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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped."...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president on Wednesday implicated a U.S.-based Muslim cleric in the killing of Russia's envoy to Turkey, saying the policeman who carried out the attack was a member of his "terror organization."...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hundreds of rebel fighters and civilians, including small children swaddled in thick blankets, were bused out of war-ravaged Aleppo in heavy snow on Wednesday as the evacuation of former rebel strongholds entered its final phase....
PARIS (AP) -- The Tunisian now wanted throughout Europe has six aliases, three nationalities - and links to the same brand of Islamic extremism that has drawn at least 6,000 of his countrymen to jihadi networks....
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany on Wednesday launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a "violent and armed" Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has used at least six different names and three different nationalities, saying he is a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack....
(Vatican Radio) Commenting on the violence and divisions that have brought fear and mistrust into our world, Jerusalem Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa says “we must look to the child of Bethlehem and in him find ‘my brother’ and learn to accept the other in order to be able to build our lives with him”.Archbishop Pizzaballa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, told Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni that the situation in the Holy Land is one of division and difficulty, but that the whole world – from the United States to Europe to the Middle East – is a ‘broken’ one.Listen: “All the world, Archbishop Pizzaballa says, from the United States to Europe and especially here in the Middle East is broken, our heart is broken by violence, by violence, by hatred, and my wish is for 2017 is that we can rebuild our life looking at each other as brothers.”In order to do this, he continues “we...
Vatican City, Dec 21, 2016 / 08:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After the recent unauthorized ordination of bishops in China, which falls just ahead of a major meeting for Chinese Catholic representatives, the Vatican has issued a statement reaffirming their position on the matter.“Some journalists have asked for the Holy See's thoughts regarding both the recent episcopal ordinations in Chengdu and Xichang and the Ninth Assembly of Representatives of Chinese Catholics,” a Dec. 19 communique from Vatican spokesman Greg Burke read.With the latter set to take place in just a few days, Burke stressed that the Holy See’s position on two events, “which involve aspects of doctrine and the discipline of the Church,” have been “noted for some time.”In fact, the Vatican issued statement Nov. 7 stressing that rumored bishop ordinations taking place within the so-called “underground Church” in China had neither the authorization of the Holy See,...
Vatican City, Dec 21, 2016 / 09:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday it was announced that Barbara Jatta, a wife and mother of three children, will be the new director of the Vatican Museums – a position that until now has belonged only to men.Jatta, who has served as Vice-director of the museums since June 2015, was a natural choice to succeed the outgoing Director of the museums, Antonio Paolucci, who has guided them since 2007.Set to take the reins Jan. 1, 2017, Jatta was born in Rome Oct. 6, 1962, and has a track record of dozens of scientific publications and internships in different countries around the world, including Portugal, England and the United States.She graduated with a degree in Literature from Rome’s “Sapienza” University in 1986, and a year later got her Archivist Diploma from the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomacy and Archives.In 1991 she became a specialist in Art History at the Postgraduate School of the University of Rome. Aft...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The birth of Christ is a reminder for Christians to take a momentand reflect on the hope of salvation given by God to the world, Pope Francissaid.Thosewho are humble and poor like the shepherds come to realize the promise of hopethat comes from trusting God and not from "their own securities,especially material goods," the pope said Dec. 21 during his weeklygeneral audience."Rememberthis: Our own securities will not save us. Theonly security that saves us is the hope in God which saves us, which is strong.It makes us walk through life with joy, with a desire to do good, with a desireto become happy for all eternity," the pope said.Upon entering the Paul VI audiencehall, the pope greeted people and received gifts and letters from well-wishers.Approaching a crying child, the popewiped her tears and did his best to calm her. After succeeding in consolingher, he then pointed to his cheek, which the toddler leaned toward ...
