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NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Sicily (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday said his maiden first trip abroad was a "home run" and he vowed to overcome the threat of terrorism, concluding a grueling five-stop sprint that ended with the promise of an imminent decision on the much-discussed Paris climate accord....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's son-in-law and now top White House adviser Jared Kushner reportedly proposed setting up a secret back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team during a December meeting with a leading Russian diplomat....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis began an intense day-long pastoral visit to Genoa on Saturday morning, with a meeting with workers, management, industrialists, union leaders and representatives of unemployed persons at the ILVA steel works in the city.World of LabourPope Francis’ meeting with the world of labour included four questions regarding the issues ranging from the challenges of ossified and unresponsive bureaucracy to the dehumanizing effects of technology and large forces on the workplace and the labour market: one each from a worker, an entrepreneur, a business-owner, and a union representative.Right and Duty to Work for AllIn each of his responses, Pope Francis focused on the primacy of the human person over the reality and rights of labour and capital, insisting that only a correct vision of human nature can inform and direct our efforts to build a just and harmonious society.The Pope also insisted forcefully on work as something given to man in the order of creati...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis led prayers Saturday for the victims of an Islamic terror attack on a busload of Coptic Christian pilgrims.During the course of a meeting with clergy and religious of the Archdiocese of Genoa on Saturday morning, the Holy Father asked participants to pause for a moment of silent prayer before reciting the Hail Mary together."Brothers and sisters," said Pope Francis, "I invite you to pray for our Egyptian Coptic brethren who were killed because they refused to renounce their faith.""Together with [all our Coptic brethren], their bishops, my brother, [Pope] Tawadros [II of Alexandria of the Copts], I invite you to pray together in silence, and then an Ave Maria," Pope Francis continued."Let us not forget," Pope Francis said, "that today the Christian martyrs are more numerous than in ancient times, the earliest days of the Church."As many as 10 gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christi...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with the bishops, priests, religious and seminarians of the Archdiocese of Genoa and the whole region of Liguria on Saturday, during the course of a one-day pastoral visit.The questions from clergy and religious came from two secular priests, Don Andrea Carcasole and Don Pasquale Revello: the President of the Italian Union of Women Religious Superiors for the Liguria Region; and Fr. Andrea Caruso, O.F.M. Cap.Their queries focused on the search for ways to maintain hope and nourish the interior life of faith in today’s frenetic world – and the Holy Father’s responses centered on the imitation of Christ, the fostering of a sense of fraternity among the clergy and of genuine diocesan ecclesial unity, and the cultivation of a rich, mission-focused interior life of prayer.“What we want,” said Pope Francis, “is pastoral conversion, missionary conversion.”The Pope also condemned the practice – diffuse ...
(Vatican Radio) Filipino bishops are calling on leaders and on all men and women of goodwill to pursue a path that leads to peace.In a statement approved by the Bishops of Mindanao where the military has been conducting air strikes in Marawi, on Mindanao island, after it was overrun by islamist militants.The region is a stronghold for the local Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.Fighting erupted after the army tried to capture a top militant leader whom IS has allegedly designated its leader in the Philippines. When the raid failed, dozens of gunmen came out on to the streets of Marawi, reportedly flying IS flags. Buildings were burned, prison inmates freed and hostages taken as the militants battled troops across the city. The number of dead is unclear and thousands of residents have fled the city.Find below the statement by Cardinal Orlando B. Quevedo and approved by the bishops of Mindanao entitled “Pursue What Leads to Peace:&rd...
Rome, Italy, May 27, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Priests in Iraq are helping reconstruct around 13,000 homes in the Plain of Nineveh which have been damaged or destroyed by ISIS so that Christians will have a place to come back to.To accomplish this, the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has created a Commission for the Reconstruction of Nineveh. Besides celebrating Mass, the priests also serve as surveyors and obtain electric service and materials for the reconstruction of homes. The first work is being done in places that ISIS occupied for a short time and where there is not a lot of material damage.One of the members of this project is Fr. Georges Jahola, a Syrian Catholic priest from Qaraqosh.The priest told ACN that “here in Iraq if the Church doesn't do these things, who's going to do them? We have the capacity to act and do the talking, and also the contacts.” The reconstruction of the Plain of Nineveh includes five Cha...
TAORMINA, Sicily (AP) -- Melania Trump's first outing in the Sicilian sunshine was in a colorful floral applique jacket by Dolce & Gabbana that sells for $51,000, or several thousand dollars below the median U.S. income in 2015....
LONDON (AP) -- Air travelers faced delays Saturday because of a worldwide computer systems failure at British Airways, the airline said....
BRIA, Central African Republic (AP) -- Scores of blackened homes dot this town where more than 41,000 people have fled for their lives....
