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NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say the first baby has been born from a new technique that combines DNA from three people....
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The U.N. ambulance carried an urgent patient: a local woman in labor. South Sudan government soldiers stopped the ambulance 15 times at checkpoints in the capital, Juba. The Aug. 2 journey, which usually takes 15 minutes, lasted nearly two hours....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday stumbled over a must-do bill to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend and to fund the fight against the Zika virus. Democrats, demanding money so Flint, Michigan, can address its lead-contaminated water crisis, overwhelmingly opposed the measure, as did a dozen of the Senate's most conservative members....
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Constant interruption. A condescending tone. Eye-rolling....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The "stamina," the "look": A new poll suggests voters are buying in to Donald Trump's insinuations about Hillary Clinton's health. They're ignoring the medical reports....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Donald Trump blamed the moderator, a bad microphone and anyone but himself Tuesday after he was forced onto defense by Hillary Clinton's cascade of critiques about his taxes, honesty and character in the first presidential debate....
(Vatican Radio) Australia’s Catholic University has established a new scholarship to honour the memory of a 19th century Aboriginal student Francis Xavier Conaci. The university is working in partnership with the Australian embassy to the Holy See, the Benedictine community of New Norcia in Western Australia and the New Norcia Aboriginal Corporation.Listen: The initiative was launched on Saturday September 24th at the Vatican Museums, where guests were welcomed by the recently appointed, first female director Barbara Jatta. Beginning in 2017, the $3,000 scholarship will be awarded to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student, allowing them to study at the ACU Rome campus during either the summer or winter break.At the launch the Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian Catholic University, Professor Greg Craven, said “The story of Francis Xavier Conaci provides perspective and inspiration” that can encourage everyone “to overcome fe...
(Vatican Radio) Zimbabwe is one of several Southern African countries affected by the El Niño weather system that’s led to unusual weather patterns and 21 million people in need of food aid.In some of the worst-hit parts of the country, between a half and two-thirds of households are going hungry. The situation is expected to get even worse in the coming months as the ‘lean’ season started months too early after crops failed in the devastating drought.Caritas is feeding school children and poor farming families in some of the worse hit regions. But – as Caritas Internationalis communications director, Patrick Nicholson, who recently travelled to some of those areas, explains: a lot more assistance is needed from outside the country to prevent hundreds of deaths by hunger…Listen to Linda Bordoni’s interview with Patrick Nicholson: “When you travel through Zimbabwe you just see field after field of burnt-out straw, all the maize...
Vice Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – Family Life National Office (NFP), Bishop Alfred Rotich has said that there is the need to restore sexual sanity and morality to give marriage and family their rightful place and dignity. He was speaking at the weekend in Nairobi, during the African Regional Conference on Families. Bishop Rotich added that there is no better method of family planning than NFP for the 21st century and beyond.He emphasised that through NFP, society is assured of strengthening the institution of marriage, building up the human family, and nurturing children. “NFP is a method that respects the dignity of man, woman and life.” He said.The Bishop emphasised that the greatest benefit of NFP is that it calls for the same traits that are fundamental for marriage as a whole noting that, any teaching of NFP is always within the context of enhancing the marriage. NFP strengthens family bonds, promotes responsible parenthood a...
Archbishop Antonio Ledesma of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines said the archdiocese has joined a multisectoral group to help in preventing and treating drug abuse. He said that the archdiocese will collaborate with the government in providing a faith-based drug rehabilitation programme. He said the “Coalition for a Drug-free Society” was formed with the city government of Cagayan de Oro, the Department of Health, and various civil society groups.The prelate added that the coalition has three main advocacies composed of prevention, intervention, and community support.“So the Church will [take part in] the community support because we do not have the facilities for scientific rehabilitation,” Ledesma told Radio Veritas Tuesday.“But we can give community support in terms of counseling, spiritual healing, and also making available our parish halls and formation centers,” he said.The Jesuit archbishop has earlier called on the clergy to open th...
