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Mexico City, Mexico, Sep 23, 2016 / 11:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Mexican Cardinal Alberto Suárez Inda is offering prayers for the safety of a priest who was kidnapped in the country earlier this week.Fr. José Alfredo López Guillén, pastor of Janamuato, was taken from the rectory of his parish by unknown persons on Monday, September 19. His whereabouts remain unknown, as does the motive for the kidnapping. His car was also stolen.His abduction occurred on the same day that authorities found the lifeless bodies of previously-kidnapped Fathers Alejo Nabor Jiménez Juárez and José Alfredo Juárez de la Cruz, in the Diocese of Papantla, in Veracruz state.In a video posted on YouTube Sept. 22, Cardinal Suárez said that “after sharing in the enormous pain over the murder of two young priests in the Diocese of Papantla in Veracruz, today we are suffering anguish firsthand over the disappearance, the kidnapping of one of ...
By Kelly SeegersWASHINGTON(CNS) -- As Pope Francis boarded the plane after his visit to Washington a yearago, he carried with him a book containing more than 100,000 pledges thatpeople in the Archdiocese of Washington had made to "Walk With Francis" byeither praying, serving or acting to improve their community.Leadingup to the pope's visit, the Archdiocese of Washington, along with CatholicCharities, launched the Walk With Francis initiative, which encouraged peopleto prepare for the pope's visit by following in his example of love and mercy.Peoplewere asked to make pledges to pray regularly for the pontiff, to serve bycaring for those in need and supporting charitable efforts, or to act topromote human life and dignity, justice and peace, family life and religiousfreedom, care for creation and the common good.Inthe months that followed, individuals, schools, parishes and otherorganizations made pledges to help their community in different ways. Manypeople posted their pledges on s...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Air conditioners began to whir across Puerto Rico on Friday and electronics beeped to life as power slowly returned to the U.S. territory following an island-wide blackout caused by a fire at a power plant that shut down an aging utility grid....
Officially, the United States and North Korea barely speak to each other, their communications often limited to public exchanges of insults....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A fire at one of Iraq's oil fields could hinder military and humanitarian efforts as operations to recapture the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul get underway....
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a New York hotel room earlier this week, Russia thought it was close to a deal with the U.S. to revive a cease-fire deal for Syria....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday laid the blame for a "bleeding Middle East and North Africa" on the U.S. and its allies, in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly smacking of the kind of rhetoric that reflected the state of superpower relations during the Cold War....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, says a Republican congressman....
NEW YORK (AP) -- More than half the country fears a Trump presidency. And only about a third of Americans believe he is at least somewhat qualified to serve in the White House....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Video of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and a black man shows his wife repeatedly telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot her husband as they shout at him to drop a gun....
