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(Vatican Radio) A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for a Tunisian man wanted for Monday's truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany's capital Berlin that killed at least 12 people and injured nearly 50 more. Prosecutors denied reports that four people who allegedly were in contact with the suspect had been detained. The hunt began while the market itself reopened, just two days after the attack. Listen to Stefan Bos' report Questions remained as to why the man, identified as 24-year-old Anis Amri, could allegedly drive a truck deliberately into a crowd visiting the Christmas market near Berlin's famed Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.German authorities said he had been monitored on suspicion of planning a robbery to pay for guns but surveillance was lifted for lack of evidence. Officials reported that the investigation turned up nothing more than drug-dealing in a Berlin park and a bar brawl before the suspect disappeared from his regular h...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the leadership, officials, and staff of the Holy See’s curial dicasteries and Vatican offices on Thursday morning, along with their families, for an exchange of Christmas greetings and well-wishes.In remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered in the Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis spoke to his guests of the duty to be grateful to heaven for the gift of work, and of the duty employers have to respect the rights and dignity of the people who work for them.“Work is very important for the person who works, and for that person’s family,” said Pope Francis. “While we give thanks [for the work we have], let us pray for the persons and the families – in Italy and in all the world – who do not have work, or who so often do unworthy jobs, poor-paying jobs, jobs that are harmful to their health,” he continued.The Holy Father went on to say, “We must commit ourselves, each of us according to his respon...
Vatican City, Dec 22, 2016 / 05:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a lengthy, in-depth speech to members of the Roman Curia Thursday, Pope Francis dug into what he said are the key guideless of his ongoing reform, which in his view ought to focus primarily on conversion, unity and streamlining the old process in order to meet modern needs.Francis opened his annual Dec. 22 speech reflecting on how God humbled himself, making himself small and becoming a servant to mankind.“At Christmas we are called to say ‘yes’ with our faith, not to the master of the universe, and not even to the most noble ideas, but precisely to this God who is the humble lover,” he said.With this “gentle and impressive” image of the Christ child in mind, the Pope delved into his reflections on the curial reform, touching not only on the functions of the curial offices, but also the importance of a constant personal conversion and the different types of resistance – both good and...
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- One of President-elect Donald Trump's sons will stop directly raising money for his namesake foundation, saying he worries the donations could be perceived as buying access to his father....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Denouncing the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his vow to stop radical terror groups and appeared to suggest a willingness to move ahead with his campaign pledge to ban temporarily Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The 15-year-old Iraqi boy was lying in a hospital bed recovering from his wounds when his brother brought him the news: Their father, a few rooms over, had just died from the shrapnel lodged in his head from the same Islamic State mortar attack....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says the evacuation of the last remaining civilians and fighters from a rebel-held enclave in eastern Aleppo will be completed in the coming hours....
