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DENVER (AP) -- Rangers protecting the lions, elephants and leopards of Rwanda's Akagera National Park often patrol on foot, and venture only with difficulty into its swamps to keep an eye on rare birds....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Savannah Guthrie of the "Today" show put a public face Tuesday on what NBC says is a "small handful" of employees who will not travel to Rio de Janeiro this summer for Olympics coverage because of concern over the Zika virus....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Astronaut James Halsell Jr. seemed the very definition of someone with the right stuff. An Air Force Academy graduate and decorated test pilot, he commanded or piloted five space shuttle missions. NASA even turned to him for leadership as it was picking up the pieces after the Columbia disaster in 2003....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The most famous man in the world sat down in a busy airport terminal with a little girl he'd never met, and the pair played pat-a-cake for 10 minutes....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Stanford University "did everything within its power" to ensure justice in the case of a former swimmer sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, saying it moved swiftly to investigate and punish the student but that more needs to be done at the school and elsewhere to end sexual violence....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday his troops would "liberate" every inch of Syria, just like they recaptured the ancient town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group, in a speech that reflected his renewed confidence as the military pressed on toward Raqqa, the extremists' self-styled capital....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Already the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton pressed for victory in California and five other states Tuesday, while Bernie Sanders looked to play spoiler and cast doubts about Clinton's historic achievement....
The president of the Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Mgr. Socrates Villegas, breaks silence after the new president Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks against the Church: Duterte has publicly accused the Filipino bishops and priests of hypocrisy and corruption.Many faithful were eager for Archbishop Socrates Villegas to answer the series of vulgar attacks on the Church. He, after all, has built a reputation to immediately speak on current issues.On Sunday, the head of the Catholic bishops’ leadership, finally broke his silence but with a touch of benevolence. So far, his overall message has been one of reconciliation, not reprimand.“Mine is the language of peace that refuses the dark magic of revenge,” he said. Mine is the silence of respect for those who consider us their enemies but whose good we truly pray for and whose happiness we want to see unfold.” “There is virtue in silence. There is virtue in speech. Wisdom is knowing when i...
Nigeria’s Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Oyo Diocese, who is also the Bishop-President for CEPACS has announced that African Bishop-Chairmen and Secretaries of Communications from Africa are meeting in Accra, Ghana from 6 June to 9 June 2016.Known by its French acronym, CEPACS is the Comité Episcopal Panafricain pour les Communications Sociales or in English - Pan-African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications. It is one of the committees of The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) which has its headquarters in Accra, Ghana.Bishop Emmanuel Badejo says that this week’s meeting in Accra seeks to rally, strategise and re-energize Church communications on the African Continent.According to Bishop Badejo, it was the wish of the First African Synod that social communications in Africa be revived under the auspices of the CEPACS.“The Post-Synodal Exhortation of the 1994 Synod of Bishops for Africa, ‘Ecclesia in Africa&...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged believers to be true Christians and give flavor to the life of others, not to be tempted to shine light upon themselves but to bring the light of faith to their neighbors and to mankind.The Pope was speaking on Tuesday morning during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Drawing inspiration from the Gospel reading of the day, Pope Francis spoke of when Jesus told his disciples “you are the salt of the earth”, “you are the light of the world”.Christians, he said, must be salt and light, but never self-serving: salt must add flavor and light must illuminate the other.The Pope continued his homily with the question: “what must a Christian do in order for the salt not to run out, so that the oil to light the lamp does not come to an end?”The “battery” a Christian uses to generate light, the Pope explained, is simply prayer. “There are m...
