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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Britain's vote to leave the European Union adds a heavy dose of uncertainty to a world economy that is still struggling to reach full speed years after the global financial crisis....
(Vatican Radio) Also on Friday, Pope Francis appointed Indian Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt Apostolic Nuncio to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia. Archbishop Chullikatt who is already Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based in Kazakh capital Astana, was the Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2010 to 2014. Before that, the 63 year old prelate from southern Indian’s Kerala state served as Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1988 and served in the Holy See’s missions in Honduras, in various countries of southern Africa, in the Philippines, at the UN and in the Secretariat of State in the Vatican.
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday met with Armenia’s political, diplomatic and civil society representatives, recalling both the genocide suffered by the nation a century ago and the suffering of Christians around the world today.The Pope’s poignant words came at the presidential palace in Yerevan on the first day of his pastoral visit to the country.Philippa Hitchen reports: As he greeted the Armenian president, Serzh Sargsyan, and the nation’s political leaders, Pope Francis spoke of the rich history and natural beauty of Armenia, believed by some to be the location of the biblical garden of Eden.He talked of the depth of faith in this first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion, but he also spoke of the drama and tragedy that Armenians have endured throughout the past centuries. In particular he recalled last year’s centenary of the massacre, known as Metz Yeghern or Great Evil when over a million and a half Armenians were killed ...
Yerevan, Armenia, Jun 24, 2016 / 11:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The catastrophe of the Armenian genocide is a lesson for all humanity, the Pope said on the first day of his visit to Armenia.After arriving at Yerevan’s Presidential Palace on Friday Pope Francis delivered remarks for Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and other political and civil leaders. He recalled the solemnities in St. Peter’s Basilica last year attended by the president and leading Armenian churchmen including Catholicos Karekin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.“The occasion was the commemoration of the centenary of the Metz Yeghérn, the ‘Great Evil’ that struck your people and caused the death of a vast multitude of persons,” the Pope said June 24. “Sadly, that tragedy, that genocide, was the first of the deplorable series of catastrophes of the past century, made possible by twisted racial, ideological or religious aims that darkened the minds of the torment...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Tyler OrsburnBROWNSVILLE, Texas (CNS) -- It wasthe stories of how his teachers, Mexican-born religious brothers, had sufferedpersecution that steered Marist Brother Paul Phillipp of south Texas, now 92,to his religious vocation.Reared on a farmsome 25 miles west of Brownsville, young Paul's parents valued a Catholiceducation. So to get him and his siblings to the all-boy and all-girl schools justnorth of the U.S.-Mexico border, they bought a brand new 1937 Ford sedan.It was there at "St.Joe" that the then-sophomore met English teacher Brother Paul Aleman ofMexico. Brother Paul said Brother Aleman crossed the Rio Grande in 1906 withother Mexican religious teachers and brought stories of Catholic persecutionand blood-drenched altars."Thisinspired me," he recalled in an interview with Catholic News Service at theschool, now called St. Joseph Academy and coeducational since 1971. "Thepersecutions and all these brothers had left their homes (for safety) ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Carlos Ordonez says he has no idea what peace looks like. The 25 year-old's town has been under constant threat from rebels for as long as he remembers....
Less than 8 percent of veterans expelled from the military under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy have applied to upgrade their discharges to honorable or strip references to their sexual orientation from their record....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama created the first national monument to gay rights on Friday, designating the site of the Stonewall riots in Manhattan where the modern gay rights movement took root nearly five decades ago....
LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. (AP) -- A wildfire that roared across dry brush and trees in the mountains of central California gave residents little time to flee as flames burned homes to the ground, propane tanks exploded and smoke obscured the path to safety....
LONDON (AP) -- EDITOR'S NOTE: Britain voted in a referendum Thursday to leave the European Union. Britain was not included when the precursor to the EU was formed following World War II, but finally joined the group - known at the time as the European Economic Community, or the Common Market - on January 1, 1973....
