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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency had sufficient authority and information to issue an emergency order to protect residents of Flint, Michigan, from lead-contaminated water as early as June 2015 - seven months before it declared an emergency, the EPA's inspector general said Thursday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Turkey escalated its offensive Thursday against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, pounding them with airstrikes and artillery, and complicating the battle against the Islamic State group by Ankara and Washington, both NATO allies....
BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest on the campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local):...
BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) -- In a significant intensification of the battle for Mosul, elite Iraqi special forces joined the fight Thursday, unleashing a pre-dawn assault on an Islamic State-held town east of the besieged city. The U.S. military announced the first American death since the operation began....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, who's railed for months about a "rigged" political system, used the final presidential debate to defiantly say he won't decide until the election ends whether he will accept its results....
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) -- Donald Trump kept floating the possibility Thursday that he'll challenge the results of the presidential election if there's a "questionable result," while teasingly promising to embrace the outcome "if I win."...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the participants in the 55th General Chapter of the Order of Augustinian Recollects on Thursday in the Vatican.The Augustinian Recollects trace their origins to a 1588 reform of the Augustinian Friars in Spain, and became an autonomous congregation in 1621. It was only in the early 20th century, however, that they received full recognition as a Mendicant Order under the Rule of St. Augustine – and they have the distinction of being the last Order to receive such recognition from the Holy See.In Spanish-language remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered on Thursday morning in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis encouraged the Recollects to continue in their ongoing work of renewing the vision of St. Augustine, “[T]o live as brothers ‘with one heart and one soul (Rule 1, 2),’ reflecting the ideal of the first Christians and being a living spirit of prophecy and communion in this world of ours, ...
The Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by Spaniard St. Ignatius of Loyola and his companions, is the largest men’s religious congregation in the Catholic Church, with almost 17.000 Jesuit priests and brothers working in some 112 nations across the globe.   Jesuits have been engaged in ministries as diverse as spiritual direction, education, the care of refugees, outreach to the homeless, theological, philosophical and academic enquiry.  With its worldwide headquarters here in Rome, Jesuit communities and apostolic works are organized into 'provinces' which belong to one of ten 'assistancies' around the world.  One such province, the Near East  Province, based in Beirut, Lebanon, comprises the Jesuit missions in the eastern and southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea, involving 106 Jesuits from 15 different nations.  One among them is Indian Jesuit, Fr. Bimal Kerketta of Ranchi Province who has been working in Egypt since 2002. ...
(Vatican Radio) Nearly three weeks on from Pope Francis’ visit to the Republic of Georgia, the country’s ambassador to the Holy See says the trip marked an important step on the path towards closer Western integration.In an interview looking back at the fruits of the papal visit, Ambassador Tamara Grdzelidze also underlines the significant economic growth her country has seen since the end of the Soviet regime 25 years ago.Listen:  Ambassador Tamara says the visit of Pope Francis was one of the “brightest moments in our recent history”, adding that the Pope was very well received by the Georgian people.She recalls that Catholics make up just 1% in a population of only 3.7 million people, most of whom belong to the Orthodox Church.The ambassador also notes that the former Soviet republic is “clearly looking to Europe, to the west and wants to be a part of those western values and western principles that countries in Europe and North America have&r...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a telegram on Thursday to the Archbishop of Bari, Francesco Cacucci, where a conference organized in the Italian port city of Bari on the lives of women in the Middle East and the Mediterranean is taking place.Signed by the Cardinal-Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, the message says, “[The Holy Father] hopes that the spaces of representation of women will broaden and that they might intensify their work in seeking opportunities for interaction, knowledge and dialogue, and that the shared commitment to building a future of prosperity and peace, might produce abundant fruits of human and social growth and encourages reconciliation among men and renewed harmony among nations.”The second of its kind with women of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the conference is focusing on the theme,  on the theme: Women for Peace – being workers for a culture of encounter and dialogue. The event is being promoted by the International ...
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