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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign....
(Vatican Radio) "We are rescuers and we are saving lives in the Aegean Sea:" this is how the NGO Proactiva Open Arms is literally reaching out with arms extended, to save refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos.At Wednesday’s General Audience, Proactiva founder Oscar Camps presented Pope Francis with the life jacket of a 6 year old girl who drowned together with her family as they tried to reach safety on Lesbos."I know. I know your story," the Pope said to Oscar Camps, who said he and his non-profit Spanish organization arrived on Lesbos after they saw the horrifying images of “hundreds of children dying along the shore and nobody was doing anything. " "Each boatload of people, has a dramatic tale to tell:" families are separated, orphaned children who lost their parents along the way now find themselves in a strange country, a continent that is not their own, and no one to help them.Camps said he and other lifeguar...
The Lahore Archdiocese has formed an association to offer faith formation and professional development for Christian nurses in Pakistan.Archbishop Sebastian Francis Shaw of Lahore announced the formation of the Pakistan Christian Nurses Association during a May 25 meeting at Darul Kalam, the religious education center in Lahore."Don't get trapped. Serve carefully in the country especially while making important decisions in your life … Hold on tightly to your Christian identity," Archbishop Shaw said.Participants at the meeting criticized an admission policy to the General Nursing and Midwifery Diploma Program in Pakistan that appeared to favor Muslim applicants, with bonus points awarded to those who pass a test on the Quran offered by an authorized Islamic seminary.Fazilat Lal, a nursing instructor at Children's Hospital Lahore, said Christian nurses are often bypassed for promotions and face on-the-job harassment in Muslim-majority Pakistan."They a...
(Vatican Radio)The top leader of the European Union, Donald Tusk, has urged the global community to show solidarity towards refugees and says Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War Two is is a global problem. His remarks came after the Italian navy said at least 5 people died and hundreds of others narrowly escaped drowning after their smugglers’ boat capsized in the southern Mediterranean and Greek police evacuated more refugees from an overcrowded camp near Macedonia. Stefan Bos reports Tusk, the president of the EU's European Council, told reporters at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan that he would seek support and commitment from the seven most developed economies to increasing global assistance for the immediate and long-term needs of refugees.He said he was aware "that because of geography, most of the responsibility regarding the refugee crisis" will be on Europe. "However we would also like the global community to show...
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Church’s leading churchman in England and Wales will be joining the head of the Anglican Communion tomorrow (Friday 27 May) for a live Question and Answer session on Facebook. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminister, and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby will answer questions on evangelisation, prayer, Christian unity and faith in a live chat, allowing the public to participate.The discussion will begin at 2.20 pm GMT; the two churchmen will respond to questions posted on the comment thread here: The live event is the latest in a long line of ecumenical activities aimed at bringing the two Churches together.
Rome, Italy, May 26, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- There's a demon that specializes in attacking the family, said exorcist César Truqui, a priest who participated in a course on exorcism held in Rome last year.Fr. Truqui warned that everything that is harming the family, including divorce, pleases the devil.Speaking to the Italian weekly Tempi in 2015, the priest said that there is “a demon who specializes in the attack on the family, also cited in the story of Tobias, called 'Asmodeus.'”In the Old Testament book, the demon is known to have killed seven of Sarah's husbands and was chained in the desert by Saint Rafael. The demon “is present” in many exorcisms, Fr. Truqui said.The priest recalled encountering the demon “in exorcisms by Father Gabriele Amorth and Father Francisco Bamonte, whom I assisted.” The 90-year-old Fr. Amorth is a renowned exorcist in Rome who has performed an estimated 70,000 exorcisms over the cou...
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The foreign affairs adviser to Pakistan's prime minister said Thursday that "all indicators" confirmed that the former Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country's southwestern Baluchistan province, where he was travelling under a false name with fake Pakistani identity documents....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shots rang out inside a concert venue in New York City where hip-hop artist T.I. was getting ready to perform, leaving one person dead, three others wounded and concertgoers scrambling for the nearest exits, police said....
CHAPMAN, Kan. (AP) -- A large tornado that the National Weather Service said was on the ground for about 90 minutes damaged or destroyed as many as 25 homes in a rural area of northern Kansas and came within a mile of hitting a small town....
PARIS (AP) -- France's Socialist President Francois Hollande is engaged in the biggest test of his presidency, facing months of protests and strikes against a labor law that are threatening nationwide fuel shortages....
