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News/International

Answers in Genesis President and Co-Founder Ken Ham speaks during a press conference, ringed by supporters, before a ribbon cutting event at the foot of the full-scale Noah's Ark replica at the Ark Encounter on July 5, 2016, in Williamstown, Ky.

A flood of guests expected as Noah’s Ark theme park opens in Kentucky

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. – Ken Ham sees a parallel between the time of Noah in the biblical book of Genesis and today’s growing secularization of American culture.

A worker from the Piacenti restoration center works on a mosaic in the Church of the Nativity July 5 in Bethlehem, West Bank. Restoration specialists from the center completed their work in June.

Italians finish restoring mosaics in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank – An Italian team has completed restoration of Crusader-era mosaics in the Church of the Nativity, but the mosaics will only be unveiled publicly after work on lighting, electricity and the fire alarm system is also finished.

A young boy from the Mexican state of Guerrero eats dinner with his family at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tijuana. The family is part of a growing wave of people from several states in southern Mexico who have fled violence and who hope to seek asylum in the U.S. Since late May, more than a thousand migrants from around the world have have shown up in Tijuana.

Tijuana shelters that house deportees find themselves housing refugees

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TIJUANA, Mexico – The border city of Tijuana is filled with dreams and nightmares, happy endings and tragic beginnings, broken families and shattered promises. Mostly, though, it is filled with waiting. People waiting to leave for the United States, people waiting to return to their families, people waiting for their families to return to them.

Community members attend a July 7 vigil in memory of Alton Sterling, who was shot dead by police outside a market in Baton Rouge, La. Sterling, 37, was killed early July 5 in a shooting that was captured on cellphone video.

Baton Rouge bishop urges community not to give in to anger, fear

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BATON ROUGE, La. – Bishop Robert W. Muench of Baton Rouge is urging the local community to be "ministers of healing to a hurting world" while protests are taking place about the police shooting of a black man outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge July 5.

The lower house of the Irish Parliament, the Dáil Éireann, rejected a legislation that would permit abortion in cases described as "fatal fetal abnormality."

Irish parliament rejects amendment that would have liberalized abortion

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DUBLIN – The Irish parliament has defeated legislation that would have allowed abortion of fetuses diagnosed with life-limiting conditions.

A photo of St. Peter's Basilican in Rome, Italy in 2011. The Venezuelan economic crisis has forced the country's bishops to close the its college for priests in Rome.

Venezuelan College in Rome to close due to country's economic crisis

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ROME – The Venezuelan bishops' conference will close its college for priests in Rome at least for the 2016-2017 academic year because of the economic difficulties facing the country, the seminary rector said.

A relative weeps after seeing the coffin of a victim July 4 who was killed in an attack at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Militants killed at least 21 hostages and two police officers late July 1 and early July 2 before authorities raided the restaurant and ended the standoff.

Bangladesh restaurant shooters prayed, ate and awaited their fate as martyrs

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Before being shot by security forces, the Islamist militants who attacked a café in Dhaka said they would happily become “martyrs” because they had successfully completed their jihadi mission and were bound for heaven, eyewitnesses said.

Refugee children play on the grounds of a Jesuit Refugee Service community centre in Ethiopia

Worldwide refugee numbers pass 65 million

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TORONTO – It’s only a number, but 65.3 million for Martin Mark is a heart-breaking number.

An undated photo of an opposition rally protesting against the Venezuelan government. Four high school-aged seminarians were attacked by pro-government thugs at a political protest July 1.

Attack on minor seminarians sparks outrage in Venezuela

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MEXICO CITY – An attack on four high school-age seminarians by pro-government thugs has sparked outrage in Venezuela and underscored the tense political situation and social unrest in the South American country.

ope Francis talks with Nick and Jodi Solomon, parents of U.S. student Beau Solomon, during a private meeting at the Vatican July 6. Solomon, a native of Spring Green, Wis., was found dead in the Tiber River in Rome July 4. A homeless man was detained as a suspect in the death.

Pope Francis prays with parents of U.S. student killed in Rome

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has met the parents of an American teenager who died in suspicious circumstances just after he arrived to start a foreign study program.

Riot police detain residents after a July 4 protest by taxi drivers turned violent in Harare, Zimbabwe. Violent protests in Zimbabwe reflect people's frustrations in extremely difficult times, a church official said.

For most Zimbabweans, 'life is unbearable now,' priest says

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Violent protests in Zimbabwe reflect people's frustrations in extremely difficult times, a church official said.

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