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Tropical Storm Hermine regained strength Saturday as it moved slowly up the Eastern Seaboard and made a mess of the holiday weekend....
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Nearly two centuries after Missouri gained statehood as part of a compromise over slave ownership, no black candidate has ever won a statewide election there - a barrier Robin Smith is trying to overcome but seldom discusses publicly....
DETROIT (AP) -- Donald Trump swayed to songs of prayer, read scripture, and wore a traditional prayer shawl Saturday on a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit, as he called for a "civil rights agenda of our time" and vowed to fix the "many wrongs" facing African-Americans....
A Call to Mercy is a book that has been published to coincide with Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy and in particular with the canonization of Mother Teresa. It is compiled and edited by Father Brian Kolodiejchuk MC, the postulator of Mother Teresa’s cause for sainthood.“A call to Mercy, hearts to love, hands to serve, is Mother Teresa living and speaking the fourteen works of mercy,” said Fr. Kolodiejchuk recently in an interview with Vatican Radio’s English Africa Service. Speaking from his base in Rome, Fr. Kolodiejchuk said the book features for the first time testimonies of eye witnesses of Mother Teresa. ‘A Call to Mercy’ is written and tailored after the fourteen works of mercy. It discusses topics such as the need for us to clothe the naked and shelter the homeless; the need to counsel the doubtful; to instruct the ignorant of faith and admonish sinners; the need to visit the sick and imprisoned; the importance of honourin...
The Holy Father Pope Francis has named the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, as his special envoy at the consecration of Karonga’s Cathedral in Malawi. The ceremony is scheduled to take place on 5 November 2016.The Diocese of Karonga is situated in the Northern part of Malawi bordering Tanzania and Zambia. Karonga as a Diocese was created on 21 July 2010 and officially inaugurated on 20 November 2010. On the same day, Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka was ordained as the diocese’s first Bishop.Karonga Diocese is divided into two deaneries which are subdivided into six parishes. The diocese covers the geographical districts of Karonga and Chitipa including the northern part of Rumphi. It has an area of 12 000 Square Kilometres with a population of 467 000 of whom about 65 000 are Catholics. The area under the diocese is the remotest and poorest part of Malawi. It is territory that is mostly hilly and moun...
Vatican City, Sep 3, 2016 / 07:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Ahead of his meeting with volunteers Saturday, Pope Francis decided to pop in for the inauguration of a new statue of Our Lady of Aparecida in the Vatican Gardens.The fact that the statue has been placed in the gardens is significant, since they have not received a new piece of art since 2010.“I'm glad that the image of Our Lady of Aparecida is in the Gardens,” Pope Francis said at the unveiling Sept. 3. “In 2013 I had promised to return next year: I do not know if it will be possible, but at least I will have her very close, here.”The statue, designed by a Brazilian artist, is a joint initiative of the Archdiocese of Aparecida and the Embassy of Brazil to the Holy See. Cast in bronze, it depicts a boat with three fishermen holding a full fishing net, and frames a replica statue of Our Lady of Aparecida.It is traditionally held that the original statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, which is hous...
Vatican City, Sep 3, 2016 / 09:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A year before a March 4 attack killed four sisters, the Missionaries of Charity opted not to leave, but to remain with their patients in the war-torn country of Yemen, the sole survivor said on Saturday.“In the midst of this dangerous situation, our dearest Sr. Prema, MC, general superior, called us from Calcutta and spoke to us individually. She gave us a choice to remain or leave the place,” Sr. Sally shared at an event in St. Peter's Square Sept. 3.“All of us had one answer: 'we choose to stay, to live or die with our poor.'”On March 4, 2016, the Missionaries of Charity's care home center in Aden, Yemen was attacked by two gunmen, who killed Sr. Anselm, Sr. Judith, Sr. Marguerite, and Sr. Reginette, along with 16 other victims, including volunteers from Ethiopia and Yemen. Sr. Sally, the convent's superior, was able to escape.None of the center's 60-80 residents were harmed. &nb...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- An emergency polio vaccination campaign aimed at reaching 25 million children this year has begun in parts of Nigeria newly freed from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, with fears that many more cases of the crippling disease will likely be found....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was kicked out of power, she became the biggest casualty of a massive corruption probe that is roiling Latin America's largest country - even though she was never personally implicated in the scheme....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Uzbekistan's widely criticized authoritarian leader Islam Karimov was hailed as a statesman and democrat by his government as he was laid to rest Saturday in the ancient silk road city of Samarkand....
