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BEIRUT (AP) -- Turkey slammed the Trump administration's decision to supply Syrian Kurdish fighters with weapons against the Islamic State group and demanded Wednesday that it be reversed, heightening tensions between the NATO allies days before the Turkish leader heads to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump....
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex underscored what critics have long been saying: that the toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- All but ignoring the unfurling drama over Russia and the U.S. election, President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to advance prospects for cooperation between the former Cold War foes in Syria and elsewhere in a rare Oval Office meeting with Vladimir Putin's top diplomat....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Things to know about President Donald Trump's firing of James Comey as FBI director:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the days before his firing by President Donald Trump, FBI Director James Comey told U.S. lawmakers he had asked the Justice Department for more resources to pursue the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's presidential election, three U.S. officials said Wednesday....
(Vatican Radio) The XXXVI General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano, known as CELAM) is taking place this week from 9-12 May.The Assembly gathers together the leadership of CELAM, along with heads of departments, as well as the presidents and delegates of the Episcopal Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean.The theme for this year’s Assembly is “A poor Church for the poor.” The meeting is taking place on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Archbishop Oscar Romero, and is being held in San Salvador, the city of the martyred Archbishop’s birth.In his presentation at the beginning of the Assembly, Bishop Juan Espinoza, the auxiliary Bishop of Morelia, Mexico, and Secretary General of CELAM, explained that the meetings will follow two general lines: a discussion on the work of the various departments and of the Episcopal conferences; and a reflection on the pastoral objectives of CELAM, foll...
(Vatican Radio) Sri Lanka’s Catholic Bishops have sent special greetings to their Buddhist countrymen on the occasion of Vesak, Wednesday, May 10 this year. It is the most solemn festival of Buddhists which the United Nations adopted in 1999 and is celebrating for the first time in Sri Lanka this year. "Vesak", sometimes informally called "Buddha's Birthday", occurs on the full moon in the month of May, and commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha or Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, who lived sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries. "It is fitting for the U.N. Day of Vesak to be held in Sri Lanka which is the predominant Theravada Buddhist country in the world and where four world religions are present," read a statement released on May 7 by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL). "Vesak is a festival of peace and light; may this Vesak b...
(Vatican Radio) Corruption is “like a cancer” that consumes the daily life of people across Latin America, Pope Francis has told bishops.In a letter to the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) at the start of their general assembly, the Pope decried corruption as “one of the most serious sins that plagues our continent today”.The Pope reiterated his call to the bishops gathering in El Salvador to walk more closely with people, especially those on the peripheries, and to renew their hope.Pope Francis wrote: “Corruption devastates lives by submerging them in the most extreme poverty. It’s a corruption which destroys entire populations by subjecting them to precariousness. It’s a corruption that, like a cancer, consumes the daily life of our people.”The Pope used the story of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patroness of Brazil, as the basis of his message of hope. The statue was found 300 years ago by three poor fisherman who caught a...
(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 ...
