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DALLAS (AP) -- Delta Air Lines will be handing out refunds and travel vouchers as penance for the latest computer outage to knock a major airline off stride....
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Donald Trump is seeking to quell concerns he lacks the discipline or policy know-how to make a competent president, even as the list of fellow Republicans deeming him unfit for the Oval Office grows....
Sacramento, Calif., Aug 8, 2016 / 06:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be most affected by a California bill threatening state-backed student grants to schools that disagree with same-sex marriage and gender ideology.“The students become the greatest victims in all of this. Students growing up in your youth groups may say ‘we want to go to a school that is going to help us learn our faith while earning a degree.’ This bill would not allow that to happen,” said Prof. Kevin Mannoia, chaplain and pastoral ministry professor at Azusa Pacific University.The proposed bill S.B. 1146 could have grave financial consequences for these students and their desired schools – and even lead to some schools’ closure.“They wouldn’t be able to choose these schools because they wouldn’t exist,” Mannoia told CNA Aug. 5.Azusa Pacific University is an interdenominational Christian university in Califo...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas waterslide billed as the world's tallest remained off-limits Monday as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker's 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Latest from the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
DETROIT (AP) -- Promising to "jumpstart America" to a new era of prosperity, Donald Trump announced a revamped economic plan Monday aimed at revitalizing a stagnant U.S. economy by cutting taxes for workers and businesses. He assailed Hillary Clinton as a candidate who would merely extend a Democratic period of old ideas and weakness....
Erbil, Iraq, Aug 8, 2016 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Roni Salim Momika, one of three priests ordained in an Erbil refugee camp Friday, said the event has turned the dreary mood of displaced Christians into one of joy, which he hopes will give them the strength to stay in their homeland.“My feeling is happy, happy!” Fr. Momika told CNA after his Aug. 5 ordination, adding that he feels “something inside” that makes him deeply joyful.He was ordained a priest of the Syriac-Catholic Church alongside his friends and fellow deacons Emad and Petros in the large, prefabricated church inside Erbil’s Aishty 2 camp for the displaced, which is home to some 5,500 people forced to flee their homes due to ISIS.The ordination, he said, “will give hope to (the people)” in the camp, mostly Syriac Catholics from Qaraqosh, who for two years have been forced to live as refugees.Fr. Momika, who is from Qaraqosh, noted how Aug. 6 marks the exact two-year anniv...
IMAGE: CNS photo/www.thesatanictemple.comBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- It's 3 p.m. Do you know where your children are?Parents, schoolsand school districts are paying even closer attention to after-schoolactivities ever since a group called the Satanic Temple announced in earlyAugust that it plans to introduce after-school Satan clubs at some U.S. public elementaryschools this year.Parents across thecountry, many of whom have yet to purchase their children's necessary schoolsupplies, had to scratch their heads when they heard this one. These clubs certainlydon't sound like the typical band, science or Scout groups that typically gatherafter the bell rings.And the Satan clubs'planned activities -- focusing on reason and science, according to the website-- also are not nearly as eerie as the group's name implies. That's because SatanicTemple, the political activist and religious group based in New York, is moreabout bringing attention to what it describes as an unfair after-...
By Michael KellyDUBLIN (CNS) -- Bishop EdwardDaly of Derry, known for his tireless advocacy for peace and reconciliationduring decades of sectarian tension in Northern Ireland, died in a hospital inLondonderry, Northern Ireland, Aug. 8.Bishop Daly, who retired in 1993due to ill health after suffering a stroke, was 82. He had suffered from cancer.He first came to prominence in aphotograph from Bloody Sunday in 1972, when 14 civil rights protesters wereshot dead by the British army in Londonderry. For decades, the victims wereaccused of being terrorists. However, in 2010, an independent inquiry ruledthat all the victims and the injured, had been unarmed and that those killedhad been killed unlawfully.Bishop Daly worked tirelesslywith the families to clear their names and ensure that an independent inquirywould overturn the allegations that they were terrorists.Irish President Michael D.Higgins expressed "great sadness" at news of Bishop Daly's death."Edward Daly will beremembered by m...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The "Usain Bolt Variety Hour" hit Brazil, big time, on Monday....
