Crystal Cheatham was 23 years old when she was told she couldn’t be gay and Christian. Cheatham, a practicing lesbian, who had grown up attending and singing at a Seventh-day Adventist church, was about to graduate from Andrews University in…

The Southern Baptists denomination, with a long history of defending literal interpretations of the Bible have released the Christian Standard Bible (CSB), which many of its 15 million members do not know is “gender-inclusive.” The church has passed numerous resolutions…

Thousands of suspected terrorists should be placed in internment camps, as the threat of terrorism in the UK has reached an unprecedented level, a Muslim ex-police chief has said. Calling for at least 3,000 people to be sent to internment…

Approximately 79 people died in a towering inferno as one of London’s high-rise public housing blocks was gutted by fire. Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, faced a barrage of criticism for the government’s initial response to the tragedy at Grenfell…

The push for a cashless society is aided and abetted by the maturing of biometric technology. India is one of the leaders in the field of adopting biometric techniques. “On an average, people in India (9 per cent) are three…

Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s top technology executive has suggested that Australia will be a cashless society in the coming years, with the possibility that customers could soon be charged to make banking transactions in cash. The comments from chief information officer…

Visakhapatnam all prepped up to become the ‘first cashless city’ in the world over the next 12 months, says the city’s newspaper Yo! Vizag. After Paytm set up its office there, the Visa network is collaborating with the Andhra Pradesh…

British Prime Minister Theresa May says human rights laws will be changed “if they get in the way” of the country’s fight against terror. May said she would seek to introduce longer prison terms for those convicted of terrorist offenses…

The Scottish Episcopal Church voted to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, by a two-thirds majority, becoming the first major U.K. church to break from the Anglican majority, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman….

Scientists aren’t normally concerned about God. And they have often shunned apocalyptic speculation, leaving end-time scenarios to religious people. Science is normally based on observation and empirical evidence, not faith and revelation. But increasingly, some leading scientists have begun to…

Justin Trudeau urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize to its indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s treatment of aboriginal children in the schools it ran there. Starting in the late 19th century, about 30% of the children of…

Foreign Policy published an article that suggested that Martin Luther was the Donald Trump of the 16th century. They imagined a booking error that brought Barack Obama to Luther’s 1517 Germany. “He’d see a conventionally quarrelsome political scene disrupted by…