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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The bus winding its way through the pre-dawn darkness of Athens' empty streets marks the end of months of danger, hardship and uncertainty. After surviving war, smugglers and perilous sea crossings, its 31 passengers are finally about to start new lives in Europe....
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the first capital of the Confederacy is set to become home to a privately funded museum and monument that could make some visitors wince: a memorial to black lynching victims....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Close allies of Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose presidency was marked by confrontation with the West, said Monday that the country's supreme leader recommended he not run in next May's presidential election because he is a polarizing figure among hard-liners....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of murders reported by local law enforcement agencies jumped by more than 10 percent in 2015 from the year before, according to crime data released by the FBI on Monday....
Arnold Palmer charged across the golf course and into America's living rooms with a go-for-broke style that made a country-club sport popular for the everyman. At ease with presidents and the public, he was on a first-name basis with both....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Nine people were shot and wounded, one critically, in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning by a lawyer who had issues with his law firm, authorities said....
(Vatican Radio) The body of a priest abducted in Mexico a week ago has been found, just hours after Pope Francis appealed for an end to drug-related violence in the country at his Sunday Angelus address. He'd been shot dead at point blank range.Listen to James Blears' report: The Archdiocese of Morelia announced that Father Jose Lopez Guillen's body was found near to the town of Puruandiro, in the western Mexican State of Michocan.Fr. Lopez had been robbed and abducted from his home at the parish house in Janamuati. His car was found overturned on a nearby road.On the very day this happened, the bodies of two priests were found in the eastern State of Vera Cruz. They too had been shot dead, but the two incidents are not thought to be linked.The Catholic Multi Media Center states that 15 priests have been murdered in Mexico in less than four years. Although these latest killings occurred in the east and the west of Mexico, both areas where they happ...
Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4; II Tm 1:6-8, 13-14; Lk 17:5-10The October 5th, 1988 issue of Christian Century carried the story of a couple who have found a meaningful way of expressing their Faith. Millard Fuller was a successful lawyer. But he was dissatisfied. He had it all, and he decided he had virtually nothing. One day he decided to do something about it. He and Linda, his wife, walked out of the law practice, sold all their possessions, gave the money to the poor, and joined Clarence Jordon at Koinonia Farms, a Christian Community outside Americus, Georgia. Together with other Christians of the community, they searched for a focus for their lives that would have meaning. Eventually, they established an organization that has come to be called Habitat for Humanity. You have read about them. President Carter worked with them, pounding nails. The wonderful idea is simply, in Millard Fuller’s words, that "all God’s people ought to have simple, decent, affordable housing.&quo...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Get ready for talk of a rookie quarterback showdown on Oct. 30 between the sudden stars of the NFC East: Philadelphia's Carson Wentz and the Cowboys' Dak Prescott in Dallas....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte lifted its midnight curfew, signaling movement toward normalcy after a state of emergency was imposed following the shooting death of a black man by police last week that brought National Guard troops and armored vehicles to downtown street corners....
