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NEW YORK (AP) -- The photo is haunting. Among a number of figures gathered on a dock, the fuzzy image seems to be that of a woman, her back to the camera, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge, and perhaps wondering what her future might hold....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The suspect in the kidnapping of a University of Illinois scholar from China marched in a vigil for the victim a day before his arrest last week and also talked about how she resisted and described what made an ideal victim, federal prosecutors said Wednesday....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- "Don't stop!" the Iraqi special forces lieutenant yelled as a wave of fleeing civilians trudged past his position in Mosul's Old City in the scorching heat. "Don't pretend you're tired! Keep going!" Nearby, dozens of women and children, their hands raised, dropped their bags for security forces to search. Keeping the crowd at a distance, the soldiers yelled at the women to roll up their sleeves and empty everything they were...
PARIS (AP) -- Europe has made a dangerous turn on the Mediterranean Sea as it looks to Libya for help in slowing the number of migrants attempting to reach the continent in flimsy boats, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The organization called the European Union's strategy of training the Libyan coast guard to rescue migrants "reckless."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A killer who strode up to a mobile police command post and put a bullet in an officer's head Wednesday had ranted in a Facebook video last September about law officers killing and abusing people and warned them to leave him alone or "we gonna do something."...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Stepping up pressure on China, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Beijing on Wednesday that it risks its massive trade with the United States if its business dealings with North Korea violate U.N. sanctions....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a video message to the Congress of the Scholas Occurentes which concludes on Wednesday in Jerusalem. The Congress focused on the theme “Between the University and the School, building peace through the culture of encounter.”Christopher Wells reports on the Pope’s message:  In his message, Pope Francis encouraged the participants, young and old, who had come from Israel, the Palestinian territories, and from other countries from across the globe. “I want to celebrate these days lived out there in Jerusalem,” he said, “because you yourselves, beginning from your differences, have achieved unity.”The Holy Father praised them for seeing one another without prejudice; an attitude, he said, that is essential “because it produces an encounter.” This encounter, he said, gives our lives meaning and purpose. And it is precisely because our lives have meaning that we feel the need to celebra...
Vatican City, Jul 5, 2017 / 07:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' appointment of Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama Pasqualetto, a native of Colombia, as the next bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh.Currently an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Bishop Zarama, 58, will replace Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, who was transferred to the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia in October of last year and installed on Dec. 6, 2016.In a statement on the appointment of Bishop Zarama, announced July 5, Bishop Burbidge said he gives thanks to God for the appointment."I am proud to call him a brother bishop and good friend. Bishop Zarama is a holy, faithful and joyful bishop known and respected for his pastoral skills, administrative abilities, zeal and kindness.”"I have assured Bishop Zarama that he will be truly blessed with the support of such good priests, consecrated religious, deacons, seminarians, colleagues and lay faithful in the Dioce...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Carol ZimmermannORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- From July 1-4 the main floor of the HyattRegency Hotel in Orlando was transformed into a huge parish hall with placesfor worship, prayer, discussion, and even coffee and doughnuts during the "Convocationof Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America."At the convocation3,500 church leaders -- men and women religious, bishops and laypeople -- gathered to set a new course for the U.S. Catholic Church.Followinga retreat format, each day started and ended with group prayer. Masswas celebrated each day in the hotel ballroom, and there were plenty ofscheduled times for the sacrament of reconciliation and private prayer in alarge room turned into an adoration chapel.Many ofthe keynote sessions took the form of pep talks encouraging delegates to sharetheir faith boldly with the world at large and within their own families andparishes. The numerous breakout sessions provided the working aspect of thegathering: closel...
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's foreign secretary has backed U.K. court decisions preventing the parents of a terminally ill child from taking him abroad for experimental treatment, despite an offer of help from a Vatican hospital....
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