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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto reaffirmed the importance of the US-Mexico relationship Friday, promoting the benefits of trade and friendship in an election year that has sometimes stressed that alliance....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Military school cadets who were arrested following the failed coup in Turkey were unwitting participants because their commanders told them they would be attending a "surprise party" for the new head of the academy, relatives of the youths said Friday....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, an avowed white supremacist, officially signed up Friday to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, saying "the climate of this country has moved in my direction."...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A top Turkish official on Friday accused the United States of "standing up for savages" by not immediately handing over a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who the government claims orchestrated last week's failed coup. Speaking in Washington, President Barack Obama said there was a legal process for extradition and encouraged Turkey to present evidence....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump pivoted back to the GOP primaries on Friday, choosing to re-litigate a pair of months-old battles with rival Ted Cruz....
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Hillary Clinton will introduce her running mate Friday, seeking to snatch attention from newly crowned Republican nominee Donald Trump just hours after he closed out his convention with a fiery and foreboding turn at the podium....
MUNICH (AP) -- Munich police warned people to avoid public places Friday as they hunted for the shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall, killing six people and wounding others in a rampage described as "suspected terrorism," police and media reports said....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written the preface to a new book on Mother Teresa entitled “let us love those who are unloved” that is based on two speeches given by her during a meeting with young people and with religious sisters in Milan in 1973. Founder of the Missionaries of Charity order, Mother Teresa will be proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis on September 4th. In his preface, the Pope reflected on the five themes of prayer, charity, works of mercy, family and young people.Listen to this report by Susy Hodges: Pope Francis noted that Mother Teresa always began her day by going to Mass and ended it with the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. In this way, he said, it’s possible to transform our work into prayer. If we enter into the feelings of Jesus we can savour life and give a renewed look to those we meet. Turning next to charity, the Pope explained that this means being close to all those on the peripheries that we meet every ...
(Vatican Radio) What is the future of interfaith dialogue in Asia today? What have been the most successful models for the inculturation of Christianity into Chinese society? What are the new frontiers for interreligious and ecumenical encounter in this rapidly-developing region?Those are some of the questions on the agenda at a conference in Hong Kong organised by the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, entitled ‘Christianity and Religions in China: past, present and future’.Philippa Hitchen is in Hong Kong and reports on the setting for the third day of the conference, hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong…Listen: The Chinese University of Hong Kong was founded over half a century ago with a mission to combine the ancient wisdom of the East with the latest developments of Western research and technology. Its sprawling, wooded campus is located in the New Territories, not far from the ...
(VATICAN RADIO) 10 news professionals have already been killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of this year.2016 has been the most dangerous year for journalists in Afghanistan with 54 incidents of violence having occurred in the first half of the year, according to a new report by the Afghan Journalists' Safety Committee. This is a 38 percent increase of attacks on journalists since the same period in 2015.The incidents included killings, assaults, detentions and intimidation. Behind the attacks were Afghanistan’s own government, the Taliban, and other private groups, including War Lords and the Mafia.Katie Ascough spoke with Najib Sharifi, Director of the Afghan Journalist Safety Committee, to find out more about which types of journalists are being targeted and what role the Afghan government is playing in these attacks.Listen: “It’s very disappointing to see the government itself being responsible for a huge number of cases while the gov...
