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(Vatican Radio) The European Union has condemned moves by the U.S. Congress to step up sanctions on Russia without consulting the EU and other allies amid concerns it could impact energy supplies and have other negative economic consequences for Europe. Its statement came after Democrats and Republicans in Congress reached a deal that could see new legislation pass to tighten sanctions against Russia's over its alleged meddling in the recent U.S. presidential elections. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The European Commission, the EU's executive, warned the U.S. Congress that its proposed punitive measures against Russia would have what it called "wide and indiscriminate" "unintended consequences". Brussels is especially concerned about the impact new US sanctions will have on the block's efforts to diversify energy sources. Germany has already said it could retaliate if the United States moves to sanction firms involved wit...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's victory for "Dunkirk" and "Girls Trip" at the box office this weekend. Both original and well-reviewed films smashed expectations and enticed diverse audiences to the theaters, even though cumulatively summer remains down from last year....
KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Turkey's president waded into the diplomatic crisis gripping Qatar and four other Arab nations on Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as part of a three-country Gulf tour aimed at helping break the impasse....
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Three people, including an Israeli man, were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan's capital, the kingdom's Public Security Directorate said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House indicated Sunday President Donald Trump would sign a sweeping Russia sanctions measure, which the House could take up this week, that requires him to get Congress' permission before lifting or easing the economic penalties against Moscow....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's security Cabinet met Sunday to review a decision to install metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem holy site, following a week of escalating tensions with the Muslim world, mass prayer protests and Israeli-Palestinian violence....
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- At least 10 people died after being crammed into the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong....
Bishop Augustine Shao of Zanzibar, says he wants issues relating to interreligious dialogue and solidarity to be empahsised in the next Plenary Assembly of the regional grouping of bishops’ conferences of eastern Africa, AMECEA.In an interview with AMECEA News Online, the bishop said coming from a diocese where Islam is the main religion, he feels disappointed that the issue of interreligious dialogue has not been given the emphasis it deserves, adding that, the issue of solidarity with the dioceses and countries in the region where Catholic Christians are in a minority also needs to be looked at.The bishop proposed that the Commission on Interreligious Dialogue and Solidarity be one of the key issues to be considered for deliberations during the 19th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa in July 2018.“Previously there was strong Pastoral care to the Nomadic Communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, this ensured that people who mo...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday reminded the faithful of God’s infinite patience and of the fact that “we are all sinners”.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Addressing those gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, the Pope reflected on the Gospel of the day remarking on the fact that “the boundary between good and evil runs through the heart of each of us”. The reading in question tells of how wheat and weeds were sown in the same field illustrating, the Pope said; “the problem of evil in the world” and emphasizing the Lord’s patience. God, he said, sows good seed while Satan sows weeds. In the parable the householder’s slaves would like to pull the weeds out, but the master objects saying the wheat might be uprooted along with the weeds and he invites them to let them grow together until harvest.“With this image - the Pope explained - Jesus tells us that in this world good and ev...
LONDON (AP) -- Some of the BBC's most prominent female journalists and TV presenters are banding together to demand that the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately rather than in several years as management has proposed....
