GHENT, Belgium (AP) — An American teenager wounded in the Brussels Airport attack is lucky to be alive. And he knows it.
Mason Wells, his face covered in bandages, was in a hospital in the Belgian city of Ghent on Friday, where he told The Associated Press about surviving his second terror attack. Three years ago, the 19-year-old from Sandy, Utah, was just a block away from the pressure-cooker bomb that exploded while he was watching his mother run the Boston Marathon.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis made an emotional appeal for global peace during his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) Easter blessing, urging people to remember victims of the "blind and brutal violence" in recent terrorist attacks, such as last week's Brussels bombings that killed dozens of people.
Throughout, he emphasized a key theme of his pontificate: mercy.
