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SEATTLE (AP) -- The gunman had already shot a police officer, threatened to kill two children and barricaded himself upstairs in a house for 11 hours when one of the kids, a 6-year-old boy, escaped....
CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- This Brazilian hometown of the soccer team whose dream season ended in tragedy this week prepared Friday for the sad return of so many whose lives were cut short on an Andes mountainside, hanging origami figures of peace in the team's green and white colors from the fence of the local soccer stadium....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. jobs report on Friday made one thing clear: President-elect Donald Trump will inherit the same two-track U.S. economy that bedeviled his predecessor....
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- Residents and business owners in Gatlinburg got their first look at the wildfire destruction on Friday, and many walked around the once-bustling tourist city in a daze, sobbing....
An "odious crime committed against a peaceful and defenceless servant of God," is how the Christians of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu are mourning the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire Kahambu. Sr. Marie-Claire, a Franciscan religious sister, was killed in Bukavu this week on Tuesday as she worked in her office at a girls’ training centre that she was running. According to Jimmy Ndumba of “Beni Lubero Online,” two men wielding knives, on the afternoon of 29 November, scaled the wall of the Mater Dei Parish, burst into the office of Sr. Marie Claire and savagely stabbed her several times. They got away with some money belonging to the centre.Hundreds of furious residents later demonstrated at the parish seeking justice. Two men have since been apprehended and charged with the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire. The two have been committed to the Bukavu High Court.Ironically, as the court case in Bukavu got under way, the Church, was celebrati...
After the Beatification of Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig in Germany on 24 September 2016, the Zambian unit of the Mariannhill congregation (CMM) this week celebrated a thanksgiving Mass for the beatification. It was also an opportunity to make known the newly Blessed of the Church to the faithful of the Archdiocese of Lusaka and Zambia. .The rainy day celebrations turned out to be a joyous and solemn occasion for the CMM family of priests, brothers, students and CMM Associates.The Holy Mass in honour of Blessed Engelmar prophetically took place at Englemar House of Formation in Lusaka. The house is situated about 7km south of the city centre. In attendance were most Mariannhill priests and brothers working and living in Zambia; the Precious Blood Sisters; local Archdiocesan clergy as well various religious men and women from the Archdiocese of Lusaka. The Mass was graced by the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Lusaka, Fr Oliver Mukunta who was the principal celebrant.In his homily,...
(Vatican Radio) Papal preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa on Friday offered his first Advent Sermon to Pope Francis, focusing on the Holy Spirit’s action in the Church.As preacher to the Papal Household, Capucin Father Cantalamessa gives a meditation to the Pope, Cardinals and members of the Roman Curia every Friday morning in Lent and Advent in the Apostolic Palace’s “Redemptoris Mater” Chapel. Father Cantalamessa was named papal preacher by St. John Paul II in 1980, and was confirmed by both by Benedict XVI and by Pope Francis.Please find below the full text of the Reflection translated by Marsha Daigle Williamson:I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT1. The Innovation after the CouncilWith the celebration of the 50th year of the end of the Second Vatican Council, the first “post-conciliar” period comes to a close and a new one begins. If the first period was categorized by problems relating to the “reception” of the Counci...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, in a private audience on Friday.A communiqué from the Holy See Press Office said the Pope and the President held cordial discussions, in which they evoked the historical ties between the Holy See and Uruguay, and their “common interests for the integral development of the human person, respect for human rights, and social peace”.In this context, the two men underlined the “role and positive contribution made by Catholic institutions to the society of Uruguay, especially in the areas of human promotion, formation, and aid to those most in need”.The press release goes on to say the Pope and the President spoke about the national and regional situation, with special emphasis on democratic institutions and the social and humanitarian situation on the continent.Vázquez subsequently met with the Secretary of State ...
Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A nun in the Democratic Republic of Congo was murdered earlier this week by unknown suspects in an apparent robbery, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions has reported.Sister Marie Claire Agano, a religious of the Franciscan Congregation of Christ the King, was killed the afternoon of Nov. 29 in her office of the vocational training center at the Mater Dei parish of Bakavu.The pontifical institute's “World and Mission” magazine wrote that Sister Marie Claire was victim of “an assault with a gun, probably by bandits who wanted to rob her.”World and Mission noted that the nun joins a list of religious in Africa who have given their lives for the Gospel, such as the elderly religious Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici and Bernardetta Boggian. All three were murdered in 2014 in Burundi, after having worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In 1996, Archbishop Christophe Munzihirwa was murdered by ...
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2016 / 07:58 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While he was in town for a global meeting on the crisis in the Mediterranean region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped by the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis that likely centered largely on the problem of migration.Kerry is currently in Rome for the three-day “Rome Med – Mediterranean Dialogues” meeting, which this year runs Dec. 1-3. The annual event is a high-level initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, as well as the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).The main purpose of the gathering is to draft a “positive agenda” for the Mediterranean region given the current challenges by coming up with new ideas and rethinking traditional approaches at both the local and international levels.According to the website created for the event, this year’s meeting, which is only the second edition, will focus on how the ...
