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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump, in a warning to his fired FBI director, said Friday that James Comey had better hope there are no "tapes" of their conversations. Trump's tweet came the morning after he asserted Comey had told him three times that he wasn't under FBI investigation....
(Vatican Radio) With more than 5 million Syrian refugees living in nearby countries, 'Collateral Repair Project' is a charitable organization in Jordan that brings desperately-needed assistance to these refugees and other victims of war and conflict, those commonly referred to as “collateral damage.”Jordan is home to 1.4 million Syrian refugees and a smaller number of Iraqis. The majority of these refugees do not live in camps but in the capital Amman or other cities where it’s a daily struggle to find the means to feed and support themselves and their families.Tara Sutton is a board member of Collateral Repair Project and is also a journalist and documentary film maker whose work in conflict zones has won many awards. She spoke to Susy Hodges about the dire situation facing the Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan whose lives she said are now “in a limbo.”Listen to the interview with Tara Sutton of Collateral Repair Project: Not enough ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday morning greeted participants taking part in a conference organised by the Vatican Observatory entitled "Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Space-Time Singularities. The conference is taking place from 9-12 May at the Observatory at Castelgandolfo in the Roman Hills.Please find below the English translation of the Pope's words to participantsGreeting of His Holiness Pope Francis to participants at the Conference organized by the Vatican Observatory12 maggio 2017 Dear friends, I extend a heartfelt welcome to you all, and I thank Brother Guy Consolmagno for his kind words. The issues you have been addressing during these days at Castel Gandolfo are of particular interest to the Church, because they have to do with questions that concern us deeply, such as the beginning of the universe and its evoluti...
(Vatican Radio) The local papers in Fatima this morning are filled with facts and figures: 12 and one half-thousand people officially signed onto one of the official international pilgrimages; 450 volunteers inside the sanctuary, anywhere from 1 thousand to 2 thousand others throughout the civil parish of Fatima; 600 thousand to 1 million pilgrims from all around the world expected to take part in the centenary celebrations.Those are just a few.The Portuguese government has given employees permission to miss work in order to attend the celebrations, while police, fire, medical, civil protection and a dozen other auxiliary public order services have called in reinforcements from every corner of the country and put them on forced overtime.It’s one of those days I’m glad I never got into human resources and logistics planning.I get paid to stand around and tell you what I see: and what I see is a small town that has grown up roughly on the top of what is not the tallest h...
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Duarte Nuno Queiroz de Barros Da Cunha was born and brought up in Portugal but now works as the Secretary General of the Council of the European Bishops’ Conference. Speaking shortly before Pope Francis’ pilgrimage to Fatima, he described the very strong and widespread devotion to Our Lady of Fatima among the Portuguese people. He also spoke about the expectations surrounding the papal visit to the Marian Shrine. Monsignor Da Cunha was interviewed by Susy Hodges.Listen to the interview with Monsignor Duarte Da Cunha from Portugal:
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 03:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The third secret of Fatima deals with past events, but at the same time its call to conversion is always current, always up to date, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State emeritus.In an interview with CNA, Cardinal Bertone spoke about the third secret of Fatima, how the decision to release the secret was made, and his memories of his three meetings with Sr. Lucia, the longest-living of the three shepherd children who had been the custodian of the secret until it was released by the Vatican at the request of Pope John Paul II.This year marks the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima’s appearance to three shepherd children in 1917. Pope Francis is making a two-day pilgrimage to Fatima May 12-13 to celebrate the centenary and to canonize two of the children, Francisco and Jacinta Marta.The “third secret of Fatima” refers to a message during the apparitions predicting suffering and perse...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 05:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On “the day the sun danced,” thousands of people bore witness to a miracle that not only proved the validity of the Fatima Marian apparitions, but is also said to have shattered the prevalent belief at the time that God was no longer relevant.What crowds witnessed the day of the miracle was “the news that God, in the end, contrary to what was said in the philosophy books at that time, was alive and acting in the midst of men,” Dr. Marco Daniel Duarte told CNA in an interview.If one were to open philosophy books during that period, they would likely read something akin to the concept conceived by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who died in 1900 and boldly made the assertion in his 1882 collection “The Gay Science” that “God is dead.”Yet as this and other philosophies like it were gaining steam in the life and thought of society, the Virgin Mary appears and tells three s...
DARDANELLE, Ark. (AP) -- A man faces capital murder charges in the killing of three people, including a sheriff's deputy, and after holding a woman hostage during a five-hour standoff with police in rural western Arkansas....
Frustrated with his ever-growing weight that peaked at 675 pounds, Ronnie Brower began dieting and working out on his way to losing an astounding 458 pounds. His four-year fitness journey, chronicled on Facebook, earned him the admiration of a woman at his gym who similarly was trying to lose a lot of weight....
BEIJING (AP) -- China will seek to burnish President Xi Jinping's stature as a world-class statesman at an international gathering centered on his signature foreign policy effort that envisions a future world order in which all roads lead to Beijing....
