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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Greenland is calling on Denmark to clean up an abandoned under-ice missile project and other U.S. military installations left to rust in the pristine landscape after the Cold War....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Donald Trump's disavowal this week of white supremacists who have cheered his election as president hasn't quieted concerns about the movement's impact on his White House or whether more acts of hate will be carried out in his name....
HAVANA (AP) -- For five decades, Fidel Castro was Cuba's defiant, polarizing leader, from the island nation's 1959 revolution to the 1962 missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and through the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union that devastated Cuban economy....
HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, has died at age 90....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted thousands of young volunteers from Italy’s National Civil Service in the Paul the VI hall in the Vatican on Saturday, telling them that they were precious asset to their country.Listen:  Speaking to the estimated 7 thousand young people from Italy’s National Civil Service, the Pope told them they were a dynamic and valued force in their country, especially he added, for the weakest in society.The Holy Father went on to say that having a united society is the goal of every civilized community that wants to be egalitarian and fraternal. But he underlined, that this unity is betrayed,  “every time we witness passively the increasing inequality between different social partners or between the nations of the world.”Pope Francis said, that these attitudes are an affront to our society because they create a culture of indifference and oppression, as well as an inward looking behaviour.The Pope told the young people pr...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday morning addressed the winners of the 2016 Ratzinger Prize, Msgr Inos Biffi and Ioannis Kourempeles, in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: Awarded by the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation, the Ratzinger Prize is given as a sign of the Church’s gratitude to scholars and professors who have stood out for their scientific research in the theological field. Msgr Biffi, a professor, and internationally renowned theologian and liturgist, was awarded the prize for his Opera Omnia, a collection of his writings, most of which are on theology and medieval philosophy.The other winner, Prof Kourempeles is a member of the Orthodox Church, is associate professor in the Department of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.In his address to the winners, Pope Francis began by expressing “great affection” and “gratitude” for Pope Emeritus Benedict ...
Vatican City, Nov 26, 2016 / 03:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After hearing of the death of Fidel Castro, former president and leader communist revolution in Cuba, late Friday evening, Pope Francis sent a telegram offering his prayers for the deceased and the entire nation.“Upon receiving the sad news of the passing of your dear brother, His Excellency Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, former president of the Council of the State and of the Government of the Republic of Cuba, I express my sentiments of sympathy,” the Nov. 26 telegram, signed by Pope Francis read.Addressed to Fidel’s brother and the current president of Cuba, Raul Castro, the telegram expressed the Pope’s closeness to the members of the Castro family, the Cuban government and the entire people “of this beloved nation.”“At the same time, I offer prayers to the Lord for his rest and I entrust the entire Cuban people to the maternal intercession of Our Lady of Cobre, Patroness of this count...
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov 26, 2016 / 05:02 am (CNA).- With the September debut of the new T.V. series The Exorcist, based on the horror film series of the same name from the 1970s, another wave of fascination with the supernatural has also surfaced.In an article prior to the show’s launch, Lance Higdon, writing for pop culture website Vice, explored the world of exorcism, a phenomenon mysterious to many inside and outside the Church.Higdon recalled that in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP) in May, director William Friedkin, of the original “The Exorcism” film series, claimed that he had been invited to the Vatican to see - and film - an exorcism in real life.A Vatican spokesman denied the claim to AFP, noting that the Vatican does not have an official exorcist. The spokesman said it may have been possible that Friedkin was mistaking the Vatican for another Catholic entity.Fr. Vincent Lampert is a Vatican-trained exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis...
(Vatican Radio) Former President Fidel Castro, has died at age 90. His brother President Raul Castro said on state television that his older brother died at 10:29 p.m. Friday. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost 50 years before Raul took over eight years ago.Listen to James Blears’ report: An era of Revolution, which shook and changed the World passes, with the death of Fidel Castro, the architect of the Cuban Revolution. Until the very end of his life, just ten years shy of a century, Fidel Castro was a hard line Marxist revolutionary.  He ruled Cuba for almost fifty years and through ten US Presidential terms.  He gave up smoking Cuba`s most famous product, cherished by rich capitalists.  But it was a serious gastric ailment, and a botched operation which so nearly claimed his life in 2006. It  convinced him to release his iron grip on the reigns of power in 2008, officially handing them over to his younger, quieter, less c...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- After operating out of Pakistan for more than a decade, the leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban movement may have moved back to their homeland to try to build on this year's gains in the war and to establish a permanent presence....
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