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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, taking dozens of hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces, authorities and a witness said....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Attention focused Friday on whether a Chechen extremist known to be a top lieutenant in the Islamic State group was involved in the suicide attacks that killed 44 people at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Friday that as many as 116 civilians have been killed by drone and other U.S. strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since President Barack Obama took office in 2009....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expressing regret that she sat down with Bill Clinton while his wife is under federal criminal investigation, a chance encounter she acknowledges "cast a shadow" on the public's perception of a case bound to influence the presidential campaign....
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The FBI is being sued by survivors of the Charleston church shooting, who say federal negligence enabled Dylann Roof to buy the .45-caliber handgun he used....
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend for July 2, 2016 features a special programme stemming from a remark made by Pope Francis relating to the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz Birkenau which he is scheduled to visit at the end of July. In a remark made during the inflight press conference on his way back to Rome from Armenia when reflecting on his upcoming journey to Poland he said that in a place like this, he likes to reflect silently, “alone,” praying that the Lord might grant him “the grace of crying.” So to set the scene for this sobering visit we bring you a couple of features focusing on the visits there of his predecessors to the See of Peter: Benedict XVI and Saint John Paul II. On a different note, for the series 'Blood, Sweat and Tears in the Bible' we share with you the story of the Prophet Nathan, recounted for us by scripture scholar and Archbishop of Brisbane in Australia Mark Benedict Coleridge. The programme ends w...
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend for July 3, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel presented by Jill Bevilacqua for the series 'There's More in the Sunday gospel than Meets the Eye'. The programme ends with 'Joan knows...', a bird's eye view of the past week in the Vatican with Joan Lewis, EWTN bureau chief here in Rome.Listen to a programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis had a private meeting in the Vatican on Friday with Rome’s newly elected mayor, Virginia Raggi of the ‘5 Star Movement’.The 37 year old lawyer is the youngest person ever to head Rome’s City Council, as well as the first female mayor of the Eternal City.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: Virginia Raggi swept to victory in the run-off election last month, capturing over 67% of the vote for her anti-establishment party. She pledged to tackle the city’s most enduring problems, from traffic congestion, to waste management, from lack of social housing to the endemic corruption that erupted most recently in the Mafia Capitale scandals.At the meeting with Pope Francis, Raggi was accompanied by her parents and her six year old son Matteo, as well as by members of her staff. She also brought with her a tablet, on which she showed the Pope a collection of video-messages recorded by Roman citizens living in some of the po...
A priest in the western Indian Archdiocese of Bombay is committed to bringing in the life of the faithful the environmental encyclical of Pope Francis, “Laudato Si.” Fr. Magi Murzello, the new rector of St. Andrews College in Bandra, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), describes himself as eco-friendly. The priest who has a doctorate in Environmental Sciences, intends "to translate into a creative and pedagogical manner, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Sì" including its content in the worship and devotional practices. Fr. Magi conducted a ‘Stations of the Cross” focussing on issues of environmental degradation, which led to a discussion on "Do not waste God’s gifts" and ended with the cleaning of a beach. He explained to Vatican’s Fides news agency that he wants to deepen the different chapters of Laudato Sì, to raise awareness in all the people of God on issues such as dialogue, integral...
Nepal has finalized rules for granting aid money to families seeking to rebuild homes destroyed in a set of devastating earthquakes that hit the Himalayan country last year. Under pressure to speed up reconstruction, Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli said that payments of an equivalent of $1,850 would be made to families in two installments, instead of three as originally planned. He also said the first installment would cover 75 percent of the total. The decision was cheered by some of the millions left homeless by the disaster, many of whom have been living in tents or makeshift shacks through winter snows and the monsoon rains.Nearly 1 million homes were destroyed in the April 25, 2015, earthquake and strong aftershocks. Since then, only 13,616 families have received partial aid money for reconstruction. Nepal estimates the total reconstruction bill will come to $7.86 billion, of which $4.1 billion has been pledged by foreign governments and donor a...
