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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Angry House Republicans are announcing plans to investigate FBI Director James Comey's decision against pressing criminal charges for Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified emails....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. will slow the pace of its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving 8,400 troops there when President Barack Obama completes his term, Obama announced Wednesday in a blunt acknowledgment that America will remain entangled there despite his aspirations to end the war....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department opened a federal civil rights investigation Wednesday into the videotaped police killing of a black man who was shot as officers wrestled with him on the pavement outside a convenience store....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday morning met with the parents of an American student who was killed in Rome.Beau Solomon, a 19-year-old student taking part in a summer study abroad program, was reported missing Friday evening. His body was found in the Tiber River on Monday following an extensive search. A homeless man was arrested in connection with Solomon’s death, with police saying the man was “seriously suspected of aggravated homicide.”In a statement following the Pope’s meeting with Solomon’s parents, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, said Pope Francis expressed his “feelings of deep sympathy and compassion” and “his closeness in prayer to the Lord for the young man who died so tragically.”Solomon’s parents arrived in Rome on Monday evening. On Tuesday, the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, John Phillips, released a statement saying, “I was saddened to learn of the trag...
South Sudan’s Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe of the Catholic Diocese of Yei has urged the government to speed-up investigation into the shooting of Sr. Veronika Terézia Racková. The Slovakian was a religious sister and medical doctor who died on 20 May at the Nairobi Hospital in Kenya, where she had been flown for emergency treatment.Bishop Lodu Tombe told South Sudan’s Radio Easter Tuesday that, “the judiciary should not delay the results of investigations” noting that culprits “must be brought to justice.” He further urged the faithful “to have hope, courage and unite in faith to serve God and his people.”The Bishop was speaking in Lutaya Parish, Yei, on the occasion of a Memorial Mass to mark one month since the demise and burial of Sr. RackováThe late Sr. Veronika Terézia Racková is buried at the diocesan cemetery of St Joseph’s parish Lutaya, South Sudan, about 170 Kilometres south-west of th...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Wednesday with a large group of French pilgrims, including very poor and homeless people supported by the Sappel community. The group of 200 pilgrims from the Lyon region of France is marking the upcoming one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Fr Joseph Wresinski who founded the ATD Fourth World international movement working for the eradication of chronic poverty across the globe.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his words to the group, the Pope stressed the important witness that this pilgrimage provides of walking together and supporting each other. He told his guests how welcome they were in the Vatican and reminded them that Jesus came to share in their condition of poverty and rejection by the people of his day.Quoting the words of Fr Wresinski, Pope Francis said ‘You are in the heart of the Church’ because Jesus always gave priority to the poor and suffering. You help us to encounter Jesus, he said, not thro...
Sacramento, Calif., Jul 6, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A California court ruled last week that ChristianMingle and it’s affiliate faith-based dating websites must allow LGBT singles to search and be matched with people of the same gender.The ruling comes at the end of a 2.5 year legal battle after two gay men noticed in 2013 that new members to the popular dating site, which boasts over 15 million users, could only search for dates of the opposite sex.The men filed a lawsuit on discrimination charges against Spark Networks, which owns ChristianMingle and a host of other faith-based dating websites, including CatholicMingle, JDate (Jewish Date), and LDSSingles.com, the “largest dating site by Mormons for Mormons.”“Spark has engaged in a systemic and intentional pattern and practice of arbitrary discrimination against gays and lesbians throughout California by denying them full and equal services, accommodations, advantages and privileges in connection wi...
Vatican City, Jul 6, 2016 / 03:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After the tragic death of Beau Solomon in Rome late last week, Pope Francis met with the young student’s parents, who traveled to the city once they heard that their son was missing.“This morning…around 9a.m. the Pope met with the parents of Beau Solomon, the young American student found dead in the Tiber during the past few days,” a July 6 communique from the Holy See Press Office read.Francis, it said, expressed his sentiments of “deep sympathy and compassion,” as well as his closeness in prayer for the youth, who “so tragically passed away.”Pope Francis’ encounter with the Solomon parents took place shortly before an audience with a group of 200 sick and disabled pilgrims from the French diocese of Lyon, headed by Cardinal Philippe Barbarin. It was just two days after the young student’s body had been found in the Tiber River.Beau, 19, was a sophomore visiting from ...
MADRID (AP) -- A Barcelona court on Friday gave Lionel Messi and his father suspended sentences of 21 months in prison for tax fraud....
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian described by a judge as a "fallen hero," was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in a South African prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in a ruling viewed by some as too lenient....
