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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia. Two decades later, after forging a new life in Minnesota, she appears on the brink of becoming the nation's first Somali-American state legislator....
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) -- A police "shoot/don't shoot" demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said was real ammunition used by mistake at an event designed to bring police and the public together....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been saying for years: They are routinely singled out, roughed up or otherwise mistreated by officers, often for no reason....
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) -- In the 2016 presidential campaign, it's long been an article of faith: The rules of political gravity don't apply to Donald Trump....
Washington D.C., Aug 10, 2016 / 10:17 am (CNA).- Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence was met with heated criticism after suggesting that a Trump administration may ban Christian and Jewish refugees fleeing from terrorism.Speaking on a conservative radio show Monday, Pence was asked about his support for religious liberty in light of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s previous proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.Pence responded that a general halt on immigration from certain countries would be “appropriate” for security concerns.“The position that Donald Trump is advocating today is that we should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, which I think is altogether fitting and appropriate,” he said.“The simple fact is that both our Homeland Security and the FBI have said there are countries like Syria where people are coming in through routine means, the ref...
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2016 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Bonifacio Buzzi, a Brazilian priest convicted of child abuse and who was mentioned in the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ committed suicide in his prison cell over the weekend.According to Reuters, Fr. Buzzi, 57, hung himself with a sheet inside his jail cell in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Aug. 7 after having been arrested Friday.In 1995 the priest was found guilty of abusing several youth in a mental hospital, and sentenced to four years of house arrest. In 2004, he was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy in Mariana, Minas Gerais and was jailed from 2007-2015 for the crime.He was arrested Aug. 5 in the southern state of Santa Catarina following criminal complaints that he had molested two more boys, aged 9 and 13, and taken back to Minas Gerais.The Vatican was in the process of taking action against the priest, but the process had not yet concluded at the time of his death.Fr. Buzzi was among the c...
Vatican City, Aug 10, 2016 / 12:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Each of us must respond to the gift of mercy in our hearts by getting up and putting mercy into action, Pope Francis said Wednesday.Speaking about a bishop who had in his cathedral one Holy Door of mercy for entering and one for exiting, Pope Francis said: “Let us also do the same with the journey that goes from the heart to the hands.”“Let us enter the church through the door of mercy, to receive the forgiveness of Jesus, who tells us: ‘Arise! Go, go!’ And with this ‘Go!’ – on foot – let us leave through the exit door,” he continued.Pope Francis gave this reflection at the end of his General Audience in the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall Aug. 10.Pope Francis reflected on the pain of the mother of the young boy who died in Luke 7 and the compassion that Christ felt for her, saying it is the mother’s great pain which moved Christ to perform the miracle of rev...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis "snuck" out ofthe Vatican Aug. 9 for a drive, a walk in the woods and lunch with an Italianbishop at a small convent.Long after the pope had returned to the Vatican from twosmall towns near Rieti -- about 50 miles northeast of Rome -- the Vaticanconfirmed the pope had made a "private visit" to the area.According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis was accompanied byBishop Domenico Pompili of Rieti in his visits to a convent of the Sisters ofthe Reparation of the Holy Face in Carsoli and the Franciscan convent of St.Filippa Mareri in Borgo San Pietro.A local newspaper, writing about the visit to Carsoli, saidPope Francis greeted each of the sisters before heading to their chapel to praywith them and Bishop Pompili. After the prayers, the pope and bishop went for awalk around the wooded, park-like property, returning for lunch at noon sharp."He tasted and appreciated all the dishes prepared bythe sisters and complimented them," according t...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- After he escaped unharmed from the burning wreckage of an Emirates airplane that had crash-landed in Dubai, Mohamed Basheer already considered himself lucky....
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- U.S.-backed Libyan forces said on Wednesday they have taken over the Islamic State group's headquarters in Sirte, the militants' final bastion in Libya, breaking a weeks-long stalemate with the help of U.S. airstrikes....
