News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 month ago
Days before the outcome of Afghanistans contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission acknowledged Sunday that widespread electoral fraud had occurred. But Kai Eide contested allegations by...
News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI, along with four other Catholics he hailed as heroes of holiness...Peter's Basilica was Hawaii resident Audrey Toguchi, an 80-year-old retired school teacher whose recovery from lung cancer a decade ago stunned her doctor...
News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict created five saints today including Belgian priest Damien who worked and died among Hawaiian lepers, earning the admiration of President Barack Obama who sent a message praising Damien’s canonisation. The US President was born in...
News Source: Star-Bulletin
| about 1 month ago
Damien De Veuster, the Belgian priest who sacrificed his life ministering to the forsaken leprosy victims at Kalaupapa in the 19th Century, was added to the litany of Roman Catholic saints today in a solemn Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI in St...The...
News Source: The Times of India-Europe-World
| about 1 month ago
Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on Sunday, including a 19th century priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island, praising them as models of perfection for sacrificing themselves for others...Peter's Basilica was...
News Source: Typically Spanish
| about 1 month ago
They are the first Spaniards to be elevated to sainthood since the pontiff was elected Pope Benedict XVI has, this Sunday, named five new saints of the Catholic Church, including the first two Spaniards of his pontificate to be elevated to sainthood.