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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Esteban Santiago stood alone in the cold one day last month outside Mom & Pop's liquor store in Anchorage. He was waving his arms and having a terrible argument in the parking lot....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Small stalls and carts have sprung up outside the bombed-out buildings in eastern Mosul, selling meat and vegetables, cigarettes and cellphones to the thousands of civilians still living in neighborhoods where the Iraqi military has driven out the Islamic State group....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans are taking the first steps toward dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law, facing pressure from President-elect Donald Trump to move quickly on a replacement....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's pick to run the CIA told Congress on Thursday that he accepts the findings in an intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. election with the goal of helping Trump win, even though the president-elect has been skeptical of some of the report's conclusions....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In yet another aftershock from the chaotic presidential campaign, the Justice Department inspector general opened an investigation Thursday into department and FBI actions before the election, including whether FBI Director James Comey followed established policies in the email investigation of Hillary Clinton....
The 4th World Apostolic Congress on Mercy (WACOM4) is taking place in the ‎Philippine ‎capital ‎Manila, next week. “Communion in Mercy, ‎Mission for Mercy”, is the theme of the January 16-‎‎20 ‎event.  WACOM is an international gathering of Divine Mercy ‎devotees ‎and ‎promoters, among whom are cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and the laity.   So far three ‎WACOMs ‎have been ‎convened since it began in 2008.  Pope Francis has nominated French Cardinal ‎Philippe ‎Barbarin, Archbisop of Lyon, as his ‎special ‎envoy to WACOM4. To know more about WACOM4, we ‎called Secular Carmelite Monina Tayamen, the ‎WACOM-Asia ‎Lay ‎Coordinator.  Talking to us on the phone from Manila, the mother of 6 and formation director for Divine Mercy devotees in ‎the ‎Philippines, began by giving us a brief background to WACOM. Listen:  
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Thursday morning. In remarks to the faithful following the readings of the day, the Holy Father reflected on the unique and unrepeatable opportunities each day offers to  grow in faith and love of God.The day in which we have received God's lovePope Francis took as the focal point of his reflections the text from Psalm 95, which the author of the Letter to the Hebrews took up in the 3rd chapter, a portion of which was read at Mass. There is “only one ‘today’, in our lives,” – only one real, concrete today. Our temptation and everyone’s temptation is to say: “Yes, I will do tomorrow,” though this is the temptation of a “‘tomorrow’ there will not be,” as Jesus says in the parable of the ten virgins – the five foolish ones who had not taken oil with them along with their lamps, then find the door locked when they ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday met separately with the Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, and the President of the Region of Lazio, Nicola Zingaretti.It is tradition for the Bishop of Rome to meet with local officials during the month of January to exchange New Year greetings.The meetings were private, and no official statement was released afterward. However, Zingaretti told reporters meeting the Pope is “always a very emotional experience.”
(Vatican Radio) At a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Holy See’s Permanent Representative to the organization pointed out “2017 begins in the shadow of the many conflicts in, and violent attacks on, the OSCE region in 2016.”“We must acknowledge that far too many of our fellow citizens know too well the horror and consequences of conflict, strife and terrorism, and sadly, look to the future with fear in their hearts rather than confidence and a clear sense of security,” said Msgr. Janusz S. Urbanczyk.“This worrying reality spurs us to action,” – the Vatican diplomat continued – “Peace, and peaceful co-existence, must be at the top of our Organization’s agenda. For that very reason the Holy See will support any and all initiatives … that seek to advance the cause of peace and stability, especially when such initiatives strive to defuse conf...
(Vatican Radio) The leader of Syria's Catholic Church has urged the West and the United Nations to immediately end sanctions against his country and to stop supporting rebels, saying this is the only way to find a solution to a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan made the comments in an interview with Vatican Radio in Budapest, Hungary, where he also thanked Pope Francis for his prayers. Listen to the report by correspondent Stefan Bos:  The patriarch is a man on a mission. After giving a lecture at Budapest's Pázmány Péter Catholic University he was to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and expected to discuss how Hungary can support persecuted Christians. He also wants Hungary to pressure the European Union and U.N. to end the war in his home country. "I still hope that the Western  countries, that means the Western politicians, would accept to stop financ...
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