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The same qualities that make libraries ideal for studying and reading - unfettered public access, quiet corners and nooks, minimal interaction with other people - also make them appealing places to shoot up heroin, librarians are finding....
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Violeta Zuniga gets around with a cane because of her knee problems, but nothing can keep the 83-year-old from performing Chile's national dance to protest her partner's disappearance during the country's military dictatorship....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saturday's deal to renew a nationwide truce in Syria, open aid routes and establish a U.S.-Russian military partnership may be the best hope yet to end the brutal five-year civil war. It is also full of potential pitfalls and leaves Moscow with far more power than Washington to determine if there can be lasting peace....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton said Saturday that she was wrong to put half of Donald Trump's supporters in a "basket of deplorables," but didn't back down from a description of his campaign the Republican nominee said smeared many Americans and would take a political toll....
(Vatican Radio) Over 210,000 Christians in Uzbekistan face more danger and uncertainty after Uzbekistan's parliament appointed Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev as interim president following the death of strongman leader Islam Karimov, according to tesimonies of local missionaries. Christians have also expressed concern about persecution in neighboring Kazakhstan, where Baqytzhan Saghyntaev was appointed as the new prime minister.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: "Many Christians and pastors in Uzbekistan believe that the situation for believers will only grow worse in the coming months," said the Mission Eurasia group in a statement. "If the current Prime Minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, comes to power, the harassment and persecution of Christians will likely continue—or grow worse."Mirziyaev, 58, is a close Karimov ally. He served as prime minister since 2003, holding the post longer than anyone else in the 25 years since Uzbekistan gained indepe...
(Vatican Radio) Nearly 28,000 people have gone missing during Mexico's ongoing nine-year drug war. The updated numbers were released by the Mexican Ministry of the Interior.Listen to James Blears' report: The chilling statistic adds up to 27,887, and it comes from the newly created National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, covering all of Mexico's 32 States. Drug cartel ravaged Tamaulipas, skirting Texas, accounts for 21 percent of the total. The true overall figure, however, is likely to be much higher. Many traumatized families are terrorized and intimidated into silence by organized crime. Others have little or no confidence in either the police or Mexico's unwieldly justice system. The largest group of the disappeared is aged 15 to 19, closely followed by the 20 to 24 year olds. Hundreds of clandestine burial sites are being uncovered nationwide, yet arrest rates remain pitifully low.Mexico's Drug War...
(Vatican Radio) During his special Saturday Jubilee Audience, Pope Francis gave a special greeting to a group of Bishops from Romania who led a pilgrimage to Rome for the Year of Mercy.Catholics are a minority in Romania, which is a majority-Orthodox nation. The Catholic Church is made up of both Latin-Rite and Eastern-Rite jurisdictions.“Dear brothers and sisters, working for mercy means to serve life and communion,” Pope Francis said.“Each of us can be a leaven of life and an instrument of communion in the family, at work, in the parish, and in the groups in which they belong,” – the Pope continued – “I invite you to be each day a visible sign of God's mercy, that will not leave anyone in solitude and need.”“Reinforced by prayer and works of charity, let us go forward together with all Christians on the path towards unity,” Pope Francis said.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday received a statue of St. Agnes of Bohemia from members of the National Jubilee Pilgrimage of the Czech Republic, which was led by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, the Archbishop emeritus of Prague.“As Patroness of the Czech Republic, St. Agnes of Bohemia is for me not only a symbol of Czech statehood, but also a symbol of mercy,” said Daniel Herman, the Minister of Culture for the Czech Republic, who is a member of the pilgrimage group. Although long venerated by the Czech people, St. Agnes was only canonized in 1989, by Pope St. John Paul II.The statue stands 1.6 metres tall, and weighs nearly 300 kilograms. It was made by students in the small town of Horice.During the Jubilee Audience, Pope Francis thanked them for the gift of the statue.“I wish you to live with Faith this Jubilee, rediscovering the beauty of practicing the works of mercy, which are concrete manifestation of God's love for each of His children,” P...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited the Ground Zero memorial at the World Trade Center in New York on September 25th, 2015 – nearly a year ago to the day from this fifteenth anniversary of the attacks. During the course of his visit to the memorial site, the Holy Father offered a prayer of remembrance for the nearly 3 thousand victims of the atrocity committed by terrorists belonging to the Al Qaeda terror network.Below, please find the text of the prayer Pope Francis composed for the occasion of his visit********************************************O God of love, compassion, and healing,look on us, people of many different faithsand religious traditions,who gather today on this hallowed ground,the scene of unspeakable violence and pain.We ask you in your goodnessto give eternal light and peaceto all who died here:the heroic first-responders:our fire fighters, police officers,emergency service workers, andPort Authority personnel,along with all the innocent men and womenwho ...
