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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian lawmakers on Tuesday mounted a fierce defense of U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, who has resigned following reports that he misled White House officials about his contacts with Russia....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fired by one American commander-in-chief for insubordination, Michael Flynn has now delivered his resignation to another....
(Vatican Radio) While world attention is focused on the President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office, the U.S. government’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations is continuing its work behind the scenes to help prevent conflict and promote long term peace and development in countries around the world.Deborah Ann Maclean is acting director of the office of Partnerships and Strategic Communications for the U.S. government’s bureau of conflict and stabilization operations.Listen to her interview with Susy Hodges: She explains that it is a challenging political endeavour which works after the military and defence operations have acted to stop fighting and before the development and humanitarian agencies come into a country. Maclean describes these stabilization efforts as the ‘sweet spot’, in the middle between ending conflicts and beginning development aid programmes. She says there is a limited budget but the main resource is the peop...
(Vatican Radio) In the weakness of temptation, which we all experience, the grace of Jesus helps us to not hide ourselves from the Lord, but to seek forgiveness in order to get up and go forward. That was Pope Francis’ message during the morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father was reflecting on the devil’s temptation both of Adam and Eve, in the first Reading, and of Jesus in the Gospel. With Satan, the Pope said, there is no dialogue, because dialogue with the devil ends in sin and corruption.Listen to Christopher Wells' report: The devil uses dialogue to deceiveTemptations lead us to hide ourselves from the Lord, so that we remain with our “fault,” our “sin,” our “corruption.” Beginning with the first Reading, from the Book of Genesis, Pope Francis focused on the temptation of Adam and Eve, and then considered that of Jesus in the desert. The devil appears in the form of a serpent: he is “attractive,&r...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday spoke about the situations of “light and shadow” in the healthcare sector, thanking God for the “many healthcare professionals who live their work like a mission, with knowledge and conscience”.The Holy Father’s words came in an address to the participants in a meeting promoted by the Charity and Health Commission of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) organized for the occasion of the 25th World Day for the Sick (11 February).Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: Pope Francis told the group of Italian healthcare professionals that there have been many social and cultural changes in the years since Pope St. John Paul II instituted the World Day of the Sick in 1992.He said that today we see “a situation with lights and shadows”.Regarding the “lights” in the field of healthcare, the Holy Father said, “Scientific research has certainly advanced and we are grateful for the...
Vatican Weekend for February 11th, 2017 features a review of Pope Francis’ General Audience, shocking testimony about the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo from a Caritas official, a look at the grim reality of the illegal trafficking of human organs that was the topic of a Vatican conference and Part 2 of a special program exploring the historical context of the signing of the 1929 Lateran Pacts that led to the creation of the Vatican City State.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for February 12th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
(Vatican Radio) If you listen carefully to what Pope Francis has been telling us about communicating, there’s much more to it than just conveying facts, figures or opinions; he says it’s about sharing, listening, closeness, acceptance and truth.Again and again, he asks journalists, writers, reporters, bloggers and all those who communicate through social media to put their abilities and gifts at the service of the common good in a perspective of true encounter and exchange.Alessandro Gisotti, a veteran journalist at Vatican Radio and a member of the Secretariat of Communications’ project for Vatican social media, has taken Pope Francis’ advice to heart and compiled a ‘guide’ book for all those, professionals and non, who want to get the message across.Linda Bordoni talked to him about his recently published “Decalogue of the good communicator according to Pope Francis”…Listen: Alessandro Gisotti says the aim of the...
India's Latin-rite Catholic bishops have pledged to give special pastoral attention to people estranged from the Church and their families. During the 29th plenary assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, 137 bishops from the country’s Latin dioceses discussed on how to revitalize Catholic families who are drifting away from vital Catholic teachings. The theme was inspired by Pope Francis' 2016 exhortation, 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love). "We will reach out to those who for several reasons feel estranged from the church … including people who are divorced, those civilly remarried and cohabiting partners," the Latin bishops said in a final statement. They said they would do this keeping in mind Pope Francis' words that "what is urgently needed today is a ministry to care for those whose marital relationship has broken down." They also ...
The commission investigating deaths and abuses during Nepal's communist insurgency received a one-year extension Thursday after being unable to finish its work on thousands of claims and complaints collected from victims and their families. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission received 58,052 claims and complaints since 2 commissions were established in 2015 - one to probe enforced disappearances and another to investigate more than 60,000 complaints of violations committed during the war. More than 17,000 people are believed to have been killed in a decade of fighting between communist rebels and government troops before a United Nations-brokered peace deal ended the conflict in 2006.It took years for the government to set up the commission, and even longer to establish the laws and regulations for it to function. The government said in a statement that the decision to extend the commission's tenure was made at a Cabinet meeting Thursday. ...
