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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- After more than two decades in power, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faced the prospect of a midnight military intervention by regional forces, as the man who once pledged to rule the West African nation for a billion years clung to power late Wednesday....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted Wednesday to the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital with pneumonia, and his wife, Barbara, was hospitalized as a precaution....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that climate change is real, breaking with both the president-elect and his own past statements....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Offering reassurances, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for health secretary said Wednesday the new administration won't "pull the rug out" from those covered by "Obamacare." Democrats were unimpressed, noting a lack of specifics....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama firmly defended his decision to cut nearly three decades off convicted leaker Chelsea Manning's prison term Wednesday, arguing in his final White House news conference that the former Army intelligence analyst had served a "tough prison sentence" already....
(Vatican Radio) "The impact of climate change on the Pacific is real. It's not something that's going to happen; it's happening now."That was the assessment offered by Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, an intergovernmental organization promoting cooperation of independent Pacific states.On Wednesday, the United States announced it had made a $500 million payment to the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund, which was set up to help developing countries counter climate change.In an interview with Devin Watkins, Dame Taylor said any unraveling of the COP 21 Paris Climate Agreement could have "a severe impact on the Pacific" and "would be a disaster for us". Listen to their conversation: Dame Taylor said leaders of Pacific nations played "a very prominent role in working with governments from Europe and the United States to make sure that [the COP 21 Paris Agreement] came to conclusion&q...
(Vatican Radio) As we mark the annual week of prayer for Christian Unity, Catholics have much to celebrate because 2016 was “truly an ecumenical year”. That’s the view of Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who accompanied Pope Francis on all his ecumenical journeys throughout the past year.The cardinal was reflecting on the theme for this week of prayer which is centred on a verse from St Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians: ‘Reconciliation: the love of Christ compels us’. Members of the Council of Christian Churches in Germany were asked to prepare material on this theme which is set in the context of this year’s 500th anniversary of the Reformation.Cardinal Koch talked to Philippa Hitchen about this year’s event and about the many significant steps towards Christian unity which took place in 2016….Listen:  Cardinal Koch says the leitmotif for this week of prayer is...
(Vatican Radio) For fifty years the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza have languished under occupation. An occupation – reads the final communiqué of the Holy Land Coordination 2017 – that violates the human dignity of both Palestinians and Israelis.As the group of Catholic Bishops who make up the “Holy Land Coordination” wrap up this year’s pilgrimage in support of those enduring the occupation, it is calling for justice and peace in the Holy Land and reminding the rest of us that “it is a scandal to which we must never become accustomed”.The theme of this year’s pilgrimage focused on the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine. As the Bishop of Clifton and Chair of the Holy Land Coordination, Declan Lang, told Linda Bordoni, we all have a responsibility to show our solidarity, to encourage non-violent resistance, to promote a two-state solution and to help the local Church in the land where Jesus was born.Liste...
Warsaw, Poland, Jan 18, 2017 / 06:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Poland's government has adopted multiple resolutions establishing 2017 as a Jubilee Year for the country, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first canonical coronation of the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa.“Polish Sejm, convinced of the special importance of Marian devotion for our homeland – not only in the religious aspect, but also social, cultural and patriotic – establishes 2017 the Year of the 300th anniversary of the Coronation of the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa,” the resolution of the lower house of parliament stated.More than 94 percent of Poland’s population being Catholic, the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also called the “Black Madonna,” has a significant meaning for Poles and is highly venerated throughout Europe.In a resolution adopted Dec. 15, 2016, the Polish parliament called “the image of the Mother of God at Jasna Góra… one o...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy Anna CapizziNEW YORK (CNS) -- This year'sNew York Encounter drew a crowd of 10,000 for a three-day cultural gathering of presentations,exhibits and performances centered on the theme "Reality has never betrayedme."What struck first-timeparticipant Giovanna Maiellowas the "bridge of intellectual and heart and life" that allowed her to "enterinto these talks and feel like you can really get a lot out of it for your ownpersonal journey, your own faith life."The Jan. 13-15 public event, nowin its ninth year, was organized by the Catholic lay movement Communion andLiberation and held at the Metropolitan Pavilion.Maiello told Catholic NewsService that she hoped to take away "little things" that "help me to realign my mindback to the right reality." How to be a sound consumer, for instance, she said,referring to Carolyn Woo's comments during a panel discussion, "Economy With aTruly Human Purpose: Is it Possible?"Woo, the former president andCEO of Cath...
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