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DURANT, Miss. (AP) -- Two nuns who worked as nurses and helped the poor in rural Mississippi were found slain in their home, perhaps victims of a break-in and vehicle theft, officials said Thursday....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro....
ASCOLI PICENO, Italy (AP) -- She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that she was alive....
(Vatican Radio) Russia has begun unexpected major military drills in several parts of the country and at sea amid major tensions with neighboring Ukraine. The exercises come amid mounting international concerns over a widening military conflict between the two neighbors.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Russia's defense ministry says President Vladimir Putin announced snap military drills on land and in the Black and Caspian Seas.The ministry said in a statement Thursday that the drills began at 7:00 a.m. Moscow time in Russia's southern, western and central military districts where troops have been put on combat alert.Officials say the exercises will last until the end of the month and will involve a variety of troops, from paratroopers to the Northern Fleet.Kiev blames RussiaThese exercises were expected to add to tensions with Kiev. It has accused Moscow of stationing more than 40,000 troops in Russian-occupied Crimea and along the bo...
The report titled: Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana; restoring livelihoods; paving way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), narrates how land grabbing is affecting rural livelihoods and threatening food security the country in the long run.The 48-page document, presented at the opening of a two-day stakeholders forum on land grabbing in Accra on Tuesday 23 August contains findings from a research the Catholic church undertook on land issues in Ghana.Damian Avevor, the News Editor of The Catholic Standard Newspaper in Ghana sent us this report:Caritas Ghana, the charity wing of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has launched a Report titled “Unmasking Land Grabbing in Ghana; Restoring Livelihoods; paving the way for Sustainable Development Goals” at the National Catholic Secretariat in Accra to kick start dialoguing on the issue with the view to finding both policy and programme solution.The Survey Report which covered about six mon...
St. Louis, Mo., Aug 25, 2016 / 10:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A group for clergy sex abuse victims made false statements “negligently and with reckless disregard for the truth” against a St. Louis priest to try to convict him on abuse charges, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson said that the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests failed to comply with a court order that the group supply details about those who accused Father Xiu Hui “Joseph” Jiang of sexual abuse. This made it impossible for him to litigate the claims against him.Jackson said the court will establish that SNAP's statements “were false and that they did not conduct any inquiry into the truth or falsity of these public statements.”The court will also establish that defendants conspired to secure Fr. Jiang's conviction on sex abuse charges due to “discriminatory animus against plaintiff based on his religion, religious vocation, race, ...
Rome, Italy, Aug 25, 2016 / 12:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- For Sr. Mary Prema Pierick, Mother Teresa's impact did not come from her outward appearance, but from a personal encounter with the woman's unconditional and mother-like love and acceptance.According to the Missionary of Charity, Mother Teresa's greatness defied her short stature, residing “inside” her. Upon meeting Mother Teresa for the first time, Sr. Prema told CNA / EWTN, “It was not appearance, but it was the way she related to me,” that was most striking. “That was an experience of a person who loves, and who accepts me, and who wants me, and is a mother to me.”When “I saw her the first time she was already 70 years old, so she was already a little bent, but her eyes were full of life,” Sr. Prema said.Sr. Prema was in her late 20s when she first met Mother Teresa in Berlin, Germany in 1980. She said she was inspired to meet the foundress of the Missionaries of Cha...
After acknowledging they misidentified some of the men shown in an iconic image raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, the Marines now say they were also mistaken in listing the names of those who raised an earlier flag amid intense fighting on the island....
PARIS (AP) -- Human rights groups challenged the legality of municipal bans on full-body burkini swimsuits before France's highest administrative court Thursday, a practice that one lawyer fiercely denounced as reflecting "a reflex of fear."...
PARIS (AP) -- A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has trigged a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating system, researchers said Thursday....
