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GENEVA (AP) -- The treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing from Libya to Italy has claimed the lives of over 1,030 migrants in the last week, mostly as barely seaworthy smuggling boats foundered and sank despite calm seas and sunny skies, a migration agency said Tuesday, citing new accounts from survivors....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hillary Clinton landed a coveted endorsement from California Gov. Jerry Brown Tuesday, patching up a strained relationship between the two Democrats as she seeks to deliver a final blow to Bernie Sanders' campaign....
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) -- As Iraqi forces pressed an offensive Tuesday to dislodge Islamic State militants from Fallujah, conditions are worsening for tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city, and a leading aid group raised alarm over an unfolding "human catastrophe."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Under pressure to account for money he claimed to raise for veterans, an irritated Donald Trump lambasted the news media Tuesday for pressing the issue and listed charities he said have now received millions of dollars from a fundraiser he held in January....
(Vatican Radio) The U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs says religious literacy is at the heart of educated citizenship and that interfaith interaction in the classroom and on the soccer field can build healthy, pluralist societies. Shaun Casey spoke to Vatican Radio’s Tracey McClure on a visit to Rome this week. She asked him to sum up the state of interfaith dialogue, and particularly dialogue with Islam, 15 years on from the September 11 attacks in 2001.Listen to Part I of the interview: “We’re in a much better place than we were in 2001… but there’s a long way to go,” says Casey, who observes there are 1.6 billion Muslims around the world and approximately 2.2 billion Christians.Casey recalls Pope Francis’ first address to the diplomatic corps in 2014 in which he stressed the “deep need for dialogue in the Christian world and the Muslim world” and the ...
The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao new auxiliary bishop of Langayen-Dagupan, Philippines, assigning him the titular see of Urusi. Currently Mons. Jose Mangalinao was serving as the Vicar General of the same diocese.Monsignor Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao was born in Cabiao in Nueva Ecija, in the Diocese of Cabanatuan April 7, 1960. After his Secondary Education, he studied philosophy and theology at the San Carlos Seminary, in Makaty City.He was ordained on October 15, 1985 for the Diocese of Cabanatuan. He was here till 1993 as the Spiritual Director at Assumption Seminary, Cabanatuan City, and also held the post of assistant Parish priest of St. Isidore the Worker parish. From 1993 to 1995 he was sent to Rome, where he obtained a licentiate in theology at the Gregorian University.Back in the diocese, he first continued to serve as a professor in the seminary, then became the first Episcopal Vicar for Pastor...
(Vatican Radio) St Peter’s Cricket Club, popularly known as the ‘Vatican XI’ is preparing for a second British tour with both ecumenical and interfaith objectives high on the agenda.The team, comprised of Catholic priests and seminarians from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK, was founded in 2013 and challenged a Church of England cricket team in Canterbury the following year. Since then, the sporting friendships and spiritual experiences have grown, with the Anglican side coming to Rome for a return match in 2015.From September 11th to 20th the Vatican team sets off on a second ‘Light of Faith’ tour, playing against Anglicans, a Muslim team from Yorkshire and an interfaith match against cricketers from Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist communities in the south east of England.The Vatican XI, which enjoys the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture, will play in venues which have been offered free of charge, including the famous Edgbaston g...
The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. John Bosco Chang-Ho Shin new auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Daegu, South Korea, assigning him the titular see of Vescera. Fr. John Bosco Chang-Ho Shin was born on May 25, 1966 in Daegu, in the Gyeousang-namdo province, in the Archdiocese of Daegu. He studied first at the University of Electronics Youngnam and then did his studies in philosophy and theology at the major seminary in Daegu. He obtained the Bachelor’s degree in Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome (1993-1996) and a Licentiate in Liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of St. Anselm, in Rome (1996-1998). He was ordained a priest on 25 August 1998.After his ordination he held the following positions and pursued his religious studies1998-1999: Parish Vicar of Bongdeok, Daegu;1999- 2002: Doctorate in Liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of St. Anselm in Rome;2002-2009: Lecturer in the major seminary in Daegu;2009: Exec...
I Kgs 17:17-24; Gal 1:11-19; Lk 7: 11-17A prominent businessman was walking down the street of a large city on his way home from a meeting. It was night. Since his meeting had lasted later than it should, it was long after it was safe to be on the streets alone. By this time, there were all kinds of derelicts and people of questionable reputation on the streets. As he was walking by, the businessman happened to look down and see a man all curled up in the gutter trying to stay warm. The cool night air was progressively getting chillier and chillier. Something about this man made the businessman take another look at him, and then another. Finally, he walked over to get a good look. When he saw the man, and the look in his eyes, the businessman instinctively did what Jesus did with the widow who had lost her only son that day in the town of Nain. The businessman's heart went out to the man in the gutter. He bent down to him and said, "Whoever you are, you don't belong h...
