Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in south Texas as a category 4 hurricane could be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history with a potential price tag of $160 billion, according to preliminary estimates. This equals the cost of Hurricanes…

KTF News – U S Congress Targeting Johnson AmendmentWatch this video on YouTube Transcript of this video Source References Trump promised to destroy the Johnson Amendment. Congress is targeting it now.

“So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged ‘good’ can justify it – there can be no peace…

In an audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican, the World Council of Churches Central Committee moderator, Dr. Agnes Abuom, and WCC General Secretary, Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, discussed how Christian unity is vital in bringing a true sense…

KTF News – China’s Cashless Mobile Payment TrendWatch this video on YouTube Transcript of this video Source References In China, A Cashless Trend Is Taking Hold With Mobile Payments

“There is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.” Alexander Hamilton, (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury
Source: Federalist No. 81, 1788.
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A record number of Australians enrolled to vote ahead of the upcoming postal survey on same-sex marriage. Electoral Commission figures show that 90,000 mostly young voters (2/3) joined the role since August 8, when the survey was announced. Same-sex marriage…

“We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of…

Twitter has reportedly denied the request of a pastor to use the social media network to advertise his new book, which promotes a traditional view of marriage. Pastor Craig Stellpflug paid for Twitter ads to promote his recently-published book titled One…

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.” Gore Vidal, (1925- )novelist, essayist, playwright,…

A delegation from COMECE, the European Conference of Catholic Bishops, met in Tallin, August 18 with the Estonian Prime Minister, Jüri Ratas, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Adres Anvelt, in order to discuss common concerns as well as the…

KTF News – Ontario passes ‘totalitarian’ bill allowing Government to take Children from ChrisWatch this video on YouTube Transcript of this video Source References Five children seized by Norwegian gov’t to be adopted out, as protests grow