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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- All seemed normal to the 300 people aboard the Emirates airliner as it flew past the world's tallest building in hazy skies and made a slow left turn over the waters of the Persian Gulf. But as soon as the plane touched down at Dubai International Airport, everyone knew something had gone wrong....
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region's transit police bought about $250 worth of gift cards for someone he thought was working with the Islamic State group....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The 28-year-old Syrian attorney turned down a scholarship to study economics in Germany in order to remain in his native Aleppo after rebels took it over in 2012, promising a new administration and life free of the rule of President Bashar Assad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Their party in crisis, Republicans' frustration with Donald Trump reached new heights on Wednesday as GOP leaders scrambled to persuade the presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have led to sinking poll numbers and low morale....
(Vatican Radio) At the conclusion of his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis delivered his message for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, urging Brazilians to work for a more just and safe country.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: With the Olympic Games 2016 getting underway in Rio on Saturday, August 6th, Pope Francis told all those involved to ‘fight the good fight’ and finish the race together.He said “in a world thirsting for peace, tolerance, and reconciliation”, the prize for all participants and spectators of the Games consisted in something much more precious than a medal.Their prize, he said, is “the construction of a civilization in which solidarity reigns and is based upon the recognition that we are all members of the same human family, regardless of the differences of culture, skin color, or religion.”The Holy Father also expressed his desire that all Brazilians, “who with their joy and characteristic ...
(Vatican Radio) World Youth Day may now be over, but the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who attended will take back with them memories that will last a lifetime.Dorata Abdelmoula is the Spokesperson for WYD Krakow 2016. Looking back over the event, she told Lydia O’Kane that this World Youth Day was a place of encounter where many friendships were made.Listen: “Even now we can see many families together with pilgrims, like giving the last farewell and saying goodbye and we see they are really attached to each other . We can observe these relationships that were born during this time of exchange. So this is one proof that World Youth Day was really a real encounter that will for sure bring some fruits that will last for a long time”, she said.Asked about what she thought were some of the highlights of this event, Dorata noted, that young people were really inspired by the Pope’s words.“Well for sure those highlights are the Pope’s s...
Rouen, France, Aug 3, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During Tuesday's funeral Mass for Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed last week by Islamic State terrorists, the Archbishop of Rouen said the priest's death urges us to respond to God in our lives.“The death of Jacques Hamel called me to a frank yes – not to a tepid yes,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun said Aug. 2 at Rouen's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.“A 'yes' to life, like Jacques' 'yes' at his ordination. Is this possible? We must respond yes every time. God will not force us. God is patient. God is merciful. Even when I, Dominique, said no to love, even when I said to God 'perhaps later', even when I forgot, God waits for me because of his infinite mercy. But today, can the world still wait for the chain of love which will replace the chain of hate?”Fr. Hamel, who was 85, was killed July 26 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, whi...
Toronto, Canada, Aug 3, 2016 / 09:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Little Sisters of the Poor have received the Knights of Columbus’ highest honor for their fight for religious liberty and their continued service to the elderly poor.“We Little Sisters are honored and profoundly humbled to have been chosen to receive the Gaudium et Spes Award,” Mother Loraine Marie Maguire, superior of the Little Sisters’ Baltimore province, said at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Toronto Aug. 2. “Although we never would have chosen to become the public face of conscientious objection to the HHS Mandate, we felt compelled to take a stand for the sake of the elderly residents we serve.”The Little Sisters of the Poor run 27 homes for the elderly poor in the U.S.They have challenged the Obama administration’s efforts to compel them to cover drugs and procedures that violate Catholic doctrine and ethics in their health care coverage for employees. T...
Vatican City, Aug 3, 2016 / 09:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Just two days before the Opening Ceremonies for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Pope Francis offered a message to those who will be competing in the international games.“In a world thirsting for peace, tolerance, and reconciliation, I hope that the spirit of the Olympic Games inspires all – participants and spectators – to ‘fight the good fight’ and finish the race together,” he said.The Holy Father voiced hope that in competing this year, the Olympic athletes will desire “to obtain as a prize, not a medal, but something much more precious: the construction of a civilization in which solidarity reigns and is based upon the recognition that we are all members of the same human family, regardless of the differences of culture, skin color, or religion.”Pope Francis offered these words at the conclusion of his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 3He offere...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Max Rossi, ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a world traumatized by war, youngpeople gathered for World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, gave strong signs ofhope and brotherhood, Pope Francis said.World Youth Day was a "prophetic sign for Poland andEurope" and took on a "global dimension" in a world threatenedby a war fought in pieces, the pope said Aug. 3 at his weekly general audience."Precisely in this world at war, we need brotherhood, weneed closeness, we need dialogue, and we need friendship. And this is the signof hope: when there is brotherhood," he said. The pope entered the Paul VI audience hall greeted bythousands of pilgrims reaching out to him, asking him to bless their religiousarticles, kiss their babies or receive their gifts. But one gift stopped the pope in his tracks: apope doll.Pope Francis pointedto the doll and to himself, not completely convinced of the similarity, andthen laughed, thanking the pilgrim for her present. Before...
