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(Vatican Radio) The celebration of the life and sanctity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta will continue in Rome in the days following her canonization on Sunday.On Monday, the 19th anniversary of St Teresa’s death, the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonization, with tens of thousands of pilgrims expected to attend. Later on Monday, the relics of Mother Teresa will be moved to the Papal Archbasilica of St John Lateran – the Cathedral of Rome – where they will be exposed for the veneration of the faithful.The veneration of the relics will continue on Wednesday and Thursday in the church of Saint Gregory on the Celian Hill (San Gregorio al Celio). On those days, the faithful will also have the opportunity to visit the rooms of Mother Teresa in the convent of the Missionaries of Charity next to the church. The Missionaries operate a homeless shelter near San Gregorio, in addition to numerous other charit...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Sleepy Guyana has long been one of the hemisphere's poorest places, a sparsely populated nation on South America's northern shoulder that relies heavily on exports of sugar, rice and gold....
HONG KONG (AP) -- A new wave of young Hong Kong activists seeking to change the way the southern Chinese city is governed by Beijing emerged Monday as the big winners of legislative elections....
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Hermine continued Monday to twist hundreds of miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean and was expected to keep swimmers and surfers out of beach waters because of its dangerous waves and rip currents on the last day of the long holiday weekend....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast Monday, South Korea's military said, in a show of force timed to the G-20 economic summit in China....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- At least 13 people were killed in a string of bombings inside government territory in Syria, state media reported Monday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What could go possibly go wrong? (Or right?)...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are making competing Labor Day pitches in Ohio, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- World leaders gathering in China are set to wrap up the Group of 20 summit, which aimed to address sluggish global growth but seemed overshadowed at times by the U.S.-China diplomatic rivalry, South China Sea tensions and Britain's exit from the European Union....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to keep up negotiations over a cease-fire agreement for Syria....
