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(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...
(Vatican Radio) Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos has announced that the signing date for the final peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will be on 26 September.Listen to James Blears’ report: Many in Colombia and elsewhere thought this day would never ever come. It has taken 52 years of heartache and anguish, which has torn a nation asunder, for it to finally be whole again.More than quarter of a million are dead, 45,000 thousand missing, seven million displaced. President Juan Manuel Santos put the initialing ceremony into perspective by calling it the most important event of his life.Within one hundred and eighty days of the inked accord, the FARC will have handed over all their weapons over to United Nations Peacekeepers.On 2 October there will be the much anticipated Peace Referendum. An initial poll indicated that only 13 percent of voters approved the Pe...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Islam Karimov, whose harsh and ill-tempered rule governed Uzbekistan for a quarter-century, is to be buried in his home city of Samarkand....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- For many of the poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint. Many at the Vatican would agree, but the Catholic Church nevertheless has a grueling process to make it official, involving volumes of historical research, the hunt for miracles and teams of experts to weigh the evidence. In Mother Teresa's case, the process will come to a formal end Sunday when Pope Francis declares the church's newest saint. Here's a lo...
HOD HASHARON, Israel (AP) -- France's burkini controversy is boosting the bottom line for Israeli makers of modest women's swimwear....
DAVAO, Philippines (AP) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide "state of lawlessness" Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70 in his southern hometown....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief:...
DETROIT (AP) -- Toni McIlwain believes that as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has a right to go anywhere he wants. But, she says, it takes a lot of nerve for him to visit Detroit....
HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Launching his final tour through Asia, President Barack Obama arrived in China on Saturday planning to spotlight U.S.-Chinese cooperation on climate change. The emerging partnership between the two biggest carbon emitters is a bright spot of Obama's uneven eight-year project to reshape U.S. relations in Asia....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Phelps isn't sure what kind of moves Ryan Lochte has planned for "Dancing with the Stars."...
