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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he will not attend a planned Jan. 31 meeting with President Donald J. Trump, hours after Trump tweeted the meeting should be canceled if Mexico won't pay for a border wall....
(Vatican Radio) Instead of rampant business expansion which tramples on the world’s poor, Pope Francis has often criticized conventional economics for fostering unfairness and inequality.In a recent address to The Global Foundation, the Holy Father called for a ‘more fraternal and cooperative globalization'.To find out more about the idea of cooperative globalization, Devin Watkins spoke to Fr. Séamus Finn, OMI, who is Ethical Advisor for the OIP Investment Trust, which provides faith-consistent investing advice for the financial resources of Catholic organizations.Listen to the full interview: "Cooperative globalization," Fr. Finn said, "is maybe a new term that is probably challenging, because globalization seemed to suggest that we had a sense we were all inhabiting the same planet and that we needed to be responsable... and to cooperate on issues like trade, finance, education."But the Pope's term adds the adjective ...
(Vatican Radio) A Polish missionary has been murdered during an attack on a childcare center in Cochabamba, central BoliviaThe young lay missionary, Helena Kmiec, was reportedly stabbed on Tuesday, and died of her wounds.The Salvator Missionary Volunteering group, with whom Helena worked, had organized her assignment to Bolivia.According to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolivian police have detained a number of suspects.Fr. Adam Ziolkowski, director of the Volunteering group told Vatican Radio’s Rafal Laczny that the attack took place early Tuesday morning at the center run by Polish nuns.Listen: Ziolkowski said it appears robbers broke into the center during the night and found Helena awake, “she tried to defend herself and she was stabbed repeatedly” on her hands, arms and chest.He said her screams woke up another volunteer and the attacker ran away; she was immediately assisted but unfortunately died from her wounds.Ziolkowski said Police believe Hel...
Juarez, Mexico, Jan 26, 2017 / 02:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Juarez, located in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, was considered from 2008 to 2010 to be one of the the most dangerous cities in the world, due to drug trafficking violence and the constant struggles for power and territory between the cartels.However, the city of 1.3 million inhabitants dropped off this list thanks to a significant decrease in the number of homicides: from 3,766 in 2010 to 256 in 2015.Although this drop can be credited to an improvement in the work of local authorities, for Fr. Patrico Hileman – a priest responsible for establishing Perpetual Adoration chapels in Latin America – there is a much deeper reason: Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.“When a parish adores God day and night, the city is transformed,” Fr. Hileman said.The priest told Radio María Argentina that in 2013 the missionaries opened the first Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Juarez. At that time “40 ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- It was one, two and three for the ages as Venus and Serena Williams set up another all-sisters final and Roger Federer ensured he'll contend for another Australian Open title....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly got into an altercation with another man outside a New York City museum where he has been chanting "He will not divide us" in front of a live camera since Donald Trump's inauguration....
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A 10-year-old surfer has had a close encounter with a photo-bombing shark that shared a wave with him off an Australian beach....
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island couple married for 70 years has died just hours apart at their assisted living residence....
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, on Wednesday visited ongoing art restoration efforts in an earthquake-hit area of central Italy.A communique said the laboratories of the Vatican Museums would restore several works of art salvaged from churches in the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia for free.Eight works of art were chosen for restoration, which will be featured at an exhibit in Spoleto “after being returned to their original splendor”. The communique says the exhibition “is an important sign of hope: alongside the people who are gradually returning to a more-or-less normal life, these treasures of the faith ‘are being reborn’”.Archbishop Renato Boccardo of the Diocese of Spoleto-Norcia thanked Pope Francis and the President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, for allowing the Museums to perform “this great work”.He said the eight works of art will be returne...
(Vatican Radio) A new report released this week says the forced internal displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is making them poorer and keeping them in misery and despair.The document entitled “No Place Like Home” was issued by the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE), an alliance of Catholic development agencies which says the current status quo is unsustainable.Janet Symes, Head of Region for the Middle East and Asia with Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD spoke to Lydia O’Kane.Listen: Ms Symes points out that , “in 2016 there were 1,593 people displaced which is double the figure from 2015 and that 290 homes were demolished… so those are the statistics, but the reality of that is that people are losing their homes…”Legal aidAsked about what help is available both on a humanitarian and legal level, she says “as CAFOD we support one of our partner agencies,...
