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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Bernie Sanders, whose calls for a "political revolution" energized millions of voters across the nation, offered a long-awaited endorsement of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Tuesday, calling for unity just two weeks shy of the Democratic National Convention....
(Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of people have marked the 21st anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust and attended the funeral of 127 newly-found victims. They gathered on the outskirts of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in an area where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb forces.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: In sweltering heat, family members hugged coffins for the last time before their loved ones were laid to rest at the memorial-cemetery complex in Srebrenica. The remains were burried next to 6,337 other victims found previously in mass graves. The youngest victim burried this year was 14, the oldest 77. Some 8,000 men and boys were killed in this region by nationalist Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic. They executed them after overrunning Srebrenica pn July 11, 1995, near the end of Bosnia’s war and dumped their bodies in pits.UN HELPLESSOutnumbered and outgunned Du...
(Vatican Radio) The head of the Holy See press office, Fr Federico Lombardi, has issued a clarification regarding comments by the head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, Cardinal Robert Sarah. The papal spokesman says the comments, made during a conference in London last week, were “wrongly interpreted” and do not represent new guidelines for priests about which way to face during the celebration of Mass.In a statement issued on Monday evening, Fr Lombardi said that Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has always been “rightly concerned about the dignity of the celebration of the Mass” so that it adequately expresses “an attitude of respect and adoration of the Eucharistic mystery”.However he noted that the cardinal’s words were misinterpreted by some parts of the media to suggest that new liturgical directives would be introduced next Advent regarding the question of w...
(Vatican Radio) Bishop Miguel Guixot, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligiuos Dialogue, will meet senior officials of Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo Wednesday, 13 July. The visit comes at the express wish of Pope Francis following his historic meeting with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Prof. Ahmad Al-Tayyib in the Vatican 23 May 2016.In a note, the Council for Interreligious Dialogue said Bishop Guixot will take part in a preliminary meeting together with the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, Archbishop Bruno Musarò and Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk, member of the Council of Senior Scholars of Al-Azhar University and the university’s Director of the Center for Dialogue, to explore avenues for the resumption of dialogue between Al-Azhar and the Pontifical Council.In May, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Professor Ahmad Al-Tayyib, granted an exclusive interview to the Vatican media following his meeting with Pope Francis....
Washington D.C., Jul 12, 2016 / 03:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Every minute, 20 people in the United States alone are victims of intimate partner violence.Nearly 1 in 2 women and 1 in 5 men have been victims of sexual violence other than rape at some point in their lives.The numbers are staggering. But amid the silent epidemic of domestic violence, Catholics are banding together to work for change.“Now is really a privileged moment in the Church,” said Dr. Christauria Welland, founder of the group Pax in Familia, which works to prevent domestic abuse.Dr. Welland spoke with CNA at the “Help, Hope, and Healing” symposium exploring a Catholic response to domestic abuse and violence, held July 7-8 in Washington, D.C.She recalled how the Vatican had sent out a questionnaire ahead of the synods on the family, asking about challenges for families around the world. She looked at the questions, reached out to her bishop, and talked to him about the challenges of domestic ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Giancarlo Stanton wore out Petco Park with a record display of power in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, peppering every landmark from the left field corner to center field....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A tribunal ruled in a sweeping decision Tuesday that China has no legal basis for its extensive claims in the South China Sea and had aggravated the seething regional dispute with its large-scale land reclamation and construction of artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and the natural condition of the disputed areas....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary, a worrisome sign as she tries to reassemble the coalition that twice propelled Barack Obama into the White House....
MILAN (AP) -- Two Italian commuter trains collided Tuesday in the southern region of Puglia, killing a dozen people, firefighters said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will be in a different city but still in an all-too-familiar place when he leads the nation in honoring more lives cut short by a man with a gun....
