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(Vatican Radio) Religious leaders united in their opposition to violence against children have gathered in Panama for a major international conference.About 430 representatives of the world’s religions are joining with children from about 70 countries in Panama City to study ways in which young people can be protected from gang violence, organised crime and violent extremism. It will also look at ways to end sexual exploitation and abuse of children.Delegates at the V Forum of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) are set to sign a statement committing themselves to working for a world free from childhood violence.Chilean Catholic priest Father Sidney Fones, head of the Forum's organizing committee, said: “We need to understand that all people have a role to play in ensuring that peace prevails and that children are safe."Our hope is that the ideas and results of this meeting will generate practical and fruitful actions for the protection of chil...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tony Gentile, ReutersBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Mary, like many mothers throughout the world, is anexample of strength and courage in accepting new life and in sharing thesuffering of their children, Pope Francis said. Althoughshe had no idea of what awaited her when she accepted to bear God's son,"Mary in that instant appears to us like one of the many mothers in ourworld, courageous to the extreme," the pope said May 10 at his weeklygeneral audience.Hermotherly love and courage is seen again at the foot of the cross, he said,where "she teaches us the virtue of waiting even when everything appearsmeaningless."Just afew days before he was to visit Fatima, Portugal, to commemorate the 100thanniversary of the Marian apparitions there and as people in many countrieswere preparing to celebrate Mother's Day, Pope Francis used his audience talkto focus on Mary and hope."We are not orphans, we have a mother in heaven,"he said. "In difficult moments, may ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After conquering Hollywood, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may have his sights set on the White House....
WOODBURY, Conn. (AP) -- The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman died in a traffic crash in Connecticut, the sports network's president confirmed Wednesday....
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Brothers Noah, Sumner and Cole Ogrydziak entered West Point's grueling world of 6:30 a.m. reveille, 60-pound packs and rigorous course loads on the same day four years ago. The three cadets are now preparing to fling their caps together at graduation this month, marking a rare fraternal trifecta at this storied academy....
TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) -- Decades later, it's still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama - even if you're among their descendants, lighting candles in their memory....
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The collapse of an underground tunnel containing radioactive waste that forced workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to shelter in place is the latest incident to raise safety concerns at the sprawling site that made plutonium for nuclear bombs for decades after World War II....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed Vladimir Putin's top diplomat to the White House for Trump's highest level face-to-face contact with a Russian government official since he took office in January....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump defended his firing of FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, asserting in a flurry of tweets that both Democrats and Republicans "will be thanking me." Trump did not mention any effect the dismissal might have on FBI and congressional investigations into contacts between his 2016 election campaign and Russia....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis during his Wednesday General Audience continued his catechesis on Christian hope, highlighting Mary the Mother of Hope.Listen to this report:  On the eve of his Apostolic visit to Fatima, Pope Francis on Wednesday, described Mary as the Mother of Hope adding that she was a woman of courage, perseverance and obedience.Speaking to the thousands of pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square, the Pope said that,  “Our Lady’s experience of motherhood models that of so many mothers in our world.” Mothers who have had to confront the suffering of their children.He went on to say that she courageously accepted her vocation and welcomed the new life entrusted to her.  The Holy Father also noted how despite the trials in her life, she remained always obedient to God.Mary, Pope Francis commented, is with her son until the very end. Her image, he said “standing at the foot of the cross and grieving the death of her inno...
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