“Fireworks exploded over Paris, lighting up the Eiffel Tower. French citizens were celebrating the two-hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of Bastille Day,” wrote Eric Metaxas, a popular conservative author, speaker and radio host, “a holiday recalling the storming of the Bastille…

Gale force winds fanned wildfires raging through tourist towns near the Greek capital Athens, killing more than 81 people and injuring nearly 190, [some seriously] in the country’s deadliest fire season in decades. Twenty-six bodies of families with small children,…

“Why, oh why, did the Founding Fathers want to separate church and state? It was originally intended that institutions of church (i.e., organized religions) and state be separated, while at the same time it was their intention to include God…

“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have a “central role” in promoting religious liberty. “Pompeo was speaking to Vatican News when he said, “we think the Catholic Church can play an important role in the…

“Governments and central banks have moved swiftly in dozens of countries to start eliminating cash. Some key examples of this are Australia, Singapore, Venezuela, the U.S., and the European Central Bank have all eliminated (or have proposed to eliminate) high…

“The confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court represents a huge political victory for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who gambled on blocking the nomination of Merrick Garland in the hopes of a [Republican] electoral victory” in which…

“President Donald Trump announced [that] he is nominating Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement June 27. “In a brief speech after the announcement, Kavanaugh spoke about the…

“The Episcopal Church’s General Convention passed a resolution… that expanded the right for gay couples to marry in all dioceses even where local bishops theologically object to same-sex marriage. At its triennial convention in Austin, Texas, the Episcopal Church’s House…

“Canada’s highest court has ruled that an evangelical Christian law school can be denied accreditation due to the academic institution’s opposition to homosexuality. The Supreme Court of Canada issued two 7–2 rulings… concluding that the law societies of British Columbia…

“The Archbishop of Adelaide was sentenced… to a 12-month [detention] after being convicted in May of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse disclosed to him in the 1970s. The archbishop is likely to serve his sentence under house…

“Nigerian Christians were have been displaced by the thousands due to mass slaughter in the villages surrounding Jos in Plateau state are in a “living hell” and agony, a watchdog group assisting the victims said. “‘The displaced Christians were in…

“At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan, says the government. It is the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in more than three decades. Rescuers are…