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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent Congress a $4.1 trillion spending plan that relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs for the poor in a bid to balance the government's books over the next decade....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday he personally warned Russia last summer against interfering in the U.S. presidential campaign, telling the Russians that continued meddling would backfire and prevent any warming of relations after the election....
LONDON (AP) -- The names of the 22 victims killed by a suicide bomber at a Manchester concert on Monday night have not been officially released, but here what's known about them so far:...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- The Latest on the blast at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England (all times local):...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Investigators hunted Tuesday for possible accomplices of the suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and sparking a stampede of young concertgoers, some still wearing the American pop star's trademark kitten ears and holding pink balloons....
(Vatican Radio) The Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has released his prepared remarks to the second of two panel discussions of issues surrounding sustainable development and poverty eradication, in connection with the Global Compact on safe, orderly and regular migration. Please find the full text of Archbishop Auza's prepared remarks, below********************************************************************Intervention of H.E. Archbishop Bernardito Auza Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Global Compact on safe, orderly and regular migration:Informal Thematic Session on Addressing drivers of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters and human made crisis, through protection and assistance, sustainable development, poverty eradication, conflict prevention and resolutionPanel 2: Human-made crises as drivers of Migr...
The cutting of thousands of century-old trees by a mining company in Palawan, Philippines has drawn the ire of a Catholic bishop who urged for action so that it won’t happen again.Bishop Socrates Mesiona emphasized the importance of protecting the province’s environment and its remaining natural resources and described it as the country’s “last ecological frontier” because of its unique biodiversity,“This is a tragedy because Palawan is the last frontier so we hope that our environment will be protected, especially the century-old trees,” Mesiona said over Manila archdiocese-run Radio Veritas.Thousands of trees in Brooke’s Point town were cut just days after former Environment Secretary Gina Lopez was rejected by the Commission on Appointments. Lopez, who took to Facebook in exposing the “massacre”, accused the Ipilan Nickel Corp. of cutting trees “without a permit and protected area clearance”.The forme...
(Vatican Radio) The bombing of an army hospital in Bangkok, Monday, that also treats civilians has been condemned by Human Rights Watch as an unjustifiable act of lawlessness. The detonation of a pipe bomb on 22 May in the dispensary waiting room of Phra Mongkutklao Hospital, injured at least 24 people – three critically. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which occurred on the anniversary of the 2014 military coup that brought the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) junta to power, overthrowing a democratically elected government. “The bombing of a hospital is an outrageous rights abuse that shows total disregard for human life,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Bombing hospitals not only risks the lives of patients and medical workers, but disrupts medical care for many more.”The New York-based rights group said authorities should conduct a prompt, impartial, and transparent invest...
Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias has condemned late Monday’s suicide bomb attack at a concert in Manchester, England, as “senseless violence”. The blast that took place as U.S. singer Ariana Grande was ending her concert at an arena in Manchester, killing at least 22 people and injured many more. "I am deeply pained by the attack on the innocent people in Manchester most of them who were young people and many were children,” the cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) said in a statement to AsiaNews. “We pray for them and entrust our innocent victims to the Merciful Love of God.”Numerous leaders from across the world, including Pope Francis, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have condemned the terrorist attack expressing their closeness with the injured and the families of the deceased.“This senseless violence snatched away so man...
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has reiterated the paramount importance of peace and unity to make the world a better place for the common good of all humankind. Cardinal Onaiyekan made this assertion in his homily at the celebration of Holy Mass when he recently paid a Canonical visit to St Gabriel Chaplaincy, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Durumi, Abuja.According to the Cardinal, “If we are able, in this world, to share the blessings of God that come our way, there would be no poverty, misery and all the horrible things we see in the world today.” Cardinal Onaiyekan also noted that even those who speak about economic realities agree that there are enough resources in the world to feed everybody.The Cardinal regretted that greed and the unequal distribution of the world's resources remain a worrisome bane of society. His words: “…the only problem is that the resources are not well distributed and will never be well di...
