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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven-week break picked up right where they left off - feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota man confessed Tuesday to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, recounting a crime that long haunted the state with details that included Jacob asking right after he was taken: "What did I do wrong?"...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday that they want 13 other women who said they were intoxicated when Bill Cosby assaulted them to testify at his upcoming felony sex assault trial....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Expelling the Islamic State group from the last territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border has effectively cut the militants' supply lines from the outside world. That could affect their ability to protect their last bastions - the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Eamon Martin has invited Irish believers to share the names and work of individuals who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice in their daily lives so they can be remembered in a special #BeMercy Mass of Thanksgiving he is scheduled to celebrate on 24 September.Eamon Martin, who is the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, issued his call on Monday evening at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonisation of Saint Teresa of Calcutta.In his homily Archbishop Eamon said “The canonisation of Saint Teresa of Calcutta challenges us all to #BeMercy and also to give thanks for those who live the works of mercy as she did. In the coming three weeks I invite you to pray with me in thanksgiving for people you know who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice in their daily lives”.He pointed out it may be someone very close like a relative or carer or neighbour who quietly cares for...
(Vatican Radio) The recently elected President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has expressed regret after insulting US President Barack Obama with a crude expression – one that prompted the White House to cancel talks scheduled between the two leaders.In the wake of the incident, the spokesman for the Duterte administration told reporters the President looks forward to “ironing out differences arising out of national priorities and perceptions,” according to an official statement released Tuesday.Click below to hear our report Obama had previously said he planned on confronting Duterte over his administration’s methods in their fight against drug traffickers – methods that have included a major increase in apparently extra-judicial killings – as many as 2 thousand of them according to some estimates, since Duterte took office on June 30th.
Eastern India’s Odisha state, that was the theatre of one of the most atrocious anti-Christian violence in the nation’s history, commemorated the sainthood of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sunday by naming a new road after her in the state capital, Bhubaneshwar. Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik on Sept. 4 inaugurated the Satyanagar Flyover Road that connects Janpath Road with Cuttack-Puri Road, renaming it Saint Mother Teresa Road. On August 28, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation had declared to re-name the road at the request of the Odisha Bishops' Regional Council (OBRC) chairman Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar on behalf of Missionaries of Charity. Inaugurating the road, Patnaik paid tribute to the new saint saying, “All through her life, Mother Teresa has served the unserved. She was the quintessence of compassion.” In the latest book on her, entitled, “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light,” the ...
(Vatican Radio) The Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis, Michel Roy, said the incidence of human trafficking is on the rise worldwide and stressed the need "to re-humanize our society." He said the scourge of trafficking is increasing for a number of reasons, including growing poverty and increased secularization and the accompanying decline in morality and ethics that this brings. Roy’s comments came at an international conference against human trafficking held in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The three day conference was co-organized by the Pontifical Council of Pastoral Care for Migrants and Itinerant People and Caritas Internationalis as one of the members of the COATNET network (Christian Organizations against Trafficking in Human Beings). Roy was interviewed by Susy Hodges.Listen to the interview with Michel Roy of Caritas Internationalis: Hosted by Caritas Nigeria, the conference was aiming to create stronger links between concerned...
Ex 32:7-11, 13-14; I Tm 1:12-17; Lk 15:1-32A divorced woman found herself struggling with an increasingly rebellious teenage daughter. It all came to a head late one night when the police called her to pick up her daughter who had been arrested for drunk driving. The two of them didn't speak on the way home or next day either, until at last the mother broke the tension by giving her daughter a small, gift-wrapped package. The girl opened it with an air of indifference and found inside a small rock. "Well, that's cute, Mom. What is it?" "Read the card, dear," the mother replied. As the girl did so, tears began to trickle down her cheeks, and she gave her mom a hug as the card fell to the floor. On the card her mother had written: "This rock is more than 200 million years old. That's how long it'll take before I give up on you." That's what Jesus is telling us about God in today&r...
A leading Catholic bishop of the Philippines has urged the public to speak out against the spate of drug-related killings in the country even as he described the trafficking of narcotics as murder. "Narcotics kill dreams and hopes, drugs ruin lives and families, drugs destroy society and nations," said Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan in a pastoral letter on Sept. 4. The prelate however, said that while society must be protected from drug dealers, killing offenders is not the way to fight criminality. "We can fight criminality without killing the offenders. Who are we to judge that this offender is hopeless?" said Archbishop Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). "Death ends all possibilities to change," he said. "The goal of justice is not revenge. The goal of justice is restoration of harmony." The archbishop's message was read in all churches in his arc...
