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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the government's Russia investigations heat up, a growing cast of lawyers is signing up to defend President Donald Trump and his associates. But the interests of those lawyers - and their clients - don't always align, adding a new layer of drama and suspicion in a White House already rife with internal rivalries....
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. (AP) -- The flash flood that killed nine people in an Arizona river canyon began its deadly descent as an impressive but avoidable surge of churning water, black with cinders from a recent wildfire and choked with tumbling tree trunks and limbs....
(Vatican Radio) Government officials and relatives have unveiled a memorial in The Netherlands to nearly 300 family members died when a passenger plane was shot down by a missile over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. It happened Monday on the third anniversary of the crash amid new revelations and international appeals to Russia to support a criminal investigation.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: More than 2,000 relatives gathered here in Vijfhuizen park, near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, for a somber ceremony. They recalled that 298 passengers and crew were killed when a Malaysia Airlines airplane was shot down during what should have been a routine flight from Schiphol to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014.Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, as well as other government officials, attended the ceremony to dedicate a new memorial to those who died. Most of the passengers were Dutch, but there were people of 17 nationalities on board the Boeing 777, including Australia...
Prizren, Serbia, Jul 17, 2017 / 11:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday appointed Cardinal Ernest Simoni to be his delegate at the consecration of a cathedral dedicated to St. Teresa of Calcutta in Pristina, the capital of the self-declared state of Kosovo.The consecration will take place Sept. 5, 2017, the 20th anniversary of the death of St. Teresa of Calcutta, and just one year after her canonization in Rome by Pope Francis.Though in use by Catholics in the area since 2010, the consecration will mark the shrine’s formal dedication to Mother Teresa.Cardinal Simoni, 88, is a priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodrë-Pult. He is one of the last survivors of the communist persecution in Albania.Cardinal Simoni was a seminarian in December 1944, when an atheistic communist regime came to power in Albania. In 1948, communists shot and killed his Franciscan superiors. He continued his studies in secret and was later ordained a priest.Four years later, communist leaders...
Caracas, Venezuela, Jul 17, 2017 / 01:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Armed civilians who support the Venezuelan regime opened fire against a large crowd of protestors who were participating in a symbolic referendum in Caracas on Sunday.The incident forced hundreds to seek refuge inside Our Lady of Mount Carmel church where they stayed until the local archbishop Cardinal Jorje Urosa Savino mediated their safe exit. One person died from gunshot wounds and several others were injured.Swaths of locals who oppose the current leadership called for a “consultation of the people” on July 16 to protest President Nicolas Maduro's plans to rewrite the country's constitution on July 30. Some 7 million people participated in Sunday's protest.In the wake of Nicolas Maduro succeeding former socialist president Hugo Chavez after the latter died from cancer in 2013, the country has been marred by violence and social upheaval.Poor economic policies, including strict price controls, c...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To understand the current situationin Iraq -- the evolving and complex conflicts there, and the fear and resilienceof its Christians -- one has to understand its past, which is often ignored orunknown in the West, said a former papal representative to the country."History is itself a victory over ignorance,marginalization and intolerance; it is a call for respect and to not repeat themistakes of the past," said Cardinal Fernando Filoni in his book,"The Church in Iraq."The book is also "a testimonial" to the victimsof "the Islamic terrorism of ISIS," he told the Christians andnon-Christians he met when Pope Francis sent him as his personal representativeto encounter and pray with these shaken communities that fled the Islamic State.That brief visit in 2014 was a homecoming of sorts.The Italian cardinal, now 71, lived in Iraq during atime of great tension and turmoil. St. John Paul II made him the apostolicnuncio -- th...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Delta Air Lines has pushed back at Ann Coulter after the conservative commentator berated the carrier on Twitter over a changed seat assignment....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Other than St. Peter's Basilica, there is hardly better real estate in Vatican City than the sprawling penthouse apartment in the Vatican gardens, where the rooftop terrace has in-your-face views of the dome itself and overlooks the hotel that Pope Francis calls home....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan opposition leaders called Monday for a 24-hour nationwide strike to increase pressure on the socialist government after more than 7 million people rejected a plan to rewrite the constitution and consolidate the ruling party's power over the country, which has been stricken by shortages and inflation and riven by more than 100 days of clashes between protesters and police....
