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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened once more to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Church’s 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD) kicks off in Indonesia on Sunday with the preliminary event “Days in Dioceses”, where over 2000 Catholic youth from 21 Asian countries will be hosted in 11 Indonesian dioceses from July 30 to Aug 2. They will then converge in Yogyakarta city, in Semarang Archdiocese, for the main AYD event, August 2-6. Each of the AYDs held since 1999 in intervals of 2, 3 or 5 years, in various cities of Asia, had a specific theme. The theme this time - “Joyful Asian Youth: Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia!” - intends to underscore the need for Asian youth to follow Christs amidst the immense variety of Asia’s cultural and natural diversity of which Indonesia is a prime model. Model of unity amidst diversityWith some 17,000 islands dotting its vast expanse of some 1,9 million sq.kms., Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a crisis that has entire neighborhoods battling police and paramilitaries while the poor root for scraps in piles of trash....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents say would effectively require a partner's consent before a woman could get an abortion....
NUUK, Greenland (AP) -- After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage....
LEWISTON-WOODVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Tucked away in northeastern North Carolina is Bertie County -a rural, primarily black community in one of the state's poorest areas with many of its fastest-shrinking towns....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to combatting the nation's opioid epidemic....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly is a battle-hardened commander who would bring a background of military discipline and order to President Donald Trump's roiling White House as the new chief of staff....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on from health care, but conservatives across the United States are warning the GOP-led Congress not to abandon its pledge to repeal the Obama-era health law - or risk a political nightmare in next year's elections....
Pope Francis on Saturday appointed a new bishop to the diocese of Lucena in the Philippines. Fr. Mel Rey Uy, the economer of Romblon Diocese is the new Bishop of Lucena. He takes over from Bishop Emilio Marquez Emilio who last year reached the canonical retirement age of 75. Born in San Agustin, Romblon, January 6, 1968, Fr. Uy completed his philosophical studied at San Pius X Seminary at Roxas, Capiz and theological studies at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, from where he later obtained a Master’s degree in philosophy.After his ordination as a priest of Romblon Diocese on May 24, 1994, he was entrusted with the following responsibilities:1995-1996: Spiritual director at San Lorenzo seminary, Romblon1995-2000: Director of the Holy Rosary Academy of San Augustin, Romblon1998-2004: Professor at San Lorenzo Seminary; parish priest of Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish at Carmen, San Agustin2004-2009: Parish priest of St. Anto...
