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Vatican City, Jan 2, 2017 / 07:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a letter sent to bishops around the world for the feast of the Holy Innocents, Pope Francis lamented the many children who suffer from war, slavery and various forms of abuse, including within the Church.The Church not only hears the “cries of pain” of her children who suffer from war, slavery and malnutrition, he said, but she also weeps “because she recognizes the sins of some of her members: the sufferings, the experiences and the pain of minors who were abused sexually by priests.”“It is a sin that shames us. Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity. We regret this deeply and we beg forgiveness.”Francis condemned the sin “of failing to help,” of “covering up and denial” and the sin of “the abuse of power” that happened in many cases.  In celebrating the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Pope Francis asked his br...
PHOENIX (AP) -- The full-throated bravado that made Sheriff Joe Arpaio a household name in debates over illegal immigration and the treatment of jail inmates was missing as he started his last news conference in a law enforcement career that spanned a half-century....
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The phone at Bruce Brandler's home rang at 3:37 a.m. It was the local hospital. His 16-year-old son was there, and he was in really bad shape....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber driving a pickup loaded with explosives struck a bustling market in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group hours after French President Francois Hollande arrived in the Iraqi capital....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on the Istanbul nightclub attack (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Dozens of Russian diplomats expelled from the United States by President Barack Obama have left the country, amid a standoff between Washington and Moscow over Russia's alleged attempt to influence the US presidential elections.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: The Russian embassy in the U.S. said in a statement to Russian media that all 35 expelled diplomats and their families left the United States aboard a hastily arranged plane.President Obama had given the affected diplomats just 72 hours to leave the country.He ordered the expulsion in response to Russia's alleged hacking of the US Democratic Party emails and those of the campaign of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.In addition Washington closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland.PUTIN CALMRussia's president Vladimir Putin had been expected to respond with the expulsion of US diplomats from its territory. But Putin later said that Moscow woul...
Political parties in Congo signed a deal late Saturday that calls for President Joseph Kabila to leave power after an election that now will be held by the end of  this year, 2017 instead of mid-2018 as his party originally proposed.The New Year's Eve agreement comes after months of unrest that left dozens dead and threatened to further destabilise the vast Central African nation with a painful history of dictatorship and civil war.DRC’s Catholic Bishops mediated the talks to reach a compromise. Initially, the Bishops had imposed a Christmas deadline. The negotiations reached a stalemate, though, and resumed Thursday under mounting pressure to avoid major violence amid opposition calls for Kabila to step down.Officials announced that a deal had been reached Saturday evening on the major issues though representatives did not sign it until around 11 p.m. local time on New Year's Eve.Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa, President of the Bishops’ Episcopal Conferenc...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis is calling for a renewed culture of nonviolence to inform global politics today, saying military responses to conflicts only breed further violence.The Pope’s appeal comes in his annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is marked by the Catholic Church on January1st .Listen to our report by Linda Bordoni:  Calling on political and religious leaders, on the heads of international institutions, on business and media executives and on all men and women of goodwill to become instruments of reconciliation and adopt nonviolence as a style of politics for peace, Pope Francis says that we find ourselves “engaged in a horrifying world war fought piecemeal”, and that  violence is clearly “not the cure for our broken world.”Violence, he says in the message, leads  to forced migrations and enormous suffering , devastation of the environment, terrorism and organized crime. It leads to retaliation and a deadly cyc...
A former government official in South Sudan’s  Gbudue State says that he is convinced that lasting peace can return and prevail in Yambio and Gbudue State and the entire country if elderly people talk to their sons not to take up arms against their own fellow citizens.Hussein Enoka Ibrahim, the former Commissioner of Yambio County, said that a combination of prayer and elderly people speaking to their sons about peace would go a long way in bringing back peace to the troubled nation.The former Commissioner told Catholic Radio Anisa that he deeply regrets the current situation in Gbudue State where sons and daughters were causing trouble for their own people.Enoka Ibrahim urged the youth of South Sudan to work for God and cultivate respect for their elders.  He was speaking after attending the Feast of the Holy Family Mass at St. John Bosco Akorogbodi II.Usually, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family on the last Sunday of the year which falls between Chri...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle Monday in a bustling market area in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said, hours after the arrival of French President Francois Hollande to the country and amid a fierce fight against the Islamic State group....
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