AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-islamic-state-group-ali-al-sistani-pope-francis-iraq-f95098b179f6a82157e87a7cb6cc0c3dClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/middle-east-islamic-state-group-ali-al-sistani-pope-francis-iraq-f95098b179f6a82157e87a7cb6cc0c3dClick to copyRelated topicsPLAINS OF UR, Iraq (AP) — Pope Francis walked through a narrow alley in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf for a historic meeting with the country’s top Shiite cleric Saturday, and together they delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence in a country still reeling from back-to-back conflicts over...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-islamic-state-group-ali-al-sistani-pope-francis-iraq-f95098b179f6a82157e87a7cb6cc0c3dClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/middle-east-islamic-state-group-ali-al-sistani-pope-francis-iraq-f95098b179f6a82157e87a7cb6cc0c3dClick to copyRelated topicsPLAINS OF UR, Iraq (AP) — Pope Francis walked through a narrow alley in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf for a historic meeting with the country’s top Shiite cleric Saturday, and together they delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence in a country still reeling from back-to-back conflicts over...WW…

Jean-Yves Kamale And Nicole Winfield, The Associated PressKINSHASA, Congo - The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy travelling to a school in eastern Congo, the Italian Foreign Ministry and residents said.Luca Attanasio, serving at the Italian embassy in the country since 2017, Carabinieri officer Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Moustapha Milambo were killed, officials said. Other members of the convoy were wounded and taken to a hospital, the World Food Program said.Congo's...…Jean-Yves Kamale And Nicole Winfield, The Associated PressKINSHASA, Congo - The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy travelling to a school in eastern Congo, the Italian Foreign Ministry and residents said.Luca Attanasio, serving at the Italian embassy in the country since 2017, Carabinieri officer Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Moustapha Milambo were killed, officials said. Other members of the convoy were wounded and taken to a hospital, the World Food Program said.Congo's...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/milan-ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-italy-8d0cb3ef1cfa0be61378b949811d8c17Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/milan-ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-italy-8d0cb3ef1cfa0be61378b949811d8c17Click to copyRelated topicsMILAN (AP) — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide.Her son had been sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. And now she was calling Cardinal Valasio De Paolis -- the Vatican official appointed by the pope to lead the Legion and...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/milan-ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-italy-8d0cb3ef1cfa0be61378b949811d8c17Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/milan-ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-italy-8d0cb3ef1cfa0be61378b949811d8c17Click to copyRelated topicsMILAN (AP) — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide.Her son had been sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. And now she was calling Cardinal Valasio De Paolis -- the Vatican official appointed by the pope to lead the Legion and...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-italy-health-international-news-2a03a4e685316eb7d5a6e7181000fbfeClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-italy-health-international-news-2a03a4e685316eb7d5a6e7181000fbfeClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-italy-health-international-news-2a03a4e685316eb7d5a6e7181000fbfeClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-italy-health-international-news-2a03a4e685316eb7d5a6e7181000fbfeClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/0d0dc276465c3769368032687fabed13Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/0d0dc276465c3769368032687fabed13Click to copyRelated topicsVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting pedophile priests...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/0d0dc276465c3769368032687fabed13Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/0d0dc276465c3769368032687fabed13Click to copyRelated topicsVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting pedophile priests...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/crookston-minnesota-pope-francis-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-bernard-hebda-b5831babece05f314f257fe58ba7140fClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/crookston-minnesota-pope-francis-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-bernard-hebda-b5831babece05f314f257fe58ba7140fClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — A bishop in Minnesota resigned Tuesday at the request of Pope Francis after he was investigated by the Vatican for allegedly interfering with past investigations into clergy sexual abuse, officials said.The Vatican said Francis accepted the resignation of Crookston Bishop...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/crookston-minnesota-pope-francis-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-bernard-hebda-b5831babece05f314f257fe58ba7140fClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/crookston-minnesota-pope-francis-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-bernard-hebda-b5831babece05f314f257fe58ba7140fClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — A bishop in Minnesota resigned Tuesday at the request of Pope Francis after he was investigated by the Vatican for allegedly interfering with past investigations into clergy sexual abuse, officials said.The Vatican said Francis accepted the resignation of Crookston Bishop...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/europe-rome-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-08d7d402fc20b371436898534f728f2eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/europe-rome-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-08d7d402fc20b371436898534f728f2eClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there’s a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and that the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting COVID-19.Marco Cavaleri, head of health threats and...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/europe-rome-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-08d7d402fc20b371436898534f728f2eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/europe-rome-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-08d7d402fc20b371436898534f728f2eClick to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there’s a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and that the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting COVID-19.Marco Cavaleri, head of health threats and...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/world-news-pandemics-mario-draghi-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-a88a6c177d2713805cf86d2184c64290Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/world-news-pandemics-mario-draghi-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-a88a6c177d2713805cf86d2184c64290Click to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — Italy inaugurated a living monument to its COVID-19 dead Thursday as it marked the anniversary of one of the most haunting moments of the pandemic: when Bergamo’s death toll reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/world-news-pandemics-mario-draghi-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-a88a6c177d2713805cf86d2184c64290Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/world-news-pandemics-mario-draghi-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-a88a6c177d2713805cf86d2184c64290Click to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — Italy inaugurated a living monument to its COVID-19 dead Thursday as it marked the anniversary of one of the most haunting moments of the pandemic: when Bergamo’s death toll reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-cannot-bless-sin-077944750c975313ad253328e4cf7443Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-cannot-bless-sin-077944750c975313ad253328e4cf7443Click to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — The Vatican declared Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-cannot-bless-sin-077944750c975313ad253328e4cf7443Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/vatican-decree-same-sex-unions-cannot-bless-sin-077944750c975313ad253328e4cf7443Click to copyRelated topicsROME (AP) — The Vatican declared Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-international-news-police-10a84cc073faf4786f1c252e6bdf6a42Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-international-news-police-10a84cc073faf4786f1c252e6bdf6a42Click to copyRelated topicsVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest.Cardinals black and white have spoken out about Floyd’s death, and the Vatican’s communications juggernaut has shifted into overdrive to draw...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-international-news-police-10a84cc073faf4786f1c252e6bdf6a42Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-ap-top-news-international-news-police-10a84cc073faf4786f1c252e6bdf6a42Click to copyRelated topicsVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest.Cardinals black and white have spoken out about Floyd’s death, and the Vatican’s communications juggernaut has shifted into overdrive to draw...WW…