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LONDON (AP) -- Investors and gamblers put their money on Britain remaining a part of the European Union as a historic referendum Thursday threatened to undermine the experiment in continental unity launched from the ashes of World War II....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a personal message to Archbishop Jose Maria Arancedo who presided over Argentina’s National Eucharistic Congress that took place from June 16th to 19th. In his brief message to the archbishop who’s President of the Argentine Catholic Bishops Conference, the Pope wrote that there was a need “to draw closer to each other at this moment, to not be afraid and to allow yourselves to be permeated by God’s love.” “I know the difficulties that you are living through,” he wrote, and may God strengthen us in our faith “so we can confront the difficulties and increase justice and charity between us and above all to serve the poor and the needy.” The Eucharistic Congress came shortly before Argentina marks the 200th anniversary of the nation’s independence from Spain and the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, had already sent a message in early June on behalf of Pope Franci...
(Vatican Radio) The 14th Apostolic journey abroad of Pope Francis is to Armenia, a landlocked mountainous nation which borders with to the west Turkey, to the East Azerbaijan, to the north Georgia and to the South Iran.This visit, to the first country ever to adopt Christianity as a state religion begins in the nation’s capital Yerevan and sports a logo which highlights this historic factor along with the dates of the journey which are the 24th to the 26th of June.It’s a circular logo divided in half by two colours: yellow for the Vatican and purple for the Armenian city of Etchmiadzin, seat of the Armenian Apostolic Church where Pope Francis will be staying. Within the design one can spy the outlines of two significant places in Armenia: snow capped Mount Ararat with its biblical connotations and the Monastery of Kor Virap located on its flanks, which Pope Francis will also visit. A significant monastery where Gregory the Illuminator credited for the conversion o...
Gyumri, Armenia, Jun 23, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ visit to Armenia is a chance to build on decades of productive ecumenical dialogue with the Armenian Apostolic Church, a local Catholic bishop has said.“Now there is more friendship, more collaboration, a more open dialogue, and I am very optimistic about the future, from this point of view,” Archbishop Raphael Minassian, the Armenian Ordinary of Eastern Europe, told CNA.The archbishop will be at the Pope’s side during his journey to Armenia, fifteen years after St. John Paul II visited in 2001.Armenia’s national church is the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church to which 93 percent of the population belongs. Armenia prides itself on having been the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, which it did in the year 301.For Archbishop Minassian, the separation between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church is due to human factors, not t...
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Michael Strahan says he doesn't miss doing "Live with Kelly and Michael."...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people's faces, one of the biggest challenges for people with the neurological disorder....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's framework for economic security and health care in retirement is financially unsustainable, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the presidential candidates....
WONSAN, North Korea (AP) -- The bright red slogans hang from buses, government buildings and even some restaurants and gas stations, urging North Koreans to work harder to make the country's 200-day "speed campaign" a success. "Have you carried out the plan for today?" one poster asks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A drained and dwindling group of Democrats, some draped in blankets and toting pillows, carried their remarkable House floor sit-in past daybreak Thursday, disrupting the business of Congress in the wake of the Orlando shooting rampage with demands for gun-control votes in an extraordinary scene of protest broadcast live to the world....
LONDON (AP) -- Financial markets and bookmakers put their money on Britain's voting to remain a part of the European Union on Thursday in a historic referendum that threatens to undermine the experiment in continental unity launched in the aftermath of World War II....
