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Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 19, 2016 / 04:32 pm (CNA).- Mateo studied baking and Leandro pastry making. Franco and Mauricio wanted to be waiters. These overlapping interests led the four friends with Down syndrome to start a successful pizza service in Buenos Aires, Argentina.With more than 10,000 followers on Facebook, this group of friends has held nearly 30 events in just two months. Wherever they are called, they always arrive with their own oven and outfits. The offer pizza and empanadas, and they even have a menu for those who are gluten intolerant.<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLosperejileseventos%2Fposts%2F308177556189478%3A0&width=500" width="500" height="588" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>Each one knows his role in the undertaking, which is coordinated by L...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesASSISI,Italy (CNS) -- Religiousleaders celebrating the 30thanniversary of St. John Paul II's Assisi interfaith peace gathering in 1986called on people from around the world to continue its legacy to combat today'sindifference and violence.The event Sept.18-20 was sponsored by the Rome-based Community of Sant'Egidio, the Diocese of Assisi and theFranciscan friars to reflect on the theme, "Thirst for Peace:Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue." At the opening assembly, attended by Italian President SergioMattarella, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said, peace"starts from within and radiates outward, from local to global.""Thus, peace requires an interior conversion, a changein policies and behaviors," he said. Humanity'srelationship with creation "has a direct impact on the way in which itacts toward other people," said the patriarch, known for his decades ofwork on the connection between Christian spirituality and e...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi put the Islamic State group on notice Monday that they plan to recapture the city of Mosul within months. If successful, the operation could mark a major turning point in the campaign to defeat the extremist group....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- An unarmed black man killed by a white Oklahoma officer who was responding to a stalled vehicle can be seen in police video walking away from officers and toward his SUV with his hands up before he approaches the driver's side door, where he drops to the ground after being shocked with a stun gun then fatally shot....
BEIRUT (AP) -- A U.N. humanitarian aid convoy inside Syria was hit by airstrikes Monday, U.N. officials said, as the Syrian military declared that the week-long U.S.-Russian brokered cease-fire had failed....
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- One of the victims wounded in a stabbing at a central Minnesota mall says the man who carried out the attack showed no emotion and his eyes looked blank....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on explosive devices being found in two states (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- After a round of frightening domestic attacks, Americans plodded on in the comfort of routine Monday, either resilient in the face of terror or numbed by their battle scars....
LINDEN, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey police officer responding to a call about a hoodied vagrant curled up asleep in a bar doorway roused him and quickly recognized the bearded face of perhaps the most wanted man in America....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry scrambled Monday to try to salvage Syria's fractured week-old truce after the Syrian military announced it was over amid numerous violations, including an attack on an aid convoy, and apparent Russian unwillingness to press Damascus on the point....
