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MIAMI (AP) -- A Miami defense attorney is feeling the heat after his pants caught fire as he delivered closing arguments in an arson case....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for talks focusing on the situation in Syria and Israeli concerns about the role of Iran and its proxies there....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and his own agency....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- It's been almost nine years since Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee, went missing in Orlando. It's been six since the circus-like murder trial that ended in Anthony's acquittal....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Determined House Republicans pushed ahead Thursday with divisive legislation to undo former President Barack Obama's health care law, holding marathon all-night voting sessions in key committees despite Democratic protest and intense opposition from doctors and consumer groups....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- WikiLeaks will work with technology companies to help defend them against the CIA's hacking tools, founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The move sets up a potential conflict between Silicon Valley firms eager to protect their products and an intelligence agency stung by the radical transparency group's disclosures....
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican has released the programme for Pope Francis’ one-day visit to Milan on Saturday, 25 March 2017.The Holy Father will begin the day with an encounter with the Rom, Islamic, and immigrant families of the ‘White Houses’ in the Forlanini quarter of the city.After speaking with priests and consecrated persons, he will visit the inmates of the San Vittore Prison for lunch and then celebrate Holy Mass in Monza Park.The final appointment of the day is a meeting with several recently confirmed young people in the Meazza-San Siro di Milano Stadium.Below please find the full programme:07:10 Departure from Roma-Fiumicino Airport08:00 Arrival at Milano-Linate Airport08:30 Visit to the Forlanini q...
Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the commission governing the Vatican City State said he was happy to return to Ghana, where he served as Apostolic Nuncio between 1987 and 1991.The Cardinal was in Ghana as Pope Francis’ Special Envoy to Ghana for the 40th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Holy See and the 60th anniversary of Ghana’s Independence on 6 March.“I am honoured, and I am also glad to be with you. I always say that Ghana is my first love. I have spent 25 years as an Apostolic Nuncio, but Ghana is my first love,” Cardinal Bertello stated.He presided over the re-consecration of Ghana to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at an Ecumenical and Interfaith Prayer Session which took place at the Holy Spirit Cathedral. The re-consecration prayer service was attended by over a thousand people including the Republican President of Ghana, Speaker of Parliament, the Chief Justice, National Chief Imam, traditional leaders and leaders of o...
Vatican City, Mar 9, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Barbara Jatta, the newest director of the Vatican museums, and the first woman to hold the position, said that working with art was a natural path for her to follow – and she can’t imagine a better place to do so.On her extensive background in art, Barbara Jatta told CNA: “I don't think I chose it.” Her mother and sister are both restorers, her grandmother was a painter and her grandfather was an architect, she said. “All my family is in the art world…”“So I grew up in art, looking at art, going to museums with my family. It was really something so natural for me to choose this,” Jatta said.“I don't feel I have a career, I have the privilege of working with what I like. With what I really think is important for me to do and I'm doing it in the best place I can ever imagine.”Asked what she thinks will be the greatest challenge in her new position, she ...
Seoul, South Korea, Mar 9, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The first Bishop of Pyongyang, an American born-bishop, and numerous priests and laity are among the 213 who could be beatified and advanced on the process to sainthood under a process begun in South Korea.Bishop Lazarus You Heung-sik of Daejon predicted it will take at least ten years before any beatification or canonization, “but for our people, these people are already holy.”The bishop heads the Korean bishops’ committee considering the beatifications. He told Asia News that important parts of the path to beatification are the Catholic faithful’s prayer and “desire to follow the spirit of the martyrs.”One group under consideration for beatification includes Servant of God Bishop Francis Borgia Hong Yong-ho and 80 companions. This broad group ranges from the martyrs of the 1901 Jeju massacre, in which about 300 Catholics were killed, to the victims of persecution following the division...
