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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- One of Word of Faith Fellowship's two churches in Brazil has rejected claims made by former members that they were subjected to physical and verbal abuse at the hands of ministers and that young congregants were sent to the mother church in North Carolina and forced to work without pay....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the blood-splattered cabin that he did it because she would not stop laughing at him, the FBI said in documents released Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Boy Scouts' chief executive apologized Thursday to members of the scouting community who were offended by the aggressive political rhetoric in President Donald Trump's recent speech to the Scouts' national jamboree....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Inspectors repeatedly looked over a thrill ride while it was assembled at the Ohio State Fair and signed off on it hours before it flew apart in a deadly accident that flung passengers through the air, according to authorities and records released Thursday....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Violence returned Thursday to a sacred site in Jerusalem as Palestinians gathering for prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound clashed with Israeli police nearly two weeks after a deadly attack there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Battered by repeated failures to repeal or replace "Obamacare," Senate GOP leaders retreated to a narrow approach Thursday that would undo just a few of the most unpopular elements of Barack Obama's law. Democrats vowed opposition as the Senate prepared for a bizarre Capitol Hill ritual, a "vote-a-rama" on amendments that promised to last into the wee hours of Friday morning....
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- After being berated for a week by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will stay in the job for as long as Trump wants him to serve....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci went after chief of staff Reince Priebus on Thursday as a suspected "leaker" inside the West Wing in a pull-no-punches interview that laid bare the personality clashes and internal turmoil of Donald Trump's presidency....
(Vatican Radio) Pakistan’s Catholic bishops have condemned the Taliban suicide bombing in the eastern city of Lahore, July 24, that killed 26 people, including nine policemen, and wounded 54 others. "Killing innocent people and security agents is unacceptable,” said the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference (PCBC). Police said a suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted police guarding a demolition site at Kot Lakhpat's vegetable market on the outskirts of Lahore. The outlawed militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Extremists recruting childrenDrawing attention to the teenage suicide bomber, NCJP officials issued a statement noting the young age of attackers who have hit several Pakistani cities in the past months. Noting that "illegal extremist groups are using our youth to bring about destruction,” the NCJP said, “We m...
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has confirmed that the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will travel to Moscow in September.Parolin’s journey to Russia comes in the wake of his visits to Belarus and to Ukraine in the past two years signaling the Vatican’s continuing engagement with eastern Europe and its desire to continue supporting the Christians in the region.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In an exclusive interview with the Italian newspaper “Il Sole 24 ore”, Cardinal Parolin pointed out that the Holy See’s support for Christians in Eastern Europe has never waned, not even in the darkest of years.Holy See's historical relationship with RussiaHe said the Vatican has always given great value to its relationship with Eastern Europe and with Russia and he recalled the Tsar, Nicholas I’s two meetings with Pope Gregorius XVI in 1845, and how the the Pontificate of Pius IX began in 1847 with an agreement by which both the...
