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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says police officers receiving the Medal of Valor demonstrate how loving one's country means loving one another....
VIENNA (AP) -- The United States and other world powers say they are ready to supply Libya's internationally recognized government with weapons to counter the Islamic State and other militant groups gaining footholds in its lawless regions....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court rid itself Monday of a knotty dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control. The court asked lower courts to take another look at the issue in a search for a compromise....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump says he plans to win the White House largely on the strength of his personality, brushing off the need for a heavy investment in what he calls the "overrated" use of data to shape campaign strategy and get out the vote....
(Vatican Radio) Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev were expected to meet in Vienna later Monday to discuss a fragile cease-fire in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region following the worst violence there in decades.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: It would be their first face-to-face encounter since the latest fighting in the mountainous and heavily-forested patch of land killed dozens of people.Their talks focus on how the restore a sense of stability in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh which on April 2 saw the outbreak of the most serious clashes since a shaky cease-fire was reached in 1994 between Azerbaijan and Armenia-backed separatists. A fresh Russian-brokered cease-fire deal went into effect on April 5. But both sides in the conflict have accused each other of breaching the truce agreement.Nagorno-Karabakh has been internationally recognized as being part of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan.But ethnic Armenians, who make up...
(Vatican Radio) A new report was published on Monday by the charity Christian Aid highlighting the world cities most at risk from future coastal flooding.The document entitled Act Now Or Pay Later: Protecting a billion people in climate-threatened coastal cities, shows that more than a billion people are set to be exposed to coastal flooding by 2060 through a combination of sea level rise, storm surges and extreme weather.The findings reveal that people living in US China and India are most at risk.Other cities named in the report include India’s Kolkata and Mumbai and Miami in the US.Report author Dr Alison Doig, Christian Aid’s Principal Climate Change Advisor, spoke to Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane saying, “Many many cities are already exposed who have seen flooding across the world already. What we’re saying is that it's going to get much much worse.” Some of the main reasons for this, she explains, are people movement into coastal ...
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops says it is monitoring events after the Kenyan government announced it plans to close Dadaab Refugee camp and repatriate all refugees to their home countries.Find below the full statement.KCCB BRIEF ON THE GOVERNMENT DECISION TO CLOSE REFUGEES CAMPSAs you are all aware the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Interior separately issued two statements on Friday 6th May, 2016 and Wednesday 11th May, 2016 indicating that Kenya intends to close refugee camps and repatriate all refugees to their home countries. The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) through the Commission for Refugees, Migrants & Seafarers has been monitoring the situation and has since joined a multi-agency working group led by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).KCCB - Commission for Refugees, Migrants & Seafarers was represented by the National Coordinator, Mrs. Margret Masibo and KCCB Head of Editorial and Messaging F...
MIAMI (AP) -- The mosquitoes that can spread Zika are already buzzing among us. The U.S. government could use some help figuring out exactly where....
BOSTON (AP) -- A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday....
LONDON (AP) -- Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he may have a poor relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron in light of the British leader's criticism of Trump's call for all Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the United States....
