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MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Islamic State fighters launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in eastern Mosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars and suicide car bombs in clashes that raged late into the night....
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(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, on Friday said “peacemaking and substantive dialogue including genuine bilateral negotiations must replace the counterproductive illogic of violence and war, currently underway in the Middle East.”The Vatican diplomat was speaking to the United Nations General Assembly as they discussed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).“The Holy See notes that the areas where UNRWA exercises its responsibilities includes territories of the ancient Christian heartland where for two millennia Christians have been part and parcel of the culture and history of the peoples in the region, along with other ethnic and religious groups,” – Archbishop Auza said – “Greatly reduced in number, they are today among the refugees served by UNRWA. Forced by violent persecution, in some places by outright slaught...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday received family members of the House of Hasburg visiting the Vatican for a Jubilee pilgrimage.To the some 300 people gathered in the Clementine Hall, the Pope said “I am happy to receive you in the occasion of this pilgrimage that you have undertaken as a family” and he highlighted the fact that ‘family’ implies a wealth of interconnections and variety and is a value to be “rediscovered” in current times.The Pope recalled one of the Hasburg family’s most remarkable ancestors: Blessed Charles of Austria who was beatified in 2004 by Saint Pope John Paul II.Remembering that some 100 years ago or so he ascended to the throne, the Pope said Charles’ spiritual presence is such that the Hasburg family is not nostalgically imbued in the past but, to the contrary, “it is actively present in the challenges and needs” of our time.He mentioned how some of those present for the audience have ro...
(Vatican Radio) An anti-trafficking conference begins in Rome on Sunday, and it brings together members of religious congregations working to end the scourge and to rescue victims.The organization behind the event is RENATE, which stand for Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation.The theme of the event is “Ending human trafficking begins with us.”“Is a very, very important title, because unless every human being works together to fight this clandestine criminal act then there is no way in fact that people will be rescued,” said Sister Imelda Poole IBVM, the president of RENATE.Sister Poole has been working with trafficking victims in Albania for the past 11 years.Listen to the interview with Sr. Imelda Poole: One of the highlights of the conference will be on Monday, when the RENATE produced film Giving Voice to the Voiceless. The film expresses, in a dynamic way, the RENATE mission against human trafficking, in many European co...
(Vatican Radio) Thirtyeight martyrs killed between 1945 and 1974 by the Communist regime have been beatified in the city of Shkodër in northwestern Albania.The ceremony took place in the Square of St. Stephen’s Cathedral and was presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.In his homily Cardinal Amato said: “While the persecutors dissolve like so many black shadows which are lost forever in the darkness of eternal oblivion, martyrs are guiding lights that shine in the sky of humanity, showing the true face of man’s goodness, his profound identity created in the image of God”.The canonical process for the recognition of the martyrdom and the official approval of the witness and sacrifice for the faith culminated in a decree promulgated by Pope Francis in April 2016 which gave the green light for the beatification of the martyrs.Saturday’s beatifications double the number of Ca...
Nobel laureates and eminent leaders around the globe will meet in the Indian capital New Delhi next month to discuss why children suffer the most in conflicts though they don't cause them, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said on Thursday. "Children are never responsible for any wars, conflicts or violence, yet they are the worst sufferers in any such hideous situation. This is completely unacceptable," he said while announcing a global initiative for children. Through the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, the 2014 Nobel laureate is convening the first gathering of "(Nobel) Laureates and Leaders for Children Summit" that will see a global participation. The Dec. 10-11 summit will be inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee at his Rashtrapati Bhavan residence. About 25 Nobel laureates and others have confirmed their participation in the summit which will also attract eminent personalities from academia, corporate secto...
Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has handed over a hundred new houses to the internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps in the Tamil-majority north of the island nation. "We can finally live in peace. We can thank our president for this settlement" some of the beneficiaries told AsiaNews. The houses were built in record time (four months) in Keeramalai, on the Jaffna peninsula as a result of his visit to the Konartpulam IDP camp in Tellippalai, Kankasenthurai, shortly after his election. Inaugurated on 31 October in a solemn ceremony, the houses were built by the army, but also by former Tamil Tiger rebels and the beneficiaries themselves. The Keeramalai Housing Project covers an area of 47 acres, near the Palaly army cantonment area. It also has a community centre, a fish market, a police station, a playground and a nursery.This initiative is not the first of its kind. The p...
Rome, Italy, Nov 5, 2016 / 09:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For religious sisters working to end forced-prostitution through human trafficking, there is one thing consistently left out of the conversation: the clients – who they are and how they are dealt with.“We are especially looking at the problem of clients. It’s a topic no one talks about. Everyone talks about victims, victims, victims. It’s true, women become victims – of the passion of men,” Sr. Monica Chikwe told journalists Nov. 4.She pointed to how in the bible, there was a woman who had been caught in adultery and brought to Jesus, but “if in the act of adultery, I ask ‘where is the man?’ No one speaks about the man.”“It’s the same thing today. Many speak about the victims, but who is using these victims? Who is the client?” Sister Monica asked, explaining that the clients aren’t homeless living on the street or men with some sort of mental dis...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy is lifting job growth and wages but not voters' spirits....
