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VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- President Barack Obama threatened Monday to call off a planned meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a U.S. ally's leader during a diplomatic tour that's put Obama in close quarters with a cast of contentious world figures....
The fall-out from Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crisis will be felt for many years to come. Zimbabweans now talk of a lost generation that has missed out on what Zimbabwe once was: A thriving democracy and an African economic powerhouse full of promise.The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Frederick Chiromba recently spoke with Vatican Radio’s Africa Service on a broad range of issues that affect Zimbabwe. “When you come into Zimbabwe today and visit rural areas and shopping centres, one gets the impression that the whole country is in retirement because you have young people loafing around, doing nothing all day; middle-aged men and senior citizens sitting together doing basically nothing that is productive. So really, yes there is that kind of suffering. Traditionally people would find a job; they would earn some money to support themselves, but as it is now, many men are unemployed and so too (are) ...
Bells chimed, people cheered and nuns sang hymns at the mother house of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MC) in eastern India’s Kolkata city, formerly Calcutta, as Pope Francis declared her a saint at a canonization Mass in the Vatican. They broke into an applause when they watched on big TV screens the live ceremony of the canonization. Hundreds of local people, including nuns, volunteers at the Missionaries of Charity houses from India and abroad had gathered at the motherhouse of the congregation where St. Teresa died and was buried 19 years ago.The Missionaries of Charity nuns had put up three big TV screens in different parts of the MC headquarters so people could watch the ceremony. The city's civic authorities had also installed a big screen on a street next to the motherhouse for the people to watch the live ceremony. The police too had made elaborate security arrangements assisting the nuns in handling the crowd inside and outside...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his videomessage accomplanying his monthly prayer intention: "That each may contribute to the common good and to the building of a society that places the human person at the center."The text of the video message reads:"Humanity is experiencing a crisis that is not only economic and financial, but is also ecological, educational, moral, and human.[1] When we talk about crisis, we talk about dangers, but also opportunities. What is the opportunity? Being solidarity."Come, help me."That each may contribute to the common good and to the building of a society that places the human person at the center.[2]"The Pope World Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer developed the "Pope Video" initiative to assist in the worldwide dissemination of monthly intentions of the Holy Father in relation to the challenges facing humanity. [1] Address of Holy Father Francis, Lecture Hall of the Pontifi...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- College applications and high school graduation are the biggest worries for most 17-year-olds. For Gavin Grimm, it's waiting for the nation's highest court to decide whether he can use the boys restroom....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- China agreed to cooperate more closely with its trading partners on its politically volatile steel exports as leaders of major economies ended a summit Monday with a forceful endorsement of free trade and a crowded agenda that included the Koreas, Syria and refugees....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Islamic State group launched a series of suicide bombings and other attacks across Syria on Monday, killing at least 48 people as it targeted government-held areas and Kurdish forces....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Typhoons that slam into land in the northwestern Pacific - especially the biggest tropical cyclones of the bunch - have gotten considerably stronger since the 1970s, a new study concludes....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):...
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