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BENTON, Ky. (AP) -- Pastor Richie Clendenen stepped away from the pulpit, microphone in hand. He walked the aisles of the Christian Fellowship Church, his voice rising to describe the perils believers face in 21st-century America....
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- Dozens of FedEx jets queue up for takeoff at the airport here. Beale Street, the heart of the music district, hums with tourists. Yet the empty storefronts in Memphis' moribund downtown and the cash-advance shops strewn near its highways tell another story....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dealing a blow to gun supporters, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Americans do not have a constitutional right to carry concealed weapons in public....
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.S.-backed fighters in Syria converged from three sides on an Islamic State stronghold near the Turkish border Thursday, while Iraqi special forces pushed deeper into Fallujah, one of the last bastions of the militant group in western Iraq....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House on Thursday, praising his former secretary of state's experience and grit, and urging Democrats to unite behind her in the fight against Republicans in the fall....
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The Ethiopian Catholic University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (ECUSTA) is constructing a university campus on a 600,000 sq.m land in Addis Ababa. The University will initially accommodate science faculties such as medicine and different fields of engineering in accordance with the national developmental goals of the Ethiopia.Cardinal Berhaneyesus, C.M., the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa and Chancellor of ECUSTA recently blessed the completed buildings at the construction site. The Cardinal recalled the role played by the Catholic Church in Ethiopia in founding the first universities and in contributing to the growth of modern education.“The Addis Ababa University and the Holy Family University in Asmara were the first steps taken towards accessing higher education locally, and they were both founded by the Catholic Church, we have been providing quality education to our society for years and now through ECUSTA we will continue to provide the service of quality education...
St. Anthony’s College in Kandy is one of the most prestigious Catholic schools in Sri Lanka. The government-assisted private school, which has a rich history of over 150 years, belongs to the Order of St. Benedict of the Sylvestrian Congregation (OSB). Its management is under the Provincial Council of Central Province, one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. Among several eminent personalities that have passed through the portals of St. Anthony's College, are William Gopallawa, the first President of Sri Lanka, and legendary cricket spin bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan. Well to talk about St Anthony's College is Fr. Clement Gnanaprakasam, the Rector of St. Benedict’s College, Kandy, a private school that the Sylvestrian Benedictines started some ten years ago. Fr. Gnanaprakasam was recently in Rome on a visit, during which he spoke to us about St. Benedict’s as well as St. Anthony&rsq...
"The government must take notice of Shia killings. Nobody has the right to force their beliefs upon others," Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani national director of the Pakistani Catholic bishops’ National Commission for Justice and Peace, told ucanews.com."The state must protect all religious minorities," he said.Father Mani urged the majority Sunni Muslim clerics to highlight the true teachings of Islam and condemn violence in the name of religion.Roadside camps with Shias undertaking a protest hunger strike have been erected in major Pakistani cities since May 11 when paramilitary police opened fire on protesting Shias in Parachinar, a Pakistani city bordering Afghanistan. Four Shia Muslims were killed.Those killings were in addition to nine Shias killed in various sectarian attacks in Pakistan in May.The Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen, a party representing Shia Muslims, claims more than 80,000 community members have been killed in the country since 1986."W...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has received in audience the first Resident Ambassador of Malaysia to the Holy See, Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok.During a private audience in the Vatican on Thursday morning, Ambassador Dompok presented his Credentials.The Ambassador is the former minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities in Malaysia and prior to that he was Chief Minister of the State of Sabah. Born in 1949 in what was then British North Borneo, Dompok received his education at the mission schools of St. Michael and La Salle Secondary School before graduating at the University of East London.His appointment as the country’s first resident ambassador to the Holy See was announced on 22 March 2016; however he has been credited with being instrumental in laying the groundwork for the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Vatican in 2011.In a conversation with Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni, Ambassador Dompok speaks of the how the establishment of formal ties b...
