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CAIRO (AP) -- The search is continuing for missing EgyptAir flight 804, which disappeared from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Overshadowed as Golden State shot down history during the regular season, the Cavaliers are making this postseason their own....
BANGKOK (AP) -- In the early evening of May 22, 2014, all TV screens in Thailand turned blue and up flashed an army emblem. That was the first sign of change. Suddenly, the country's army commander appeared to say he was now in charge....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco's police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car - the culmination of several racially charged incidents in the past year....
CAIRO (AP) -- The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete (all times local):...
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Lima, Peru, May 19, 2016 / 03:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It's a major miracle that you've probably never heard of.On Sunday, Oct. 3, 1847, more than 2,000 people in Ocotlán, Mexico saw a perfect image of Jesus Christ crucified that appeared in the sky for more than 30 minutes.Approved by the Archdiocese of Guadalajara in 1911, the phenomenon is known as the “Miracle of Ocotlán” and took place one day before an earthquake that killed 40 and left the town in Jalisco State in ruins.Before the start of Mass at the cemetery of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception – presided over by the parochial vicar, Father Julián Navarro – two white clouds joined together in the northwest sky, where there appeared the image of Christ.Those present and in nearby towns were deeply moved, made acts of contrition, and cried out begging, “Lord, have mercy!” This apparition of Christ was called “the Lord of Mercy” and in his honor,...
Vatican City, May 19, 2016 / 04:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During his Mass on Thursday, Pope Francis preached a warning to the rich who oppress the poor, focusing on employers who accumulate wealth by misusing those who work for them.“We consider this drama of today: the exploitation of the people, the blood of these people who become slaves, the traffickers of people – and not just those who deal in prostitutes and children for child labour,” Pope Francis said May 19 during his Mass in the chapel of Santa Marta House in the Vatican.In addition, he said, there is a “more – so to speak – 'civilized'” form of trafficking which happens when an employer says, “I’ll pay you this much, without vacation, without health care, … everything under the table… But I will become rich!”The Pope's homily was based on the Epistle of James, which told of woe for the rich who oppress the poor. Calling the passage &ldquo...
IMAGE: CNS/EPABy Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- With visits to detention facilities and washing the feet of thedetainees, Pope Francis has placed renewed emphasis on the work of mercy ofvisiting prisoners. However,some see a growing urgency for the church to be present in cell blocks not justas part of its mission to help the most disenfranchised, but because radicalideologies have been filling the spiritual void wherever it is found --especially in prisons.Governmentsand international entities are paying more attention to the problem ofradicalization taking root and spreading in prisons, said Msgr. Paolo Rudelli,the Vatican's permanent observer at the Council of Europe.Atan upcoming meeting, the church hopes to show how and why all religions mustwork together to protect a prisoner's right to religious freedom and counterextremism, he told Catholic News Service in an email response to questions May17.TheMay 30-June 1 gathering in Strasbourg, France, is sponsored by Msgr. Rudelli's...
IMAGE: CNS illustration/courtesy Southern Dominican ProvinceBy Peter Finney Jr.NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- The idea ofmaking a walking pilgrimage in the United States took root about four years agowhen Dominican Fathers Francis Orozco and Thomas Schaefgen were studyingtogether for the priesthood.They saw the movie, "TheWay," featuring Martin Sheen, who portrayed a father honoring his late son'smemory by completing the 450-mile Camino de Santiago, the "Way of St.James," a pilgrimage route across Spain taken for centuries by pilgrims."We had both studied abroadin Spain, but we thought, why don't we do something more local, something inthis country?" said Father Orozco, chaplain of the Catholic Student Centerat Texas Tech University in Lubbock. "We looked up places, and therereally weren't any established pilgrimages in the U.S., so we said, 'Let's makeup our own.'"From that seed sprouted "Friarson Foot," a 478-mile pilgrimage on foot from New Orleans to Memphis, Tennessee,which will begin af...
