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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy was decapitated as he rode a 168-foot tall waterslide at a water park in Kansas, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil's Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial, bringing the nation's first female president a step closer to being permanently removed and underscoring her failure to change lawmakers' minds the last several months....
HAJJ ALI, Iraq (AP) -- Among the Iraqi forces preparing for the key battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul are Sunni tribal militias, drawn from the local villages and motivated by the desire to claw back home ground lost to the militants over two years ago....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Justice Department and Baltimore police agreed to negotiate court-enforceable reforms after a scathing federal report released Wednesday criticized officers for using excessive force and routinely discriminating against blacks....
(Vatican Radio) The witness of God’s merciful love which the Church, as mother, is called to give was at the center of Pope Francis’ Wednesday general audience address.The catechesis 10 Aug audience, which was held this week in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall, is the latest in a series of addresses connected to the Jubilee Year of Mercy.Below, please find the official English-language summary of the Pope’s catechesis, which was delivered in Italian:Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we now consider the miracle of Jesus’ raising of the son of the widow of Nain. Jesus, moved by compassion for the grief of a mother, directly confronts the reality of death and restores life to her young son. This encounter before the town gates can inspire our own encounter with the Lord’s life-giving mercy as we pass through the Holy Door on our Jubilee pilgrimage. We approach that Door bringing with us our entire past, ...
(Vatican Radio) On Tuesday, Pope Francis made a private visit to two convents of religious sisters in the Italian regions of Lazio and Abruzzo.The Pope visited the Benedictine convent of the sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face in Carsoli, located in the L’Aquila province. He also stopped by the monastery of Saint Filippa Mareri, located in Borgo San Pietro within the Rieti province, where he visited with the community of Franciscan sisters.The Holy Father was accompanied by the bishop of Rieti, Domenico Pompili.
(Vatican Radio) Fighting is raging once again in eastern Ukraine with the United Nations saying that civilian casualties have reached the highest level in a year. The ongoing conflict between government forces and Russian-backed separatists has also added to pressure on media, after personal details were released of thousands of journalists. Listen to Stefan Bos’ report: Amid the turmoil, Ukrainian government forces could be seen trying to halt an apparent attack by Russian-backed separatists around the town of Maryinka, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.Ukrainian soldiers were seen responding to the attack with machine-gun fire and grenades. The July 30 violence of which video footage just emerged, is one of several incidents that has worried international observers with the U.N. already warning that the number of civilian casualties in fighting in eastern Ukraine is back to last year's highs.The UN Human Rights Office said it documented 69 civilian...
(Vatican Radio) As the United Nations called for an urgent humanitarian pause to the fighting raging in the divided city of Aleppo where two million people lack access to clean water and electricity, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo speaks about his “destroyed country and the destroyed families” in Syria. Bishop Antoine Audo described how “everybody is suffering everywhere in Syria” because of the war and bombardments. He said there was now no water and electricity in Aleppo (following the latest round of fighting), even in the areas of the city controlled by the government, and called once again for a political solution to the conflict. Bishop Audo was interviewed by Susy Hodges.Listen to the interview with Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo: Once Syria’s commercial centre and its largest city, Aleppo has borne the brunt of the fighting and bombardments during the nation’s 5 year old civil war and large areas of it now lie...
Krakow, Poland, Aug 10, 2016 / 04:03 am (CNA).- Clarence Gilyard is the seasoned Hollywood actor who kicked major bad-guy posterior as Chuck Norris' gun-slinging, karate-kicking deputy James Trivette on the hit 1993-2001 CBS series.The man is legitimate – especially after working alongside Chuck Norris and his impressive slow-mo high kicks for an entire eight seasons on Walker, among other roles. But what many fans may not know is how Gilyard's high-octane life led to a breaking point and eventual conversion to Catholicism, or how his faith profoundly shapes his life today.In a sit-down interview with CNA July 29 during World Youth Day in Krakow, Gilyard in a nutshell recounted his former wild lifestyle and his decision to convert, which eventually led him to get involved in the global youth event. He also gave his advice to parents on how to help their kids authentically live the faith.“I hit bottom, I hit bottom…I was pretty much sex, drugs and rock and ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
