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BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government on Friday opened a new corridor for rebels and civilians who want to leave the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, but the U.N. said planned medical evacuations haven't begun as planned because of a lack of security assurances from the warring sides....
(Vatican Radio) Hunger, homelessness and the threat of a new cholera epidemic. These are just some of the most critical needs facing the people of Haiti in areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew at the end of September.More than 900 people died as a result of the storm, which also passed over Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and St Vincent and the Grenadines, before heading to the U.S. Florida coast.Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis will be in Haiti from October 21st to 25th, visiting the worst affected areas of Les Cayes, Jérémie and Nippes in the west of the country.The global Catholic aid and development confederation is launching an international appeal for €250.000 for Haiti, where the local Caritas director, Fr Jean Hervé François, describes the situation as “catastrophic”.The Caritas appeal will provide 13.500 people with food, blankets and hygiene kits. Priority will be given to people in shelters,...
(Vatican Radio) Russia says a break in fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for one more day. The announcement came moments after German's chancellor Angela Merkel pressed anew for a long-term ceasefire in the devastated city following her talks in Berlin with European leaders meeting in Berlin.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a "humanitarian pause" in airstrikes and other attacks in the Syrian city of Aleppo has been extended for another day on the instructions of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. He added that the extension was supported by the Moscow-backed Syrian government. Russia already allowed a dawn-to-dusk break in fighting in Aleppo Thursday to allow both civilians and militants to leave the rebel-held districts. The announced further extension of the ceasefire came moments after German Chancellor Merkel appealed for a long term ceasefire in Aleppo when talking to reporters a...
Denver, Colo., Oct 21, 2016 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For years, Cecilia Cunningham and her husband took their children trick-or-treating in their then-suburban Philadelphia neighborhood.“It was the kind of neighborhood outside of Philadelphia where everybody knew each other, and it was a really fun neighborhood thing,” Cunningham told CNA. “People were just out talking while kids were trick or treating, and it had been really nice up until that point.”That point, Cunningham recalled, was in the early 1990s, when pop culture saw a resurgence of the character “Freddy Krueger,” a skinless serial killer who slashes and kills his victims with a razored glove and first appeared in the 1984 film “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”Cunningham’s youngest at that point was a year and a half, “and she spent the entire night crying upstairs because of all these kids coming to our door; every other kid was Freddy Krueger.”That year, H...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One win away. Two chances at home. Seven decades of waiting....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- There's a right way and a wrong way to raise a baby on vegan food. Those who get it wrong, parents say, give the responsible ones a bad name....
KATWE, Uganda (AP) -- In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the footsteps of a local girl who became a chess champion and the subject of a new Disney film....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Toy companies are working harder to think outside their usual box, offering more-inclusive items like dolls with disabilities, female superhero figures and characters with a range of skin tones....
MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank (AP) -- In one of the tensest corners of the West Bank, Israeli settlers and Palestinians live in separate worlds. But there is a spot on the top of a mountain that connects them both: a village of Samaritans....
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt has made fighting Islamic militants its overriding foreign policy objective, a decision that has brought it closer to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, in turn antagonizing its chief financial backer, Saudi Arabia....
