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LUCCA, Italy (AP) -- Seeking support from abroad, the U.S. struggled Monday to explain a hazy Syria strategy that has yet to clarify key questions: whether President Bashar Assad must go, how displaced Syrians will be protected and when America might feel compelled to take further action....
Pretoria, South Africa, Apr 10, 2017 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of South Africa have called on the country's embattled president, Jacob Zuma, to consider stepping down as part of an effort to fight corruption.Marches protesting Zuma have been held across cities in South Africa after he reshuffled his cabinet, replacing a respected finance minister at the end of March, which resulted in the country's credit rating being cut to junk status by S&P.The sacked minister, Pravin Gordhan, is regarded as an opponent of government corruption.“We respectfully remind President Zuma that he has been elected to serve all South Africans,” read the April 4 letter from the South African bishops' conference, signed by Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town.“It appears that he has lost the confidence of many of his own closest colleagues, as well as that of numerous civil society organisations. He should earnestly reconsider his position, and not be afr...
Washington D.C., Apr 10, 2017 / 11:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the murder of Christians in Egypt through two bombings during Palm Sunday liturgies, bishops around the world joined Pope Francis in prayer.“We also pray for our Coptic Orthodox sisters and brothers who continue to be resilient in the face of ongoing and escalating attacks, and who resist the urge to react vengefully or reciprocally,” said Bishop Angaelos, general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom.Two Egyptian Coptic Orthodox churches in Alexandria and Tanta, in the north of the country, were bombed during their Palm Sunday services. The attacks killed at least 44 and injured more than 100, Reuters reported. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bombings.In Tanta, an explosion rocked Mar Gerges Coptic Orthodox church during the Palm Sunday liturgy. A state investigation said it was a suicide bombing. A bomb had been found and disabled at the church a week before, a police offi...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Barbara FraserBy Barbara J. FraserHUARAZ, Peru (CNS) -- Agrim-faced Pontius Pilate stares straight ahead, while Jesus, bound with rope,stands beside him, head down. Jesus turns a tortured face heavenward as hefalls for the first time under the weight of a stone cross.Mary places a hand on Jesus'arm, as if beseeching, and he looks at her with compassion, but faces forward,one hand open toward whatever lies ahead. The journey toward Calvary continues,and finally a white tear glistens in Mary's eye as she holds her son's brokenbody. Five young Peruvian stonecarvers have spent the past year fashioning the life-size Stations of the Crossfrom six-foot-tall blocks of Italian marble for a parish in the United States.The figures, which went onexhibit April 8 at the cathedral in this Andean city, will eventually beshipped to Las Vegas to become part of a prayer garden at Holy Spirit CatholicChurch, the newest parish in the Las Vegas Diocese, which is expected to becompleted i...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for uncovering how police abused eviction rules to oust hundreds of people, mostly poor minorities, from their homes....
NEW YORK (AP) -- As advertisers flee Bill O'Reilly's nightly talk show amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment, Fox News parent 21st Century Fox is investigating one of those claims against its popular TV host....
BEIRUT (AP) -- With its missile strike on Shayrat air base in central Syria, Washington signaled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Syria that drew international outrage last week. But it is not the first or even deadliest atrocity of the war. Rights groups and many Middle Eastern and Western nations say Assad is responsible for a litany of war crimes in the six years he and his supporters have struggled to extin...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Turning up the pressure on Gov. Robert Bentley, Alabama lawmakers opened impeachment hearings Monday over allegations he abused his powers to cover up an extramarital affair with a top aide....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Video of police officers dragging a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight sparked an uproar Monday on social media, and a spokesman for the airline insisted that employees had no choice but to contact authorities to remove the man....
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- An apparent murder-suicide inside an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino left a teacher and the shooter dead and two students critically wounded, police said....
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