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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, global leaders on Monday approved a declaration aimed at providing a more coordinated and humane response to the refugee crisis that has strained resources and stoked divisions from Africa to Europe....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's military on Monday declared that the week-long U.S.-Russian brokered cease-fire was over as the government and opposition traded accusations over mounting violations....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving "aid and comfort" to Islamic terrorists Monday, declaring after a weekend of violent attacks in three states that his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps groups like ISIS recruit new fighters. Trump showed no sign of changing, casting "many" foreigners coming to the U.S. as a "cancer within."...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- The stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall look to be the work of a "lone attacker," officials said Monday, and federal authorities are looking at whether it was a potential act of terrorism in an the immigrant-rich state that has struggled to stop the recruiting of its young men by groups including the Islamic State....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on explosive devices being found in two states (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections, while a rising right-wing anti-immigrant party will enter the regional parliament for the first time, amid public anger over her open-door policy towards refugees. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were ousted from the state governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), just weeks after losing an election in another state.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: However members of the anti-immigrant and European Union skeptic Alternative for Germany Party (AFD) had reasons to celebrate in Berlin.Preliminary results from Sunday's elections showed they had won over 12 percent of the vote in the state, enough to secure a presence in Berlin’s regional assembly.Voters appear to have punished German Chancellor Merkel for allowing some 1.1 million migrants fleeing war and poverty to be registered in Germany, after several other EU countries ...
(Vatican Radio) Three days of dialogue have been organized ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi.The Sant’Egidio community has organized the series of presentations, round tables, and panel discussions on a host of themes, from social justice and equality as keys to peace, to the local effects of –and responses to – global challenges, to the need once again and with an ever more unified voice decry the misuse and abuse of religion in the service of unworthy causes.Listen to Chris Altieri's report: Thirst for Peace: religions and cultures in dialogue, is the theme of this 30th anniversary iteration of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, first convoked by Pope St. John Paul II in 1986. “We’ve made important progress,” the Archbishop-emeritus of Barcelona,Card. Lluis Martinez Sistach told Vatican Radio on the sidelines of one of the events in the city of St. Francis.He went on to express his gratitude to the Sant’Egidio comm...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is to attend the signing of the ‘Final Accord for the Termination of the Conflict and the Construction of a Stable and Durable Peace’ between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).A statement released on Monday by the Holy See Press Office confirmed Cardinal Parolin’s presence at the signing, which is set to take place 26 September 2016.
(Vatican Radio) The streets of Assisi are always peopled with pilgrims and tourists from every race and all walks of life. These days in Assisi, however, many can be seen wearing a particular lanyard with the Thirst for Peace emblem emblazoned on it. They are here for three days of dialogue ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, which this year is marking the 30th anniversary of its first celebration under Pope St. John Paul II.The Sant’Egidio community, which Pope St. John Paul II charged with carrying forward the message and the “spirit” of Assisi, has organized these days in order to take a measure of the progress made over the past three decades and – with the help of Pope Francis’ presence on Tuesday, September 20th, for the culminating event – to rekindle a sense of urgency and universal duty to pray and work for peace.Despite our differences – which are real and honestly felt – the desire for peace is, like the longing fo...
The social action arm of the Philippine Archdiocese of Manila concluded a 3-day programme on Sunday, in which drug addicts were offered livelihood training and marketing assistance. "Part of the church's drug rehabilitation and restoration program is to give [drug users] new opportunities through alternative livelihood programmes," said Father Anton Pascual, executive director of Caritas Manila. He said the church will use its social enterprise marketing arm, Caritas Margins, to provide help to victims of illegal drugs. "We want them to become social entrepreneurs," said the priest in an interview on Sept. 16. Caritas Margins showcased various products from different community partners, such as artwork from inmates of penal communities under the Caritas Restorative Justice Ministry. The priest said that extending the program to drug offenders is one way of reintegrating them to society.Manila Archbishop, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle l...
