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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico turned violent Tuesday night as demonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, overturned trash cans and knocked down barricades....
TOKYO (AP) -- Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations will undoubtedly voice unity over fighting terrorism, pandemics and tax evasion at their summit in Japan this week. Finding a consensus on how to breathe life into their sluggish economies is proving more elusive....
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) -- President Barack Obama is completing a three-day trip to Vietnam with a town hall Wednesday involving about 800 young adults participating in efforts to strengthen ties between the United States and Southeast Asia....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump each won primaries in Washington state Tuesday....
Washington D.C., May 23, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Evangelical and socially conservative leaders are planning a meeting with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to discuss their concerns and decide on future action.Organizers of the meeting plan to bring together about 400 leaders to meet with the candidate, Time Magazine reports. The organizers include former presidential candidate Ben Carson and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.“The main thing here is to have a conversation,” Perkins said, adding that the goal of the meeting is to have “an honest conversation so that these leaders know what they need to do.”Carson is the only meeting organizer who endorsed Trump in the Republican primary. He is organizing the meeting in his capacity as the chairman of MyFaithVotes, an organization founded by California lawyer Sealy Yates to mobilize Christian voters.Many of the likely attendees did not support Trump in the Republic...
Istanbul, Turkey, May 24, 2016 / 04:44 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Addressing a global summit on humanitarian aid, Pope Francis offered encouragement and a reminder – don’t ever forget that each suffering person you encounter has a name.“(T)here must be no family without a home, no refugee without a welcome, no person without dignity, no young man or woman without a future, no elderly person without a dignified old age,” the Pope said.“‘Leaving no one behind’ and ‘doing one’s very best’ demands that we do not give up and that we take responsibility for our decisions and actions regarding the victims themselves,” he said to the World Humanitarian Summit meeting May 23 in Istanbul.“No one loves a concept, no one loves an idea. We love persons. Self-sacrifice, true self-giving, flows from love towards men and women, the children and elderly, peoples and communities… faces, those faces and names which fill our heart...
Washington D.C., May 24, 2016 / 05:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After sending the Little Sisters’ HHS mandate case back to the circuit courts on May 16, the Supreme Court voided two more mandate cases with Catholic plaintiffs on Monday.The court was expected to rule this summer on the constitutionality of the “opt-out” process for non-profits with the HHS contraception mandate.The Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the poor elderly in homes across the country, have argued that the process – where they would notify the government of their religious objection to providing the coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs for employees – still forced them to be complicit with evil.Since the sisters knew that voicing their objection would ultimately trigger the coverage being provided within the structure of their health plan, they would still be “facilitating access to contraceptives and abortifacients,” they said.Th...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to aVatican court that she leaked documents about the Vatican's financial reform to an Italianjournalist had admitted to sending the documents when she was firstinterrogated, a Vatican policeman said. Stefano DeSantis, an officer investigating the leakingof the documents, testified May 24 that Francesca Chaouqui told Vatican policeofficials that she sent documents regarding the Vatican Asset Management (VAM) toGianluigi Nuzzi, author of "Merchants in the Temple.""We never assumed that she gave the documents, sheadmitted to it," DeSantis told the court. Chaouqui is on trial, alongwith Msgr. Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairsof the Holy See, and Nicola Maio, the monsignor's former assistant, for"committing several illegal acts of divulging news and documentsconcerning fundamental interests of the Holy See and (Vatican City)State." Nuzzi and Emiliano ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- If you spend billions of dollars to build it, they will come....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday....
