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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday that he often used aliases to purchase real estate - but continued to deny he'd been caught on tape pretending to be an imaginary spokesman in a recently-released recording....
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Mamfe, Cameroon, May 25, 2016 / 04:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Father William Cañón is a Colombian missionary in Cameroon who transforms into a soccer coach every Sunday, helping to bring joy to some 60 local children through sport and camaraderie.“After going to the Eucharist, we gather and provide a time of Christian formation; then, with my limited knowledge of sports, we play soccer,” Father Cañón told Pablo Romero of El Tiempo, a Colombian daily.The missionary is a fan of Independiente Santa Fe, the Bogota football team which won the Copa Sudamericana last year. He has been a missionary to Mamfe, in southwestern Cameroon, since 2014.Por intermedio del Padre William Cañón los niños de Fontem, Camerún aprenden a jugar al fútbol con la piel del León pic.twitter.com/KSA7uX94XI— Ind. Santa Fe (@SantaFe) April 4, 2016When he arrived in Cameroon he was assigned to a parish where the first evangelizatio...
St. Paul, Minn., May 25, 2016 / 04:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis says his archdiocese has followed the law in its bankruptcy process, responding to claims by abuse victims that some assets were not made public.“The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has been fully cooperating with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court since filing in January of 2015,” Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis stated on Tuesday.“Let me be clear: The Archdiocese has disclosed all of its assets and has followed all the rules set forth by the Court and all directives from the judge,” he continued.An “unsecured creditors committee” and attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents hundreds of alleged Minnesota abuse victims, filed a motion on Monday claiming the archdiocese actually should have reported $1.7 billion in assets rather than the $49 million it reported in bankruptcy filings, according to the Associated Press.They accu...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via ReutersBy Doreen Abi RaadBEIRUT (CNS) -- Lebanese leadersin Muslim-Christian dialogue said they hoped Pope Francis' meeting with Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam ofal-Azhar University, would lead to new relationships.Maronite Father Fadi Daou, chairman of Adyan, a foundation forinterfaith studies and spiritual solidarity based in Lebanon, told CatholicNews Service that he hopes the meeting will be the forerunnerto a "new dimension of interreligious relations." Mohammad Sammak, secretary-general of Lebanon'sChristian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue, said the meeting likely would "opena new page of cooperation on the basis of building real citizenship -- equalcitizenship -- between Christians and Muslims all over the Middle East.""For sure this is a veryimportant meeting, not only because it is the first of its kind in history thatthe grand imam of al-Azhar visits the Vatican and is received by the HolyFather, but the timing in itself is very importan...
NEW YORK (AP) -- As the international epidemic of Zika virus disease has unfolded and led to devastating birth defects for at least 1,300 children in eight countries, an agonizing question has persisted: What is the chance that an infected pregnant woman will have a baby with these defects?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That's almost double the typical American worker's, and a lot more than investors earned from owning their stocks - a big fat zero....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named one of Israel's most polarizing politicians as defense minister on Wednesday, solidifying his parliamentary majority at the risk of antagonizing the international community and his own military - and clouding already slim hopes for a resumption of peace efforts....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A day after a riot erupted outside a Donald Trump rally, Albuquerque officials concluded that the mayhem had less to do with political protest than with an unruly group determined to use the event to sow disorder....
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- A day after violent protesters outside a Donald Trump rally threw burning items at police and toppled barricades, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee railed against "Crooked Hillary" Clinton and leaders in his own party who haven't yet endorsed him in a boisterous but less heated rally Wednesday....
