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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....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Tyrone Swoopes scored on a lunging 6-yard touchdown run in the second overtime, giving Texas a 50-47 victory over No. 10 Notre Dame on Sunday night....
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem Sunday night before the Seattle Reign's game against the Chicago Red Stars "in a little nod" to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick....
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- The light was fading over Vientiane on a cool December evening when a Jeep was stopped at a traffic light. CCTV video later showed the occupant of the car being pulled out and taken away in a pickup truck, never to be seen again....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- The American and Chinese presidents are calling on major economies to defend free trade at a summit held as sluggish growth and disputes over steel and other imports fuel demands in the United States and Europe to protect local industry....
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Vatican City, Sep 4, 2016 / 03:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On the occasion of the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope Francis has decided to offer a pizza lunch to 1,500 poor and needy people cared for by the Missionaries of Charity throughout Italy.According to a Sept. 4 communique from the Vatican, the guests are “are poor and needy people, above all from the dormitories of the Sisters of Mother Teresa and come from all over Italy,” including Milan, Bologna, Florence, Naples and from all the houses in Rome.They traveled on different buses overnight to make it to the canonization Mass for Mother Teresa of Calcutta, now called Kolkata, and sat in a reserved section near the statue of St. Peter at the front of the square called the “Reparto San Pietro.”After the Mass, the guests headed to the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, to eat a lunch consisting of Neapolitan-style pizza. The lunch was served by some 250 of Mother Teresa’s sisters, as well...
IMAGE: Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho Esteves and Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With a large tapestry bearingthe portrait of the woman known as the "Saint of the Gutters" suspendedabove him, Pope Francis proclaimed the sainthood of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, hailingher courage and love for the poor.Despite the formality of the occasion though, "hersanctity is so close to us, so tender and fruitful, that spontaneously we willcontinue to call her 'Mother Teresa,'" Pope Francis said to applause atthe canonization Mass Sept. 4. "Mother Teresa, in all aspects of herlife, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available foreveryone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and thoseabandoned and discarded," the pope said in his homily during the Mass inSt. Peter's Square. An estimated 120,000 people packed thesquare, many holding umbrellas or waving fans to keep cool under the swelteringheat of the Roman sun. However, upon hearing Pope Francis "declare a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jeffrey BrunoBy Saadia AzimKOLKATA, India (CNS) -- At Shishu Bhavan, children,the destitute, Missionaries of Charity nuns and novices sat silently, glued tothe TV screen for the live telecast of the Vatican canonization ceremony ofMother Teresa. While many prayed at the new saint's tomb, thenuns and the children of Shishu Bhavan (Children's Home), preferred to stayindoors and celebrate the historic moment all by themselves, as Pope Francisdeclared Mother Teresa to be St. Teresa."It is a day of feast for us. Brothersand sisters of the Missionaries of Charity are watching this in all theestablishments of the MOC, but many of the sisters are visiting the headquartersfor the special thanksgiving Mass after the ceremony in the evening," saidMissionaries of Charity Sister Benoy, who had come from the home in suburbanDum Dum to help the sisters with the large number of visitors. Earlier, outside the gates of Shishu Bhavan,the poor, the sick and the old had gathered like th...
