Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of Jubilee at St. Peter’s Basilica on December 8 after holding a Mass, and called the faithful to pass through the door in order to rediscover God’s mercy. The pope had declared an Extraordinary…

“When a Supreme Court justice compares his own lawless rulings to the draconian oppression of the Nazis – and says that Christians should resign from public office if they will not surrender to his imperious decrees – that really says…

Twenty-eight-year-old Syed Farook and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik amassed a cache of weapons and ammunition and explosive devices in their Redlands, CA home as they prepared for the deadly assault. Both were Muslims that had been radicalized in Saudi Arabia. Malik…

“Government officials who disagree with him and his four other colleagues regarding their newly invented and groundless marriage opinion ought to resign.” Liberty Council prepared statement referring to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s comparison of the supreme court decisions to…

The European Union and Vietnam signed a free trade agreement after two years of intense negotiations, which will remove virtually all tariffs between them. “The EU and Vietnam can do great things together,” said EU Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker. Trade…

The heaviest rains in over a century caused massive flooding across the state of Tamil Nadu, in the Indian sub-continent, with more rain to come. More than a million people have been affected. Many thousands are homeless. Auto factories have…

Pope Francis visited three nations in Africa in late November, Kenya, Uganda and the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR). He had been invited by the heads of state and the local bishops in each of the three countries. In Kenya,…

“How many judges do you think resigned in the Third Reich?” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy answering a town hall questioner comparing U.S. Supreme Court decisions to the Nazi regime under Hitler. Source Reference Justice Anthony Kennedy likens US…

“And so, today, we commit ourselves to new Sustainable Development Goals, including our goal of ending extreme poverty in our world,” said U.S. President Obama to the United Nations Summit on Agenda 2030, a globalization of governance in the name…

Tufts University researchers in Massachusetts have found that walking longer or faster can have heart health benefits for seniors, even for those over the age of 75. The researchers looked at more than 3,900 men and women over a 10-year…

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, German media have started talking of a new world war. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily wrote that the West is in “a third world war.” Tagesspiegel said “the West – in fact, the entire…

Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane Tuesday, 24 November, precipitating a long-feared crisis in Syria’s civil war. A Turkish military statement said the plane entered Turkish airspace over the town of Yayladagi, in Hatay province. This is the first…