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JERUSALEM (AP) -- A proposal to make mosques reduce the loudspeaker volume of their call to prayer has sparked an uproar among Israel's Muslims, underscoring their fraught relationship with the country's Jewish majority....
NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- Nearly a month into the fight to retake Mosul, government forces pushed Islamic State militants out of nearby Nimrud, home to some of Iraq's richest archaeological treasures. And when soldiers finally surveyed the extremists' destruction of the ancient sites, one said that those who carried it out "don't have a place in humanity."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress's routine of publicly shaming drug company executives over high prices works no better than a placebo: It may make some people feel better, but it doesn't treat the problem....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Standing in democracy's birthplace, President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a parting plea to world leaders not to let the fear of globalization tugging at Europe and the U.S. pull them away from their core democratic values. He argued it wasn't too late for a course correction....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Asked on TV earlier this year whether a President Donald Trump would ever mix politics with business, his eldest son, Donald Jr., said there was no risk of that. The son, an executive in his father's company, insisted the two wouldn't discuss the business if Dad ever got to the White House....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received an unusual presentation at the end of his General Audience on Wednesday: A representation of Noah’s Ark made out of over 140 kilograms of chocolate.It is a gift of “La banda degli Orsi” [The Band of Bears], which is a charitable organization in Genoa that supports the city’s Giannina Gaslini Pediatric Hospital. The organization has over 200 volunteers who visit patients and their families every day.The chocolate ark took three days to build, and contains over 50 edible animals made by pastry chefs and chocolatiers from all over Italy. Several extra animals were made, and have been sold by “La banda degli Orsi” to raise funds for the Genoa hospital.The Chocolate Ark was also to be used to support patients of a children’s hospital, but in a more direct way: At the end of the Audience, the Ark was donated as a special dessert for the young patients at the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù Pediatric ...
(Vatican Radio) An international conference is set to take place in the Vatican for business leaders with the goal of promoting economic and social inclusion.The conference – hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Christian Union of Business Executives (UNIAPAC) – takes place 17-18 November and follows a 2014 conference attended by Pope Francis.Business executives from several multinational corporations and Church leaders will reflect on ways to “create a working environment based on the principles of the Christian social thought, including solidarity, subsidiarity and the pursuit of the Common Good”.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: Business executives and Church leaders are set to meet in the Vatican this week to work together for social inclusion and to put into practice the principles of Catholic social teaching.The international conference carries the title: ‘Business Leaders as Agents of Economic an...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Offering counsel and admonishing sinners are works ofmercy, but they are not a license to pretend to be better than others, PopeFrancis said.Tocounsel others is a chance to see how well you, too, measure up to essentialstandards, he said Nov. 16 to people gathered in St. Peter's Square.In his final general audience during the Year of Mercy, which was to close Nov.20, Pope Francis reflected on two verses in the Gospel of St. Luke (6:41-42) inwhich Jesus warns against the hypocrisy of noticing "the splinter in yourbrother's eye," but not perceiving "the wooden beam in your own.""Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; thenyou will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye," Jesussays.Those verses and Jesus' vision of leadership as service, thepope said, help guide Christians in how to carry out the works of mercytraditionally described as instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtfu...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City's airport likely killed the victim in retaliation for circumstances that led to the attacker leaving his job with the airline last year, police said Wednesday....
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a stirring appeal Wednesday to all countries - including his own - to press ahead with the fight against climate change, saying a failure to do so would be a "betrayal of devastating consequences."...
