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(Vatican Radio) Russian authorities say six suspected militants have been killed by security forces in two separate incidents in the city of St. Petersburg and near Moscow, the capital. Those killed reportedly included gunmen who were described as Islamic insurgents fighting in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Confused residents were seen standing behind masked security forces in front of an apartment complex on the outskirts in St. Petersburg. It is here where officials said four suspected militants were killed in a shoot-out with intelligence officers in what is Russia's second largest city.The spokesperson of the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee later told reporters that the suspects holed up in this apartment block and opened fire when the officers tried to detain them. "A group of people involved in activities of militant underground [groups] operating in the North Caucasus region were discovered in St. Pete...
Some 4,000 domestic workers in New Delhi went on strike Aug. 16 to demand that the federal government formulate a law to ensure fair wages and security for them.The domestic workers, registered under the Domestic Workers' Forum of Chetnalaya, the social service wing of the Delhi Archdiocese, took to the streets to observe No Rights, No Work Day.Chetnalaya has been calling people to observe the day for the past two years. They want justice for a community of workers who are exploited, harassed and underpaid."Domestic workers in India do not have any recognition of work, respect and are exploited at the hands of employers," Nilima Tirkey, the forum secretary, told ucanews.com.The forum also used the day to highlight the issue of trafficking and the migration of girls and young women from tribal areas into cities looking for domestic work."Trafficking of girls is going on for domestic work and this happens because of the ignorance of people in remote villages...
Washington D.C., Aug 18, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- As the world's eyes are on Rio de Janeiro for last days of the 2016 Summer Olympics, the topic of performance-enhancing drugs has also jumped back into the spotlight amid several high-profile controversies. Along with the increased publicity surrounding the prevalence of drug use among athletes come questions about why “doping” or the use of such substances is wrong, and how to address a problem whose roots are almost as old as sport itself.Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, Director of Education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, told CNA that athletes in a competition come to the starting line with a kind of equality, “in the sense that they arrive with whatever they were endowed with at birth, and whatever they may have managed to become endowed with through practice, hard work, and discipline.”“Cheating through doping involves an attempt to step outside these rules and suppositions, and play a diff...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kanye West fans can buy a taste of "The Life of Pablo" this weekend following the rapper-turned-fashion mogul's announcement of 21 pop-up stores worldwide that will be open just this weekend....
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) -- Keisha Taylor, a 37-year-old mother of four, has spent three nights in two different shelters since her family fled the flooding at their Baton Rouge apartment complex. And she doesn't know how many more nights they will be sleeping on cots inside the downtown arena where hundreds sought shelter....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Two car bombings targeted police stations in Turkey, killing at least six people and wounding 219 others, officials said Thursday....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Three American Olympic swimmers planned to meet with Brazilian law enforcement Thursday to discuss a reported robbery targeting 12-time medalist Ryan Lochte and his teammates, a U.S. Olympic Committee official said....
New York City, N.Y., Aug 18, 2016 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It’s a bit of church news you’re not likely to have forgotten.Four years ago in the little town of Borja, Spain, there was a case of thought-to-be vandalism that turned out to be an unfortunate attempt at art restoration.Cecilia Giminez, an elderly Spanish woman, created a well-intentioned but regrettably executed restoration of Ecce Homo (or ‘Behold the Man’), a fresco painting of Jesus before he is nailed to the cross.The original painting, found in the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mercy in Borja, showed Jesus in a robe with the crown of thorns on his head, glancing heavenward in agony, which had begun to wear over time. However, after Giminez’s touch-up, the painting looked almost inhuman - more like a monkey or a werewolf, with shapeless and fuzzy features.But it wasn’t all bad. The original painting was not thought to be highly valuable, although it was a prized possession of th...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Soheila Hashemi has hardly slept since a suicide bomber targeted a rally in the Afghan capital last month, killing more than 80 people and wounding scores in the deadliest attack in Kabul since the war with the Taliban began 15 years ago....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Dominique Heaggan attended grade school in Milwaukee and joined the city's police force as a teenage aide through a program that aims to recruit young people into law enforcement, including minorities....
