Pope Francis Warns Against Third World War: 'War Is Madness'
REDIPUGLIA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning "war is madness" at the foot of a grandiose...
View ArticleVatican Cricket Team May Need Divine Intervention In Match With Church Of...
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) A recently formed cricket team from the Vatican may need some divine intervention as it gets ready to take on more experienced English players at a historic game Saturday...
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Grieving Town Buries Brutally Murdered Italian Nuns Who Served Africa For...
(RNS) Three elderly Italian nuns murdered in Burundi were laid to rest Thursday (Sept. 11) in a Xaverian cemetery in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened calls for action about their death....
View ArticleImmigrant Vote Crucial To Scotland Independence
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — On the south side of Glasgow, in the heartland of Scotland's Asian community, support for independence from the United Kingdom is strong as Thursday's referendum nears....
View ArticleAnother Russian Convoy Enters Ukraine Amid Renewed Fighting
LUHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — A convoy of more than 200 white trucks crossed the Russian border to deliver humanitarian aid to a battered Ukrainian city on Saturday, a move made without Kiev's consent yet...
View ArticleSyrians Suffer Revenge Attacks In Lebanon After ISIS Beheadings
BRITAL, Lebanon (AP) — Syrian refugee Ibrahim Abbas Ali and his family awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of gunfire outside their tent in Lebanon, and for a second time they raced off into...
View ArticleAid Worker Killed By ISIS Is A 'British Hero' Says Prime Minister
LONDON (AP) — British aid worker David Haines devoted his life to helping civilians in war zones and that is how he should be remembered, his family said Sunday as they grieved his death at the hands...
View ArticleAmerican Ebola Survivor Kent Brantly Donates Blood To Fellow Missionary Doctor
(RNS) An American physician who contracted Ebola while working in a West African hospital has received a blood transfusion from another American missionary doctor who survived the disease, hospital...
View ArticleRare Victory Against Poachers In Mozambique As Country Fights To Save Species
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The recent arrests of six suspected poachers on a vast wildlife reserve in Mozambique are seen by conservationists as rare good news in a country where elephants and other species...
View ArticlePalestinians pressure UEFA not to award the tournament to Israel
By James M. Dorsey Palestinian soccer clubs and non-governmental organizations have called on European soccer governor UEFA to this week shy away from awarding Israel the right to host the 2020 UEFA...
View ArticleNorth Korea Sentences U.S. Man To 6 Years Of Hard Labor
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally to commit espionage. At a trial...
View ArticleGaza Children Return To School After War
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Some half million Gaza children made a delayed return to school on Sunday after a devastating 50-day war with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged...
View ArticleHolocaust Experts Work To Preserve WWII-Era Items
JERUSALEM (AP) — With survivors dying in growing numbers and their live testimonies soon to be a thing of the past, Holocaust commemoration efforts are increasingly focused around preserving the...
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Ancient Flying Beast Named After 'Avatar' Creature
If those bizarre flying dragons that carried around blue humanoids in the 2009 science fiction film "Avatar" were real, they likely would have been descendants of this ancient flying reptile: The head...
View ArticleTyphoon Slams Into Northeastern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fast-moving typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, sparking warnings of possible landslides, flash floods and storm surges. Typhoon Kalmaegi, with...
View ArticleJohn Kerry 'Extremely Encouraged' By Pledges Of Military Support Against ISIS
* Kerry says military aid pledged from Middle East and beyond * On a tour to rally support for fight against Islamic State * Says ground troops offered by some nations (Adds additional Kerry comments,...
View ArticleArab Countries Offer To Join Airstrikes Against ISIS
By Jason Szep PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Several Arab countries have offered to join the United States in air strikes against Islamic State targets, U.S. officials said on Sunday, indicating a possible...
View ArticleArab Nations Offer to Conduct Airstrikes Against ISIS, U.S. Officials Say
PARIS — Several Arab countries have offered to carry out airstrikes against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, senior State Department officials said Sunday. The offer was disclosed by...
View ArticleWhite House: We 'Didn't Threaten' Families Of Slain U.S. Journalists With...
WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday pushed back on claims that the Obama administration threatened prosecution against the families of two American journalists brutally...
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International Folk Artists Join the Global Internet Economy
Tomorrow, the Santa Fe International Folk Art Alliance will launch a program called IFAM | Online to train artists as entrepreneurs and accelerate their entry into the Internet economy. What makes this...
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