Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the Vatican Saturday before inaugurating his country’s new embassy to the Holy See. He met with Pope Francis to discuss peace efforts in the Middle East. The Vatican and the Palestinians have relations characterized as…

Thirty-thousand people, many of them carrying rainbow flags, gathered outside the Legislative Yuan building in Taipei on December 26 to cheer the passage of two same-sex marriage bills through legislative committee. If Taiwan passes these bills, it will be the…

George Barna, the Christian pollster, says that optimism among Conservatives (mostly Christians) in America is limited in spite of potential four to eight years of good news on the political horizon. Barna says that their SAGE Cons poll of 15…

Calvary Baptist Church in Northwest Washington DC, the U.S. capitol has hired a married lesbian couple as co-pastors. Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen were presented to the congregation and approved on January 8, 2017 during morning worship. “We have found…

A momentous development in digital currency was announced in a low-key way at the Payments Panorama conference in Calgary. In a closed-to-media event, the Canadian Payments Association and the Royal Bank of Canada said they have been experimenting with a…

In yet another case of disgusting sexual predation, an Italian priest from northern Italy has been accused of pimping out some 15 women, as well as organizing and filming orgies in his rectory. Forty-eight year-old so-called Father Andrea Contin, parish…

New Zealand experienced 32,828 earthquakes in 2016. That is a record. There were also 80,000 landslides, two tsunamis and a volcanic eruption. It was literally a “groundbreaker.” In 2011, the biggest prior year, there were 29,000 quakes. “You’d be hard…

Using the term “multi-lateralism” Antonia Guterres, the new Secretary-General of the UN called for more globalization in a speech to UN staff on his first day in office as Secretary General. He called for more global solutions to address very…

Franklin Graham, son of Baptist evangelist Billy Graham and President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says that it was the “hand of God,” rather than Russian hackers, that determined the outcome of November’s presidential election. “I think…

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2017 child prostitution will no longer be treated as a crime in California. Those children caught up in sex trafficking will be treated as victims instead. Police officers in the state will be forbidden to arrest…

Fortune and Time editors gathered with select Fortune 500 and Time 100 business leaders, scholars, NGOs, non-profits church leaders and philanthropists at the Vatican on December 2 and 3 2016 to discuss ending poverty. They discussed technology and jobs, global…

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have begun to work together to remove extremist content on all their platforms through an information sharing initiative. They are creating a proactive shared database using unique digital fingerprints known as “hashes” for images and…