(Vatican Radio) Rescuers in Taiwan have pulled another three people alive from the rubble of a high-rise apartment building more than two days after it collapsed in an earthquake. More than 100 people remain missing following the quake in southern Taiwan on Saturday. Listen to Alastair Wanklyn's report Ambulances took survivors from the disaster site ...they dug through debris after detecting signs of life in the rubble of a 17-storey building that collapsed. One woman recovered alive on Monday was found beneath her dead husband's body. Her two-year-old son is also dead, and five members of her family are missing.Also pulled out alive on Monday was an eight-year-old girl.Reports said a 28-year-old woman from Vietnam was thought to be alive but unreachable beneath the layers of broken walls and floors.Taiwan's president-elect said her nation...will do what it can to help the city of Tainan.Although several buildings collapsed in the quake, nearly al...
(Vatican Radio) Rescuers in Taiwan have pulled another three people alive from the rubble of a high-rise apartment building more than two days after it collapsed in an earthquake. More than 100 people remain missing following the quake in southern Taiwan on Saturday.
Listen to Alastair Wanklyn's report
Ambulances took survivors from the disaster site ...they dug through debris after detecting signs of life in the rubble of a 17-storey building that collapsed.
One woman recovered alive on Monday was found beneath her dead husband's body. Her two-year-old son is also dead, and five members of her family are missing.
Also pulled out alive on Monday was an eight-year-old girl.
Reports said a 28-year-old woman from Vietnam was thought to be alive but unreachable beneath the layers of broken walls and floors.
Taiwan's president-elect said her nation...will do what it can to help the city of Tainan.Although several buildings collapsed in the quake, nearly all the fatalities were in the high-rise apartment block.
Some said it seemed shoddily built. The broken walls contain large tin cans apparently cemented in to pad them out.
null / Credit: Peter Hermes Furian via ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) on April 19 condemned the kidnapping and murder of a catechist in Burkina Faso, West Africa.In a news brief, ACN informed ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, that catechist Edouard Yougbare was kidnapped on Thursday night by "terrorists, and his lifeless body was found near Zigni this morning."According to other local sources, along with Yougbare, who was a member of Saatenga parish in Fada Gourma, Burkina Faso, more people were kidnapped and murdered."We are heartbroken by the loss of Yougbare. He served his community faithfully and his death is a devastating blow for the people of Saatenga," lamented Spaniard María Lozano, press and public relations director of ACN International."Catechists in Burkina Faso are on the front lines, risking their lives for the good of their people. Just two months ago, ano...
Pope Francis addresses the faithful at his Wednesday general audience on March 27, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Apr 19, 2024 / 10:07 am (CNA).In the latest move in Pope Francis' reform of the Vatican judiciary, the pope issued a new motu proprio on Friday on the retirement age and benefits for cardinal judges and magistrates in the Vatican's court system.The April 19 motu proprio states that Vatican magistrates will retire at the end of the judicial year in which they turn 75 and cardinal judges at the age of 80, unless Pope Francis asks them to remain in office beyond the age limit.Magistrates and judges who wish to resign from office before the retirement age can only do so with the approval of the pope.The pope also has the prerogative to dismiss magistrates unable to fulfill their duties at any time. Upon the termination of their duties, magistrates will retain the rights to assistance and welfare provided to Vatican citizens and employees.The motu proprio, wh...
Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017. / Credit: The Helena Kmiec FoundationACI Prensa Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow, Poland, announced the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017.The prelate said that after the preliminary phase began in December 2022, he made the decision to officially open the process for Kmiec after having consulted the Polish Bishops' Conference and receiving the go-ahead from the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints."With this edict I call on all those who have any document, letter, or information about the Servant of God, both positive and negative, to send them to the Metropolitan Curia of Krakow before June 30," the archbish...
