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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will urge this year's graduates at Rutgers University to pursue positive change in the world despite a cascade of challenges from student loan debt to overseas turmoil....
LUOYANG, China (AP) -- Fifty years after Mao Zedong unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China's founder still exerts a powerful pull....
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg encouraged graduating seniors at the University of California, Berkeley to persevere in life's challenging times, speaking publicly for the first time about her husband's death during a commencement speech....
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A charter bus headed to a casino crashed in far South Texas on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring 44 others in a one-vehicle rollover, officials said....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Nicolas Maduro threatened Saturday to take over idle factories and jail their owners following a decree granting him expanded powers to act in the face of a deep economic crisis....
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Birmingham, England, May 14, 2016 / 03:50 pm (CNA).- Thousands of men, women, and children took to the streets of Birmingham on Saturday to take a stand for the unborn and to reach out to their community.“At the very heart of this is the life of the unborn, and the protection of that life,” Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham told CNA ahead of this year’s March for Life U.K.“Alongside that is the Church’s concern for the mother, for those who are advising, those who are family, and the concern to support and to reflect God’s mercy in those circumstances.”This is the third consecutive year the March for Life has been held in heart of Birmingham. The archbishop said the event aims to witness in a peaceful way to the Christian faith as well as to the “intrinsic, God-given value of life.”“It’s overcoming the stereotypical response of people who don’t actually know the full teaching of the Catholic Church on the...
New York City, N.Y., May 14, 2016 / 05:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Everyone must be true to their own conscience, a religious freedom advocate and former political prisoner told a gala audience on Thursday.“Even when we have nothing, each person and only that person possesses the key to his or her own conscience, his or her own sacred castle,” Armando Valladares, a former prisoner of conscience in Cuban prisons, said upon reception of the 2016 Canterbury Medal bestowed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty May 12.“In that respect, each of us, though we may not have an earthly castle or even a house, each of us is richer than a king or queen,” he continued.Valladares, who spent 22 years in prison for refusing to support the communist government in Cuba, received the 2016 Canterbury Medal, given for “courage in defense of religious liberty.” Past medal recipients include Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, former Ambassador to the Vatican Jim ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's credit rating has been downgraded by Moody's because of the long and deep slump in oil prices....
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- A charter bus headed to a casino crashed in far South Texas on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring about 40 in a one-vehicle rollover, officials said....
