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(Vatican Radio) Russian authorities say at least 10 people have been killed and 50 others injured in an explosion on an underground metro train in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who was in St. Petersburg for a meeting with Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko, said investigations are ongoing on whether the Monday blast was related to terrorism. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: As the investigation began, rescue workers, medics and security forces were seen rushing to the bloodstained scene. Ambulances and helicopters evacuated some of the many injured survivors. Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said an unidentified explosive device went off at 2:20 p.m. local time on a train that was leaving the Technology Institute station and heading to the Sennaya Square station elsewhere in the city. The St. Petersburg subway immediately shut down all of its stations. And the national anti-terrorism body...
Vatican City, Apr 3, 2017 / 11:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican has taken in three new Syrian families, some members of which were ISIS prisoners before gaining freedom and fleeing the country.According to an April 3 Vatican communique, the families – two of whom are Christian – took the place of the families welcomed by the Vatican last year, who with the help of various organizations have now become independent, and have moved out of their Vatican apartments.The decision to welcome them was made in response to the Pope's Sept. 6, 2015, appeal for all European parishes, religious communities, monasteries and shrines to house one refugee family. At the time, the Pope said the two Vatican parishes – St. Peter's Basilica and St. Anne's parish – would also be hosting one family each.St. Peter's Basilica provided an apartment for an Eritrean family, consisting of a mother and her five children.The family hosted by St. Anne's parish was a Ch...
Moscow, Russia, Apr 3, 2017 / 11:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of Moscow offered his prayers and condolences following a deadly explosion in the St. Petersburg metro on Monday afternoon.“With deep sorrow, I learned about the villainous terrorist act in St. Petersburg, which killed nine people and caused suffering and grief to many people,” the archbishop said in an April 3 statement.“Together with all faithful Catholics and believers of other faiths and religions, I turn to God with a burning prayer for deliverance of Russia and the world from the curse of terrorism,” he continued.At least 9 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion on the St. Petersburg metro Monday afternoon.The blast took place at around 2:30 p.m. local time in a train car as it was passing through a tunnel between two underground stations. Some reports indicated that the explosion may have come from a briefcase left on the train.Another explosive device w...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Muscarelle Museum of ABy Carol ZimmermannWILLIAMSBURG, Va. (CNS) -- The culture wars of today havenothing on those from Renaissance times.In Florence,Italy, in 1497 -- after people had been repeatedly warned that some instruments, books,sculptures, paintings and clothes could lead them away from their faith -- thousandsof these items were thrown into a huge pile in the center of the city and burnedin the famous Bonfire of the Vanities.Amongthe works of art said to be set afire were some of the paintings of nudes or charactersfrom mythology by SandroBotticelli, who was a contemporary and friend of Michelangelo and Leonardo daVinci and who painted a number of religious images and the famous paintings"Birth of Venus" and "Primavera."Acurrent U.S. exhibition of Botticelli's works, many of them appearing in thiscountry for the first time, places the modern audience right in the middle ofthis tumultuous period and also shows how this time of intense spiritualscrutiny imp...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past decade, scientists and photographers keep returning to the world's glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want others to see how a warming planet is melting masses of ice in a series of before-and-after photos....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A deeply divided Senate panel favorably recommended Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Monday, sending the nomination to the full Senate for what is expected to be a partisan showdown - and eventual confirmation....
