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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, was remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of Olango's family....
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Here's what is known about the investigation into a commuter train crash that killed one person and injured more than 100 others Thursday in Hoboken, New Jersey....
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba....
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Greg Burke, is accompanying Pope Francis on the Holy Father’s journey to Georgia and Azerbaijan this weekend. Burke spoke with Vatican Radio late in the afternoon on Saturday, to share his impressions of the day’s events.“It’s been an intense day-and-a-half,” Burke said, before identifying two distinct, though related keys to understanding the Pope’s purpose and focus in Georgia: pastoral solicitude for the small Catholic community in the country, and strengthening ecumenical ties. “This is a country with a very tiny Catholic population, and [Pope Francis] is here to take care [for] it,” Burke explained, noting the strong charitable presence of the Church, especially through the Camillian order, which cares for several hundred disabled and vulnerable people, with whom the Holy Father met Saturday Afternoon.Click below to hear Greg Burke's extended conversation with...
Vatican City, Oct 1, 2016 / 10:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a special message to his fellow countrymen, Pope Francis said that despite his great desire to return home, he won’t be able to go in 2017, as previously hoped, due to commitments in Asia and Africa.Francis had previously expressed his desire to return to his native Argentina for the country’s bicentenary anniversary, as well as the coming beatification of Mama Antula and canonization of Cura Brochero, known as the “Gaucho priest” and who will be the first saint who was born and died in Argentina.The canonization and beatification, he said, are events “that make our history” and which are “very important and very strong, and which I greatly value.”“Needless to say I had wanted to go to Argentina to beatify Mama Antula and to canonize Cura Brochero, but I couldn’t do it, it’s not possible,” he said.The Pope stressed that “you know how much I would li...
Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 1, 2016 / 10:28 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking to Georgia's religious and civil authorities on Saturday, Pope Francis affirmed the country's Christian identity, and called the Georgian Orthodox Church to recall the unity of baptism among Christian believers.“Those baptized in Christ, as Saint Paul teaches, have been clothed in Christ,” the Pope said Oct. 1 at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, located just 15 miles northwest of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.“Thus, notwithstanding our limitations and quite apart from all successive cultural and historical distinctions, we are called to be 'one in Christ Jesus' and to avoid putting first disharmony and divisions between the baptized, because what unites us is much more than what divides us.”The cathedral is the seat of the Patriarchate of Georgia, one of 14 autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. Pope Francis was addressing Patriarch Ilia II, along with religious and civ...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided at the last minute not to send an official delegation to his Mass and reminded the Orthodox faithful they cannot participate in Catholic services....
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- In a story Sept. 30 about suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age limit for judges could be raised if voters approve a measure on the November ballot to do so. The measure applies to other elected offices, but not judges....
EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, was remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of Olango's family....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy who was critically wounded in a school shooting died Saturday, days after a 14-year-old boy opened fire on a school playground, authorities said....
