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PARIS (AP) -- The Latest on the attack on a French church claimed by Islamic State group (all times local):...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Taking her place in history, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night will become the first woman to lead a major party toward the White House, a triumphant moment for Democrats to relish before plunging into a bruising general election against Republican Donald Trump....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Sorry, Democrats. #ElectMichelle will never be more than a wishful hashtag....
(Vatican Radio) Three Hong Kong activists have asked the High Court to review an election commission ruling that could bar anyone advocating for independence from China from standing in an upcoming poll. The move marks the first legal challenge to the decision that was supported by the Chief Executive, Beijing's representative in the city.For the first time, candidates for September's Legislative Council election will be required to pledge that Hong Kong is an "inalienable" part of China.A poll released by the Chinese University of Hong Kong at the weekend showed about one in six residents want the Special Administrative Region of China to become independent of the mainland.Tensions have grown over the past two years, with activists saying China is failing to abide by the Basic Law agreement regulating its ‘one country, two systems’ status.Mary Yuen works as a researcher in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where a...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis begins a 5-day pastoral visit to Poland tomorrow during which he will attend the World Youth Day gathering in the city of Krakow and also visit the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz–Birkenhau. Other highlights of his journey include a visit to the revered Monastery of Jasna Gora at Czestochowa where the Pope will celebrate a Mass marking the 1050th anniversary of the baptism of Poland.Our correspondent in Krakow covering this papal visit is Lydia O’Kane and she filed this report on the atmosphere in the city on the eve of the Pope’s arrival:
Krakow, Poland, Jul 26, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As World Youth Day approaches, the Archbishop of Krakow recently spoke with EWTN Deutschland about the “city of saints” hosting the gathering, and about its most famous son – St. John Paul II.“You ask me where I have seen [John Paul II's] holiness. Well, we know that he was a very talented man – a writer, a poet, a speaker, an actor; but most of all, a great pray-er,” Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz told EWTN's Robert Rauhut.Cardinal Dziwisz was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Krakow in 1963 by St. John Paul II, who was then an auxiliary bishop of the city. Wojtyla was appointed archbishop the following year, and then-Fr. Dziwisz became his secretary soon thereafter – a role in which he served until the Pope's death in 2005.He said St. John Paul II “had already discovered the importance of prayer as a boy back in Wadowice. He organized his whole life in a way such...
Vatican City, Jul 26, 2016 / 07:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has decried the “absurd violence” which has left an elderly priest dead after his church in northern France was taken hostage during Mass.In a statement released Tuesday by the Vatican, the Pope, having been informed of the situation, “participates in the pain and horror of this absurd violence,” while radically condemning “every form of hatred.”The statement said the pontiff is praying for those affected by the tragedy, which took place in the Normandy region, adding that the Vatican is following the situation.Fr. Jacques Hamel, 84, was killed Tuesday after two armed gunmen stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, the BBC reports. The assailants entered the church and took the celebrating priest and four others hostage.The BBC further cites police sources which say the priest’s throat was slit in the attack.Reuters reports that both of the hostage takers w...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Pascal Rossignol/ReutersBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The murder of a priest in northernFrance, taken hostage with a handful of other faithful during a weekday morningMass July 26, is another act of "absurd violence" added to too manystories of senseless violence and death, said the Vatican spokesman.Pope Francis was informed about the hostage situation at thechurch in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvraynear Rouen and the murder of 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel, said JesuitFather Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman."With pain and horror" for the "absurdviolence," Pope Francis expressed his condemnation of "every form of hatred"and offered his prayers for all those involved."We are particularly stricken because this horribleviolence occurred in a church -- a sacred place in which the love of God isproclaimed -- with the barbaric killing of a priest," Father Lombardisaid.Police said two men, armed with knives, entered the church duringMass. They reportedly slit the t...
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Dr. Dre has been cited after a man says the rapper pointed a handgun at him....
