Catholic New Agency: Cardinal George Pell has been convicted by an Australian court on charges of sexual abuse of minors, according to media reports and CNA sources close to the cardinal. A judicial gag order has restricted Australian media coverage…

Christian Post: A nativity scene and a Ten Commandments display were removed from public property in Dover, Ohio, after an atheist group complained and forced the mayor into action. Dover Mayor Richard Homrighausen told Fox 8 that the atheist group,…

Express: FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Thursday urged “yellow vest” militants not to hold a fifth round of demonstrations this weekend as police search for a second day for the gunman who launched an attack at a Christmas market…

The Atlantic: Three blocks from my Brooklyn apartment, a large brick structure stretches toward heaven. Tourists recognize it as a church—the building’s bell tower and stained-glass windows give it away—but worshippers haven’t gathered here in years. The 19th-century building was…

Fox News: “A tsunami struck Indonesia virtually without warning, killing at least 222 [now 373] people, sweeping away members of a pop band performing on a beach.” Hundreds of homes and other buildings were “heavily damaged” when the tsunami set…

The Telegraph: The Church of England has encouraged its clergy to create baptism-style ceremonies for transgender people to welcome them into the Anglican faith. New pastoral guidance, published on Tuesday, advises clergy to refer to transgender people by their new…

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered a message to white supremacists in a speech in front of the Anti-Defamation League: “You have no place on our platforms.” Cook delivered the speech while accepting the Courage Against Hate award Monday. As Apple…

ChristianHeadlines.com: According to the Washington Times, the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) submitted a proposal to the Vatican asking them to approve a translational change to the Lord’s Prayer. The committee asked that the verse “lead us not into temptation” be…

Europe’s Alienable Freedom of Speech The Atlantic: “On Thursday [October 25, 2018], the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld [a woman identified only as E.S.] 2011 conviction for “disparagement of religious precepts,” a crime in Austria. The facts of…

9 News: The Prime Minister will today announce plans to make it illegal to discriminate based on a person’s religious beliefs. This is one of the key recommendations made by the long-awaited Ruddock review into religious freedom, which Scott Morrison…

ReligionNews.com: The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., which towers above other buildings near the White House, is best known for hosting global diplomats and prominent dignitaries in its lavish facilities. But on Friday afternoon (Dec. 7), one of the…

CNSNews.com: The administration’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the landscape in China, and called the communist regime’s suppression of Uighur Muslims one of the “worst human rights situations in the world.” “China isn’t backing…