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IMAGE: CNS/family handout, courtesy FeatureworldBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis called for respectingthe wishes of a terminally ill child's parents to accompany and care for theirchild "until the end."Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, said the pope wasfollowing "with affection and emotion" the events concerning CharlieGard, a 10-month-old infant born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletionsyndrome, which causes progressive muscle weakness, brain damage andrespiratory or liver failure; it is typically fatal.Expressing his closeness to the parents, Pope Francis saidhe was "praying for them, hoping that their desire to accompany and takecare of their own baby until the end is not disregarded," Burke's written statementsaid in Italian July 2.In London, Charlie's parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates,crowdfunded nearly $1.7 million in four months to finance having the babytreated in the United States. However, when hospital officials wanted to stopproviding life support...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alonso Cupul, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Theinternational community must not remain resigned to the plight of thosesuffering hunger and malnutrition, which is often caused by indifference and selfishness,Pope Francis said.In a message to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization conference July 3, the pope saidwars, terrorism and forced displacements are not "inevitable butrather the consequence of concrete decisions" that have led to the lack of food andadequate nutrition to the helpless."We are dealing with acomplex mechanism that mainly burdens the most vulnerable, who are not onlyexcluded from the processes of production, but frequently obliged to leavetheir lands in search of refuge and hope," the pope said in the messageread to the conference by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.The Vatican published themessage July 3. Cardinal Parolin also toldparticipants that Pope Francis would visit the FAO headquarters in Rome Oct....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dairy farmers want U.S. regulators to banish the term "soy milk," but documents show even government agencies haven't always agreed on what to call such drinks....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A website that hosted an "Abduction 101" forum linked to a 28-year-old suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois bills itself as the most popular sexual fetish networking site on the internet - and it has faced pressure in recent months to be clearer about not tolerating behavior that could be regarded as criminal....
CHICAGO (AP) -- On Tuesday afternoon, the crowd at Wrigley Field will be asked to stand and "gentlemen" reminded to remove their caps for the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Fans who can recite the words as easily as the alphabet will sing or listen to the story of a flag that continued to wave throughout one of the most famous battles in American history....
BERLIN (AP) -- A bus carrying German senior citizens on vacation crashed into a truck Monday on a highway in Bavaria and burst into flames, killing 18 people and injuring 30 others, some seriously, officials said....
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Gov. Chris Christie got blistered online Monday after he was photographed sunning himself on a New Jersey beach that he had closed to the public over the Fourth of July weekend because of a government shutdown....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of secrecy over assessments of the safety and security of its nuclear weapons operations, a part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and lapses in morale....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday sent a message to participants in the 40th General Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome.The message was read out by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.At the end of the message, Cardinal Parolin officially announced that Pope Francis will visit the Rome headquarters of the FAO on World Food Day, 16 October 2017, at the invitiation of its Director-General, José Graziano da Silva.Please find below the official English translation of the message:Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Participants in the 40th General Conference of FAO3 July 2017Mr President,I offer my respectful and cordial greetings to you, and to all the Representatives of the Member States of FAO, as you assemble for the Organization’s fortieth Conference.My greeting also goes to the Director-General and to the leaders of the other International Organizations present at this meeting, wh...
