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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Rafael Nadal took five sets and almost five hours to fend off "Baby Fed" and revive a classic Grand Slam final against the one-and-only Roger Federer....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- For decades, bars along Bourbon Street have had an open-door policy, enticing anyone over 21 to walk in at all hours with drink specials, blaring music and neon lights. Come in, order a drink and carry it back out to the street, if you like....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy lost momentum in the final three months of 2016, closing out a year in which growth turned in the weakest performance in five years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time in years, abortion opponents will have all the political momentum when they hold their annual rally Friday on the National Mall....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Though "Obamacare" still divides Americans, a majority worries many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation's long-running political standoff over health care....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has marked “Holocaust Remembrance Day” with an appeal to never forget the lessons of the past.At a OSCE Permanent Council meeting, Msgr Janusz Urbanczyk said: “the Holocaust teaches us that utmost vigilance is always needed to be able to take prompt action in defense of human dignity and peace.”Quoting from Pope Francis who said that the cruelty that was perpetrated in the Nazi stermination camps is still around today, Urbanczyk said “the International Holocaust Remembrance Day should (...)help us to ‘go beyond evil and differences’, and open every possible pathway of peace and hope in our world of today.Please find below Msgr Urbanczyk’s full statement for ‘Holocaust Remembrance Day’: Mr. Chairman,I gladly join previous speakers in welcoming to the Permanent Council Ambassador Mihnea Constant...
(Vatican Radio) Dutch Justice Minister, Ard van der Steur, has resigned in a row over a 2001 compensation payment to a convicted drug trafficker. His departure is seen as a blow to the government of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of upcoming elections.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The visibly emotional Van der Steur resigned after a six-hour grilling by opposition parties. "I see, I notice and I feel that my answers don't matter....Many already have already drawn their political conclusions," he told Parliament. He added he wanted to defend himself against trumped-up charges. But now, he said, "I'm handing in my resignation to his Majesty the King (Willem-Alexander). Thank you." Minister Van der Steur is the third member of Prime Minister Rutte's government to resign over the scandal.Former Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his junior minister, Fred Teeven, resigned in 2015 after misleading parliament over the 2001 deal.MUC...
(Vatican Radio) Wherever there is violence and conflict, Christians are called to work patiently to restore concord and hope. That was Pope Francis’ message on Friday to members of the Joint International Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.The group, which is meeting in the Vatican this week, includes representatives of the six ancient Churches of the East which have been separated from the rest of the Christian world since the middle of the fifth century.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his words to the Catholic and Oriental Orthodox leaders, Pope Francis noted that many of them belong to Churches that witness daily the spread of violence and “brutality perpetrated by fundamentalist extremism”. We are aware, he said, “that situations of such tragic suffering more easily take root in the context of great poverty, injustice and social exclusion”This is due to instability, ...
Vatican Weekend for January 28th, 2017 features a report on Vespers presided over by Pope Francis to mark the Conversion of St Paul along with a look at an ecumenical musical partnership between the Sistine Chapel choir and the Westminster Abbey choir, a review of the Pope’s general audience on January 25th, the Vatican official sent as the Pope’s delegate to the Syrian city of Aleppo talks about his visit and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See shares with us his insights into this unique posting.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
(Vatican Radio) God frees us from the sin that paralyzes us as Christians: faintheartedness, being afraid of everything, which keep us from having memory, hope, courage, and patience. That was the message of Pope Francis during the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta on Friday.Remembering the God’s work of salvation in my lifePope Francis said the day’s Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews exhorts us to live the Christian life with three points of reference: the past, the present, and the future. First, it invites us to remember, because “the Christian life does not begin today: it continues today.” Remembering is “to recall everything”: the good things, and those that are less good, and putting my own story “before the sight of God”: without covering up or hiding it:“‘Brothers, call to mind those first days’: the days of enthusiasm, of going forward in the faith, when you began to live the faith, the anguished t...
