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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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Lahore, Pakistan, Sep 2, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Women farmers in Pakistan received helping hands last month from Caritas Pakistan, the Catholic bishops’ arm for social development.The agency sponsored a four-day workshop to help women farmers develop their skills and economic competitiveness, with a focus on environmental sustainability.“Empowering and strengthening the skills of women plays an important role in community development and agriculture is one of the important sectors,” Amjad Gulzar, executive director of Caritas Pakistan, told CNA Aug. 30.Gulzar said the event aimed to bring together women farmers and beneficiaries of women empowerment groups and entrepreneurship programs, providing a platform for them “to voice their issues and gather relevant learning skills from one another.”The third Women Farmers Conference, held in Lahore Aug. 16-18, brought together 140 women from across Pakistan. This year’s theme was “Empowe...
BEIJING (AP) -- As coaches take notes, teenagers dribble footballs through a course of cones on Ritan Middle School's gleaming artificial field in eastern Beijing, part of a massive program to promote soccer as a pillar of China's rise to global prominence....
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- State police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have been known to patrol in a tractor-trailer so they can sit up high and spot drivers texting behind the wheel....
KOLKATA, India (AP) -- As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride....
BEIJING (AP) -- China's hosting of the Group of 20 industrialized nations summit highlights its role as the world's second-largest economy and a growing force in global diplomacy, but also comes amid sharpening frictions over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, disputes with fellow regional powers South Korea and Japan and criticisms over a sweeping crackdown on dissent at home....
