CBS News, by Kerry Breen: Hurricane Melissa’s wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event.  The data was collected when a NOAA Hurricane…

National Catholic Register, by American college campuses are cloaked in the annual splendor of fall colors, and students are buckling down in a new semester. Amid the many diversions of campus life, Catholic chaplains say unexpectedly large numbers of students…

FOX Weather, by Julian Atienza: Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano erupted Wednesday afternoon around 4:00 p.m. local time, sending ash more than 6,500 feet into the air, according to data from the country’s Center for Volcanology. The eruption was ongoing as…

CBC News, by Margaret Evans: The sense of relief sweeping across the Middle East and beyond over the news that a ceasefire in Gaza is finally within sight is palpable. But negotiators have repeatedly stressed that the deal, reached in…

National Catholic Register, by Clara Raimundo: Think of the largest and most iconic sculptures on the planet. Do the Statue of Liberty in New York or Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro come to mind? Now, an even taller…

The Washington Stand, by Joshua Arnold: In a case with long-term ramifications for the United States, Maltese Christian Matthew Grech has been charged with violating the Mediterranean country’s so-called “conversion therapy” ban for simply sharing his personal testimony of Christian…

AP News: The U.N.’s top human rights body held a one-day special session Friday to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities blamed on paramilitary forces fighting the army in the northeast African…

The Christian Post, by Leonardo Blair: With Millennials and Generation Z leading the way, particularly among men, Bible reading among U.S. adults in 2025 is at its highest level in the last 15 years, according to new data from the “State…

USA Today, by Francesca Chambers: JD Vance lowered himself to kneel on a crimson cushion. Head bowed and eyes closed, he raised his right hand to his forehead, chest and left shoulder, before placing his palm on the red-hued slab…

AP News, by Jim Gomez: Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed ashore on Sunday in the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate…

Christian Daily, by Morning Star News: When a Hindu extremist mob assaulted Christian men, women and children during a church service in India in late September, police jailed the pastor and charged him and four other Christians, sources said. In Rajasthan…

The Christian Post, by Anugrah Kumar: Academics punished for controversial speech in the United States reported little to no public support from their colleagues or faculty unions, a new survey shows, highlighting a climate of fear and silence on college campuses…