“Many Americans were shocked… when Attorney General Jeff Sessions turned to the Bible — specifically, Paul’s epistle to the Romans — to justify President Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents. This scriptural justification for a political decision…

“Border control tech players Vision-Box will deliver part of a radical Immigration Department overhaul for Australia’s airports that will do away with passport scans for travellers. The government has awarded the company a three-year, $22.5 million contract to install upgraded…

Australia’s Centrelink, its welfare benefits system, will use facial recognition technology for recipients to access its websites and benefits. The government claims it will use the system to crack down on benefits fraud. This means anyone collecting benefits, such as…

On June 25 Pope Francis received in audience in the Vatican the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Later, the Governor-General met Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin accompanied by the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States…

Lack of unity among Christians is not only ‘openly contrary to the will of Christ,’ but is also ‘a scandal to the world and harms the most holy of causes: the preaching of the Gospel to every creature,’ said Pope…

At a time when biometric technologies are being developed more rapidly than government laws designed to guide its use, police forces in Great Britain are using the technology without legal guidance. This is stirring fears that the use of automated…

“The Archdiocese of New York announced Wednesday that an investigation it conducted into an allegation of sexual abuse against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who oversaw multiple U.S. dioceses, has found the accusation to be ‘credible and substantiated.’ “In the June 20…

This is really an editorial rather than an article summary. There are so many articles about Justice Kennedy’s retirement that it is hard to choose one or two that would lend itself to reflect on its significance from a prophetic…

Just because the U.S. President showed religious animus toward a religious minority, he still has broad authority to impose travel restrictions the Supreme Court ruled in its recent travel ban decision. The 5-4 decision overturned several lower courts to rule…

“In a bid to become more gender inclusive, several universities in Australia are ditching ‘gender-specific’ words they claim could be perceived as discriminatory, such as ‘housewife’ and “mankind.’ Students who continue to use the blacklisted words could be penalized with…

The prevailing theme of the Road to Majority conference this year was the “aggressive takeover of the court system” of the United States by conservatives. “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was perhaps the most enthusiastic, and certainly the most self-satisfied,…

In a session that lasted more the 20 hours, Argentina’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would legalize abortion in the first trimester by a vote of 129 to 125 with one abstention. Current law only allows abortion in…