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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- For Abdul Aliy-Muhammad, the Martin Luther King Jr. he learned about as a child was a man of love, peace and racial harmony, a gifted orator....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Just weeks before a gunman opened fire at Fort Lauderdale's airport, authorities said he walked into an FBI office in Alaska, telling agents the government was controlling his mind and that he was having terroristic thoughts. It's a daily occurrence for law enforcement agencies and authorities say the difficulty is in assessing whether people are reporting a credible threat, whether or whether they need medical help....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats still seething over FBI Director James Comey's handling of the election-year inquiry of Hillary Clinton confronted the law enforcement officer over his refusal to say whether the FBI is investigating possible links between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump tore into civil rights legend John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of the Republican billionaire's White House victory, intensifying a feud with the black congressman days before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the first African-American president prepares to leave office....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received participants in the Roman Roundtable of the Global Foundation on Saturday.Based in Melbourne, Australia, the Global Foundation is a worldwide network of concerned citizen-leaders in areas of commerce, industry, law, policy and intellectual endeavour, who seek to enable people from many walks of life to meet and work together in addressing the principal challenges of this moment in history.The “Rome Roundtable” brought 50 invited participants and a number of observers from the business and investment community, religious leaders, civic insstitutions, academia and civil society, to Rome for a two-day meeting January 13th and 14th, to measure progress and report on the concrete actions taken on global economic, social and environmental matters, such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.Below, please find the full text of Pope Francis’ prepared remarks to the participants, in their official English translati...
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops(KCCB) has appealed to striking doctors to resume essential medical duties to save lives.“We appeal to their conscience to be able to resume essential medical duties, even to a limited extent as the Union continues negotiations with the relevant Government organs,” said the bishops in a press statement released this week.In the statement titled, “The Poor are dying,” the bishops noted that the on-going grandstanding and chest thumping by the Doctors’ Union on one hand and the National and County Governments on the other, enhances the hopelessness of the sad and worrisome situation being experienced in Kenya today.Doctors in public hospitals in Kenya went on strike on 5 December 2016 over the Governments’ failure to honour a Collective Bargaining Agreement of 2013 that would have given them a 300 percent salary increments.The doctors’ strike has led to the loss of lives and suffering among patients wh...
(Vatican Radio) Forcefully reiterating his call for the protection of vulnerable child migrants, Pope Francis has dedicated his message for this year’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees to children.“Child Migrants, the Vulnerable and the Voiceless” is the title of the message for this World Day, celebrated on January 15th, in which Francis asks everyone to take care of the young “who in a threefold way are defenseless: they are children, they are foreigners, and they have no means to protect themselves”. More and more children are crossing borders on their own. A recent United Nations report revealed that over 100,000 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 78 countries in 2015– that’s triple the number of 2014.The report also pointed out that child migrants travelling alone are among those at the highest risk of exploitation and abuse, including by smugglers and traffickers. This too is a reality Pope Francis re...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received participants in the Roman Roundtable of the Global Foundation on Saturday.Based in Melbourne, Australia, the Global Foundation is a worldwide network of concerned citizen-leaders in areas of commerce, industry, law, policy and intellectual endeavour, who seek to enable people from many walks of life to meet and work together in addressing the principal challenges of this moment in history.Click below to hear our report The “Rome Roundtable” brought 50 invited participants and a number of observers from the business and investment community, religious leaders, civic insstitutions, academia and civil society, to Rome for a two-day meeting January 13th and 14th, to measure progress and report on the concrete actions taken on global economic, social and environmental matters, such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.In remarks to the participants on Saturday in the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis reiterated his op...
The incessant clashes between farmers and pastoralists is a clear indication that the old fashioned way of raising livestock through the so-called livestock routes and grazing reserves is outdated and unsustainable, hence the urgent need for the establishment of ranches by land owners for rent to those with livestock but without land, Archbishop Mathew Man’Oso Ndagoso has said.Archbishop Ndagoso who is the Metropolitan of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province stated this in his homily recently at the Centenary ground of Shendam Diocese during the celebration of the Episcopal ordination and installation Mass of Bishop Philip Davou Dung as the Second Catholic Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Shendam.The prelate who identified the root causes of the incessant deadly clashes between farmers and herdsmen as the constant movement of herders and pastoralists in search of greener pastures for their animals urged the government as a matter of urgency to establish ranches in the...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met Saturday morning with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican. Following the audience, the Holy See Press Office issued the following press release: This morning the Holy Father Francis received in audience His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the State of Palestine, who subsequently met with His Eminence Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by His Excellency Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for Relations with States. During the cordial discussions, the parties evoked the existing good relations between the Holy See and Palestine, sealed by the Global Agreement of 2015, which regards essential aspects of the life and activity of the Church in Palestinian society. In this context, mention was made of the important contribution of Catholics to favouring the promotion of human dignity and assistance for those most in need, especially in the fields of education, health and aid. Attentio...
