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ROME (AP) -- More than 4,000 would-be refugees were rescued at sea Thursday in one of the busiest days of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, and at least 20 died trying to reach Europe as Libyan-based smugglers took advantage of calmer seas to send desperate migrants north....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Trandem wanted to be the delegate who would put Donald Trump over the top, giving him enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- With a triumphant pile of delegates in hand, Republican Donald Trump on Thursday claimed support from "almost everybody" in his party and turned his attention to his likely Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, who is still locked in a divisive primary contest....
WACO, Texas (AP) -- The Latest on Baylor University's demotion of its president and firing of its football coach amid criticism of the school's handling of sexual assault complaints involving players (all times local):...
Maher is the name of a project that Indian Sister Lucy Kurien of the Order of the Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC) began in 1997 to shelter exploited and destitute women and children, in Pune, in western India’s Maharashtra state. Nearly 20 years after Maher was started, today the project has 28 children’s homes, 5 women’s home and a men’s home, mostly in Maharashtra, but has also gone beyond. The beneficiaries of Maher are many more than those served in the centres, as it reaches out to others beyond its walls. Sr. Lucy has received several honours and recognition for her works or mercy. Recently, on the occasion of this year’s International Women's Day, March 8, she was conferred the Nari Shakti Award for 2015 by none other than Indian president Pranab Mukherjee. Sr. Lucy was recognized for her outstanding contribution to women’s empowerment, durin...
(Vatican Radio) The launch of the ‘Education Cannot Wait’ fund at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, was welcomed by many of those who have spent months and years campaigning for it.The announcement at the Summit was heralded as a game-changer for a generation of young people impacted by emergencies and crises - locked out of opportunity and hope for a brighter future. One of the most active and vocal groups working to provide educational services to refugees is the Jesuit Refugee Service that sent a delegation to the Summit to present a series of commitments.Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni spoke to Giulia McPherson, Assistant Director for Policy at Jesuit Refugee Service USA.Listen: McPherson expressed her happiness that the Summit has focused on education as a priority area in emergencies and protracted crises. The launch of the ‘Education Cannot Wait’ fund combined with global momentum presents a “tremendous opportunity...
(Vatican Radio) The Italian Council for Refugees, an NGO promoting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, says the people smugglers who cram hundreds of migrants onto rickety boats that are obviously unseaworthy are akin to “mass murderers.” The accusation came from Christopher Hein, a spokesman for the Council, when asked for his reaction to the latest tragedy involving migrants where an overcrowded boat carrying more than 500 migrants capsized in the southern Mediterranean, killing 5 people. He was interviewed by Susy Hodges.Listen to the interview by Christopher Hein, spokesperson for the Italian Council for Refugees: “Mass Murders”Hein said the only "effective way" of stopping the unscrupulous people smugglers and preventing a recurrence of “these tragedies” at sea is to open up “legal channels for immigration” into Europe. Commenting on the latest accident in the Mediterranean involving migrants, Hein had str...
(Vatican Radio) Bishops, Catholic scholars, and policy specialists from nine countries gathered in London this week in a Colloquium to discuss Catholic Approaches to Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) joined Lord Browne of Ladyton and Lord McFall of Alcluith, and the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway in hosting the Colloquium.“The technical strategic debate about nuclear proliferation and disarmament is critically important, but it must be guided by moral considerations,” said Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.In a report on the 24-25 May meeting, the CBCEW said the London Colloquium is connected to a U.S. initiative to revitalize Catholic engagement on nuclear proliferation and disarmament.According to the report, the meeting was introduced by Bishop Oscar Cantú, the Chair of the U.S. ...
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, has released a statement concerning some statements made by Francesco Immacolata Chaouqui against Archbishop Angelo Giovanni Becciu, the Substitute of the Secretary of State, released during the ongoing trial at the Vatican for the appropriation and illicit disclosure of confidential documents:“On the occasion of the last hearing in the trial taking place in the Vatican for the publication of confidential documents (May 24), Dr Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui has made some statements, of which the press has taken notice, in which she made serious charges against the person of the Substitute of the Secretary of State, of having acting unfairly towards her. Such accusations, after the hearing, were repeated in an even more serious way and spread by Facebook by the accused [Chaouqui]. It has therefore become necessary—without desiring in any way to condition the action of the Court&mdash...
IMAGE: CNS/Dalia KhamissyBy Doreen Abi RaadHARISSA, Lebanon (CNS) -- Highon a summit overlooking the Mediterranean, Our Lady of Lebanon standsmajestically with her arms outstretched, welcoming her children.Muslims and Christians alikecome to the shrine, 16 miles north of Beirut. To Muslims, Mary is known inArabic as "Seidatna Maryam," Our Lady Mary. Even though Muslims donot believe that Jesus is the Son of God, in the Quran, a chapter is devoted toMaryam. In Lebanon, the feast of theAnnunciation, March 25, is celebrated by Christians and Muslims as a nationalholiday.Some Muslims come to Harissa fortourism to enjoy the spectacular views from the shrine's 1,886-foot summit, andsome Muslims even visit its churches to pray, said Maronite Father Younen Obeid, rector ofHarissa. "It depends on each person.But for sure, all of them have a big respect for Mary," he said of theMuslim visitors.At times, one can see as manyMuslim pilgrims in Harissa as Christian. Thousands of Muslim pilgrims c...
