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NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel founder Rupert Murdoch on Friday appointed two longtime Fox executives as the new co-presidents of the news network as it restructures after last month's departure of Roger Ailes following sexual harassment allegations....
PHOENIX (AP) -- He is a lanky Hispanic man in his 20s who drives down the darkened streets of poor, predominantly Latino neighborhoods, blending in as he selects his targets. He either fires through an open window or gets out of the car to shoot from close range before driving off....
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian leader to rid himself of members of his old guard....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Two months after the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub, residents say this city of newcomers is bonding in unprecedented solidarity, upending an old adage attributed to a former governor: "Florida isn't so much a community as a crowd."...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge blocked a state law aimed at diverting public money from Planned Parenthood, saying in a Friday ruling that the group stood to suffer "irreparable injury."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign Friday that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns....
Seminarians in select countries of Africa will be among some of the beneficiaries of a campaign, which the Catholic Charity organisation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is launching in honour of the murdered French Catholic priest, Father Jacques Hamel.A total of 1,000 seminarians from 21 countries around the world will benefit from the ACN collections in honour of Father Hamel who was murdered by ISIS sympathisers while celebrating Mass on 26 July in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France.The studies of future Catholic priests from Angola, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, DR Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia will be funded, in part, from the collection of funds by the Italian chapter of the pontifical foundation ACN.“Support for the formation of new priests is a concrete response to fundamentalism, because especially in countries where the extremist threat is the greatest, the ministers of God must possess the appropriate tools to promote dialogue a...
(Vatican Radio) The abuse of religious freedom is on the rise, with a vicious cycle of religious restriction and social hostilities fueling its increase, according to Brian Grim, Ph. D. of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.The US State Department recently released its annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2015. The report says one-in-four countries oppress religious freedom, affecting roughly 75% of the world’s population.Brian Grim, Ph. D. is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation and a leading expert on international religious demography and the socio-economic impact of restrictions on religious freedom. He spoke to Vatican Radio's Fr. Bernd Hagenkord about the cycle of restrictions on religious freedom and resultant societal hostility.Listen to the full interview: Mr. Grim said the statistics provided in the US State Department's report on religious freedom takes into account government restrictions on rel...
As Pakistan’s minority communities marked National Minorities Day on thursday, two Catholic bishops called for a more inclusive society lamenting that despite Mohammad Ali Jinna, the founder of Pakistan, promising respect for all religions, minorities today are in the throes of intolerance. Non-Muslim citizens "have played a vital role in the formation of Pakistan. Not only they gave their lives for freedom but still continue to fight for nation building. This is why their concerns must be addressed by the government”, said Bishop Joseph Arshad of Faisalabd, the president of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace, during the celebration of the National Minorities Day on Thursday in Lahore.The Pakistani government established the annual observance in 2009, to recognize the sacrifice and service of minority groups. Celebrating the day on the 69th anniversary of Jinnah’s historic 1947 speech to the Constitutive Assembly of the new nation, th...
An Indian Catholic priest spearheading a campaign for cornea donation has invited Pope Francis to pledge his corneas to inspire others to help the blind. Claretian Father George Kannanthanam's appeal, which asked the Pope to pledge his corneas to mark World Sight Day on Oct. 13, was handed to Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio on Aug. 10. "Your one act will inspire millions of people around the world to emulate," read Father Kannanthanam's appeal to the Pope. "Sight will be the best gift you could give to the world in the Year of Mercy," said the appeal.Father Kannanthanam who founded Project Vision a year ago to create awareness about cornea donation, told UCANEWS that India needs around 140,000 cornea transplants every year but currently only 30,000-40,000 corneas are collected. Media reports say thee are some 39 million blind people worldwide with more than 15 million of them in Indi...
