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WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Korea's newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon's missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea mates an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting all of the United States at risk....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Donald Trump opens his two-nation European visit with what he expects to be a short but warm stop in Poland before he encounters what could be a frostier reception and thornier issues at an international summit in Germany. Trump's sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile threaten to put Trump's skills as a negotiator to the test....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The 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."...
(Vatican Radio) The UN’s Food and Agriciulture Organisation is holding its 40th plenary conference in Rome this week, focusing on issues around “Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security”.In a message sent to the July 3rd to 8th meeting, Pope Francis highlighted the right of every individual to be free from poverty and hunger. He said there is an urgent need for solidarity to be the criterion inspiring all forms of cooperation in international relations.Among those attending the conference was Australia's deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, who also serves as minister for agriculture and water resources. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the message he was bringing to this important international gathering…Listen:  Barnaby Joyce says his message is “one of pragmatism and understanding the mathematics of the equation that we have to solve, that in the next 50 years the world will consume as much food as it has in human history to this ...
(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis has sent a telegramme upon the death of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop emeritus of Cologne, who died on Wednesday at the age of 83.“With profound emotion I learned that, suddenly and unexpectedly, Cardinal Joachim Meisner was called from this earth by the God of mercy,” the Pope wrote.The Pope addressed his telegramme to Cardinal Rainer Woelki, current Archbishop of Cologne.He said Cardinal Meisner was “dedicated to the proclamation of the Good News” with “profound faith and sincere love for the Church”.“May Christ the Lord reward him for his faithful and intrepid efforts in favour of the good of people of East and West.”Pope Francis closed the telegramme by imparting his Apostolic Blessing on all who “commemorate the late Pastor with prayers and sacrifices”.With the death of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the College of Cardinals stands at 224, 121 of whom are Cardinal electors.
Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urged his countrymen on Tuesday to be the signs of love, hope and light amid ongoing clashes between government forces and armed Islamist terrorists in the south of the country.  The prelate who is Archbishop of Manila said attempts by Islamic State-inspired terrorists to make the conflict look like a war between religions, "will not succeed" because Muslims and Christians in Mindanao are helping each other.  Cardinal Tagle was speaking on July 4 during a media briefing in preparation for the annual Philippine Conference on New Evangelization later this month."Whoever plans to divide Muslims and Christians will not triumph," said the cardinal, adding that "stories of hope" continue to emerge from the conflict zone.  The prelate said he heard of stories about Muslims taking care of Christians whose lives are in danger or Christians helping suffering Muslims.Some 300,000 people, mostly Muslims, have ...
Vatican City, Jul 5, 2017 / 07:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis's 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 Zamara, 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 Dioc...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Max Rossi, ReutersBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While there had been problems andcomplaints in the past, the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital wasworking resolve them, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state,who oversees the hospital.In responding to an investigative report by theAssociated Press, the cardinal told the AP July 4 there had been past problems atthe hospital, but that the hospital's current administration, put in place in2015, was making a "serious effort to resolve them."The AP reported July 3 that the Vatican formed acommission in 2014 to study workers' complaints and concerns about unsafe medicalprotocols, overcrowding and a culture that emphasized practices that might reapgreater revenues.An external audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2014determined the hospital's mission "had been modified in the last fewyears" by emphasizing expansion and revenues without adequate governance,according to the AP.In January ...
By Dennis SadowskiORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- For some it was about keeping young people in the church. Others wanted to hear about diocesan ministries in another locale and perhaps bring an idea home. A few more were glad they could be heard by a bishop or two.Whatever their reason to travel to hot, humid Florida for four days in the middle of summer, the 3,500 delegates to the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" headed home July 4 with renewed energy to set a new course for the U.S. Catholic Church.The convocation, years in planning, was the first time in a century that the bishops convened church leaders -- clergy, religious, seminarians, parish volunteers and professional staff among them -- to respond to social and spiritual quandaries that have left millions of people drifting on the margins of society.Clergy -- more than 155 prelates and 300 priests -- recognize that the church must respond to those quandaries. While cardinals, archbishops and bish...
ROME (AP) -- When doctors and nurses at the Vatican's showcase children's hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the Vatican responded by ordering up a secret in-house investigation. The diagnosis: The original mission of "the pope's hospital" had been lost and was "today more aimed at profit than on caring for children."...
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