The White House expects about 40,000 participants at its “egg-ucation”-themed annual Easter egg roll
AP Some 40,000 people are expected to participate in Monday’s “EGG-ucation”-themed White House Easter Egg Roll, about 10,000 more than last year. Jill Biden, a teacher for more than 30 years, is transforming an annual tradition first held in 1878 into an “EGG-ucational” experience. Various stations on the South Lawn and Ellipse will help children learn about […]
Updated: King Charles III and royals greet well-wishers ahead of coronation
Updated: 8:15am, 6th May, 2023 (AEST)London, UKReuters King Charles III greeted excited crowds gathering for his coronation before hosting a reception for world leaders at Buckingham Palace on Friday ahead of what will be the biggest ceremonial event in Britain for 70 years. Charles, 74, and his wife Camilla will be crowned at London’s Westminster […]
Sixty feared dead in bombing of Ukraine school; G7 condemns Putin; Bono gives ‘freedom’ concert in Kyiv
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb struck a village school in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said on Sunday while Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined south-eastern port of Mariupol. Luhansk region Governor Serhiy Gaidai said the […]
Biden receives Communion in Rome amid ongoing debate in US
Rome, ItalyAP US President Joe Biden received Communion at St Patrick’s Church during Saturday Vigil Mass, a day after saying Pope Francis told him he should continue to partake in the sacrament, despite the opposition of some conservatives in the US upset with his position on abortion. Biden and his wife, Jill, visited the English-speaking church […]
Biden: Pope told me that I should “keep receiving Communion”
Rome, ItalyAP Face-to-face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told him he was a “good Catholic” and should keep receiving Communion, although conservatives have called for him to be denied the sacrament because of his support for abortion […]
Biden, Pope to talk virus, climate, poverty at Vatican
Rome, ItalyAP President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican Friday to meet with Pope Francis, the world’s two most notable Roman Catholics huddling to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The President takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. Biden […]
Lifestory: Jill Biden says South Carolina “prayer partner” helped change her life
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, of Associated Press, reports on how a visit to a South Carolina church in 2019 changed the US First Lady’s life…