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Vatican City, Sep 19, 2016 / 10:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After spending three days in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis’ diplomatic representatives throughout the world have called on government leaders to make greater efforts in ending conflict and promoting peace.According to a Sept. 19 communique from the Vatican, the papal ambassadors – called apostolic nuncios – issued “a pressing appeal” to the international community and to those with governing responsibilities to “strive ever more effectively to stop violence.”The nuncios urged leaders to “peacefully resolve the conflicts in various parts of the world,” and expressed their solidarity with all innocent victims of the world’s many violent conflicts.They also offered their support to those who face religious persecution, praying to “the Father of every mercy” for those suffering and for their intentions. Out of his 108 ambassadors ar...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators on Monday pressed to wrap up a must-do spending bill to prevent an election-season government shutdown and finally provide money to battle the threat of the Zika virus, but numerous sticking points remain....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A black man fatally shot by a white Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer responding to a stalled vehicle had no weapon on him or in his SUV, the city's police chief said Monday....
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...
