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Rome, Italy, Oct 9, 2016 / 10:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Albanian priest whose testimony moved Pope Francis to tears in 2014 is one of the 17 international bishops and priests the Pope will elevate to the College of Cardinals Nov. 19.Father Ernest Troshani Simoni, 86, is one of the last survivors of the terrible Communist persecution in Albania. He shared his testimony with Pope Francis in 2014 during the Pope’s daytrip to Tirana, Albania. Pope Francis was visibly moved by the testimony and gave Fr. Simoni a warm embrace.Fr. Simoni was a seminarian in December 1944, when an atheistic Communist regime came to power in Albania. The regime sought to eliminate the faith and clergy with “arrests, torture and killings of priests and lay people for seven straight years, shedding the blood of the faithful, some of who shouted, 'Long live Christ the King,' as they were shot.”In 1948, Communists shot and killed Fr. Simoni’s Franciscan superiors. He continued h...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- At first, the drone took some explaining. Anxious villagers buzzed with rumors of a new blood-sucking thing that would fly above their homes. Witchcraft, some said....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Thousands of Yemenis marched in the capital Sanaa on Sunday to protest a Saudi-led coalition airstrike a day earlier that hit a funeral hall packed with hundreds of mourners, killing over 140 people....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday, adding like-minded prelates from dioceses big and small to the club who will elect the next pope. Three were Americans in a clear signal to the conservative U.S. church hierarchy that Francis wants moderate pastors at the helm of the U.S. church....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- In the minutes before three Palm Springs officers were shot, two fatally, the suspected gunman's father told a neighbor his son was armed, "acting crazy" and wanted to shoot police....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Samsung Electronics seemed to have its smartphone troubles under control - until authorities had to evacuate a Southwest Airlines flight in Kentucky last week for an incident that involved a replacement phone....
JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) -- Survivors of Hurricane Matthew put on their Sunday finest and picked their way through downed power lines to sing praise and pray in ruined churches, while desperation grew in other parts of devastated Haiti and international rescue efforts began ramping up....
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- When Hurricane Matthew dumped torrential rains on North Carolina, thousands of people found themselves suddenly trapped in homes and cars. Rescuers in Coast Guard helicopters plucked some of them from rooftops and used military vehicles to reach others, including a woman who held on to a tree for three hours after her car was overrun by flood waters....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is trying to revive old problems in Hillary Clinton's marriage and claims that she helped Bill Clinton discredit his accusers. As Trump's campaign staggers under the revelation of his own predatory behavior toward women, he's also going further: He's accused the former president of "rape," Hillary Clinton of being an "enabler" and threatened to shift those issues from his Twitter feed to the presidential debate s...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday to mark the end of the Marian Jubilee, the latest event in the ongoing Holy Year of Mercy.In his homily, the Pope reflected on the theme of thanksgiving for the gifts which God has given us.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: Pope Francis centered his homily on the Gospel reading from Luke, in which Jesus heals ten lepers, but only one of them returns to thank him.The nine men Jesus healed, the Pope said, “forgot the Giver, the Father, who cured them through Jesus, his Son made man.”Meanwhile, the man who returned to thank the Lord was a Samaritan, and therefore a foreigner.“This man was not content with being healed by his faith,” the Pope said, “but brought that healing to completion by returning to express his gratitude for the gift received.” “He recognized in Jesus the true Priest, who raised him up and saved him, who can now set him on his way and accept him as one of hi...
