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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A judge on Wednesday dismissed a manslaughter charge against a Florida deputy who claimed self-defense in the 2014 fatal shooting of a 33-year-old black man carrying what turned out to be an air rifle....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkey was riding high in 2010, casting its brand of Islamic piety, Western-style democracy and economic growth as a regional model amid popular upheavals in the Mideast and North Africa....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Their political fates now entwined, President Barack Obama will implore voters Wednesday to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, appealing to the women, minorities and young people who powered his rise and are now crucial to hers....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Small protests popped up around downtown Philadelphia on Wednesday and no marches were planned, making for quieter streets on Day 3 of the Democratic convention....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump encouraged Russia to meddle in American politics Wednesday, with a stunning recommendation to uncover and make public hacked emails that might damage his opponent, Hillary Clinton....
(VATICAN RADIO) Clinical fees are leaving Nigerian mothers and newborns trapped in hospitals – relying on food that family and friends bring to them and oftentimes sleeping on the floor."Some babies have stayed here until they started crawling," one nurse said, adding that some mothers had managed to escape the hospital with their babies while no one was watching.Few Nigerians have health insurance, so many patients, not just those giving birth, are forced to remain in hospitals, usually under poor conditions, clinging to the hope that their bills will be waived by hospital directors or covered by generous visitors.Katie Ascough spoke with Fr. Evaristus Bassey, National Director of Caritas Nigeria, to find out more about these “Awaiting Bill Settlement” patients.Listen: Fr. Bassey explained: “There was a law that came into effect last year called the ‘National Health Act’ which…[said] that no one under emergency car...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has arrived in Poland at the start of his 15th pastoral visit abroad. During his 5-day visit the Pope will attend the World Youth Day celebrations taking place in the southern city of Krakow and also visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Alitalia Airbus A321 on which he is travelling touched down at Krakow airport just before 16 hours local time on Wednesday.He was accompanied on board the plane by a Pontifical Delegation and some 70 members of the press.Before setting off for the airport in Rome, a group of young refugees of different nationalities, nine boys and six girls, gathered at his residence in the Vatican to say goodbye and wish him a good journey.Other highlights of the Pope's visit to Poland include the celebration of Holy Mass at the nation's holiest shrine at Jasna Gora, a prayer at the Shrine of Divine Mercy and the celebration of Mass together with the young people from across the world w...
The oldest church in Japan has been nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage site for 2018.Oura Catholic Church in Nagasaki and several other Christian sites in southwestern Japan were selected as candidates for the world heritage list by a government panel on July 25, reported Japan Today.Following a long period of persecution against Christians, French priests, Fathers Louis Furet and Bernard Petitjean, initially built the church in 1863, which was rebuilt 16 years later into the Gothic structure that remains today.“Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki” comprises 12 cultural assets in eight cities and towns, and show how Christianity took off in Japan from the 16th century before being banned with Christians being persecuted.The church honors 26 missionaries and converts who were crucified in 1597 on the orders of a warlord. (UCAN)
(Vatican Radio) During the first official event of his five day visit to Poland, Pope Francis urged the country’s political leaders to welcome migrants fleeing from wars and hunger, while at the same time protecting human life from conception until natural death.The Pope’s words came as he met with the nation’s president, prime minister and other political leaders in the courtyard of Krakow’s historic Wawel Castle complex.Noting that this visit marks his first to central-eastern Europe, the Pope spoke about the importance of history in establishing a national identity, based on human and spiritual resources. Recalling the recent 1.050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland, he said the event marked a powerful moment of national unity, reaffirming harmony, “even amid a diversity of opinions”.Pope Francis said that while negative historical memories keep the heart and mind fixed on evil, goodPope memories can help a country move forward and forge ...
(Vatican Radio) Referring to recent acts of violence including the killing of a priest in France, Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the world is at war but stressed “it is not a war of religions but for power."There is one word I wish to say to clarify." "When I speak about "war" I'm speaking about a war for real, not a "war of religions." It is," he continued, “a war about (economic) interests, money, natural resources and the domination of peoples." All religions, he said, "desire peace. Other people want war." Right!" The Pope was speaking to journalists accompanying him on the plane from Rome to Krakow in Poland. Pope Francis began his remarks by noting that the word which is being repeated very often now is “insecurity” but, he said, the real word is “war.” The world is at war, a piecemeal war. There was the 1914 war with its methods, then the 1939-45 one an...
