DERRY — Fish was frying and fellowship was full.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
CAIRO — Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege on Friday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes struck Rafah, the last refuge for Palestinians in the enclave, officials said.
Monday, February 12, 2024
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said on Monday the United States is pushing for a six-week pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a stepping stone toward a longer cease-fire.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Two off-duty law enforcement officers in Houston took down a woman who opened fire on Sunday at Lakewood Church, one of the largest evangelical churches in the U.S. led by televangelist Joel Osteen, police said.
Friday, February 09, 2024
DOHA/JERUSALEM — Israeli forces geared up on Friday for a ground assault on Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence further north are trapped in desperate conditions.
Thursday, February 01, 2024
JERUSALEM/DOHA — Israel prepared to advance its war on Gaza farther south, close to the Egyptian border, after claiming to have dismantled Hamas in Khan Younis, as diplomatic efforts in pursuit of a cease-fire accelerated.
Monday, January 29, 2024
WEST BANK/GAZA/DOHA — Hamas said on Tuesday it had received and was studying a new proposal for a cease-fire and release of hostages in Gaza, presented by mediators after talks with Israel, in what appeared to be the most serious peace initiative for months.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican, which over the centuries has codified all aspects of faith, morals, doctrine and dissent, on Wednesday announced a new entry - the rights and responsibilities of a whistleblower.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, renewing a call for its worldwide regulation to harness it for the common good.
Monday, January 22, 2024
GAZA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON — Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners during a proposed monthlong ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reported on Tuesday, as the White House said its envoy was having active discussions on the issu…
Sunday, January 21, 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages that would include Israel’s complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Missile attacks in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Saturday threw into sharp focus the increasing risk of the war in Gaza triggering a wider regional conflict pitting Iran and its allies against Israel and the United States.
Friday, January 12, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis was unable to complete a speech on Friday, complaining of "a touch of bronchitis" during an address to a group of French religious communications experts at the Vatican.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is concerned that international attention is shifting away from the nearly two-year-old Russian war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian eastern-rite Catholic Church said on Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
TEL AVIV — Israel must make “hard choices” if it wants to normalize relations with more of its neighbors and should support Palestinian leaders who are willing to live side-by-side with Israelis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday in Tel Aviv.
Monday, January 08, 2024
ROME — Pope Francis called Monday for a global ban on surrogate motherhood, equating it with child trafficking in a meeting with ambassadors to the Vatican and adding fuel to efforts in Italy to pass the West’s most restrictive law on a practice used by unfertile and same-sex couples to beco…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called on Monday for a global ban on parenting via surrogacy, calling the practice "deplorable" and a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child.
Sunday, January 07, 2024
ABU DHABI, GAZA, JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday before heading on to Israel after warning that the Gaza war could spread across the region without concerted peace efforts, while Israel vowed to continu…
Monday, January 01, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Monday denounced violence against women, speaking as Italy is in the midst of national soul-searching about how to shed an entrenched culture of male chauvinism that often has led to femicide.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
A small South Carolina church is being sued by a photographer who accuses the church of using his photo without permission.
Monday, December 25, 2023
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said in his Christmas message on Monday that children dying in wars, including in Gaza, are the "little Jesuses of today" and that Israeli strikes there were reaping an "appalling harvest" of innocent civilians.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM — The leader of Hamas visited Egypt for this first time in more than a month on Wednesday, a rare personal intervention in diplomacy amid what a source described as intensive talks on a new cease-fire to let aid reach Gaza and free more hostages.
Monday, December 18, 2023
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said on Monday in a landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis that Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church rituals or liturgies.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has called for a legally binding international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence, saying algorithms must not be allowed to replace human values and warning of a "technological dictatorship" threatening human existence.
Monday, December 11, 2023
William Eldor, 4, of Exeter, along with other children, was having a blast playing with a dreidel mascot at the Family Menorah Lighting held by Chabad of New Hampshire and PJ Library on the plaza in front of the New Hampshire State House on Thursday evening during the first night of Chanukah.
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
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NASHUA — Two days after Nashua Baptist Church fired him based on “credible allegations” of child sexual abuse, Jarrett Booker took his own life, “refusing to face the consequences of his actions,” according to a statement by church elders and deacons.
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
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Manchester Bishop Peter Libasci has until Friday to respond to sexual assault allegations as part of settlement negotiations with the plaintiff in a lawsuit against him, a judge ordered last week.
Saturday, December 02, 2023
GAZA/CAIRO — The Israeli military said its ground forces were active across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces bombed swathes of the besieged enclave on Sunday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, as civilians sought shelter in a shrinking area of the south.
PARIS — A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called “a terrorist attack.”
HAVERFORD, Pa. -- In high school in Ramallah, they were a trio who loved playing chess and having sleepovers, united in their ambition to go to college in the United States.
Friday, December 01, 2023
GAZA — Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
As bombs fell and tanks penetrated deep into Gaza in late October, Israeli President Isaac Herzog held a fraught phone call with Pope Francis. The Israeli head of state was describing his nation's horror over the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 when the pope issued a blunt rejoinder.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
GAZA/TEL AVIV — Hamas on Thursday released eight Israeli hostages in Gaza under a last-minute extension of a truce deal and Israel freed 30 Palestinian prisoners as negotiators sought to renew the pause in fighting again.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, suffering from a "lung inflammation," appeared seated in the chapel of his residence instead of in St. Peter's Square while an aide read the pontiff's Sunday message.
Friday, November 24, 2023
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JERUSALEM — The guns and fighter jets that pummeled the Gaza Strip for the past seven weeks fell silent on Friday, the first day of a negotiated four-day pause in combat that allowed the release of a first group of Israeli hostages for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, enabled truckloads…
NANTUCKET, Mass. — President Biden on Friday afternoon arrived at a seaside hotel here, with a welcome bit of good news to discuss: Weeks of complex diplomacy, with hard-edged criticism coming from all sides, had finally won the release of hostages half a world away in Gaza.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday met separately with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become "terrorism."
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
GAZA/TEL AVIV -- Israel's government voted on Wednesday to back a deal for Palestinian Hamas militants to free 50 women and children held as hostages in Gaza in exchange for a four-day pause in fighting, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Friday, November 17, 2023
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will meet next week with relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza, a source said on Friday.
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Saturday, January 27, 2024
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican, which over the centuries has codified all aspects of faith, morals, doctrine and dissent, on Wednesday announced a new entry - the rights and responsibilities of a whistleblower.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence, renewing a call for its worldwide regulation to harness it for the common good.
Monday, January 22, 2024
GAZA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON — Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners during a proposed monthlong ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reported on Tuesday, as the White House said its envoy was having active discussions on the issu…
Sunday, January 21, 2024
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages that would include Israel’s complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Missile attacks in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Saturday threw into sharp focus the increasing risk of the war in Gaza triggering a wider regional conflict pitting Iran and its allies against Israel and the United States.
Friday, January 12, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis was unable to complete a speech on Friday, complaining of "a touch of bronchitis" during an address to a group of French religious communications experts at the Vatican.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is concerned that international attention is shifting away from the nearly two-year-old Russian war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian eastern-rite Catholic Church said on Wednesday.