International News

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Tanzanian bishops' head warns of growing threat from militant Islamists

May 27, 2013

OXFORD, England - The head of the Tanzanian bishops' conference warned of a growing threat from militant Islamists and urged police and government to act more forcefully against violence and intimidation.

Being priest was 'everything' to man ordained two days before he died

May 27, 2013

MAUMEE, Ohio - Ordination "meant everything" to Fr. Scott R. Carroll.

Young architects explore the sacred, secular

May 26, 2013

TORONTO - Those who have come to believe secular universities are phobic about the sacred, allergic to transcendence, divorced from the spiritual, God-free zones have not encountered Ryerson University Associate Professor of Architecture Ed Wojs.

U.S. Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths to belong to Scout troops

May 24, 2013

GRAPEVINE, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted late May 23 to allow openly gay youths admittance as members into the 103-year-old organization, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

Knights of Malta open field hospital to aid Syrians

May 24, 2013

When bombs fall in the Syrian city of Aleppo, it’s bad news for the municipal hospital in Kilis, Turkey. The Turkish border town of 80,000 has taken in 35,000 Syrian refugees from Syria’s civil war — the majority suffering physical and psychological trauma.

Majority of U.S. priests dislike new Missal translation, survey finds

May 23, 2013

WASHINGTON - A majority of U.S. priests said they dislike the translation of the Roman Missal introduced at Advent 2011, a new survey found.

El Salvador's leader gives Pope bloodstained Romero relic

May 23, 2013

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis received a bloodstained relic of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero as a gift from El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes Cartagena.

Tornadoes exact deadly toll; region needs 'a lot of prayers right now'

May 22, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY - Even after the initial death toll was cut by more than half, the human and material devastation of a string of tornadoes that buffeted areas of the archdiocese of Oklahoma City May 19-20 was incalculable.

Police evacuate Notre Dame Cathedral after man commits suicide

May 21, 2013

PARIS - Visitors were evacuated from Notre Dame Cathedral after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old church, police said.

Nigerian bishops hope crackdown against insurgents restores normalcy

May 21, 2013

LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian bishops said they hoped the government's declaration of a state of emergency would help restore some normalcy, and one bishop said President Goodluck Jonathan was just fulfilling his constitutional duties.