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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Straining to shore up Republican unity, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will urge conservatives to shed their unease about Donald Trump Wednesday night as he makes his national convention debut as the businessman's running mate....
(Vatican Radio) Bishop Robert Muench of Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital where three policemen were shot dead by an African American former Marine, says the mood in the city is somber and he describes how the Catholic Church and community leaders are attempting to calm racial tensions. Tensions had been running high in Baton Rouge since July 5th when a black man was shot dead by police there, prompting days of angry protests by the African American community. Bishop Muench spoke to Susy Hodges about the challenges facing the city and what the Church is doing to promote dialogue and healing.Listen to the interview with Bishop Robert Muench of Baton Rouge: Bishop Muench said prayer vigils and fasting were taking place throughout this week and his diocese was planning to hold a special Sunday Mass at the city’s cathedral. He described the mood in Baton Rouge as somber, reflective and prayerful and noted that the man accused of killing the th...
(Vatican Radio) The complex world of Christianity in China is the focus of an ecumenical conference that opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Organised by the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, the four day meeting brings together theologians and scholars to explore the past, present and future of the Churches in China, as well as in the wider Asian context. Philippa Hitchen is attending the conference and talked to two of the key speakers at the opening session, Anglican Archbishop Paul Kwong and Bishop Michael Yeung, auxiliary of the Catholic diocese of Hong Kong…Listen: “Dialogue is a must” because “differences cannot be resolved by accusations and insults”. While those words resonate with anyone involved in ecumenical endeavours, they take on a particular resonance when spoken here in Hong Kong, where the Churches struggle to uphold an uneasy yet vital relationship with the Communist Party leadership in mainland Chin...
Washington D.C., Jul 20, 2016 / 10:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic News Service has named Greg Erlandson, former president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, as its new director and editor-in-chief.The appointment was announced Wednesday by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) General Secretary Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield."Greg brings a remarkable combination of management expertise, journalism skills and demonstrated service to the Church at the national and international level. I am confident he will prove to be an important resource to the clients of CNS," Msgr. Bransfield said.Erlandson has been with Indiana-based Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) since 1989, and has spent 16 years as its president and publisher.He began his career at the National Catholic Register, where he served as an editor, before becoming a correspondent for the CNS Rome Bureau in 1986. He also served for a brief time in the Washington, D.C. offices of CNS before leaving to join OSV in 1989.&ldquo...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Greg ErlandsonBy Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- GregErlandson, former president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, has been nameddirector and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service, effective Sept. 12.Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield,general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced theappointment July 20."Greg brings a remarkablecombination of management expertise, journalism skills and demonstrated serviceto the church at the national and international level. I am confident he will proveto be an important resource to clients of CNS," Msgr. Bransfield said in astatement.Erlandson, 62, stepped down fromhis position at OSV in Huntington, Indiana, after nearly 27 years with thecompany. He was named OSV editor in 1989 and was promoted to editor-in-chiefof its editorial operations in 1992. He was named president and publisher in2000."CNS is one of the gifts of theU.S. church to the rest of the Catholic world," Erlandson said in response to a...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kathleen Carroll, the executive editor of The Associated Press for the last 14 years, will leave her post at the end of the year....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish officials say an attempted coup by a segment of the military over the weekend was put down in about 10-12 hours. At least 260 people were killed, and 1,400 wounded in violence that rattled the country's two major cities. Bombs hit the parliament and other state buildings, tanks drove over civilians and there was an attempted assassination of the country's strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Cracking down on alleged subversives in education, Turkey said Wednesday that it will close more than 600 private schools and dormitories following an attempted coup, spurring fears that the state's move against perceived enemies is throwing key institutions in the NATO ally into disarray....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Donald Trump's push for a border wall is not a new idea. The U.S.-Mexico border is already lined with intermittent miles of barriers. In some places, a tall fence ascends desert hills. In others, sturdy wire mesh or metal pillars end suddenly....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- To chants of "2020, 2020," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday left open the possibility of a second White House run even as Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland to accept the GOP presidential nomination....
