald Trump said Friday that agents have been told to allow immigrants into the United States illegally "so they can vote in the election." But he offered no evidence to support his most recent claim that presidential voting may be tainted by fraud....
After six days of prayer, reflection, testimonies, catechesis and a 3-day live-in programme, the curtain came down on the Second Indonesian Youth Day (IYD2) with a Mass Thursday night in Manado. The animated concluding Mass, Oct. 6, at the ‘Amphitheatre’ of the Catholic Youth Centre at Lotta, was followed by a programme of speeches, songs, dances and entertainment by the various diocesan regions of the nation, that dragged late into the night. The IYD, Oct. 1-6, had as its theme, “The Joy of Gospel amidst a Plural Society in Indonesia”. Bishop Pius Prabdi of Ketapang, the chairman of the Youth Commission of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference, presided over the concelebrated Mass in which 17 other bishops joined him at the altar, while over a 100 priests concelebrated a little away from the altar. Many of them helped in distributing Holy Communion. Numerous IYD2 participants turned up in their ethnic costumes or IYD T-shirt...
(Vatican Radio) One of the participants at the ongoing Vatican conference on Sport and Faith is a refugee athlete from South Sudan who brings his own personal witness of how his participation in the 2016 Olympics as part of the first-ever ‘refugee team’ to compete in the Games allowed him to represent refugees across the world and shine the light on their stories and on one of the major challenges of our time. The ‘Sport at the Service of Humanity’ global Conference is hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture and sponsored with the collaboration of Allianz. The event, which is supported by the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee, is being attended by leading figures in religion and sports. Their goal is to discuss how faith and sport can work together to promote positive values, with the intention of gaining actionable results. Paulo Amotun Lokoro, a member of the Summer 2016 Refugee Olympic Team, is a track and f...
(Vatican Radio) Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the 52-year conflict with the Marxist FARC rebels. It was seen as a surprise choice after Colombians narrowly voted in a referendum last week to reject the peace deal signed by Santos and the rebels.The Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer to a peaceful solution but there was still a real danger the peace process could come to a halt and that war could flare up again.Santos has promised to revive the peace plan despite the outcome of the referendum and said the Nobel peace prize award was "of invaluable importance" to further the peace process.Colombia’s Catholic Church played a key role as a mediator between the two sides during the long-running peace negotiations and has been at the forefront of trying to promote reconciliation.
(Vatican Radio) The first-ever global conference on faith and sport took place this week here at the Vatican.For three days, representatives from the sporting world – athletes and competitors at all levels and of all ages and abilities – along with coaches, owners, managers, corporate sponsors and experts in fields ranging from sports medicine and psychology to training, discipline, education and formation, gathered together in the Vatican for discussions with leaders from the world’s great religious traditions to discuss how sport can be in the service of humanity.The conference organizers and sponsors – especially the Pontifical Council for Culture under its Cardinal-President, Gianfranco Ravasi – and founding partner, Allianz, hope over the long term successfully to foster a worldwide movement that will enrich lives by helping people, through sport, to build trust and learn cooperation, foster friendship, live healthy lives, and have fun....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told the participants in the General Chapter of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) to ‘love Jesus with passion and the Church without conditions’.His exhortation came in a private audience in the Vatican’ Clementine Hall on Friday, as the religious Institute celebrates the 200th anniversary of its founding.The Chapter reelected Fr. Louis Lougen on 30 Sept as Superior General for a second six-year term.Recalling the order’s founder, St. Eugene de Mazenod, Pope Francis said he was a ‘man of Advent’ who ‘loved Jesus with passion and the Church without conditions’, telling the Oblates to follow his example of ‘docility to the Spirit’.The Holy Father said their missionary work, though difficult, should make them ‘joyous witnesses’ of the Gospel.Recognizing their work at the 63rd General Chapter, the Pope said the ‘fraternal experience of prayer, confrontation, and communit...
