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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any notion that the past week's stunning violence signals a return to racial brutality of a dark past, saying that as painful as the killings of police and black men were, "America is not as divided as some have suggested."...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A suburban Minnesota police officer who killed a black driver reacted to the man's gun, not his race, his attorney said Saturday, giving the most detailed account so far of why the officer drew his own weapon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Since the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement three years ago, many white Americans have wrestled with how to respond. Some chose racist-tinged ridicule. Others, by word or deed, sought to show solidarity as blacks protested the deaths of fellow blacks in encounters with police. Still others, untouched personally, watched from a distance in silence....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn't unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt....
DALLAS (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of police officers in Dallas (all times local):...
DALLAS (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the gunman responsible for killing five Dallas police officers was a "demented individual" who does not represent black Americans any more than a white man accused of killing blacks at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, represents whites....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed his sadness following the death of Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, Archbishop of Florence between 1983 and 2001.In a telegramme to the current Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, the Pope says he shares in the grief of the Cardinal’s family and in that of the entire diocesan community.Cardinal Piovanelli, aged 92, passed away following a long illness which he had tackled “with serenity and trustful abandonment in the will of the Lord”.In the telegramme the Pope remembers “his dear brother who served the Gospel with joy and knowledge, loving the Church tenaciously”. The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, also expressed his condolences for the death of Cardinal Piovanelli describing him as a “point of reference for the faith and the life of the city of Florence”.Born in Tuscany in Ronta of Mugello on February 21, 1924, already by age 11 Piovanelli was attending the Florence ...
Pakistan on Saturday buried one of its most loved and admired sons who was revered as a ‘living saint” and “Pakistan’s Mother Teresa”. The state funeral of Abdul Sattar Edhi, one of Pakistan’s best-known philanthropists, was held at the National Stadium in Karachi, before he was buried on the outskirts of the city. Edhi died July 8, at age 88 at a hospital in Karachi, where he was suffering from renal failure. In an outpouring of grief, the nation of 190 million paid its last respects to a man whose service transcended social, ethnic and religious divisions. For over nearly 60 years Edhi's charitable arm, the Edhi Foundation, established clinics and orphanages across Pakistan and ran a vast fleet of ambulances, offering help to poor communities failed by inadequate public health and welfare services. At his funeral, Fr. Saleh Diego, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Karachi, laid a wreath of flowers on beh...
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is expecting an “explosion of mercy” at the 3rd Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE3) that will be held in Manila next week. This year’s theme is “Awa, Unawa, Gawa: The Filipino Experience of Mercy” and PCNE 3 is recorded in the Vatican as an official activity for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The three-day event, from July 15-17 will be held at the University of Santo Tomas Quadricentennial Pavilion in España, Manila. The Manila archbishop will be moderating a sharing of personal stories of mercy and celebrating the Liturgy of Mercy on the first day, and giving the main conference talk on “Missionaries of Mercy” on the third day.Cardinal Tagle sees this PCNE3 as a way of going deeper into mercy. At the Mass for the organizers, staff, volunteers and workers, he said PCNE3 “can be dangerous because it will confront the fa...
Des Moines, Iowa, Jul 9, 2016 / 06:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Iowa church fears the state civil rights commission could penalize it for preaching and following its views on homosexuality and transgender issues – including penalties for single-sex bathrooms.The Iowa Civil Rights Commission has produced a self-described guide to Iowa law for public accommodations providers concerning sexual orientation and gender identity.The brochure-sized guide says the 2007 Iowa Civil Rights Act applies to churches “sometimes.” It acknowledged that the law does not apply to religious institutions in the matter of a “bona fide religious purpose.”“Where qualifications are not related to a bona fide religious purpose, churches are still subject to the law’s provisions. (e.g. a child care facility operated at a church or a church service open to the public),” the pamphlet says.The pamphlet says the law bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientatio...
