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PHOENIX (AP) -- The first day of summer was expected to bring some of the worst heat the Southwest U.S. has seen in years, forcing flights to be canceled, straining the power grid and making life miserable for workers toiling in temperatures that could reach 120 degrees in Phoenix....
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia voters steadily streamed into suburban Atlanta polling places Tuesday to decide the most expensive House race in U.S. history and put weeks of television ads, phone calls and ringing doorbells behind them....
LONDON (AP) -- The cars still zip over London Bridge at their typical fast clip, drawing little obvious attention....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgian media are reporting that explosion-like noises have been heard at a Brussels train station, prompting the evacuation of a main square....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A public funeral service is planned Thursday at a high school attended by a 22-year-old college student who was held for nearly a year and a half in North Korea and died shortly after he was sent home to Ohio in a coma....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week....
(Vatican Radio)  The Sri Lankan government is showing it is taking seriously the growing phenomenon of hate crimes against the country’s minority Muslim population.   Police said on Sunday they have arrested 4 people, including a Buddhist monk and a police officer, accused of taking part in an attack on Muslim properties in May.  The four belong to the hardline Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), a hardline Buddhist organization. which Muslim groups blame for attacks on their businesses and mosques.  BBS denies the allegation.Police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody told reporters the four were caught in a CCTV footage while setting fire to a Muslim-owned book shop and a mosque in Panadura, a suburb of the capital Colombo on May 17.  Describing the monk and the police officer as “prominent members of the Bodu Bala Sena” Jayakody said they were arrested with a sword, a hockey stick and equipment used to make petrol bombs.  He said they are close associa...
(Vatican Radio)  Cardinal Ivan Cornelius Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay in India, died in Rome on Monday at the age of 81.On Tuesday, Pope Francis sent a telegram expressing his condolences to Francis Dias, the brother of the late Cardinal:To Mr Francis DiasDeeply saddened to learn of the death of your dear brother, I offer heartfelt condolences to you and the Dias family.  I recall with gratitude the late Cardinal’s years of faithful service to the Apostolic See, especially his contribution to the spiritual and physical reconstruction of the suffering Church in Albania and the missionary zeal demonstrated in his work as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.  I likewise unite my prayers to those of the faithful of the Archdiocese of Bombay, where the pastoral concern and broad apostolic vision that marked his service as Archbishop are fondly remembered.&nbs...
(Vatican Radio) The Archdiocese has published the following notice of the death Cardinal Ivan Dias:WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD DEMISE OF HIS EMINENCE, IVAN CARDINAL DIASJune 19, 2017We Regret to Announce the Sad Demise of His Eminence, Ivan Cardinal Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, and Archbishop Emeritus of Bombay.Cardinal Ivan Dias, was born on 14 April, 1936 in Mumbai, India and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Bombay on 8 December, 1958. He held a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.He entered the Holy See’s diplomatic service in 1964 and was posted to the Nordic countries, Indonesia, Madagascar, La Réunion, the Comorros, Mauritius and the Secretariat of State. On 8 May 1982, he was appointed titular Archbishop of Rusubisir and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and received episcopal ordination on 19 June. He later served as Apostolic Nuncio in Korea (1987-91) ...
Twenty young people from Laos who will join the Asian Youth Day in Indonesia in August, took part in a formation camp over the weekend in the Laotian capital Vientiane.  Three Thai formators conducted the camp at the youth development center of the Sisters of Charity, June 17-18, where the young Catholics from three out of the country’s four ecclesiastical jurisdictions were given exercises in team-building and strengthening their English skills. A Filipina, who has volunteered at the development center for a year, also joined the camp.A volunteer youth leader Joseph said he is thrilled to have the chance to meet other young Catholics at the Asian Youth Day to be held in Yogyakarta in Semarang Archdiocese, July 30-August 6.  He told UCANEWS the youth meet will “won't just be about our new Laotian cardinal or the 17 martyrs beatified last December that will make the Laotian faith community known to the universal Catholic Church." "The young peopl...
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