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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Former rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders urgently joined forces Monday to tamp down dissent among his supporters, as Democrats tried to keep infighting from overtaking a convention opening night featuring some of the party's biggest stars....
The bishops of Africa have issued a Message to the people of God following their just ended 17th Plenary Assembly in the Angolan capital Luanda. The message which calls for the stremgthning of the Family apostolate was read out at the the closing Mass of the meeting by the newly reelected President of SECAM, Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi of Lubango, Angola.Please find below the full message. But first, we have this report by Fr Paul Samasumo...Reading the Final Message of the Bishops of Africa to the people, during the Mass, the newly re-elected President of SECAM, Angola's Archbishop of Lubango Gabriel Mbilingi said that the Bishops of Africa have been meeting in Luanda to pursue concrete pastoral issues concerning the family. According to Archbishop Mbilingi, this has been in response to expectations as entrusted to them by Pope Francis in his Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia.In Amoris Laetitia Pope Francis called upon different communities to devise mo...
The Communications Office of SECAM has issued a press statment (below) following the reelection of Archbishop of Lubango as President of SECAM, the grouping of the bishops conferences of Africa and Madagascar. Also confirmed as Treasurer of the organization is Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana.PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE OF SECAMJULY 24, 2016 NR. 3Archbishop Mbilingi has been re-elected President of SECAMThe 17th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has ended today in Luanda, Angola with the re-election of Most Rev. Gabriel Mbilingi of Lubango, Angola as President of SECAM for a second term. First Vice-President: Most Rev. Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan, Bishop of Mouila, Gabon. He replaces Bishop Louis Portella-Mbuyu, Bishop of Kinkala, Congo Brazzaville, who did not stand for re-election.Most Rev. Anton Sithembele Sipuka, Bishop of Umtata, South Africa, replaces Most Rev. Gabriel J. Anokye...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyDURBAN,South Africa (CNS) -- The face of the AIDS epidemic has changed dramatically inrecent years as scientists have created antiretroviral drugs that lower levelsof the virus in the bloodstream, allowing those infected with HIV to liverelatively normal lives. Yetgetting those drugs into the hands of everyone who needs them remainsdifficult. Worldwide, only 17 million of the 36.7 million people who carry thevirus are receiving treatment, U.N. officials told delegates to theInternational AIDS Conference here. As long as those numbers do not improve,untreated carriers will continue to pass on the virus to others.Soa major point of discussion at the conference, which ended July 22, was how toget more drugs to more people. Despite what many dub "AIDS fatigue," Catholicsand other religious leaders recommitted themselves to work to expandtreatment, especially among children.Vaticanofficials have already begun pushing a unique project to rapidly...
BANGKOK (AP) -- For two years and more, it has been a lost ship, a metal container carrying 239 souls that simply disappeared one late Asian night never to be seen again. And now, the search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely will become a thing of memory, too....
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you have a Yahoo email account or regularly visit services like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, you might be wondering what will happen to the once-venerable brand once Verizon takes over....
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Gunfire erupted at a nightclub hosting a swimsuit-themed party for teens in Florida, leaving two teens dead and at least 17 other people wounded, officials said Monday....
BERLIN (AP) -- Four attacks in a week - three of them carried out by asylum seekers - have left Germany on edge and Chancellor Angela Merkel's policies of welcoming refugees under renewed criticism....
ANSBACH, Germany (AP) -- A Syrian man who tried unsuccessfully to claim asylum in Germany pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and vowed the nation's people "won't be able to sleep peacefully anymore" in a cell phone video before blowing himself up outside a wine bar, wounding 15 people, authorities said Monday....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- First came the hack, then the leak. Now, the Clinton and Trump campaigns are fighting over Russia's role in the release of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emails....
