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LONDON (AP) -- The family of an American slain in last week's attack in London expressed gratitude Monday for the kindness of strangers as they insisted some good would come from the tragedy....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio says the wildly popular statue of a young girl staring down Wall Street's famous "Charging Bull" will be allowed to remain through February 2018....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes' spokesman says the congressman met on the White House grounds with the source of the claim that communications involving President Donald Trump's associates were caught up in "incidental" surveillance....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks around the world dipped Monday on worries that the Trump White House may not be able to help businesses as much as once thought. Many of the trends that have been in place since Election Day moved in reverse: The dollar's value sank against other currencies, as did bank stocks, while prices rose for Treasury bonds....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who organized a wave of nationwide protests against government corruption that rattled authorities, was jailed for 15 days on Monday by a Moscow court for resisting police orders....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is hoping to drive his priorities forward following the crumbling of the Republican health care bill but GOP finger-pointing is rampant, underscoring how tough it will be to produce the unity the party will need....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met Monday morning with Bishops from western Canada, who are in Rome for their visit ad limina Apostolorum (to the threshold of the [basilicas] of the Apostles).The Bishops collectively form the Assembly of Western Catholic Bishops (AWCB). Established in 1974, the Assembly gathers the Bishops of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches of the four Western Canadian provinces, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.In total, it serves eighteen Roman Catholic [Latin-rite] dioceses (Calgary, Churchill-Hudson Bay, Edmonton, Grouard-McLennan, Kamloops, Keewatin-Le Pas, MacKenzie-Fort Smith, Nelson, Prince Albert, Prince George, Regina, Saint-Boniface, Saint-Paul, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Victoria, Whitehorse, and Winnipeg) and four Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchies (Edmonton, New Westminster, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg).Archbishop Richard Gagnon, the Latin-rite Archbishop of Winnipeg, is the current President of the AWCB.The Bishops of Canada are ma...
Loreto girls secondary school in Rumbek, South Sudan, recently graduated 29 girls, the largest class of girls to graduate from the school in South Sudan since the country’s independence of 2011.In 2014, the United Nations (UN) lauded the school for graduating 23 girls, the first time 23 girls had graduated at once from a single secondary school in South Sudan.Over one thousand people, among them donors of the school; representatives of the traditional leaders and state government; members of the clergy and the religious of Rumbek Diocese all gathered to witness the continuation of the school’s achievement of graduating more and more South Sudanese girls.The well-attended event, which started with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, was marked by cultural song and dance from various South Sudanese ethnic groups and speeches.“To my sisters (graduating classmates): Go forward and show the world what you can do. To those who are not graduating today, do not lose h...
In the first-ever meeting held at the KCCB’s Catholic Secretariat in Nairobi, twelve representatives from different Kenyan Dioceses recently came together with the Bishop of Nyahururu, Joseph Mbatia. Bishop Mbatia is the official KCCB delegate for the Africa Biblical Apostolate.Led by the Bishop, the group discussed ways and means of disseminating the messages of the Bible to the faithful. They compared notes about pastoral activities in dioceses with thriving Biblical apostolates.Bishop Mbatia said the Bible is a tool for evangelization; source of knowing God and an instrument to help Christians understand God more. He added that once the faithful understand the Word of God, the people would witness a transformation in their lives. The Nyahururu Bishop revealed that the Second Vatican Council encouraged the faithful to study the Bible and so Bishops are implementing what has been said by the universal Church.“Vatican II is clear that Christians must understand th...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, has reopened the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Carpi in Italy.Pope Francis is scheduled to make a pastoral visit to the northern Italian town on 2 April, where he will meet with communities struck by the 2012 earthquake and visit the reopened Cathedral.Cardinal Parolin concelebrated Mass on Saturday at the Cathedral along with Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genova and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference.In his homily, Cardinal Parolin said, “An earthquake can strike and wound, but it cannot defeat and annihilate. It can damage and make the ground shake, but it cannot break up and disperse a community that is committed to rebirth.”The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the Emilia Romagna region in 2012 killed 20 people and heavily damaged dozens of farms, castles, and churches.“An earthquake like other dramas in society, with their mourning and devastation,” C...
