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BEIRUT (AP) -- Rebel factions in Syria are prepared to honor a U.S.-Russian-brokered cease-fire while communicating deep reservations about its terms, according to a leader in the powerful Ahrar al-Sham militia....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday after feeling "overheated," according to her campaign. A video showed the Democratic presidential nominee slumping and being held up by three people as she was helped into a van....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. marked the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with the solemn roll call of the dead Sunday but couldn't keep the presidential campaign from intruding on what is traditionally a politics-free moment of remembrance....
(Vatican Radio) Speaking before the Marian Prayer in St Peter's Square, Pope Francis recalled Sunday’s Gospel from Luke, considered to be the chapter of Mercy.In these parables of the lost sheep, the coin, and the prodigal son the Pope explained that "Jesus wants to make us understand that God the Father is the first to have a welcoming and merciful attitude toward sinners."The Pope added that all these parables express joy and rejoicing, not sadness and sorrow.Pope Francis underlined the Gospel reading gives hope, continuing, “there is no sin in which we have fallen, from which, by the grace of God, we cannot rise again; there is no individual beyond redemption, no one is beyond redemption, because God never ceases to want our good, even when we sin”
Vatican City, Sep 11, 2016 / 08:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said that God shows us, through parables, the merciful love of the Father, who rejoices over for every sinful person who returns to him.“The message of the Gospel today gives us great hope and we can summarize it thus: there is no sin into which we have fallen, from which, by the grace of God, we can not rise again; there is not an irretrievable individual, because God never ceases to want our good,” he said, “even when we sin!”In his Sept. 11 message for the Angelus, Pope Francis talked about the three parables in the day's Gospel, which was from Luke 15.Christ tells three parables – the shepherd who leaves his 99 sheep to find the lost one, the woman who searches for her lost coin, and the parable of the prodigal son – in answer to the scribes and Pharisees who criticize him, saying, “this man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”Each of th...
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. (AP) -- After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation's largest federal utility is preparing to sell the property at a fraction of its cost....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed a U.S.-Russian agreement on a cease-fire for Syria, where it has been a key ally of President Bashar Assad during the five-year war that has resulted in as many as 500,000 deaths....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by calling on Americans to embrace the nation's character as a people drawn from every corner of the world, from every religion and from every background. He said extremist groups will never be able to defeat the United States....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 race for president (all times EDT):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton unexpectedly left Sunday's 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York after feeling "overheated" and retreated to her daughter's nearby apartment. As she exited the apartment shortly before noon, Clinton said, "I'm feeling great."...
