Though liberal leaning and, at times, a little offbeat with its questions, the Public Policy Polling (PPP) organization is considered to be a very accurate polling company. Recently PPP polled Republicans and found that 57 per cent of them want…

More earthquakes struck Nepal on Tuesday May 12, one, a 7.3 magnitude was followed by another of 6.3 magnitude 30 minutes later. The deadly quakes, which killed at least 65 and injured nearly 2000 hit, just as search and rescue…

President Obama wants American Christians to “act a lot more like Pope Francis,” and that fighting poverty should be their emphasis. President Obama was speaking at Georgetown University, the oldest Jesuit University in America, at the ecumenical Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit…

Republican contenders for the U.S. Presidency tried to out-do each other on Saturday, May 9, 2015 in arguing that President Obama is a failed leader. While the critiques are no surprise, what does surprise some is that Ben Carson, a…

Cuban President Raul Castro visited Pope Francis on Sunday, May 10, 2015 and said that if Pope Francis keeps going the way he is, he will return to praying and to the church. They met for an hour, which is…

The end-time is on the mind of Michele Bachmann. In a radio interview she said, “We need to realize how close this clock is getting to the midnight hour.” Bachmann is a former Minnesota Republican congresswoman. “We in our lifetimes…

Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York recently conferred a papal knighthood on Rabbi Arthur Schneier for “good works” he has done to “promote religious freedom and international peace.” Schneier, 85, is the senior rabbi of the Park East…

For the second time in less than a year, Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations met with Pope Francis on Thursday, April 30. This is the first time they have discussed climate change as the main…

In a stunning reversal from a decade ago, some of the largest religious groups in the United States are worried that their opposition to same-sex marriage will make them outcasts in American society. Ten years ago same-sex couples said they…

Pope Francis will make an Apostolic visit to South American countries Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay in July. The pope had confirmed a visit to Latin America in January. “The three Latin American countries that are foreseen for this year are:…

The streets of Baltimore erupted in violence Monday night, April 27, just hours after Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, was buried. City and state police were surprised by the violence and lost control as stores were pillaged and…

More than 4,000 people have been killed and many thousands injured in a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal on Saturday, April 25. Rescuers desperately searched for survivors buried in the rubble as the death toll soared. The entire army…