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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Elie Wiesel never lived in Israel, but on Sunday the country mourned the death of the esteemed author and Nobel peace laureate as though it had lost a national icon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered and praised the endurance and eloquence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and mourned him as one of the last firsthand witnesses to the Nazis' atrocities....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton and her high-powered campaign stand-ins are talking about trust everywhere they speak these days, and for good reason....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A devastating truck bombing on a bustling commercial street in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people early Sunday, brutally underscoring the Islamic State group's ability to strike the capital despite a string of battlefield losses elsewhere in the country....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed his condolences to victims of an attack by suspected Islamic militants in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.In a telegram addressed to the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Pope Francis “expresses heartfelt condolences and condemns such barbarous acts as offences against God and humanity.”Here is the full text of the telegram:“Deeply saddened by the senseless violence perpetrated against innocent victims in Dhaka, His Holiness Pope Francis expresses heartfelt condolences and condemns such barbarous acts as offences against God and humanity. In commending the dead to God’s mercy, His Holiness gives the assurance of his prayers for the grieving families and the wounded.”Islamist militants killed 20 people, most of them foreigners, inside a restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ended a 12-hour stando...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed the Angelus this Sunday with pilgrims and tourists gathered in a sun-drenched St. Peter’s Square. He used his words to the crowd ahead of the traditional noonday prayer of Marian devotion to reflect on the different ways in which Christians of every age, state, and calling in the Church can respond to the common baptismal vocation to be missionaries – Ambassadors of Christ in daily life, to people near and far.Click below to hear our report “What is the spirit with which the disciple of Jesus will carry out this mission?” Pope Francis asked. “First of all: the Christian must be aware of the difficult and sometimes hostile reality that awaits him; Jesus minces no words on that; in fact, Jesus says, ‘I am sending you like lambs among wolves’.”“Hostility,” continued the Holy Father, “is always at the beginning of the persecution of Christians, because Jesus knows that the mission is ...
Vatican City, Jul 3, 2016 / 04:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday, Pope Francis remembered the victims of attacks in Iraq and Bangladesh over the weekend, and prayed for the conversion of persons “blinded by hate” who commit such acts of violence.“I express my closeness to the families of the victims and the wounded in yesterday's attack in Dhaka, and also of that which took place in Baghdad,” the Pope said during his weekly post-Angelus in St. Peter's Square.“Let us pray together for them, for the departed, and let us ask the Lord to convert the hearts of the violent, blinded by hate.” The pontiff then led the crowds in the Hail Mary.Around 80 people have been killed and more than a hundred wounded after a pair of bombs detonated in Baghdad late Saturday, the BBC reports. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.According to the BBC, the first car bomb struck the Iraqi capital's Kerrada shopping and restaurant...
APOPKA, Florida (AP) -- Many of the single-family homes in the Piedmont Park neighborhood of Apopka, Florida, used to be owned by families - the Vargases and the Townes, the Pierces and the Riddles. Now, they're owned by Blackstone, American Homes 4 Rent and Colony Starwood Homes, companies associated with big real estate investment firms....
BELLOY-EN-SANTERRE, France (AP) -- In the end, Alan Seeger's bones could no longer be distinguished from those of his Foreign Legion comrades who had fallen alongside him in one of the most brutal battles of World War I....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A week after Britain's shocking vote to leave the European Union, markets seem to have pushed the pause button....
