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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director after just 11 days on the job - and just hours after former Gen. John Kelly took over as President Donald Trump's new chief of staff....
Sacredness of human lifeA Vatican official has told a major Philippine Catholic conference that promoting and defending the dignity of human life cannot be separated from the new evangelization. Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization, said the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision of society. “For us, life is important because life for us is a gift from the Lord. So we should defend and promote life,” he said.He was addressing a press briefing during the 4th Philippine Congress on New Evangelization at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila on Saturday. “Of One Heart and Soul” was the theme of the July 28-30 congress, that came during the 2017 Year of the Parish as Communion of Communities of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).Arch. Fisichella was responding to a question on how new evangeliz...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcel van Dorst - MaRicMedia, EPABy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Human trafficking is "brutal,savage and criminal," Pope Francis said, but often it seems like peoplesee it as a sad, but normal fact of life."I want to call everyone to make a commitment to seeingthat this perverse plague, a modern form of slavery, is effectivelycountered," the pope said July30, the U.N.'s WorldDay Against Trafficking in Persons.After reciting the Angelus with thousands of people gatheredin St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis asked them to join him in praying a"Hail Mary" so that Jesus' mother would "support the victims oftrafficking and convert the hearts of traffickers."In his main Angelus address, Pope Francis focused on theparables from the day's Gospel reading: the treasure hidden in the field andthe pearl of great price.Both parables involve "searching and sacrifice,"the pope said. Neither the person who found the treasure in the field nor themerchant who found the pearl woul...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Islamic State group targeted the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul on Monday, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up outside the gates, followed by three gunmen who stormed into the building. The assault set off a four-hour firefight that ended only after Afghan security forces said they had killed all the attackers....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An official crucial to running Kenya's presidential election next week has been found tortured and killed, the electoral commission chairman said Monday, as concerns grew that the East African nation's vote again would face dangerous unrest....
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday strongly pledged America's commitment to protecting NATO allies against attacks, including the Baltic states, which have anxiously watched a growing Russian military presence in the region....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's socialist government claimed a popular mandate to dramatically recast the country's political system even as the United States pledged potentially devastating oil sanctions on Monday and condemnations of the process poured in from governments around the world and the opposition at home....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73....
BERATZHAUSEN, Germany (AP) -- The U.S. Army soldier took a deep breath before hitting the button that sent the email to more than 200 fellow troops....
DETROIT (AP) -- Courtroom 801 is nearly empty when guards bring in Bobby Hines, hands cuffed in front of navy prison scrubs....
