Shepherd One' as it has been dubbed by people in the US arrived on time at Andrews Air force Base Maryland shortly before 4 pm local time. Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Pietro Sambi, immediately boarded the Alitalia plane

Vatican Radio's Sean Patrick Lovett gauges the mood on the ground as Pope Benedict touches down in the USA: If you came expecting 21-gun salutes, fanfares and speeches - you would have been disappointed. The Pope's arrival at Andrew's Air

Yet another boring article defending academic freedom on the Catholic campus in anticipation of the Pope's visit, this time from Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity College in Washington. Methinks they protest too much. It seems to me in articles that

For the 16th consecutive year, Stress Awareness Month sponsored by The Health Resource Network seeks to inform people about the dangers of stress, successful coping strategies, and harmful misconceptions about stress that are prevalent in society.

Recently, a number of seniors at the prestigious Anglican Church Boys’ Grammar School in Brisbane, Australia, said they wanted to take their gay partners to their end-of-the-year dance, or prom, on June 19, according to The Australian. But school officials

Carter who helped broker Israel’s first peace treaty with Arab neighbor Egypt in 1979 was given the cold shoulder in Israel this week during his visit. No top Israeli policymaker met with Carter, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

On his first papal trip to the U.S., Benedict gave hundreds of spectators a two-handed wave as he stepped off a special Alitalia airliner that brought him from Rome. Students from a local Catholic school screamed ecstatically when the saw

A report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called for nations to press China to stop sending North Korean refugees back to their homeland. The commission was created in 1998 to monitor religious freedom around the world and

The municipality of Maastricht has pressurised unemployed people to follow reincarnation therapy. Uncooperative welfare recipients were told that their attitude could have consequences for their allowance, local newspaper De Limburger reported Friday.

Twenty-eight arms control advocacy and religious organizations called today for a key committee of the US Congress to stop the administration from building a new nuclear weapon. It came in a letter organized by the Quakers.

The report that by the High Council of the Press on media coverage of the 2007 Genocide commemoration week has a lot of flaws and hereby stands rejected, Vatican funded station Radio Maria has said.

The Pope is coming to visit the US this week, and trust world-wide suffers like never before in history. A 12-year old motivational newsletter has 2,300% improvement in subscribers by focusing on the critical issues of trust in the world

While in the United States, Pope Benedict will mark his 81 st Birthday on April 16th. Ahead of the celebration, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has sent greetings to the Pope. In the message, the Queen sends her warmest felicitations to

Pope Benedict XVI is bound for the United States of America on his 8th Apostolic voyage, dedicated to the theme Christ Our Hope. The Pope is due to touch down in Washington at 4pm local time. US President George W

In the Asian countries, rice is the staple food source, especially among the millions of people that live on the border of survival. The crisis that is strongly affecting the continent due to the sharp rise (up to 75% increase)

The two missionaries remembered by Pope Benedict XVI in the recitation of the Regina Caeli on Sunday, April13 are Fr. Brian Thorp, Mill Hill missionary of 77 years of age, whose lifeless corpse was found by a cleaning lady in

On Saturday April 12, 2008, in the Church of Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God of Luts'k, which has now become a cathedral, during a pontifical Divine Liturgy the enthronement (introduction on the see) of the Rev. Bishop

Lviv — Myrna Nazzur - a Christian mystic of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Damask (Syria) - participated in a conference entitled "The Path of Contemplation", held by the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU)

Thomas Peters let me know that my picture above was displayed while they were interviewing him on the Today Show. You can see the video here . Points for thomas using the word "papist" on national TV. Though I must

The former Christian Dalits from the town of Tirunelveli were reconverted by the Hindu Monks Tamil Nadu Council, according to The Times of India. The process of formally returning to Hinduism involved an atonement ritual followed by a purification rite.