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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegramme to the Italian Senate expressing his condolences for the death of former Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.Senator Ciampi served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and as President of the Italian Republic from 1999 to 2006. He passed away on Friday at the age of 95 in a clinic in Rome.In the telegramme, the Holy Father extended his “deeply felt condolences” to Mr. Ciampi’s wife and children.He also recalled the “sincere friendship which bound this illustrious man of the institutions to Pope St. John Paul II”.The Holy Father closed the telegramme by extending his Apostolic Blessing.Below, please find the original telegramme in Italian:GENTILE SIGNORA FRANCA PILLA CIAMPIC/O SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA - PALAZZO GIUSTINIANIVIA DELLA DOGANA VECCHIA 29 00186 ROMADESIDERO PORGERE LE MIE PIU’ SENTITE CONDOGLIANZE A LEI, AI FIGLI E A TUTTI I FAMILIARI IN QUESTO MOM...
An official of India’s Latin rite bishops says that the nation’s Catholic Church "is committed to strengthening family life, despite the many challenges it faces”. Fr. Milton Gonsalves, the executive secretary of the Commission for Family of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), talked to Asianews, about the main problems that families face and also offered possible solutions. The priest who has been travelling extensively around the country since 2014, organizing training on marriage preparatory courses and family apostolate and also interacting with families, said one of the "common problem" is the decline in spirituality and prayer life in the family. He said imparting of good Christian and moral values to children should begin from birth, and that the spirituality of family is strengthened by prayer. Good relations between couples is essential in helping face challenges in marriage, the pri...
Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has appealed to dioceses around the country to come to the aid of people affected by Typhoon Meranti that hit the northern part of the country early this week. "Let us not alienate ourselves from those in need. Do something as an act of solidarity," said Cardinal Tagle in an appeal aired over Radio Veritas on Sept. 16. The Archbishop of Manila made the call after listening to a message from Bishop Camilo Gregorio of the Prelature of Batanes who appealed for financial aid. "We are safe but suffering. We need financial aid," said Bishop Gregorio. Several structures, such as the cathedral and the church rectory were destroyed, he said. "All lines of communication went down," said the prelate, adding that flights to the island province are still suspended because of another typhoon coming. "Please pray for us, we are still surviving. No government assistance at all," said Bi...
The Philippine government should invite an independent investigation involving the United Nations into allegations of direct involvement by President Rodrigo Duterte in extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. On September 15, 2016, an admitted former “hit man,” Edgar Matobato, testified at a Philippine Senate hearing about the alleged killings of about 1,000 people in Davao City involving Duterte, who was the city’s mayor for more than two decades. “The detailed testimony from a ‘death squad’ member that then-Mayor Duterte was personally involved in killings and ordered others are very serious allegations that require an independent investigation,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “President Duterte can’t be expected to investigate himself, so it is crucial that the United Nations is called in to lead such an effort. Otherwis...
A Myanmar military court has jailed seven soldiers for five years each with hard labour for murdering five ethnic minority villagers in June, state media said on Friday, in a rare prosecution of military personnel. The seven, including four officers, will serve their time in civilian prisons, said a report from a court martial in northeastern Myanmar. Soldiers have often been accused of serious human rights abuses in Myanmar's long-running wars with ethnic armed groups, but the allegations are rarely acknowledged, let alone heard in court.Sai Kaung Kham, an activist who helped residents of northern Shan state's Mong Yaw village demand justice for the June killing of their family members, said he was surprised the military had taken action at all. "The fact they have been sentenced to imprisonment is better than nothing," he said.Myanmar's army ran the country for almost five decades before initiating a transition to civilian rule that saw No...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called tobelieve in the logic of the resurrection of the body and not succumb toheresies that reduce it to a mere spiritual experience, Pope Francis said. When looking toward the future, theuncertainty about what happens after death often can lead to not understanding Christianity's"logic of the future," which proclaims that believers will rise willrise again in body and soul like Jesus did, the pope said Sept. 16 during amorning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. "Aspiritualistic piety, a nuanced piety is much easier; but to enter into thelogic of the flesh of Christ, this is difficult. And this is the logic of theday after tomorrow. We will resurrect like the risen Christ, with our ownflesh," he said. In his homily, the popereflected on St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, in which the apostleadmonishes some of the early Christian community for saying "there is noresurrection of the dead.""If there i...
LONDON (AP) -- Music aside, the true power of The Beatles wasn't the volume of their fans or the popularity of their hairstyles - it was the pull of their politics....
ATLANTA (AP) -- A judge in Atlanta has ruled against Bobbi Kristina Brown's partner, Nick Gordon, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her estate....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal aviation officials say so many people are registering drones and applying for drone pilot licenses, they wonder if there will eventually be millions of drones crowding the nation's skies....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press and two other news organizations sued the FBI on Friday to learn who the government paid and how much it spent to hack into an iPhone in its investigation into last year's San Bernardino, California, massacre....
