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A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a veteran Texas police detective ended Monday with an arrest in the killing that was one of several weekend attacks against law enforcement in multiple states, authorities said....
Lima, Peru, Nov 21, 2016 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When a deadly fire broke out at a mall in Lima, Peru last week, fire fighters responded to put out the flames and rescue those trapped inside the building.With them was Fr. Christopher Dunn Mahardy, the 62-year-old American Franciscan priest who serves as chaplain of the Volunteer Firemen's Company in the San Juan de Miraflores district in Lima.“I was praying the Rosary for the victims and for the firemen as they were working,” Fr. Christopher told CNA. “I also assisted the relatives of the people who died so they could regain their composure. When they pulled out one of the bodies I offered the final prayers.”On Nov. 16, a fire was reported in the movie theater at the Larcomar mall, located in the Miraflores district of Lima. At least four people were killed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.The Expreso Peruvian daily reported that the fire occurred in the morning hours in Auditorium...
Kigali, Rwanda, Nov 21, 2016 / 03:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of Rwanda have apologized for Christians' role in the deadly 1994 genocide.“We apologize for all the wrongs the Church committed. We apologize on behalf of all Christians for all forms of wrongs we committed. We regret that church members violated (their) oath of allegiance to God’s commandments,” said Rwanda's Conference of Catholic BishopsThe statement, read at parishes across Rwanda, said that some Catholics planned, assisted, and executed the genocide. Hutu extremists killed over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.Clergy members were included in the ranks of both perpetrators and victims. In some cases, Hutu priests, bishops and religious helped to hide and protect Tutsis. In other cases, they took up arms against them. They ushered victims into church buildings with false promises of security and then trapped and betrayed them, facilitating their massacre.“Forgiv...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmanof the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities has called for increasedefforts and "renewed vigor" to stop legalized physician-assisted suicide afterthe practice was approved by voters in Colorado and the District of ColumbiaCity Council.Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of NewYork urged Catholics to join medical professionals, disability rights groupsand others "in fighting for the authentic care" of people facing terminalillness in a statement released Nov. 21."The act of prescribing a fatal,poisonous dose, moreover, undermines the very heart of medicine," CardinalDolan said. "Doctors vow to do no harm, and yet assisted suicide is theultimate abandonment of their patients."His concern comes after votersin Colorado passed a physician-assisted suicide measure that was on the ballotNov. 8. The law also allows insurance companies to refuse treatment of patientsthey consider terminal.Colorado became the sixth statein the nati...
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Saying nothing is beyond the reach of God's mercy, Pope Francis told Catholics worldwide he is allowing all priests to absolve the faithful of abortion - women and health workers alike - even while stressing that it is a grave sin in the eyes of the church to "end an innocent life."...
TOKYO (AP) -- Coastal residents in Japan were ordered to flee to higher ground on Tuesday after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's the idea: Swiftly pass a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law, perhaps soon enough for Donald Trump to sign it the day he takes the presidential oath. Then approve legislation restructuring the nation's huge and convoluted health care system - despite Republican divisions, Democratic opposition and millions of jittery constituents....
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Six people were killed Monday when a Chattanooga school bus with 35 young children aboard crashed, turned on its side and wrapped around a tree, according to the district attorney....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump held court from his perch high above Manhattan on Monday, receiving a line of former rivals, longtime allies and TV executives while overseeing a presidential transition that at times resembles a reality show like the one he once hosted....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has named Indian Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo as his special envoy to the XI Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC). The meeting will take place in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, from November 28th to December 4th.The cardinal will be accompanied by two officials from the archdiocese of Colombo, Rev. Don Placidus De Silva, episcopal vicar for foreign relations, and Rev. Don J.D. Anthony, episcopal vicar for formation for vocations to priestly and religious life.Below please find the original letter in Latin from Pope Francis to Cardinal ToppoVenerabili Fratri Nostro TELESPHORO PLACIDO S.R.E. Cardinali TOPPOArchiepiscopo Metropolitae RanchiensiAnimum utique ad antiqua referre iuvat, cum seduli Evangelii praecones ad Asianas oras appulerunt, benignissimi ipsids Salvatoris salutaria dona ibis gentibus ministrantes. Regiones igitur apud illas Dei Verbi sparsum semen sapienter, divinae gratiae copiose irrigatum, se di...
