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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The Islamic State group destroyed Mosul's al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures Wednesday night, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said....
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- About 5,000 mourners attended Wednesday's funeral of a Muslim girl whose beating death, blamed by police on a motorist's road rage, has some people in her community fearing for their safety....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Senate Republicans prepared Wednesday to release their plan for dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law, a proposal that would cut and revamp Medicaid, end penalties on people not buying coverage and eliminate tax increases that financed the statute's expansion of coverage, lobbyists and congressional aides said....
DETROIT (AP) -- Under Travis Kalanick's leadership, Uber's "Animal House"-style business plan was to grow as quickly as possible, steamrolling regulators while flouting the rules of workplace conduct....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A boy on an Alabama beach was struck and killed Wednesday by a log washed ashore by storm surge from Tropical Storm Cindy, which spun bands of severe weather ashore from the Florida panhandle to east Texas as it churned ever closer to the Gulf coast....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that ignited riots on the city's north side....
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A Canadian man shouted in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at the Flint airport on Wednesday, and referenced people being killed overseas during the attack that's now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said....
Vatican City, Jun 21, 2017 / 11:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After the Vatican stated last month the postponement of Pope Francis’ proposed trip to South Sudan, they announced Wednesday that the Pope will instead send aid to the people suffering from worsening conditions.The Vatican announced June 21 that Pope Francis will be aiding projects in the areas of education, healthcare, and agriculture, called the “Pope for South Sudan” Initiative.The program will be coordinated through the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, headed by Cardinal Peter Turkson, and by Caritas International.Because he is unable to travel to South Sudan in person, Pope Francis “wanted to express the tangible presence and closeness of the Church with the afflicted people,” Cardinal Turkson told journalists.“It is an initiative that is to foster, support and encourage the work of the various religious congregations and international aid organizations that are...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tony Gentile, ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Being asaint doesn't require spendinglong hours in prayer, but rather living life open to God in good times and inbad, Pope Francis said.Christians should live withthe "hope of becoming saints" and with the desire that "work,even in sickness and suffering, even in difficulties, is open to God," thepope said June 21 during his weekly general audience."We think that it issomething difficult, that it is easier to be delinquents than saints. No! Wecan become saints because the Lord helps us. It is he who helps us," he toldthe estimated 12,000 pilgrims in St. Peter's Square.Pope Francis rode around inhis popemobile, stopping along the way to greet pilgrims and kiss babies. Onechild casually waved goodbye to the pope as he was handed back to his parents.In his talk, the popereflected on the intercession of the saints, who are "older brothers andsisters who have gone alongour same path, (gone through)our sa...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carol GlatzBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With a trip to South Sudan postponed indefinitely, Pope Francis is sending close to a half-million dollarsto help two church-run hospitals, a teacher training center and farmingprojects for families as a way to show the people there his solidarity andsupport.Because a planned trip with Anglican Archbishop JustinWelby of Canterbury couldn't happen this year as hoped, Pope Francis"wants to make tangible the presence and closeness of the church with the sufferingpeople through this initiative 'The Pope for South Sudan,'" Cardinal PeterTurkson told reporters at a Vatican news conference June 21."He fervently hopes to be able to go there as soonas possible on an official visit to the nation; the church does not shut hope outof such an afflicted area," said the cardinal, who is prefect of theVatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.An official visit was meant to draw the world's attentionto a silent tragedy...
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