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NEW DELHI (AP) -- The young men had been missing for months. Their families sensed something was wrong....
Vatican City, Jul 4, 2016 / 10:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his most recently-published interview, Pope Francis expressed his dislike of conflict with so-called “ultra conservative” Catholics, but added that he's not held back by it.“They do their work and I do mine,” the Pope said in Spanish during his interview with Joaquín Morales Solá, a journalist of the Argentine daily La Nacion, published July 3.It was Morales who used the term “ultraconservatives” in his question.Francis responded, saying, “I want an open, understanding Church which accompanies wounded families,” whereas ultraconservatives in the Church “say no to everything.”However, the Roman Pontiff suggested he was undeterred by such attitudes.“I continue my path without looking over my shoulder,” he said. “I don't cut off heads. I have never liked doing that.”“I repeat: I reject conflict.”Morales sai...
Washington D.C., Jul 4, 2016 / 12:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Both the Catholic Church and the tradition of religious freedom can trace their roots in the United States to the earliest days of the founding of Maryland, says a new documentary premiering on EWTN over the Fourth of July Weekend.Greg Hendrick, producer of the documentary, “Catholic Beginnings: Maryland,” told CNA that “many of the roots of Catholicism in America originated in Maryland.”“It’s an essential part of U.S. history, not just for Catholics, but for all interested in exploring the grounds on which religious freedom and tolerance were founded.”The eight-part series premiered on EWTN beginning July 3 at 6:30 p.m. EST. While Maryland was not the first place to have Catholic populations in what would become the U.S. – Spanish colonies and French trading outposts were settled first – the EWTN series focuses on Maryland because of its major role in both Amer...
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Conservative prime minister is stepping down. The Labour Party leader is barely clinging to power. And now the head of the U.K. Independence Party, a key architect of the dramatic vote to leave the European Union, has resigned as well....
HAVANA (AP) -- Miranda Hernandez' grandparents lost everything when they fled Cuba in the 1960s. She grew up thinking of the island as "North Korea with nice beaches," she said. ...
ROME (AP) -- The body of a teenage Wisconsin student who went missing shortly after he arrived for an exchange program was found in the Tiber River on Monday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The top U.N. official in Syria on Monday demanded immediate and unconditional humanitarian access to tens of thousands of people trapped in four towns, warning of starvation....
From fireworks soaring above the Washington Monument to hot dogs being downed in New York City's famed frank-eating contest, Americans aren't shy about celebrating their nation's birthday. Many places are rolling out long-established Independence Day traditions on Monday (even if some of those traditions aren't as long-established as they sound). Some communities are trying new things to mark the holiday, even as others are paring back. Some Fourth of July highlights fro...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- State-linked Saudi news websites reported an explosion Monday near one of Islam's holiest sites in the city of Medina, as two suicide bombers struck in different cities without killing anyone....
