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MOSCOW (AP) -- Islam Karimov, who crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union, has died of a stroke at age 78, the Uzbek government announced Friday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Once hubs of the Syrian uprising, the country's rebellious capital suburbs are submitting to government control at a quickening pace, in a sign that the military's grinding siege tactics are paying off....
Dwyane Wade has lashed out against Chicago's gun laws, calling them weak and saying he's urged officials in his hometown to enact changes to make the city safer....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two months before Election Day, early voting kicks off next week in North Carolina, the first in a run of key states where minority voters and young adults who cast ballots in advance could give one of the White House contenders a decisive advantage....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No doubt Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have dramatically different approaches on immigration....
Vatican Weekend for September 3, 2016 features a special full-length programme on the Church’s latest saint, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, canonized on September 4th, 2016 . The postulator for her cause for sainthood explains why she believed she might one day be a "saint of Darkness"…Listen to the programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
Vatican Weekend for September 4, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading in Jill Bevilacqua's series, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye.” And, EWTN’s Rome Bureau Chief, Joan Lewis looks back at the week’s events in the Vatican and remembers Mother Teresa of Calcutta…Listen to the programme presented and produced by Tracey McClure:
(Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of faithful are expected to turn out for the canonization Sunday 4 September of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Founder of the religious order, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, the sick, the dying and unloved. She received numerous awards for her work, including the Nobel peace prize in 1979. Mother Teresa died on September 5th, 1997 at the age of 87. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003.Missionaries of Charity Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk is postulator for her cause for Sainthood. He told Vatican Radio’s Tracey McClure “She was very gifted humanly speaking. She was intelligent, very practical, a born teacher, organizer… she sang, had a beautiful voice; she played the instrument, she wrote poetry. She had many gifts”He added that Mother Teresa expected the four thousand sisters who now make up the order to be devote...
(Vatican Radio) With the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata), we take a closer look at the figure of the Founder of the Missionaries of Charity Order with the help of audio recordings of her voice. Mother Teresa was already widely revered as a saint during her lifetime for her charity work on behalf of the poor, the sick and dying, initially in India and then in many other countries around the around. But as Susy Hodges found out, she was concerned about poverty in all its forms and spoke eloquently about the neglect and loneliness suffered by many elderly people in the richer western countries which she described as a spiritual poverty. Listen to this feature report on the figure of Mother Teresa that includes audio recordings of her speaking in English including an excerpt from a speech she gave that was inspired by her visit to a residential home for the elderly in England:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the players and staff of the AS Roma soccer club, along with the players and staff of his own favorite Argentine San Lorenzo de Almagro club on Friday.Click below to hear our report AS Roma is to face San Lorenzo in a friendly contest on Saturday afternoon.All proceeds from the friendly, are to be donated to the ongoing earthquake relief effort in central Italy, which was struck on August 24th by a temblor that killed nearly 300 people and caused massive devastation.“Thanks for your visit,” Pope Francis told the clubs, “and thanks for your generosity in giving to the earthquake victtims.”The audience took place a day ahead of the Festival of the Family organized by Roma as part of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.A note in English on the AS Roma website announcing the special audience notes that the Family Festival – which will be held at Rome’s Olympic Stadium – comes a...
