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VIENNA (AP) -- Projections based on preliminary results from Sunday's presidential election in Austria showed a race too close to call with a slight advantage see-sawing between a right-wing politician and a challenger whose views stand in direct opposition to his rival's anti-immigrant and Eurosceptic message....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton has a message for Donald Trump: keep on talking....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour's brief rule, which ended with his death in a drone strike, was marked by mistrust and strife....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bernie Sanders' image gazes out from a corner storefront in Boyle Heights, a Hispanic enclave known for its plump burritos and a plaza where mariachis strum guitars. It's here that his campaign is going house to house to cut into Hillary Clinton's advantage with Latino voters....
With less than a month to go before the 2016 Uganda Martyrs Day celebration at Namugongo Catholic Shrine, the theme for this year’s event has been chosen. The theme, which has been extracted from the Gospel of John 8:32 is, “The Truth Will Make You Free.”The 3 June celebrations will be animated by the Uganda’s Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese. The theme of the celebrations was unveiled recently, at a press conference held at the Uganda Catholic Secretariat (UCS), by Bishop Joseph Antony Zziwa the Ordinary of Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese and Vice Chair of the Uganda Episcopal Conference (UEC“The Diocese of Kiyinda-Mityana last presided over the Martyrs Day celebrations in 1994 that was shortly after the visit of Pope John Paul II to Uganda in 1993,” Bishop Zziwa said. “The same Diocese is privileged this year to take the celebrations to a higher level following the successful visit of Pope Francis to Uganda last year, and the improvements of Namugongo sh...
(Vatican Radio) Bringing into focus the “invisible” lives of seafarers is at the heart of a campaign by the UK’s Office of the Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) for this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Set up to offer pastoral care and practical assistance for seafarers, the largely volunteer charitable network has published a prayer card which they have been distributing to seafarers and to supporters, “reminding them of both the corporal and spiritual works of mercy,” says AoS-UK’s National Director Martin Foley. Listen to the interview with Martin Foley who tells us more about the initiative: As part of its Jubilee campaign, AoS is also organizing a series of retreats on the theme of mercy for its 16 port chaplains and some 120 volunteer ship visitors. “They are a fantastic [and growing] team which enables us to provide good coverage across all the UK ports,” explains Foley. His office has appointed two new assistan...
(Vatican Radio) “The feast of the Holy Trinity invites us to engage in the daily events to be the leaven of communion, of consolation and of mercy.” Those were Pope Francis' words during his Angelus address on sunny Trinity Sunday from his studio above St Peter’s Square.Drawing inspiration from the Gospel of St. John, the Pope said that Jesus knew how to be close to the realization of the Father's plan, which will be fulfilled by his death and resurrection; “for this, Pope Francis continued, he wants to ensure his followers that he will not abandon them because his mission will be prolonged by the Holy Spirit.”The Holy Father explained that the Holy Spirit “guides us into new life situations with an eye to Jesus and, at the same time, open to events and to the future.” “He takes care of the wounded flesh of humanity from injustice, the oppression, hatred and greed.”Then the Pope described how the Trinity is a fami...
The Church in Mozambique is this Sunday praying for peace. The country is grappling with real fears of renewed civil war. Mistrust and accusations have been growing between the ruling Frelimo government and the opposition Renamo.The Episcopal Conference of Mozambique has decided to set aside Sunday 22 May, the celebration of the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity as a particular day of national prayers for peace. The Bishops want all donations made on this day to be given to Caritas Mozambique for its humanitarian apostolate. The announcement for the special peace prayers was made recently at the end of a plenary meeting held by the Bishops. More concretely, the Mozambican Bishops want Frelimo and Renamo to put a definitive end to Mozambique’s long-running political and military unrest. They have called on the two rivals to return to the discussion table and involve civil society in the country’s quest for a “path to peace.”Declaring the day for praye...
LONDON (AP) -- British voters will decide in one month whether or not to deal a historic hammer blow to European integration by putting their island nation on an independent path outside the European Union....
PARIS (AP) -- The girl, speaking in the lilting accent of southern France, appeared in government ads describing how she was recruited by Islamic State extremists during her quest for religion, then encouraged to quit school and go to Syria, and finally to plot a suicide attack against a synagogue at home....
