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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely....
God loves you! This is probably one of the earliest truths we learn about Him. But it's amazing how we can know a concept intellectually and still not really grasp it. To really explore God's love for us...
New York City, N.Y., Aug 3, 2016 / 12:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Grassroots movements, local communities, and faith-based organizations – especially the Catholic Church – have an important role to play in building peace and preventing conflict in Africa, said a Holy See representative.Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic nuncio leading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations, spoke July 28 to an open session of the U.N. Security Council on peace building in Africa.Faith-based and grassroots groups have “concrete knowledge of local realities” and immediate interactions with locals, the archbishop said.“They empower individuals and societies at a local level, identify and nurture new leaders, and rally communities to work together for the greater human good. They get results that local individuals and communities can easily relate to and identify with.”Archbishop Auza said the Catholic Church's direct contribution...
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BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese legal rights activist was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison on subversion charges Wednesday, in the second in a series of cases underscoring the ruling Communist Party's determination to rein in government critics....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are about to test voters' anti-establishment mood, first hand....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The career cop picked to lead America's largest police department is embracing a throwback strategy to repair the deep rift that has opened between officers and the public. He wants patrol officers to get to know people on their beat on a first-name basis....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- For months, fears about the Rio de Janeiro Olympics have been hogging the spotlight....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Free and great, or divided and confused. Diverse and powerful, or troubled and broken. In search of a single word encapsulating their country at this moment, Americans offered pollsters a lexicon reflecting both hope and dissonance....
