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CHAPECO, Brazil (AP) -- For the players on the humble Brazilian club from an out-of-the-way city known for its agribusiness plants, these were going to be the games of their lives....
LA UNION, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian authorities searched for answers Tuesday into the crash of a chartered airliner that slammed into the Andes mountains while transporting a Brazilian soccer team whose Cinderella story had won it a spot in the finals of one of South America's most prestigious regional tournaments. All but six of the 77 people on board were killed....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump and his administration (all times EST):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's expected choice to be the nation's 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a shorter but significant period in a job that ushered him into Trump's inner circle: head of Trump's campaign finance operation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is enlisting a trio of nominees with deep ties to Washington and Wall Street to fill out his Cabinet, including former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as secretary of the Treasury Department....
(Vatican Radio) Government leaders, experts and business representatives from more than 100 countries are gathering in Budapest to discuss how to prevent a crisis and a global conflict over water. Delegates attending the three-day Budapest Water Summit have already heard messages from world leaders, including Hungary's president, who described water as "the most endangered natural resource" and urged immediate action to increase water security.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Some 2,000 delegates from more than 100 countries have heard appeals from church leaders to help ensure water security. Pope Francis and Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, urged those attending to recognize the value of water in sustainable development.United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agrees. In a video message he said it was crucial to restructure the way the world uses natural resources. "We must transform how we manage our resources. We must invest in wate...
Vatican City, Nov 29, 2016 / 10:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While signs of bustling pilgrims who came for the Jubilee of Mercy are mostly gone, new signs of Christmas are springing up around St. Peter’s Basilica, including the construction of the large Nativity scene in the middle of the square, and the placement of a Christmas tree alongside it.On Nov. 24, a massive 82-foot tree from the Dolomites arrived in St. Peter’s Square next to the large Nativity scene currently being built, which was donated to the Vatican by the Archdiocese of Malta and designed by local artists.An artist from the island of Gozo named Manwel Gretch did the sketch chosen for the Nativity, which depicts the Maltese countryside. The 17 characters in the Nativity, animals excluded, will be dressed in typical Maltese clothing and will be holding tools and instruments.The traditional “Cross of Malta” will be included in the scene, as well as a typical Maltese archipelago boat meant to represe...
Vatican City, Nov 29, 2016 / 11:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Christians must pursue true humility as they remember the “smallness” of Christmas, Pope Francis said in his Tuesday homily.“Humility is the virtue of the childlike and this is true humility and not a rather theatrical humility: no, not that: the humility of somebody who said: ‘I am humble but proud of being so.’ No, that is not true humility,” the Pope warned.“The humility of the childlike is that of somebody who walks in the presence of the Lord, does not speak badly about others, looks only at serving and feels that he or she is the smallest.”This is the strength of the childlike, the Pope said in his Nov. 11 homily during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta chapel in Vatican City. He noted that the Lord reveals to the little ones the mystery of Salvation and the mystery of his very self.For Pope Francis, true humility is connected to the biblical concept of Fear of the Lord praised i...
Rionegro, Colombia, Nov 29, 2016 / 12:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A wave of solidarity and calls for prayer have inundated social networks and the media following Monday's crash in Colombia of a plane carrying 81 people, including Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team.Only six persons reportedly survived the Nov. 28 accident.The plane's pilot reported electrical failures as it approached Medellin around 10:15 pm on Monday. It crashed moments later in a mountainous area near La Union, less than 20 miles south of Rionegro.Pope Francis sent a message to Bishop Fidel Leon Cadavid Marin of Sonson-Rionegro Nov. 29 through the Vatican Secretariat of State.“The Holy Father, deeply distressed knowing the painful news of the grave accident with numerous victims, lifts up his prayers for the eternal rest of the deceased,” read the message.“I also ask your excellency to transmit the condolences of His Holiness to the family and to those who mourn such a great loss, to...
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) -- Workers completed a massive shelter over the Chernobyl nuclear plant's exploded reactor on Tuesday, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world that one expert said had closed "a nuclear wound."...
