The Sydney Morning Herald, by Lisa Visentin: The right of church schools to expel LGBTIQ students will be scrapped as part of the government’s push to legislate religious freedom laws, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison tries to lock in the…

RT, by Layla Guest: Hopes that rock-bottom relations between Moscow and Washington can be turned around are unlikely at present, a top Russian politician has claimed, arguing that only when a new world order is established will there be less…

AP News, by Débora Álvares: Landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least 19 people in Brazil’s most populous state Sunday while high waters forced some 500,000 families from their homes over the weekend, authorities said. Three people…

The Guardian: The US is “closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe”, a member of a key CIA advisory panel has said. The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University…

The Epoch Times, by Rob Natelson: Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics or Jews—groups that have historically been victimized by religious discrimination. Yet the court’s emerging leader in defending religious freedom is its only mainline Protestant. Some…

The Gospel Coalition, by Paul Carter: On January 7th, 2022 Bill C-4 will become the law of the land in Canada. Christian pastors, parents, counsellors and mentors may all be affected. Canadian Christians need to understand this law and they…

BBC News: France has passed a new law criminalising the use of so-called “conversion therapy” to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people. The measure was passed unanimously by the National Assembly, 142 votes to…

My Cluub: The US food system has been revived by expanding the Omicron variant workforce of Covid-19 from processing plants to grocery stores, leaving gaps on supermarket shelves. In Arizona, 10 processing plant and distribution workers at a major manufacturing…

Fox News, by Jon Brown: The United States has heightened the readiness of some 8,500 U.S. troops amid tensions between Russia and NATO over a potential invasion of Ukraine, but no decisions have been made yet to deploy them. “Secretary…

The Weather Channel, by Sean Breslin: At least two people were killed and homes were damaged after a pair of earthquakes struck Haiti Monday morning. The tremors struck the southern Peninsula of the country. The main quake struck at 8:16…

United Nations News: In total, about 84,000 people, more than 80 per cent of the population of the South Pacific Kingdom, have been affected by the disaster. Besides the three fatalities reported earlier in the week, no further deaths have…

CNS News, by Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo: Earlier in January, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” of employees who had religious objections to the federal employee vaccine mandate….