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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Brock Turner, whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University sparked national outcry, has been released from jail after serving half his term....
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DEKLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Hermine tore across northern Florida on Friday as the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade, killing one person, raising a storm surge that destroyed beachside buildings and toppling trees into homes....
(Vatican Radio) Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the street of Venezuela's capital, Caracas, rallying for and against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Listen to James Blears' report: The opposition coalition claims that more than a million people many clad in white, jammed the streets of Caracas, calling for a referendum about President Nicolas Maduro's future. But many pro-Maduro supporters in crimson shirts and caps were mobilized to counteract this. The two diametrically opposed factions, with bitterness and division simmering, had to be kept at appreciably more than arms' length apart by riot police.Everyone should be trying to avoid the ugly and violent anti government demonstrations of 2014, which killed 43 people and injured more than 800.The opposition plans to protest outside electoral authority offices on September 7th and a nationwide mobilization day seven days later.As the international price of...
Wis 9:13-18b; Phlm 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14: 25–33French artists Henri Matisse and Auguste Renoir were close friends and frequent companions despite the fact that Renoir was twenty-eight years the senior of Matisse. During the last several years of his life, Renoir was virtually crippled by arthritis; nevertheless, he painted every day, and when his fingers were no longer supple enough to hold the brush correctly, he had his wife, Alice, attach the paintbrush to his hand in order that he might continue his work. Matisse visited him daily. One day, as he watched his older friend wincing in excruciating pain with each colorful stroke, he asked, “Auguste, why do you continue to paint when you are in such agony?” Renoir’s response was immediate, “The beauty remains; the pain passes.” Passion for his art empowered Renoir to paint until the day he died; those who continue to admire the enduring beauty of his smiling portraits, his landscapes, his still live...
Norwich, U.K., Sep 2, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For more than 950 years, pilgrims have been making their way to a small medieval village in England's Norfolk region to visit the site of a Marian apparition and what is believed to be the oldest shrine to Our Lady in the world.Save for a tiny chapel on the outskirts of the town of Walsingham, and a single stone arch of what had been the priory, almost nothing remains of the original pilgrimage site which was decimated during the English reformation under the orders of Thomas Cromwell.Yet several centuries after its destruction, hundreds of thousands of people flock yearly to the Catholic shrine. In fact, the numbers seem to be on the rise.What is it that continues to draw pilgrims to venerate a site where little to nothing of its architectural origins remain, nearly a thousand years after the first apparitions took place?“The importance of shrines is not that they are historical artifacts,” said the rector of W...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics recalled all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on Friday after finding batteries of some of the flagship gadgets exploded or caught fire....
MOADAMIYEH, Syria (AP) -- Buses carrying about 300 Syrians living in a besieged rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, began leaving the area Friday following a deal struck with the government that grants amnesty to gunmen and restores state control....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Following the public outcry over steep increases in price for an emergency allergy treatment, Hillary Clinton is pledging to better protect patients from such costs....
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