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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans finally got a raise last year after eight years of stagnating incomes....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Dancing with the Stars" host Tom Bergeron said everyone in the studio was shocked when two men rushed the stage to protest Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte after his performance on the ABC reality competition....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian cease-fire appeared to be holding on Tuesday despite sporadic and minor violations of the U.S. and Russian brokered truce, which is aimed at paving the way for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the revival of peace talks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three witnesses ordered to testify Tuesday before a House committee investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server asserted their constitutional rights against self-incrimination and did not appear or refused to answer questions....
(Vatican Radio) As the deadline for the much anticipated cessation of hostilities looms, the people of Syria wait with bated breath.Bishop Antoine Audo, President of Caritas Syria spoke to Vatican Radio from his Aleppo headquarters and expressed his people’s hope for the silencing of all weapons… Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: “Everyone – especially here in Aleppo – is awaiting this change. We are hoping… we have been suffering for six years, and we are hoping for signs of peace and reconciliation. We are hoping…” Meanwhile, bishop Antoine Audo, President of the local Syrian Caritas organization that is fundamental in getting humanitarian assistance into the besieged city, says his people are working as always and are able now to bring food and medicine into the city, although he has heard that factions opposed to the new deal are planning to step up the bombing again on the city center…Of his comm...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican’s new dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, gave the opening address on Tuesday at an international conference entitled ‘The Economy according to Pope Francis – a case study of social market economy’. The conference, held at Rome's Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, was organised by the embassies of Austria, Germany and the Netherlands to the Holy See. Philippa Hitchen reports: The president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Council, which will be incorporated into the new dicastery in January, explored Pope Francis’ call for financial leaders to move from a ‘liquid economy to a social economy’.The cardinal spoke first about the problems of a liquid economy in which financial flows matter more than people, in which technical efficiency and productivity trump human dignity. This type of economic reasoning, he said, goes hand in hand with ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis says "an encounter with Jesus overcomes our indifference" and warned against bad habits that, even within a family, prevent us from truly listening to others and empathising with them. The Pope’s comments came during his homily at Tuesday’s Mass celebrated at the Santa Marta residence.Taking his inspiration from the gospel reading where Jesus brought back from the dead the only son of a widow, Pope Francis lamented that often when people meet each other, “each of them is thinking of themselves, they can see the other person but are not looking at him or her, they can hear that person but are not listening to him or her.” “An encounter is something different. It is what today’s Gospel proclaims to us: an encounter; an encounter between a man and a woman, between an only living son and an only son who had died; among a joyful crowd because they had encountered Jesus and were following him and a group of ...
Tokyo, Japan, Sep 13, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In late July, the worst mass killing in Japan since World War II left 19 people dead and 26 people wounded.The suspected killer, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, carried out his attack against people with disabilities at a care center, where Uematsu had worked for four years. According to a Japanese news source, Uematsu had warned Parliament in February that he was planning such an attack, to get rid of disabled people “for the sake of Japan.”In a way, the reaction to his attack showed that the country, and much of the world, would already like to pretend that the disabled do not exist.Weeks after the incident, police in the Kanagawa Prefecture, where the attack took place, have not released the names of the victims, citing family members requests for privacy.“Such nondisclosure is unusual,” Motoko Rich wrote in an article for the New York Times.“In other rare instances of mass killings in Japan, like ...
TIBURON, Calif. (AP) -- Apple's new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are clearly improvements on their predecessors - even if the biggest change is actually an omission (of the traditional headphone jack). But are they improved enough to justify an upgrade?...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The cease-fire in Syria appeared to be holding on Tuesday despite sporadic and minor violations, with observers saying most of the country was calm amid the latest attempt by the United States and Russia to bring some quiet in the country's devastating civil war, now in its sixth year....
