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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's fierce denunciation of Hillary Clinton on Wednesday was rife with distortion....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump launched a broad rebuke of his presidential rival Hillary Clinton Wednesday, accusing her of being "a world class liar" who personally profited from her tenure at the State Department. "She gets rich making you poor," Trump said....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea took a significant step Wednesday in the development of a powerful ballistic missile intended to reach U.S. bases in the Pacific, launching one of the weapons about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) high after five failed attempts in recent months....
(Vatican Radio) Our favourite scripture scholar Mark Benedict Coleridge, Archbishop of Brisbane in Australia tells the tale a character from our family tree of faith for his series 'Blood, Sweat and Tears in the Bible'. He's Jacob, the son of Isaac and Rebecca and therefore the grandson of Abraham and Sara. One to whom God appears in the midst of a dark world of fear in that extraordinary scene at Bethel that we know as Jacob's ladder when he has this vision of the angels going up and down from heaven.Listen to a programme presented by scripture scholar Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis welcomed a group of refugees to join him on the steps of St Peter’s Basilica as he held his weekly general audience on Wednesday. After greeting the thousands of pilgrims and visitors gathered in the summer sunshine, the Pope focused his reflections on the Gospel story of the leper who was healed by Jesus as a sign of God’s mercy and forgiveness.Philippa Hitchen reports: In Jesus’ day, lepers were considered unclean and outcasts, from the temple and from society, yet the man who begs him to be made clean is not afraid to break the law and come into the city. Pope Francis noted that Jesus also breaks the law by touching the leper to heal him, teaching us not to be afraid to reach out and touch the poor and needy in our midst.The man’s simple words, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean”, show that we don’t need long speeches, the Pope said, but only a few words and strong faith in the Lord’s good...
Zambia’s Post Newspapers has managed to print its Wednesday edition of 22 June 2016 despite the Zambia Revenue Authority shutting down its printing plant.The newspapers with the headline, “ZRA turns Post off” was available by 07 Hours in selected places in Lusaka although its distribution was limited.There are fears that the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) will move in to confiscate the printed copies from vendors when they are distributed as the publication has been placed in distress and entails that all revenue generated by the newspapers should be recovered by ZRA.Sources at the newspapers revealed that today’s edition was printed in Namibia through a commercial printer.The Post Newspaper employs more than 1,500 workers.ZRA officers yesterday raided the Post Newspaper Limited and closed down the publication.The officers arrived at Post Newspapers head office and printing press around 17:00 hours in the company of armed police, demanding that the company ...
(Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue marked the fifth anniversary of the publication of a seminal joint document, Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct, by holding a meeting with representatives of the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance, along with scholars and and followers of African Traditional Religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism and Tenrikyo, as well as representatives of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, in Rome this week.The participants in the meeting (which took place on Tuesday, June 21st, 2016) issued a Communiqué following the commemorative event, in which they explain the agenda and achievements of the meeting, and encourage all the organizations responsible for the original document to consider how its “spirit” could be extended to enable interreligious discussions on issues such as the ethics of witness and freedom of religion...
(Vatican Radio) Millions of people worldwide are victims of human trafficking on a daily basis. As the summer 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro approach, the International Union Superiors General (UISG) organization have launched a new campaign, “Play for Life”.“Play for Life” aims at raising awareness of human trafficking which increases significantly at large sporting events. The campaign was already used at the 2014 Rio Football World Cup and contributed to a 42% increase in the number of complaints over sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.Vatican Radio’s Georgia Gogarty attended the press launch where she spoke to former Olympic gold medal swimmer, Massimiliano Rosolino, an ambassador for the “Play for Life” campaign, about why he chose to get involved and what he hopes the outcomes will be.Listen: Rosolino expressed that the importance of the campaign was to encourage people to come forward as we “need the truth o...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has chosen the theme for the 103rd World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “Minor migrants, vulnerable and voiceless.”In a statement released on Wednesday, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples said that with that theme, Pope Francis “wants to focus attention on the smallest of the small.” The statement noted that children, who often arrive unaccompanied in their destination countries, “are unable to make their own voices heard” and “easily become victims of grave violations of human rights.”The Council noted that “migration is a worldwide phenomenon,” and that all continents are “touched by this reality.” Migration, it continued, concerns not only those who leave their countries in search of jobs or a better life, but also adults and children who are fleeing “real tragedies.”It is necessary, the Council said, to guarantee that migra...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written the preface to the first volume in an anthology of the “selected works of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI” being published by Cantagalli in Italy. Titled, Insegnare e imparare l’amore di Dio, “To Teach and To Learn the Love of God”, to be published in six languages, including English.In the preface, Pope Francis writes, “Every time I have read the works of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI, it becomes increasingly clear that he has done and is doing ‘theology on his knees’.” The Holy Father goes on to explain that his predecessor, “[E]ven before being a great theologian and teacher of the faith,” is “a man who truly believes, who truly prays: you see he is a man who embodies holiness.”The book (Siena, Cantagalli, 2016, 304p., € 19) brings together the texts of 43 homilies, starting with a 1954 selection delivered in Berchtesgaden and dedicated to Franz Niegel, ...
