When Cyprus went bankrupt, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund required the nation to forcefully confiscate part of the deposits of unsecured depositor’s money. Bank accounts over €100,000 were raided to help pay for the national rescue. The…

Delaware has become the 11th state to legalize same-sex marriage. The new law will take effect July 1, 2013. Delaware has an existing civil unions law. All civil unions will be converted to marriages over the next year. The new…

Hungary has a political movement called Jobbik, which styles itself as fighting crime, particularly “Gipsy crime.” It is the third largest political party in Hungary and has 47 seats in the 386 member parliament. Jobbik has taken over the town…

The Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, John J. Myers, is being criticized for mishandling a priest who “attended youth retreats and heard confessions of minors in defiance of a court-ordered lifetime ban on ministry to children.” Parishioners at St. Mary’s…

For the first time, a Roman Catholic Church official has been convicted in the United States of covering up sex-abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests. Monsignor William Lynn, 61, the former secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was…

Scientists in the UK say research suggests that exposing skin to the sun may have benefits that outweigh the risk of skin cancer, such as lowering blood pressure. Researchers at Edinburgh University say that UV rays release a compound, nitric…

Enrico Letta, 46 is Italy’s new premier (prime minister) after a bitter political stalemate in recent months. Tasked by the President, Giorgio Napolitano, 87, with forming a coalition out of bitter rivals, Letta is viewed as a bridge-builder between political…

Canada is pushing forward with its “MintChip” program to replace cash transactions with digital transactions. The new technology is aiming at small transactions under $10, especially coins, which is where most cash transactions take place. Canada is the only nation…

There are a number of ways that governments confiscate their citizen’s assets in order to pay their debts, some are obvious and some more subtle. For instance, one obvious way governments can do this is to increase taxes, which is…

There is a sea change going on in global currency exchange. Nations are disconnecting their currencies from the U.S. dollar. The move away from reliance on the dollar is key to changing the global reserve currency, which global elites, including…

The huge multinational German-owned financial services company Allianz gave Father Federico Lombardi SJ, director of the Holy See Press Office, a special award recently. The Communicator of the Year award is given by the global financial empire in an effort…

Pope Francis met with Israeli President Shimon Peres who warned him that “the Middle East is ‘disintegrating’ and that the pontiff ‘has an important role’ to play in bringing peace to the region and the world.” Peres told the Pope…