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(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....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department has closed offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the U.S. technology giant had paid next to no tax across the bloc's 28 countries for over 11 years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The German pilot who deliberately flew his airliner into a mountainside last year had struggled with learning to fly and had failed a key test of his skills during training in the U.S., according FBI interviews with his flight instructors....
HARDAN, Iraq (AP) -- Peering through binoculars, the young man watched as Islamic State extremists gunned down the handcuffed men and then buried them with a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as IS filled one grave after another with his friends and neighbors....
(Vatican Radio) In the context of the Jubilee of Mercy, the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the CELAM (Latin American Bishop's Conference) have organised a great "Celebration of Mercy in the American Continent" in Bogotà, Colombia. The celebration is taking place 27-30 August, with the participation of Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Religious, and lay people from countries ranging from Canada to the "Patagonia". The purpose of the meeting is to bring together different aspects of ‘church’ and to experience the merciful face of the Father.Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, the Archbishop of Quebec, spoke to Vatican Radio from the Jubilee of the Americas event.Listen to the full interview: Pope Francis sent a video message for the opening of the event on Saturday. In the interview, Cardinal Lacroix said the Pope had put it well: "The Holy Father was right. This is not a convention, a meeting, or a seminary; it'...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Óscar Maradiaga, SDB, is attending the Jubilee of the Americas, an event organised by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the CELAM (Latin American Bishop's Conference) in Bogotà, Colombia.The "Celebration of Mercy in the American Continent" is taking place 27-30 August to bring together different aspects of ‘church’ and to experience the merciful face of the Father.Cardinal Maradiaga is the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa in Honduras and the coordinator of the C9 Council of Cardinals. He told Vatican Radio the Jubilee of the Americas is 'like a crown in this Year of Mercy'.Listen to the full interview: Cardinal Maradiaga said, "We have been reflecting, praying, celebrating, and also visiting many works of mercy that are developed here in Bogotà, but as well in the rest of Latin America with the witness of many bishops."He said all present are &q...
