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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The Latest on the debate and vote in Brazil's Senate on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (all times local):...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's Senate on Wednesday neared a historic vote on impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, likely ending 13 years of government by her leftist party amid a spate of crises besetting Latin America's largest nation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump brushed off his Capitol Hill critics on Wednesday, declaring he doesn't need House Speaker Paul Ryan or other leery Republican leaders, even as he prepared to sit down with them. His defiant message came amid new signs that he might be right, with GOP voters becoming more willing to embrace him....
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has just wrapped up a two day visit to Estonia, highlighting the value of bilateral relations between States. He is the highest ranking official from the Holy See to visit the region since Saint Pope John Paul II in 1993.The Vatican Secretary of State on Wednesday addressed the University of Tartu on the precise meaning of the definition of the Holy See and the State’s international relations. The Cardinal is taking part in an official visit to Estonia from 10 to 11 May in order to discuss bilateral relations, the migration crisis and the current situation in the Mediterranean. His visit also marks the 25th anniversary of the reintroduction of diplomatic relations between Estonia and the Holy See. During his lecture, the Cardinal touched on the significance of canon law as well as the international and diplomatic activities of the Holy See. He also spoke about the value of bilateral diplomatic activity and roles of d...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the worldwide leader of the Bektashi Order, Edmond Brahimaj, on Wednesday. The Bektashi Baba are an offshoot of Sufism – a movement within Sunni Islam that seeks a spiritual interpretation of the religion and has a tradition of mysticism – that began in the Ottoman Empire and is based primarily in Tirana, Albania.Like all religious groups, the Bektashi faced brutal and systematic repression under the Communist regime that ruled the country from the end of World War II until 1990.Brahimaj told Vatican Radio he was most pleased with the meeting. “It was a marvelous encounter,” Brahimaj said in an exclusive interview with Vatican Radio’s Sergio Centofanti. Brahimaj also explained that he and the Holy Father together re-affirmed their commitment to dialogue and fraternal encounter, and reiterated the importance of the presence of religious communities within contemporary society.
Kenya's interior minister Joseph Nkaissery says the government will close Dadaab refugee camp which has hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees and is often referred to as the world's largest refugee camp.Nkaissery said Wednesday that Daadab camp compromises Kenya's security because it harbors Somalia's al-Shabab Islamic extremists and is a conduit for smuggling weapons. He said al-Shabab planned three large-scale attacks from Daadab, which hosts more than 328,000 refugees, mainly from Somalia.Last week the Kenyan government announced it intends to close Daadab and Kakuma, a refugee camp housing 190,000 people, mostly South Sudanese fleeing civil war. But on Wednesday Nkaissery said Kakuma will not be closed because it does not present a security risk.The U.N. has urged Kenya to reconsider its decision to close Dadaab camp.(AP)
(Vatican Radio) In 1917 while the rest of the world was at war in a tiny hamlet of the Portuguese countryside three young children had a vision of Our Lady. That apparition on the 13th May sparked off the devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, an inspiration for millions to work and pray for peace. Since that time not only have millions prayed the Rosary and done penance but have also made the pilgrimage to Fatima.Among them Saint John Paul II who believed it was through her intercession that his life was spared when he was shot at in Saint Peter's Square.The last time he went to Fatima on pilgrimage was on the 13th May 2000 during the Jubilee Year when he entrusted the third millennium to her Immaculate heart.Listen to this programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: Veronica Scarisbrick witnessed this event which was attended by the last of the shepherd children Lucia, who has since passed away. In this programme you can listen to a recording of her little...
Nigeria’s Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan has spoken out against elements of Nigerian society bent on fanning the flames of religious discord in his country.On 28 April, Cardinal Onaiyekan himself survived an attempt on his life while travelling on the Benin-Uromi road in Nigeria. Gunmen shot at his vehicle. No one was hurt in the incident. Nevertheless, the bullets shattered the passenger window glass and made huge holes on the panel of the door.Speaking in the wake of recent massacres attributed to Fulani herdsmen in the southeast of Nigeria, the Cardinal was quoted by Agenzia Fides calling on Moslems and Christians not succumb to those inciting hatred."There is a terrible wind blowing around our country right now. There are so many people who are fanning the flames of discord and hatred, and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity and mutual natural love and there are those who are already envisaging a clash between Christians and Muslims".Car...
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 11, 2016 / 06:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last year, Sandra Raquel Nogueira Pereira was diagnosed with uterine cancer.But while the months that followed were filled with the pain and fear typical to a cancer diagnosis, Sandra’s story was also one with intense joy, as she finally fulfilled a longtime wish of marrying her boyfriend of 16 years. Several months into her hospital stay, Sandra married Sérgio Pereira da Silva on May 2, according to the Diocese of Crato, Brazil. The couple has three children.The diocese said in a statement that she had been admitted to the Cariri Regional Hospital in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, located in Ceará State in northeast Brazil.While at the hospital, Sandra shared with the staff her greatest dream: to get married. Everyone decided to help make her wish come true.Ticiane Oliveira, the hospital social worker, was responsible for organizing the ceremony, and Zilma Casimirio, a member of the Legion o...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Salvation has nothing to do withthe tidy business of bartering -- earning God's love in return for goodbehavior, Pope Francis said."If you do well you get a reward; if you do poorlyyou get punished. This is not the logic of Jesus," whose ability to love andforgive is unconditional and infinite, the pope said May 11 during his weeklygeneral audience.The pope reflected on the Gospel parable of the prodigalson, which teaches everyone is a child of God not because of one's merits oractions, but because of God's "unchanging love and ready forgiveness."The father patiently waits for his sinning son andrejoices with a celebration when he returns home, the pope said.Even though the son tells his father, "I no longerdeserve to be called your son" because of the extent of his sins, thefather immediately seeks to restore "the signs of his dignity,"because in his eyes, he never stopped being his child, the pope said.No one can take away...
