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Political parties in Congo signed a deal late Saturday that calls for President Joseph Kabila to leave power after an election that now will be held by the end of this year, 2017 instead of mid-2018 as his party originally proposed.The New Year's Eve agreement comes after months of unrest that left dozens dead and threatened to further destabilise the vast Central African nation with a painful history of dictatorship and civil war.DRC’s Catholic Bishops mediated the talks to reach a compromise. Initially, the Bishops had imposed a Christmas deadline. The negotiations reached a stalemate, though, and resumed Thursday under mounting pressure to avoid major violence amid opposition calls for Kabila to step down.Officials announced that a deal had been reached Saturday evening on the major issues though representatives did not sign it until around 11 p.m. local time on New Year's Eve.Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa, President of the Bishops’ Episcopal Conferenc...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis is calling for a renewed culture of nonviolence to inform global politics today, saying military responses to conflicts only breed further violence.The Pope’s appeal comes in his annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is marked by the Catholic Church on January1st .Listen to our report by Linda Bordoni: Calling on political and religious leaders, on the heads of international institutions, on business and media executives and on all men and women of goodwill to become instruments of reconciliation and adopt nonviolence as a style of politics for peace, Pope Francis says that we find ourselves “engaged in a horrifying world war fought piecemeal”, and that violence is clearly “not the cure for our broken world.”Violence, he says in the message, leads to forced migrations and enormous suffering , devastation of the environment, terrorism and organized crime. It leads to retaliation and a deadly cyc...
A former government official in South Sudan’s Gbudue State says that he is convinced that lasting peace can return and prevail in Yambio and Gbudue State and the entire country if elderly people talk to their sons not to take up arms against their own fellow citizens.Hussein Enoka Ibrahim, the former Commissioner of Yambio County, said that a combination of prayer and elderly people speaking to their sons about peace would go a long way in bringing back peace to the troubled nation.The former Commissioner told Catholic Radio Anisa that he deeply regrets the current situation in Gbudue State where sons and daughters were causing trouble for their own people.Enoka Ibrahim urged the youth of South Sudan to work for God and cultivate respect for their elders. He was speaking after attending the Feast of the Holy Family Mass at St. John Bosco Akorogbodi II.Usually, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family on the last Sunday of the year which falls between Chri...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle Monday in a bustling market area in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said, hours after the arrival of French President Francois Hollande to the country and amid a fierce fight against the Islamic State group....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dick Clark Productions is hitting back against Mariah Carey's claim it sabotaged her live performance on its "New Year's Rockin' Eve" special....
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook "black people food" - not "white people food" - at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean prosecutors said Monday the daughter of the confidante of disgraced President Park Geun-hye has been arrested in Denmark and authorities are working to get her returned home in connection with a huge corruption scandal....
BOSTON (AP) -- As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block - lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take for granted....
SHARON, Mass. (AP) -- Ahmad Alkhalaf has had a busy year....
ABS, Yemen (AP) -- As the first light of dawn trickles in through the hospital window, 19-year-old Mohammed Ali learns that his two-year-old cousin has died of hunger. But he has to remain strong for his little brother Mohannad, who could be next....
