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WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is advancing into states the Democrats haven't won in decades, confidently expanding her offensive against Donald Trump and aiming to help her party win back control of Congress....
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- The long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group began Monday with a volley of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments on a cluster of villages along the edge of Iraq's historic Nineveh plain east of the militant-held city....
(Vatican Radio) A leader of Russian backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has vowed to retaliate against Ukrainian government forces after a fellow commander died in rebel-controlled Donetsk in an apparent assassination. Arseny Pavlov, who once boasted about killing more than a dozen captured soldiers, died following a bomb attack, authorities said. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Pro-Russian separatists said Arseny Pavlov, a Russian citizen better known by his nickname Motorola, died of serious injuries after an improvised explosive device detonated as he entered the elevator of his apartment building in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in war-torn eastern Ukraine. A bodyguard reportedly also died in Sunday's blast.The attack ended the life of a man who once boosted to have killed as many as 15 prisoners of war. He was the latest among several rebel figures known to have been killed recently amid reports of fighting among the seperatists. However Aleks...
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2016 / 10:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In their forewords to a new book about the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Bartholomew I, Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI praised the faith and goodness of the ecumenical patriarch.“Today, we brothers in the faith and hope that does not disappoint, we are deeply united in the desire that Christians of the East and the West can feel part of the one and only Church,” Pope Francis wrote.The forewords were contributions to the book Bartholomew, Apostle and Visionary by John Chryssavgis, written in honor of the 25th anniversary of the patriarch’s election as head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was released Oct. 11.In the messages, Pope Francis and Benedict both reflected on their meetings with Patriarch Bartholomew and on the things which unite them.“My first meeting with my beloved brother Bartholomew took place the same day in which I started my papal ministry, when he honored m...
Erbil, Iraq, Oct 17, 2016 / 11:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced a ground offensive to retake Mosul from the clutches of Islamic State, a priest working in the thick of the country’s refugee crisis said people are happy with the advances, but unsure what the future will hold.“We are so happy because yesterday the war began between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga with ISIS,” Father Roni Momika told CNA Oct. 17.He relayed how shortly before, they had received the “good news” that the ancient Monastery of the Martyrs Saint Behnam and his Sister Sarah, also known as the Mar Behnam monastery, near Nimrud “is free,” though it has suffered significant damage from Islamic State forces.There are still many Christians living in the villages surrounding Mosul, he noted, but said soldiers from the Iraqi army and the Kurdish Peshmerga are with them.“We hope that (soon) we will hear good news about Q...
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2016 / 01:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Alberto Ortega, the Pope's Apostolic Nuncio in Iraq and Jordan, has said that in the midst of a drawn-out humanitarian crisis and ongoing feelings of mistrust and betrayal, Christians can be a sign of reconciliation where political efforts continue to fall short.In order for current conflicts destroying much of the Middle East to come to an end, “there is first of all the political will,” Archbishop Ortega told CNA in an interview.“If the international community, if they really want to make peace, to promote peace, they can engage more intensively and to reach the agreements necessary to reach peace,” he said, stressing that dialogue is also important.However, in order for dialogue to be effective, one must “put aside personal interests or the interests of a group or of a country, (and) put in the center the attention to the people, to every single person, because behind all these nu...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ako Rasheed, ReutersBy Dale GavlakAMMAN, Jordan (CNS) -- IraqiChristians are cautiously welcoming the start of the battle for Mosul and theNinevah Plain, their ancestral homeland of the past 14 centuries from whichthey were brutally driven out by the Islamic State group more than two yearsago. "They've been waiting forthis day after being forced out in the summer of 2014, and many Christians havebeen living in very miserable conditions since. A number are eager to go back,"Father Emanuel Youkhana told the Catholic News Service. The archimandrite, amember of the Assyrian Church of the East, heads the Christian Aid ProgramNorthern Iraq, CAPNI."Of course the militaryoperation is just the first of several phases paving the way for their return. Theywill need security and other guarantees before they go back," FatherYoukhana said. "Also much reconstruction and rehabilitation of the regionoccupied the Islamic State militants will need to take place." This summer,the U.N. ...
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy WiechecBy Nancy Wiechec and Chaz MuthWASHINGTON(CNS) -- From the dramatic vistas of the Grand Canyon in Arizona to theglistening waters of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, national parks have stood asplaces of wonder, history and culture.JohnMuir, considered the father of our national parks, petitioned U.S. lawmakers toset aside such places for preservation, play and prayer."Everybodyneeds beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature mayheal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike," wrote the19th-century naturalist and philosopher in his book "Yosemite."Duringthe 100th year of the National Park Service, Catholic News Service traveled toa few of the nation's most popular parks and discovered sites of spiritualrefuge beside some of America's most beautiful landscapes.Thoughthe U.S. governmental agencies operate within the guidelines of separation ofchurch and state, there are sacred symbols in many of the national parks,mainly because the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's high school graduation rate has reached a record 83.2 percent, continuing a steady increase that shows improvement across all racial and ethnic groups, according to federal data released Monday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Russian and Syrian forces will halt hostilities for eight hours in the eastern districts of Aleppo, Russia's military announced on Monday, a day on which opposition activists said their airstrikes killed at least 36 people, including several children, in and around the divided city....
