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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- North Korea said Friday it will reject the results of an autopsy on its leader's estranged half brother, the victim of an apparent assassination this week at an airport in Malaysia. Pyongyang's ambassador said Malaysian officials may be "trying to conceal something" and "colluding with hostile forces."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Municipalities nationwide including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Skokie, Illinois, are urging a federal judge to continue blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans will repeal and replace the health care law and overhaul the tax code without Democratic help or votes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the strong objections of environmental groups, the Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, giving President Donald Trump an eager partner to fulfill his campaign pledge to increase the use of planet-warming fossil fuels....
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Shifting attention from his troubled White House, President Donald Trump hit the road Friday for a campaign-style rally, resurrecting the buoyant jobs promises that powered his election victory and pledging to "unleash the power of the American spirit."...
The Trump administration considered a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press....
Vatican Weekend for February 18th, 2017 features a review of Pope Francis’ General Audience, a look at how Michelangelo and Bernini left their mark on St. Peter’s Basilica, that coincides with the anniversary of the former’s death, and as February is the month where the Church celebrates events to help reinforce the institution of marriage, we find out about a program that helps couples whose marriage is heading for the rocks.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for February 19th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading prepared by British priest, Father Sean Crawley, a profile on the background and character of the Prince of the Apostles to coincide with the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter and our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday visited one of Rome’s major institutions of higher education: the Università degli studi “Roma 3”, which has an enrollment of roughly 40 thousand students.The Holy Father fielded four questions, each one from a student at a different level of study and in a different department, from post-graduates to married professionals in continuing formation to young undergrads from the business school and the arts and sciences.Click below to hear our report One of the students was Nour Essa, a 31 year-old married mother and a refugee from Syria. She came to Rome with her family via Lesbos, making the last leg of her journey with Pope Francis, himself, aboard the Papal plane in 2016.“I remember a question posed by a reporter on your plane, returning from Lesbos,” she said. “This question was on Europeans’ fear [It. la paura europea] of those coming from Syria or Iraq: do these people not threaten the...
Catholics in Pakistan have condemned the deadly 16 February terrorist attack on a Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province, which has killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 250. A bomber blew himself up among devotees in the shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in the town of Sehwan, about 200 kilometers from Karachi. It has been the deadliest in a string of recent bombings claimed by the Islamic State, the Pakistani Taliban and other militants, with some 20 children among the victims. Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi, head of the Pakistan Catholic bishops’ conference, has strongly condemned the attack on the shrine. "It is sad that a Muslim shrine has been attacked in a Muslim country. We feel so helpless. The scourge of terrorism has spread like a cancer. It has long roots in our society," the archbishop said. "The government or army alone cannot fight it alone. The whole nation should stand united, without discrim...
