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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation's largest police force, after a tenure in which he received credit for keeping crime down and navigated tension between police and minority communities....
ATWATER, Calif. (AP) -- A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as "unfit" and "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House on Tuesday. He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party's nominee, declaring "There has to come a point at which you say enough."...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis released on Tuesday a video message on his universal prayer intentions for August where he speaks of his desire that sports may build a culture of encounter among everyone for a world of peace.Listen to the Pope’s video message which was delivered in his native Spanish: (Please find below a translation into English of his words)Sports, a culture of encounterSports make it possible to build a culture of encounter among everyone for a world of peace. I dream of sports as the practice of human dignity, turned into a vehicle of fraternity. Do we exercise together this prayer intention? That sports may be an opportunity for friendly encounters between people and may contribute to peace in the world.Pope Francis’ prayer intention in August for evangelization was entitled: Living the Gospel – That Christians may live the Gospel, giving witness to faith, honesty, and love of neighbor.
Thousands of students formed a human chain on the streets of Bangladesh against terrorism on July 31. It was promoted by the State University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, which invited all schools in the country to come together and demonstrate for peace. The event took place exactly a month after the massacre of Dhaka, in which 20 people died, mostly foreigners.Students, teachers and employees of educational institutions created human chain throughout the country. They carried flags and banners onto the streets calling for solidarity and respect. The messages read: “Bangladesh stands against terrorism,” “We want peace, no place for terrorism.” “Bangladesh Against Terrorism”, “We will resist militancy by togetherness and firmness”, “Non-communalism is our pride”, and “We want peace, not terrorism: we want fearless life”.Fr. Walter William Rozario, principal of St. Louis High School, told AsiaNews tha...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegramme expressing his sorrow for the death of Polish Cardinal Franciszek Macharski.In the telegramme addressed to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislav Dziwisz, the Pope expresses his closeness to the Church and to the faithful in Poland and joins in their prayer of thanksgiving for the life and for the pastoral work of the deceased Minister of the Gospel. Recalling Cardinal Macharski’s motto: ‘Iesu, in te confido!’ – Jesus, in you I trust! – Pope Francis said his life and his ministry were indeed guided by this episcopal motto.The Pope recalled the zeal with which Macharski carried out his mission as pastor, as professor, as rector of the Seminary until the day he was asked to take on the responsibility of his predecessor, Karol Wojtyla – today Saint John Paul II – as Archbishop of Krakow. “With trust in Divine Mercy he conduct...
Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 2, 2016 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In 2013, Leia Isanhart met a little boy in Nairobi with intellectual disabilities. Because he was not very mobile, his mother had to carry him around.Two years later, the senior technical advisor of Health for Catholic Relief Services said the young boy is jumping, clapping his hands, and singing. The mother is “full of joy” thanks to CRS.CRS partnered with Special Olympics and Adventist Center for Care and Support in 2013, developing a pilot program to care for children with disabilities and provide positive parenting training to families.Since then, six early childhood development centers have been established and 270 children with special needs have been cared for in the slums of Nairobi. That number is continuing to grow.Isanhart explained that these are places where there are not many social services available, “let alone health services.”Thus, for a child who has a disability, “that’s ...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has appointed six men andsix women to a commission to study the issue of women deacons, particularlytheir ministry in the early church.In addition to the 12 members named Aug. 2, the pope tappedArchbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrineof the Faith, to serve as president of the commission.The pope set up the commission at the request of theInternational Union of Superiors General, the organization for the leaders ofwomen's religious orders around the world. Meeting the group in May, PopeFrancis said that while his understanding was that the women described asdeacons in the New Testament were not ordained as male deacons are today,"it would be useful for the church to clarify this question."The International Theological Commission, a body thatadvises the doctrinal congregation, included the question of women deacons in astudy on the diaconate almost 20 years ago. While its report, issued in 2002,di...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The uproar over Donald Trump's criticism of a bereaved Army family put vulnerable GOP senators in a tight spot, underscoring anew the political challenges created for Republicans by their newly minted presidential nominee. And with the general election campaign now squarely underway, the firestorm over Trump's attacks on the Khan family is likely just a taste of trials to come as Republicans negotiate how closely to align with their volatile nominee....
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