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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island couple married for 70 years has died just hours apart at their assisted living residence....
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, on Wednesday visited ongoing art restoration efforts in an earthquake-hit area of central Italy.A communique said the laboratories of the Vatican Museums would restore several works of art salvaged from churches in the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia for free.Eight works of art were chosen for restoration, which will be featured at an exhibit in Spoleto “after being returned to their original splendor”. The communique says the exhibition “is an important sign of hope: alongside the people who are gradually returning to a more-or-less normal life, these treasures of the faith ‘are being reborn’”.Archbishop Renato Boccardo of the Diocese of Spoleto-Norcia thanked Pope Francis and the President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, for allowing the Museums to perform “this great work”.He said the eight works of art will be returne...
(Vatican Radio) A new report released this week says the forced internal displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is making them poorer and keeping them in misery and despair.The document entitled “No Place Like Home” was issued by the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE), an alliance of Catholic development agencies which says the current status quo is unsustainable.Janet Symes, Head of Region for the Middle East and Asia with Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD spoke to Lydia O’Kane.Listen: Ms Symes points out that , “in 2016 there were 1,593 people displaced which is double the figure from 2015 and that 290 homes were demolished… so those are the statistics, but the reality of that is that people are losing their homes…”Legal aidAsked about what help is available both on a humanitarian and legal level, she says “as CAFOD we support one of our partner agencies,...
(Vatican Radio) Mexico`s President has again condemned a Border Wall reiterating his country will never pay for it. James Blears in Mexico says a major confrontation between the Presidents next Tuesday is on the cards, if neither moderate their rhetoric.Listen: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is due to go to Washington next Tuesday for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. But following Trump`s latest announcement, that a Border Wall will indeed be constructed as soon as possible, and Mexico will certainly end up paying it, even via a complicated method, shows that political ground has been cut from beneath the Mexican Government. Accordingly, Pena Nieto has yet again condemned the expected yet unwelcome move, reiterating his refusal to cough up a red cent or even a centavo. Yet there`s a very real possibility that the North American Free Trade Agreement might be scrapped in a...
Chicago, Ill., Jan 26, 2017 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A longtime leader of a controversial advocacy group for clergy sex abuse victims resigned weeks before a former employee filed a lawsuit charging the group was receiving kickbacks from attorneys who filed sex abuse cases, the group has said.David Clohessy resigned as executive director of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests effective Dec. 31, SNAP told CNA on Wednesday.As of Jan. 17, Clohessy was still listed as executive director on the group's website.The organization voiced gratitude for Clohessy’s dedication; he had worked for the organization since 1991.Clohessy told the St. Louis Dispatch that the lawsuit had nothing to do with his departure.“I am just ready for something different,” he said. “It was almost 30 years. I’ve read a lot about nonprofits and organizational development. It’s clear that some new blood always helps.”He said the lawsuit&rsqu...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Immigration to the United States has come in swells and dips over the past two-plus centuries, driven by shifts in U.S. policy, the mood in the country and world events....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Wall Street celebrates yet another stock market record - surpassing 20,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average - many Americans have little reason to cheer....
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Demand driven by the farm-to-table movement knows no seasons, so farmers in colder areas of the country increasingly use greenhouses and similar structures to meet wintertime demand for local produce....
BEIJING (AP) -- Beijing residents concerned about breathing the capital's thick gray air are adapting, inventing and even creating businesses to protect the health of their families and others. Some of their efforts could help people around the world....
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) -- Is Ivanka Trump really Jewish?...
