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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president's closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it's a priority....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump waded into France's upcoming elections Friday, saying he believes an attack on police officers this week will help Marine Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate....
PARIS (AP) -- The Champs-Elysees gunman who shot and killed a Paris police officer just days before France's presidential election had a note with him defending the Islamic State group, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says businesses and individuals will receive a "massive tax cut" under a tax reform package he plans to unveil next week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children can "rest easy," President Donald Trump said Friday, telling the "dreamers" they will not be targets for deportation under his immigration policies....
(Vatican Radio) On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis condemned an attack on Syrian civilians escaping from the civil war there, calling it "the latest vile attack on fleeing refugees". During his ‘Urbi et Orbi’ address, to the city of Rome and to the world, the Pope prayed for peace throughout the Middle East, decrying especially the bus bombing which killed dozens near the Syrian city of Aleppo.Stephanie Saldaña is a writer and teacher who is currently spearheading a project called 'Mosaic Stories', seeking to protect the endangered heritage of refugees, especially those fleeing from the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. She has lived for many years in the Middle East and is passionate about the need to protect the cultures and languages that are disappearing as towns and villages across the region are destroyed.She has met with refugees in camps, in churches, in subway stations and restaurants, both in the Middle East and in European countries wher...
Vatican Weekend for April 22nd, 2017 features a report on the Pope’s general audience, a U.S. Catholic author talks about his latest book that looks at how to revitalize the Church and we recall the figure of Saint Pope John Paul II with a selection of sound clips as the Church marks Divine Mercy Sunday, the feast instituted by him.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for April 23rd, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus we shine the spotlight on the Marian icon of the Salus Populi Romani picking up on Pope Francis’ well-known devotion to this image. Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Caritas is assessing an emergency situation in northeastern Bangladesh which is affected by a long period of heavy rain from 29 March to 07 April and has destroyed crops and other means of livelihood.Speaking to ucanews, Daniel Dhritu Snal, project officer of disaster management at Caritas Sylhet said the agency is evaluating damage done by floods that have submerged vast areas in the haor wetland region which covers seven districts. Most of the evaluations are being done in Sunamganj district in Sylhet division, which has been the hardest hit area."We will offer people food items, which they need most, as well as money if they need it. Where necessary, we will give them medicine because various waterborne diseases hit affected communities after flooding," said Snal. "We will help people as much as we can but we have also designed a project to make communities able to fight disasters like flooding and drought effectively in the long run," he sa...
In a unique gesture, police in the Indian state of West Bengal are going beyond the call of duty by raising funds for the women they rescue from sex traffickers to help them get back on track. "The girls are hardly literate, have no access to bank loans, and government schemes are not enough to sustain them in the long run," said police officer Chandra Sekhar Bardhan, who is spearheading the programme in eastern India. "We had to do something, even though it did not fall in the realm of our duties," he told Thomson Reuters Foundation.The scheme - the first of its kind - began this month, with 22 rescued women singled out for rehabilitation. Police then hope to reach out to 100 more women and create a model to replicate across the region. Police tailor the aid to the individual women, asking firms to fund their needs as an act of corporate social responsibility. One of the first group wants to set up a sewing business, another...
