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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Porfirio Guerrero has grown increasingly frustrated as a decade-long recession has sapped business from his tailor shop in the Puerto Rican capital. He now feels the only way for the island to recover is to become a full-fledged part of the United States, a sentiment that is gaining force in the territory....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A single elevator could have accommodated the donors who recently gathered with Hillary Clinton at the Pritzker family home in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. Small in number, the group was big in largesse, contributing at least $1 million to help elect her and other Democrats this fall....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- An adoring father of his four "princesses." A weeping bride-to-be, bent over her fiance's coffin. Two women looking forward to a few days' vacation with their husbands and their infant children. Victims of Tuesday night's attack at Istanbul's main airport have left behind mourning friends and relatives who are now struggling to deal with their loss. Here are some of their stories:...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried it out were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and police raided neighborhoods for suspects linked to the Islamic State group....
LONDON (AP) -- In a real-life political drama mixing Shakespearean tragedy with "House of Cards," Britain's victorious anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson saw his chances of leading his country evaporate Thursday after the defection of a key ally....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, the Pentagon announced Thursday, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces....
Nigeria is Africa's most densely populated country. About 20 million of a total of approximately 170 million Nigerians are Catholic. Some of the challenges currently facing the country are the terrorist organisation, Boko Haram and corruption. In an interview during a visit to the International Catholic pastoral charity, “Aid To The Church In Need,” Nigeria’s Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, (CBCN) Ignatius Kaigama, explained that the Church is dealing with the challenges.Describing the political climate in his country, Archbishop Kaigama said that before the general elections, pessimists were predicting the disintegration of Nigeria. However, the elections went off peacefully and for the first time in the history of the country an incumbent President lost and accepted his defeat.“We needed change, and this change came in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari. He has now been in office for about a ye...
The Faithful at Zimbabwe’s Holy Name Parish in Mabelreign last week organised a workshop on the Liturgy. The idea was to provide accurate and current liturgical knowledge to the laity. The workshop was facilitated by Fr Joseph Mahlahla, a lecturer at Chishawasha Major Seminary in Harare. Fr Mahlahla said the chief purpose of liturgy is to glorify God.He emphasised that the term Liturgy means public worship. It entails active participation of everyone in the work of God, and the most important thing to happen during a liturgical celebration should be our encounter with God.On sacred hymns during the Liturgy, Fr Mahlahla said people in the choir must not limit other people’s participation in the Liturgy. This sometimes means taking care not to introduce new songs into the celebration before they are taught to the congregation.About Prayers of the Faithful, Fr. Mahlahla noted that giving petitions that are of a personal nature is inappropriate. Everyone is supposed t...
(Vatican Radio) South Africa’s bishops have issued a warning about rising levels of political violence ahead of municipal elections to be held on August 3rd.In a statement sent to the Catholic Information Service for Africa, Bishop Abel Gabuza, chair of the bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission, invited members of all political parties to take part in a day of prayer for peace next Wednesday, July 6th.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In the statement, Bishop Gabuza says peace in South Africa should never be taken for granted. To maintain peace, he insists, requires the responsibility of all citizens and political maturity on the part of the country’s leaders, especially during the election period. “The current levels of political violence do not reflect this sense of responsibility,” he warns.In particular Bishop Gabuza says political leaders have not been “visible and loud enough in their condemnation of the recent factional viole...
Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, on Thursday ruled himself out of the running to be Britain’s next prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party.During a speech which many had tipped to be his campaign launch, Johnson, who was a key leader in the ‘Brexit’ campaign, said that he didn’t believe that he could provide the leadership or unity needed in Britain.Listen to the report by Georgia Gogarty: Following current Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to step down after Britain sensationally voted to leave the European Union in a referendum last week, the competition for the next Conservative Party Leader is now under way after nominations closed at noon today.Former mayor of London Boris Johnson, today took himself out of the race to be the next prime minister saying that after much thought and consultation, he was not the right man for the job.Johnson did express however that his role would be to give every possible support to...
