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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Felipe Marrero wakes up in his hospital bed at night still thinking he smells gunpowder, nearly a week after the shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando....
LONDON (AP) -- A 52-year-old man charged in the murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox is scheduled to appear in court....
Heraklion, Greece, Jun 17, 2016 / 06:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite last-minute defections by representatives of four Orthodox Patriarchates, a spokesman for the Ecumenical Patriarch insists that the Council of the Orthodox Churches will still speak for all of Eastern Orthodoxy and will foster Orthodox unity as well.“The Holy and Great Council may not have all Churches in attendance, but I find it very difficult not to call it ‘Pan-Orthodox’,” Father John Chryssavgis told CNA June 17. He is the spokesman for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.The Russian, Georgian, Bulgarian and Antiochian Orthodox Churches have decided not to send representatives to the council set to begin June 19, due to various concerns and objections.Fr. Chryssavgis said the initial consensus among the 14 Orthodox Churches to convene and to attend the council still stands.“Unfortunately, however, for whatever reason, some Churches decided at the very last minute th...
MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Thousands of friends and fans said farewell to "The Voice" singer Christina Grimmie at services in New Jersey on Friday....
BIRSTALL, England (AP) -- British police on Saturday charged a reclusive gardener with murder and other offenses in the slaying of a popular Labour Party lawmaker, Jo Cox, as evidence emerged the 52-year-old had decades-old ties to a neo-Nazi movement and an interest in anarchist weapons literature....
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Within six days of announcing a crackdown on Islamist militants, Bangladesh had filled its jailhouses with 11,600 new detainees in what seemed like an astonishing display of law enforcement might. The problem is, less than 2 percent of those picked up are suspected radicals, and not one is considered to be a high-level operative....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The likely Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton race won't be a contest over who can win the most votes nationwide. U.S. presidential contests are essentially simultaneous, winner-take-all state elections to choose electors. Whoever wins a majority of electoral votes - that's 270 votes - wins the presidency....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland lost its third police chief in nine days Friday as it struggles with allegations that a number of officers had sex with a teenage prostitute and exchanged racist text messages....
Washington D.C., Jun 17, 2016 / 03:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A virtual brouhaha erupted Thursday after Pope Francis said in unscripted remarks that “the great majority” of marriages today are null, due to a “provisional” culture in which people do not understand permanent commitment.Although his comment was later revised to say that “a portion” of marriages are null, the question remains: What exactly makes a marriage invalid?“It’s certainly in my experience that the kind of provisional culture, the conditional and temporary way in which we view real permanent institutions, has an impact on marriage, on the way that we live our marriages, on the way that we relate to our spouses, and those kinds of things,” J.D. Flynn, a canon lawyer in Nebraska, told CNA.Pope Francis, during a Thursday question-and-answer session at the Diocese of Rome’s pastoral congress, decried today’s “culture of the provisional” where ...
By Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church has launched a new kind of "specialforces" in the fight against child abuse.Nineteenmen and women from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas became the firstgraduates awarded special certification in the safeguarding of minors -- aninitiative begun in Rome in 2016 to help dioceses, bishops' conferences,religious orders and other church bodies excel in child protection.Thegraduates -- who are psychiatrists, theologians, canon lawyers, educators andchild protection officers -- were honored June 14 during a graduation ceremonyat Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University.PopeFrancis sent a personal letter for the occasion, praising the new graduates andtelling them, "I wish you courage and patience; be brave andcommitted." Thefive-month, intensive program is run by the Center for Child Protection at theuniversity's Institute of Psychology and grew out of an e-learning program, butoffers more active discussion and group work with onsit...
