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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House GOP health care bill has competition from other Republicans, a group of governors who've made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. They're hoping GOP senators will find their ideas more persuasive....
ORLY, France (AP) -- French soldiers shot and killed a man who wrestled a colleague to the ground Saturday and tried to steal her rifle at Paris' Orly Airport. The melee forced the airport's busy terminals to close and evacuate and trapped hundreds of passengers aboard flights that had just landed....
(Vatican Radio) Aid agencies are stepping up their efforts to help 16 million people facing starvation across East Africa. The dire situation in the affected countries of South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia has been caused by conflict and drought.The UN is warning that the world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War.CAFOD the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has joined up with the Disasters Emergency Committee DEC which brings 13 leading UK aid charities together in times of crisis.Matthew Carter is CAFOD’S Director of Humanitarian and Emergencies. He spoke to Lydia O’Kane about the scale of the crisis.Listen: “This is huge, the level, I mean of the emergency across the whole region from Ethiopia, Northern Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan; 16 million people in desperate need of food aid and of those 800,000 children,” he said. Mr Carter added, that “we need to res...
Pope Francis on Saturday appointed a new head to the Archdiocese of Semarang in Central Java, Indonesia. Fr. Robertus Rubiyatmoko, the judicial vicar as well as formator of the Major Seminary of Semarang is the new archbishop. The archdiocese has been without a head since Archbishop Johannes Pujasumarta passed away on 10 November, 2015. The papal appointment comes ahead of the 7th Asian Youth Day of the Catholic Church that is being hosted by Semarang Archdiocese from July 30 to August 9 this year. "Joyful Asian Youth! Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia," is the theme of the youth rally that is taking centre stage in Yogyakarta.Born in Sleman, 10 Oct., 1963, Fr. Rubiyatmoko entered St. Peter Canisius Minor Seminary of Mertoyudan. He later completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Faculty of Yogakarta and was ordained a priest on 12 August, 1992 for Semarang Archdiocese.Thereafter, Fr. Rubiyatm...
(Vatican Radio) A statement from Greg Burke, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Egypt at the end of April.Here is the full text of Greg Burke’s statement: “In response to the invitation from the President of the Republic, the Bishops of the Catholic Church, His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and the Grand Imam of the Mosque of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayyib, His Holiness Pope Francis will make an Apostolic trip to the Arab Republic of Egypt from 28 to 29 April 2017, visiting the city of Cairo. The programme of the trip will be published shortly.”The Apostolic Voyage to Egypt will be Pope Francis’ eighteenth pastoral visit outside of Italy.
Philadelphia, Pa., Mar 18, 2017 / 05:32 am (CNA).- As fears of deportation threaten to keep many immigrants home from a prayer service on Sunday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is calling on citizens and legal residents to attend the event in support.“As a Church that herself bore the cross of hatred toward immigrants, our Catholic past is a compelling reason to welcome the immigrants and refugees among us today,” the archbishop said in his latest CatholicPhilly column.“These persons and families need our help. They are not strangers but friends. And how we treat them will prove or disprove whether we take our Christian discipleship seriously.”A statement from the archdiocese noted that Archbishop Chaput is planning to lead a prayer service for immigrants and refugees at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul at 4:00 p.m. on March 19.However, the statement noted, “because of recent ICE actions to detain and deport the undocumented, i...
BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday pushed for closer China-U.S. cooperation on dealing with North Korea's nuclear program in his first face-to-face talks with top Chinese diplomats....
ORLY, France (AP) -- Soldiers at Paris' busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said....
Coaches across the country can use the first two days of the NCAA Tournament as examples when they're teaching the importance of knowing when and how to foul in late-game situations....
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) -- Comedian Artie Lange was arrested recently on drug possession charges outside his New Jersey home....
