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RIVERTON, Utah (AP) -- The parents of a Utah man imprisoned in Venezuela one year ago as of Friday fear their son will die in a Caracas jail with no relief in sight and growing volatility in the South American country....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Serious wounds to a soldier and a Navy SEAL who searched for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl can be used at the sentencing phase of his upcoming trial, a judge ruled Friday, giving prosecutors significant leverage to pursue stiff punishment against the soldier....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Paul Gottinger, who applied nearly a year ago to bring his Iranian fiancee to the United States so they could be married, went to bed feeling hopeless....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say at least two people have been shot at a New York City hospital and the gunman is still at large....
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, a couple onscreen and off, say the White House told them a damaging National Enquirer story about their relationship would "go away" if they called the president and apologized for harsh commentary....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul's Old City on Friday as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of Islamic State resistance, and the U.N. warned that the "intense and concentrated" fighting put innocent lives in even greater danger....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Churches should have the First Amendment right to endorse political candidates and still keep their tax-free status, say House Republicans, who quietly tucked a provision into a sweeping spending bill that would deny the IRS money to enforce the 63-year-old law prohibiting such outright politicking from the pulpit....
(Vatican Radio) Educational institutions promote the “grammar of dialogue” necessary for cultural encounter and offer new responses to the challenges of our time.Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the UN, made the comments during a high-level UN event on education.He reminded those present of the Catholic Church’s formation of generations of leaders throughout the world.“The Catholic Church has centuries of experience running institutions of education, open not only to Catholics but indeed to everyone, boys and girls, and especially founding schools throughout the world to educate the poor who otherwise would receive no education. In doing so, the Church strives to contribute to building a more united and peaceful world through the integral formation of successive generations of citizens and leaders.”Archbishop Auza said Pope Francis’ term “the grammar of dialogue” provides “the basis of encou...
Thousands of people, including Christian groups, rallied across India on June 28 to protest against mounting religious intolerance and express solidarity with the victims of hate crimes. Secular groups across India organized the protest titled "Not in My Name" to bring together thousands of Indians, including Hindus, who are against violence conducted in the name of Hinduism and patriotism. "A small group in India believe that every Indian should follow a particular culture and lifestyle dictated by them" which they project as Indian culture, Michael Williams, president of the United Christian Forum, told UCANEWS. "It cannot exist. Not in my name and not in my constitution. Do not fight this war in the name of India and Indians. You are not protecting the constitution of India by killing innocents," he said explaining the message of the protest.Holding placards and the national flag, students, artists, politicians and religious leaders gath...
By GREENSBURG,Pa. (CNS) -- Bishop Edward C. Malesic of Greensburg in a pastoral letter calledthe opioid crisis in this country a scourge and urged the people of his dioceseto take action against it.In"A Pastoral Letter on the Drug Abuse Crisis: From Death and Despair to Life andHope" issued June 29, he addressed the epidemic that last year killed more than300 people in the four counties that comprise the Diocese of Greensburg andoutlined the Catholic Church's local response to the crisis.Besidesefforts that focus on prayer and education, he also discussed the church's cooperativeefforts with government and social service agencies that are already engaged inthe fight against addiction.Notingthat rarely a day goes by without news of a death from a drug overdose, he wrote,"One especially deadly expression of the crisis of addiction, which is becomingmore and more prevalent in our communities, is the current opioid epidemic."Inthe four counties of the diocese -- Armstrong, Fayette, Indi...
