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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan sheriff pledged Tuesday to review his department's guidelines for transporting suspects charged with violent crimes after an inmate who was cuffed in front rather than behind his back wrested a gun from a deputy and killed two court bailiffs....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to picking a new president, young people in America are united in saying education is what matters most. But there's a wide split in what else will drive their votes....
DALLAS (AP) -- After each fatal shooting of a black man by an officer, President Barack Obama has swiftly spoken out against bad policing, giving voice to the generations of African-Americans who have found themselves at the wrong end of a baton, a snarling dog or a gun....
(Vatican Radio) As tens of thousands of people are displaced by violence in Juba, the capital city of South Sudan, the Catholic Church and other faith-based groups are doing their best to offer protection and aid despite a total lack of means.Fighting erupted four days ago in Juba between followers of President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, the former rebel leader who became vice president under a deal to end a two-year civil war.Speaking to Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni just moments after meeting with South Sudan’s Vice President and other top government officials, the Archbishop of Juba, Paulino Lukudu Loro said the humanitarian situation is so desperate “this is the moment, for anyone that can, to step in and save lives”.Archbishop Lukudu also said that on a political level the cessation of hostilities agreed on Monday evening seems to be holding, and that now the government needs to recompose and take decisions for the good of the nation which risks...
Vatican City, Jul 12, 2016 / 11:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After the appointment of two laypersons as the new directors of the Holy See Press Office, Msgr. Dario Vigano said that while their roles haven’t yet been clearly defined amid ongoing reforms, the two will play a key role in Vatican communications.Following the July 11 announcement of Greg Burke and Paloma Garcia Ovejero as director and vice director, respectively, of the Holy See Press Office, Msgr. Dario Viganò – prefect of the Secretariat for Communications – said the two could count on him to “lend a hand in the building of this great family of communications.”He told journalists the new appointments are an occasion to “discuss some aspects” of what the role of director and vice director of the press office will be amid the ongoing reform of Vatican communications, adding that these roles “will be fully understood later.”He pointed out that the Press Office is one...
Vatican City, Jul 12, 2016 / 12:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After a head-on train collision killed 20 people in the southern Italian region of Puglia, Pope Francis voiced his grief over the incident and offered prayers for the victims and their families.“His Holiness Pope Francis expresses his heartfelt and genuine participation in the sorrow striking so many families,” Vatican secretary of state Archbishop Pietro Parolin wrote on the Pope's behalf.“He assures his fervent prayers of repose for those who tragically died and, while invoking the Lord for a swift recovery for the injured, entrusts to the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary the many who are affected by dramatic grief, and sends the comfort of his Apostolic Blessing.”Dozens were injured – some critically – and at least 20 people killed when two trains crashed while apparently traveling towards each other on the same track. The collision happened around 11:30 a.m. local time on Tuesda...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Catholic AdvanceBy Christopher M. RiggsWICHITA, Kan. (CNS) -- Brian Bergkamp,a seminarian from the Diocese of Wichita who was studying at a Marylandseminary, is believed dead after saving the life of a woman who fell into theArkansas River July 9.By mid-day July 12, he remainedmissing. Friends and family members remember were holding vigils to pray forthe recovery of his body.Bergkamp, 24, was among fivepeople traveling in separate kayaks when all got caught in turbulent waters.According to The Wichita Eagle newspaper, Bergkamp jumped from his kayak tosave the woman before getting pulled under himself. He was not wearing a lifejacket. The other kayakers made it to shore."I knew Brian to be anexceptional seminarian, well on his way to demonstrating so many of thequalities needed to be a good and faithful priest," Wichita Bishop Carl A.Kemme wrote in an email to The Catholic Advance, the diocesan newspaper. "Ipersonally looked forward to the day when I might be able t...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Forget everything you think you know about the new "Ghostbusters" movie....
MILAN (AP) -- Survivors described being thrown forward violently and then freeing themselves from a tangle of metal and body parts after two Italian commuter trains collided head-on Tuesday in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least 22 people and injuring scores more....
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) -- Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited the world's largest refugee camp on her 19th birthday Tuesday and voiced concern that Kenya's plans to close it could create "a generation lost."...
