IMMIGRANTS PROTEST IN MEXICO CITY
CITY» Central MEXICO
American immigrants traveling through Mexico in a caravan that drew the attention of President Donald Trump protested in front of the U.S. Embassy on Saturday in Mexico City.
Mexico’s capital was the final planned stop of the migrant caravan that left from the Mexico-guatemala border late last month to draw attention to policies toward immigrants and refugees.
Caravan organizer Irineo Mujica said at Mexico City’s Angel of Independence monument that what remains of the caravan would visit the basilica of Mexico’s patron saint later Saturday and seek meetings with representatives of the United Nations and Organization of American States.
Mexican immigration officials visited the migrant’s camp in Matias Romero over several days processing documents for those who wanted to seek residency in Mexico, apply for special humanitarian visas or simply cross Mexico and request asylum at the U.S. border.
Bollywood star free on bail. DELHI» A court
NEW on Saturday granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who will be allowed to remain free while he appeals his conviction on charges of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago.
Khan was convicted on Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison, and was immediately sent to jail. On Saturday, Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi ordered him to sign a surety bond of 50,000 rupees ($770) before he could be set free from the jail in Jodhpur, a town in western India.
After he was released, he was driven straight to the airport to fly to his home in Mumbai, India’s entertainment capital.
Khan’s overjoyed fans danced outside the courtroom and chanted “We love you, Salman.”
Vatican recalls diplomat in porn case.
VATICAN
The Vatican on Saturday arrested a diplomat recalled from Washington last year amid investigations in the United States, Canada and the Vatican for possession of child pornography.
A Vatican statement said that Monsignor Carlo Capella was being held in gendarmerie barracks inside the Vatican, and that his arrest follows a Vatican investigation.
Police in Windsor, Ontario, said Capella allegedly uploaded child porn from a social networking site while visiting a place of worship from over the 2016 Christmas holiday.
Fire ceremony celebrates resurrection. Thousands of Christians gathered in Jerusalem for an ancient fire ceremony that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
In a ritual dating back at least 1,200 years, they crowded Saturday into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christian tradition holds that Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.
During the annual ceremony, top Eastern Orthodox clerics enter the Edicule, the small chamber marking the site of Jesus’ tomb.
They then emerge to reveal candles said to be miraculously lit with “holy fire” as a message to the faithful from heaven.
Orthodox Christians will celebrate Easter on Sunday.