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Vatican City, Nov 28, 2016 / 04:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis told a group of scientists Monday that their role in finding creative solutions to the world’s problems is more urgent than ever, and praised increasing collaboration between scientific and religious communities.“It falls to scientists, who work free of political, economic or ideological interests, to develop a cultural model which can face the crisis of climatic change and its social consequences, so that the vast potential of productivity will not be reserved only for the few,” the Pope said Nov. 28.Just as the scientific community has carried out research demonstrating the planet’s current crisis through interdisciplinary exchange, “so too today that same community is called to offer a leadership that provides general and specific solutions” to increasing issues such as water, renewable forms of energy and food security, he said.Francis stressed that with the cooperation of sc...
Vatican City, Nov 28, 2016 / 05:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has named Bishop Gregory Parkes of Pensacola-Tallahassee as the new head of the St. Petersburg diocese, where he will take over as their fifth bishop.“I am filled with joy that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Parkes as the new Bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg,” the diocese’s outgoing bishop, Bishop Robert Lynch, said in a Nov. 28 press release announcing Parkes’ appointment.He invited faithful in both St. Petersburg and in Pensacola-Tallahassee to join him “in offering prayers of thanksgiving and to pray for Bishop Parkes as he transitions to shepherd the people of the Diocese of St. Petersburg.”Bishop Lynch, who has served the Diocese of St. Petersburg since 1996, will retire after having reached the age limit of 75.The appointment of Bishop Parkes as his successor will officially be made at a Nov. 28 news conference in St. Petersbur...
MOSCOW (AP) -- An Olympic ice-dancing gold medalist and her on-ice partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a dance routine on a popular television show....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set an early December deadline for American Indians and others to leave an encampment in North Dakota where they've been entrenched for months protesting the Dakota Access pipeline. Tribes including the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux are fighting the Dakota Access project because they fear it will harm drinking water and cultural sites. Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners says the 1,200-mile ...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian government forces and their allies captured another major eastern Aleppo neighborhood and several smaller areas Monday, putting much of the northern part of Aleppo's besieged rebel-held areas under government control for the first time in four years, state media reported....
(Vatican Radio) People in Switzerland voting in a referendum have rejected a proposal to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy with a strict timetable. Official results showed more than half of the voters, some 54 percent, voted against the initiative.Listen to Stephan Bos' report: The outcome of Sunday's referendum on nuclear energy energy came as a setback for Switzerland's Green Party. A yes vote would have limited the reactors lifespan to 45 years. That would have meant the closure of three of the alpine nation's five nuclear plants next year, with the last shutting in 2029.However after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government only adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.It said nuclear plants should continue to operate as long as they are deemed safe. But it refused to set a precise timetable as demanded by the Greens.NEEDING TIMEThe government said it "needs time&q...
DENVER (AP) -- Tyreek Hill just got his name mentioned in the same sentence with Gale Sayers....
SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS, Philippines (AP) -- In the late-night hours and amid the chirp of crickets, Katryn welcomed a huddle of exhausted Filipino journalists in cheerful spirits like she was home. "Coffee?" she asked with a comforting smile....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two years after being brought to the U.S. to face charges in an attempted attack on American forces in Afghanistan, Irek Hamidullin is arguing he should never have been prosecuted at all....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):...
