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Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday that the formal signing of a deal to end the state’s 52-year war with leftist FARC rebels will be signed on September 26.
Colombia prosecutors have launched two investigations after allegations that Bogota’s homeless people are being forcibly “disappeared” and given poisoned food. |
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Jim Flaherty, a former Allegheny County commissioner and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge who spent his career in public service championing causes for the common man, died Thursday. He was 85. Relatives said Mr. Flaherty was surrounded by his family at the Cancer Treatment Center in Philadelphia when he died from complications of melanoma. |
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96.5 Buzz has announced its Buzz Halloweenie Roast, set to take place Friday, October 14 at the Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland in Kansas City, MO. Performers at the event include electronica act Phantogram, British vocalist Bishop Briggs, and indie synth pop outfit Rachel Mallin and the Wild Type. |
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HARARE – Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani yesterday said he was not on the run, with the Vapostori cleric claiming he was unaware that police were hunting for him over public violence charges. Madzibaba Ishmea told a Harare magistrate yesterday that his church doctrine does not allow him to use any form of.... |
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In his latest bid to woo African-American voters, Donald Trump visited a black church in Detroit today. The Republican presidential nominee swayed to songs of worship, read scripture, and donned a Jewish prayer shawl and called for a "civil rights agenda of our time" and vowed to fix the "many wrongs" facing black people in the U. |
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CALCUTTA, India – The eastern Indian city of Calcutta on Saturday strung up photos and posters of Mother Teresa, as industrious vendors set out figurines and glass-encased photos of the charitable social worker one day ahead of her canonization at the Vatican in Rome. |
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phant/iStock/Thinkstock (ROME) — Preparations are underway in Rome for the canonization of Mother Teresa. More than 100,000 people are expected to pack St. Peter’s square in the Vatican on Sunday, including fifteen official delegations and 600 journalists. |
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Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images (DETROIT) — As worshipers raised their hands and sang, there was an unfamiliar face at Great Faith Ministries International. There, in the first row, blond hair glimmering under the light, was Donald Trump, in his first visit to an African-American church as a presidential candidate. |
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The canonization marks a highlight of the Jubilee year that Francis had proclaimed to celebrate the theme of mercy. On Saturday, he told thousands of cheering volunteers gathered in St. Peter’s Square that Mother Teresa was a “witness to mercy in our time.”
Of her canonization, he said, “She deserves it. |
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Image caption St James Garlickhythe in London has attracted some new bell-ringers, but the tradition is still in decline. The centuries-old tradition of church bell-ringing is under threat because of a shortage of new recruits. A BBC local radio survey suggests it is getting more difficult to persuade newcomers to take the practice up. |
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Hillary Clinton and her campaign have been going out of their way to make a surprising argument about Donald Trump: He’s not really a Republican. At the Democratic convention, several speakers said Trump represented a complete break from the conservative traditions of the GOP. |
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