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STOCKHOLM (AP) -- She was off duty and wearing a bikini but that didn't stop Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner from catching a suspected thief....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Nas, one of music's most revered lyricists and story tellers, is taking his talents into filmmaking....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Growth in the U.S. economy was sluggish again in the spring, dashing expectations for a robust rebound after a tough winter. Stronger consumer spending was offset by weakness in housing construction and a big slowdown in the pace that businesses restocked store shelves....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A traffic stop led to a gunbattle that killed an anti-gang police officer and seriously wounded another, authorities said Friday. A suspect was shot and taken into custody while authorities searched for others who may have been involved....
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) -- Pope Francis paid a somber visit in silence to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, with his only public comment a guest book entry begging God's "forgiveness for so much cruelty."...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The computers of the House Democratic campaign committee have been hacked in an intrusion that investigators say resembles the recent cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee, a spokeswoman for the committee said Friday....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hillary Clinton capped a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance. Now, one of the most divisive and distrusted figures in American politics must convince voters that she, rather than Republican rival Donald Trump, can bring a deeply divided nation together....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday was scheduled to visit Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków, Poland.The Basilica is the resting place of Saint Faustina Kowalska, the founder of the Divine Mercy devotion.Father Krzysztof Marcjanowicz is from Kraków and now works at the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.He told Vatican Radio the Devotion to Divine Mercy is important to the devotional life of the people of Poland.Listen to the Vatican Viewpoint featuring the interview with Krzysztof Marcjanowicz: “I think that devotion to the Divine Mercy in Poland is maybe the second largest religious idea immediately after the Madonna in Czestochowa,” – he said – “We feel the idea of Divine Mercy like our personal thoughts and personal thing that touches the heart of every one of us in Poland.”“Speaking of Divine Mercy, and speaking of God’s Mercy like a general idea: The Mercy is the way God acts with u...
(VATICAN RADIO) With Pope Francis visiting Auschwitz on Friday, many World Youth Day pilgrims have also been paying a visit to the Nazi concentration camp.The Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oswiecim was founded for all those who were touched by what happened in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps located there.Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane interviewed Fr. Manfred Deselaers, programme manager at the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer in Oswiecim, to find out what he hopes visitors will gain from their experience.Listen: “The first experience is always something like a shock,” Father explained“This negative experience of evil is very powerful, and my hope (and our task) is that this is not only a negative experience, that we do not go home depressed,” he added.Fr. Manfred hopes that guests do not leave Auschwitz doubting the goodness of the human race, nor doubting the goodness of God. Though after seeing such horrific marks left fr...
