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ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on the Istanbul nightclub attack (all times local):...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Monday for a mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people, most of them foreign tourists from Muslim countries who were ringing in the new year. It was the first claim of its kind for IS in Turkey....
India's top court on Monday prohibited politicians from using religion and caste to garner votes, a verdict that could force political parties to change their strategy in upcoming elections. "No politician can seek vote in the name of caste, creed or religion," said Chief Justice T.S. Thakur in an order, adding that election process must be a "secular exercise". India is officially secular but political parties have traditionally used religion and caste as the main criteria to select candidates and to appeal to voters.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has for years fought elections on a Hindu nationalist agenda, with party members in the past being accused of making anti-Muslim statements to polarise Hindu voters. The court ruling comes just weeks ahead of a state election in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state where the two issues of religion and caste generally dominate campaigns. Res...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written to the Bishops of the world condemning all forms of oppression and exploitation of children. His words come in a letter signed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, which takes place each year on December 28, during the Octave of Christmas. In his letter, the Holy Father calls the Bishops to foster in hearts of Christians the joy that comes from the proclamation of the birth of Christ. But in moving words, he notes that the Christmas story is also accompanied by tears. “Today, too,” the Pope said, we hear this heart-rending cry of pain, which we neither desire nor are able to ignore or to silence.” He continued. “In our world – I write this with a heavy heart – we continue to hear the lamentation of so many mothers, of so many families, for the death of their children, their innocent children.”Pope Francis speaks about the millions of children who are deprived of education and whose innocen...
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....
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(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...
