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BRZEGI, Poland (AP) -- Pope Francis challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a sprawling Polish meadow to reject being a "couch potato" who retreats into video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning about potential high-fatality accidents, safety investigators recommended two years ago that the Federal Aviation Administration impose greater oversight on commercial hot air balloon operators, government documents show. The FAA rejected those recommendations....
LOCKHART, Texas (AP) -- A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas on Saturday, and there did not appear to be any survivors, authorities said....
Krakow, Poland, Jul 30, 2016 / 11:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Before heading to an evening prayer vigil with youth, Pope Francis made an unannounced stop at a Franciscan monastery housing the relics of two martyrs, where he prayed for peace and an end to violence.“O almighty and merciful God, Lord of the universe and of history. All is good and your compassion for the mistakes of mankind knows no limits,” Francis said in the opening of the July 30 prayer.He asked that God sow “peace the world and its people,” and to keep “the devastating wave of terrorism” far from them.The Pope also prayed for all those who have died as victims of “brutal terrorist attacks” and invoked the intercession of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in eliminating the threat of terrorism and in sowing peace and forgiveness in the heart of each person.According to a July 30 Vatican communique, the Pope stopped by the monastery and Church of St. Francis around 6p.m. loc...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 30, 2016 / 12:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis challenged massive crowds of young people at World Youth Day's final vigil to step away from the “sofa” of comfort and convenience, and respond to Christ's call to transform a suffering world.“Today Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the life, is calling you to leave your mark on history,” the Pope told the estimated 1.6 million people attending Saturday's vigil at the “Campus Misericordiae” – or “Field of Mercy.”In his address, the pontiff warned against opting “for ease and convenience, for confusing happiness with consumption,” because then “we end up paying a high price indeed: we lose our freedom.”“Jesus,” however, “is the Lord of risk, of the eternal 'more',” he said. “Following Jesus demands a good dose of courage, a readiness to trade in the sofa for a pair of walking shoes and...
By Junno Arocho EstevesKRAKOW,Poland (CNS) -- Humankind's cruelty did not end with the Holocaust, but rageson in the suffering of those living through war, homelessness and persecution,Pope Francis said."Thiscruelty exists today. We say: 'Yes, we have seen cruelty, 70 years ago; howthey died shot, hanged or gassed.' But today, in so many places in the worldwhere there is war, the same thing happens," the pope told a crowdgathered late July 29 outside the archbishop's residence in Krakow where he isstaying. The pope'swords came at the end of a day focused on the suffering of innocents. He hadbegun the day with a silent prayer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, followed by a visit to a local children'shospital and participation in the Way of the Cross with young people at BloniaPark. Calling it"a day of sorrow," the pope said that in following the Way of theCross, Christians were united in Jesus' sufferings. However, Christnot only "suffered 2,000 years ago," but ...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Dozens of families and some opposition fighters started leaving besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday after the government opened safe corridors for civilians and fighters who want to leave, state media reported....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In their struggle for the upper hand on national security, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are emphasizing strikingly different themes - he as the bold and cunningly unpredictable strongman who will eliminate terrorism; she as the calm, conventional commander in chief who will manage all manner of crises....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning about a potential for high-fatality accidents, safety investigators recommended two years ago that the Federal Aviation Administration impose greater oversight on hot air balloon operators, government documents show. The FAA rejected those recommendations....
