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NEW YORK (AP) -- Ashley Graham may have curves, but she hates the term plus-size....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Raging against a political firestorm, President Donald Trump on Friday shot a sharp warning at his ousted FBI director about possible "tapes" of their disputed private conversations, raising the provocative possibility that recording devices have been installed in the White House....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump threatened to shut down daily press briefings Friday as he sought to defend his White House from criticism of its shifting explanations and misstatements about the firing of FBI Director James Comey....
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- In a sharp reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cleared a way for a company to seek permits to develop a massive copper and gold deposit near the headwaters of a world-class salmon fishery in southwest Alaska....
The Justice and Peace Department of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat on Thursday 11 May held a validation workshop for Diocesan Coordinators in Addis Ababa, as it wraps-up a five-year strategic plan with financial support from the Church agency Miserior. Speaking at the workshop, Fr. Hagos Hayish, Secretary General of the Catholic Secretariat called on those working to promote peace and reconciliation to put Christ at the centre of their lives and their activities.Below is a report by Makeda YohannesThe Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat Justice and Peace Department in its history of 22 years has been an active agent of peace and reconciliation throughout the country working through the Diocesan offices. The department’s active involvement with the Inter-Religious Council of Ethiopia in peace building is also one of its commendable achievements.The department is its efforts for a continued success is finalizing a 5 years strategic plan with the financial support of Miserior an...
(Vatican Radio) Estonian Catholics are preparing for the centenary of the Marian apparition in Fatima. The Catholic Church’s Press Office in Estonia said that on the day of the anniversary, Saturday 13th May, the Medieval Old Town of Tallin will be animated by a procession carrying the statue of Our Lady of Fatima: Estonia as a secular society, it is a big step to show public catholic traditional customs, and first time so wide catholic procession will take place in Tallinn old town. Usually, catholics do small procession on the feast of Corpus Domini, close to catholic cathedral in Tallinn old town.The Our Lady of Fatima apparition role is quite important in Estonian history. “In 1993, pope John Paul II visited the country, and it was the first papal visit in Estonian history, shortly after Estonia declared formal independence. After the collapse of Soviet Union, people in Estonia believe that the fall of Soviet communism, particularly in Eastern Europe...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed on Friday in the Little Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima, entrusting himself, in union with his brothers and sisters, to Our Lady of Immaculate Heart. A golden rose was the personal gift he left at her feet.This is his prayer:The Holy Father:Hail Holy Queen, Blessed Virgin of Fatima,Lady of Immaculate Heart,our refuge and our way to God!As a pilgrim of the Light that comes to us from your hands,I give thanks to God the Father, who in every time and place is at work in human history;As a pilgrim of the Peace that, in this place, you proclaim,I give praise to Christ, our peace, and I implore for the world concord among all peoples;As a pilgrim of the Hope that the Spirit awakens,I come as a prophet and messenger to wash the feet of all, at the same table that unites us.Refrain (sung by the assembly):Ave O Clemens, Ave O pia!Salve Regina Rosarii Fatimae.Ave O clemens, Ave O pia!Ave O dulcis Virgo Maria!The Holy Father:Hail, M...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 11:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his first day in Fatima, Pope Francis led pilgrims in prayer, asking that the Immaculate Heart of Mary would watch over the joys and sorrows of all mankind as they make their earthly pilgrimage.“In the depths of your being, in your Immaculate Heart, you keep the joys of men and women as they journey to the Heavenly Homeland. In the depths of your being, in your Immaculate Heart, you keep the sorrows of the human family, as they mourn and weep in this valley of tears.”“In the depths of your being, in your Immaculate Heart, adorn us with the radiance of the jewels of your crown and make us pilgrims, even as you were a pilgrim,” he said May 12 at the Chapel of the Apparitions.Pope Francis led the prayer to Mary at the beginning of his two-day pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal May 12-13 to celebrate the centenary of Mary's appearance to three shepherd children in 1917.During the visit, the Pope...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesLEIRIA, Portugal (CNS) -- Pope Francis said his two-daypilgrimage to Fatima would be a time of prayer and encounter with Jesus andMary.The visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima "is a bitspecial," he told reporters aboard his flight from Rome May 12. "Itis a journey of prayer, an encounter with the Lord and the holy Mother ofGod."After a three-hour flight, during which Pope Francis greetedeach of the 69 journalists traveling with him, the papal plane landed at MonteReal air base, about 25 miles from Fatima.The pope's trip was planned for the celebration of the 100thanniversary of Mary's apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima.On the actual anniversary, May 13, Pope Francis was tocanonize two of the three young seers, Blessed Jacinta Marto and her brotherBlessed Francisco Marto, making them the youngest non-martyred saints in theCatholic Church.Arriving at the military base, the pope was welcomed by PortuguesePresident M...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A commencement address by the No. 2 Senate Republican was canceled Friday after opposition from students at the historically black university where he was scheduled to speak....