UK Independent: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, saying the religious figure would be “ardently welcomed.” The gesture from the North is a bid to highlight peace efforts being made on the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korea’s…

By Pr. Hal Mayer I rarely write my own articles. I point to those written by others to show that prophecy is being fulfilled in our time. But today, I decided to write my own. The political fight over the…

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, personally apologized Tuesday for “failure and pain” following an extensive report that German clergy had abused thousands of children between 1946 and 2014. “For too long in…

The Rutherford Institute: …We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document. The reality we must come to terms with, however, is that in the America we live in today,…

USA TODAY: A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same island in Indonesia where an earthquake and tsunami last week killed at least 1,400 people. The eruption of Mount Soputan on Sulawesi island in central Indonesia prompted authorities to warn of…

ABC.AU: What may sound like a dystopian vision of the future is already happening in China. And it’s making and breaking lives. The Communist Party calls it “social credit” and says it will be fully operational by 2020. Within years,…

Reuters: The United States believes Russia is developing a ground-launched system in breach of a Cold War treaty that could allow Russia to launch a nuclear strike on Europe at short notice, but Moscow has consistently denied any such violation….

Daily Mail Australia: The death toll from [two] earthquakes and tsunami that devastated part of the island of Sulawesi has risen to 1,203 – with the total number expected to climb higher still. The tsunami, which was triggered after a…

U.S. News. In a disturbing national trend, the number of three common sexually transmitted diseases hit a record high last year, with nearly 2.3 million cases reported in the U.S. – eclipsing the record set in 2016 by more than…

The Advocate. One hundred people have now died from an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo with health authorities struggling to contain the deadly disease in the area near the borders with Uganda and Rwanda. A total of 149 cases of…

Los Angeles Times: Hurricanes can bring all sorts of trouble — winds, rains, floods. And early fatality data from Florence’s assault on the Carolinas suggest that being in your car, on the road, after the storm hits land has been especially…

The Independent. Business leaders from international companies including Coca-Cola, Citi and Deloitte have called for gay marriage to be legalized in Northern Ireland. Bank of Ireland, BT and IBM are also among the firms that have signed an open letter…