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BEIRUT (AP) -- Clashes between Turkey's military and Kurdish-backed Syrian forces subsided Tuesday evening after days of fighting between the two had frustrated efforts by a U.S.-led coalition to drive the Islamic State group from northern Syria....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Bill Clinton left the White House, he was popular but tainted by scandal, struggling to find his footing. He eventually channeled his energy into the global philanthropy that bears his name and is shaping so much of his post-presidential legacy....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has expressed his hopes for "a new season in relations" between China and the Holy See. The cardinal's words came during an address to the diocesan seminary of Pordenone in northern Italy on Saturday.Similar expectations are also expressed in a book entitled ‘The Gospel beyond the Great Wall’ which explores the many challenges facing the Catholic Church in China today. Its author, Hong Kong born Kin Sheung Chiaretto Yan, belongs to a lay Christian community and works as a teacher in seminaries and colleges in Beijing and Shanghai. He is optimistic about the substantial progress made recently in the difficult relationship between China and the Holy See. He also expects there may be further developments – within this Year of Mercy - that can overcome tensions between members of the official and ‘underground’ Churches in China.Chiaretto recently returned to Hong Kong to...
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta is set to be canonized on Sunday, September 4th.Mother Teresa founded the religious order Missionaries of Charity, which is based in Calcutta, India. She dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor.She was beatified by John Paul II in 2003, just 6 years after her death at the age of 87.The current Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity is Sister Mary Prema Pierick, who first met Mother Teresa in 1980.Listen to part 1 of the interview with Sister Prema: She told Vatican Radio Mother Teresa’s holiness was so present in her life, the members of the congregation took it for granted.“We lived with Mother and we took it for granted that she is available and that she is always attentive to us,” she said.Listen to Part 2 of the interview with Sister Prema: “We enjoyed her presence and we wanted to know from her how she lived the day, and how she went about the work she was doing,” Sister Prema conti...
Anthony Naveed, a Catholic cabinet member in the Sindh province of Pakistan has been promoted to serve as the Chief Minister’s special assistant with particular responsibilities in the interfaith harmony office. He is the first Christian member in Sindh reach this post and the only Catholic in Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah's Cabinet.Naveed, who belongs to the Pakistan People’s Party, said he looks forward to promoting interfaith harmony in a country that is currently suffering from extremism."Since 2012 in Sindh Province our government has been working hard to move forward to promote interfaith harmony and develop a tolerant society for people from different religions, faiths and sects," said Neveed."It was a very challenging task to gather members from all religions together," said Naveed. "The next step is to organize workshops and seminars for the clergy of various faiths and form groups at the district level to facilitat...
(Vatican Radio) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) comments on the latest surge of some 6,500 migrants who were rescued from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on Monday and looks at the factors driving migration from many African countries. The 6,500 migrants, believed to be mostly Africans, were saved in dozens of separate rescue missions taking place some 20 kilometres off the port of Sabratha in Libya. It marked one of the largest influxes of migrants and refugees in a single day so far this year. Leonard Doyle is a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (or IOM). He said the migrants were crammed onto “particularly unseaworthy boats” and said if they had gone to “the high seas,” they would have all “probably drowned.”Susy Hodges asked him whether this large number of boats represented a new surge in the number of migrants desperately trying to cross the sea to Europe. Listen ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ed Wilkinson, The TabletBy Chaz MuthWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The gray robes worn by the Conventual Franciscan friars may not befashionable in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, but the religious menappear to be fitting in just fine in the heart of "hipster" country.Thisparticular neighborhood has become nationally recognized as a place whereso-called "hipsters" live, and it's one of the reasons why the friars' ministryis now there.They have establisheda ministry of presence to help bring the word of God to a segment of societythat tends to be suspicious of, or oblivious to, organized religion.Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio invited the friars toconvert the Holy Family Slovak Catholic Church into the San Damiano Mission in February2015 as an evangelizing anchor in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint hotspot for "hipsters."According to the Urban Dictionary, "hipsters" are asubculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, who seek outcoun...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ryan Lochte isn't saying whether he'll return to Brazil to face a charge of filing a false police report over a gas station encounter during the Olympics....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Children who escaped Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency now are dying of starvation in refugee camps in northeastern Nigeria's largest city as the government investigates the theft of food aid by officials....
