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DALLAS (AP) -- When Micah Johnson opened fire on Dallas police in an act of vengeance against white officers, he was attacking a department whose chief has been lauded across the country for taking bold steps to root out bad cops and repair relations with minorities....
(Vatican Radio) An uneasy calm settled on the idyllic eastern Aegean island of Leros on Monday, after a weekend of incidents between frustrated migrants and local vigilante groups backed by police.John Carr reports from the Greek capital Athens: The clashes began on Saturday, when some 200 migrants broke out of the holding camps, where they’ve been penned up for months, and thronged the main town of Leros. They seem to have been protesting the actions of citizens’ groups who have demonstrated their opposition to the migrants’ long presence on the island.Some injuries were reported on Sunday, and several arrests, though riot police continued to be on standby on Monday.The clashes show that Greece’s intractable migrant problem has not gone away, and that many thousands of Middle Easterners who haven’t managed to get asylum papers face bleak and indefinite futures in similar camps across Greece.The vigilantes, on the other hand, claim that th...
(Vatican Radio) An election in Japan at the weekend has given additional power to the country’s ruling coalition. It comes at a time when the nation is tackling problems such as the population's low birth rate.Alastair Wanklyn reports from Tokyo on what changes may be in store:Listen: Claiming victory, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said support for his party and the ruling bloc is a vote of approval on economic policies to bring Japan out of stagnation.He promised to spend more on farmers and on expanding Japan's railway network.He has earlier spoken of making it easier for working families to have children, by expanding the number of places at nurseries.Critics say Abe has largely ignored other social problems, including high levels of hidden poverty and a shift away from permanent jobs.There is also massive depopulation of rural areas. Abe has ruled out immigration, despite the fact that around 8 million homes in Japan are empty.Meanwhile, Prime Minister...
Wichita, Kan., Jul 11, 2016 / 12:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Diocese of Wichita is offering prayers for a seminarian who is missing after rescuing a woman in the Arkansas River on Saturday. Brian Bergkamp, age 24, had finished his second year at seminary. He was scheduled to be ordained a priest in 2018.The seminarian was kayaking with four friends July 9 on the Arkansas River. They hit rough water, and one of the women in the group fell out of her kayak.Bergkamp plunged in after the woman and was able to help her reach safety, but he was then pulled under by the strong current, according to officials.Search crews are still looking for the missing seminarian, and prayer services are being held every evening at St. Anne Catholic Church in Wichita until he is found.Those who knew the seminarian described him as selfless and said they were not surprised by his act of self-sacrifice to save the life of another.“He would go out of his way to help someone and forget about his ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Erik Lesser, EPA By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The shootingof police officers July 7 near the end of a demonstration in Dallas to protestfatal shootings by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier in theweek "calls us to a moment of national reflection," said thepresident of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."To all people of goodwill,let us beg for the strength to resist the hatred that blinds us to our commonhumanity," said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, in aJuly 8 statement.The archbishop described thesniper attack on the Dallas police officers "an act of unjustifiableevil."He said the "police are nota faceless enemy" but people offering their lives to protect others. Healso noted "the suspects in crimes or routine traffic stops are not just afaceless threat" but members of families in "need of assistance,protection and fairness.""When compassion does notdrive our response to the suffering of either, we have failed oneanother," Archb...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday. The new American forces should arrive in the coming weeks....
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) -- In the days following her 18-year-old daughter's first arrest on heroin charges, Stephanie Moyer took solace in thinking she would be safe in jail until she got into a treatment program....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here's her mother, Lauren Glaros: "When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked," she says. Then we see Trump, his hands jerking in front of his body as he imitates a reporter who has a condition that limits his arm movement....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Presidential battleground states were supposed to be swarming with Republican Party workers by now....
LONDON (AP) -- After all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign....
