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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....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The 13-year-old Ohio boy who was fatally shot by a policeman investigating a reported armed robbery had a real-looking BB gun and ran from police, said a friend who was with him....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Heavy fighting broke out in the Syrian capital between government forces and an insurgent group Friday in some of the most serious clashes since a U.S.-Russia brokered cease-fire went into effect four days earlier and brought relative calm to the war-ravaged country....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's campaign says the Republican presidential candidate now believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States, but the Republican nominee has yet to personally repudiate his past promotion of the false premise that Obama was not....
All attacks on human life, from abortion to acts of terrorism, are sins "which cry to heaven for divine justice" say the Filipino bishops. In a message published yesterday marking the celebration of Our Lady of Sorrows, they express their concern at the escalation of violence that exists in the Philippines. In the last 10 weeks 3,500 people have been killed in the country, 1,400 of whom were suspected drug traffickers gunned down by the police. On 2 September a bomb attack in the city of Davao killed 14 people and injured 60.Msgr. Socrates Villegas, president of the Episcopal Conference, said that "human dignity must always be protected, and the nobility of every human person continues to shine despite the scars of the crime and sin." In late August, the Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan had launched an appeal for the end of the chain of extra-judicial killings of traffickers wanted by the new president Rodrigo Duterte. The bishops have asked the famil...
