For the fourth year running, Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to the Roman Catholic Church’s central bureaucracy, or Curia, to lecture the assembled cardinals, bishops and other department heads on the need for change. “Reforming Rome is like cleaning…

Privacy advocates and constitutionalists in the US Senate failed to stop the renewal of the warrantless surveillance of American citizens by intelligence agencies. A loophole had provided them with the means by which to conduct the surveillance without a warrant….

Paula White, a key faith advisor to President Donald Trump, says Christians have a lot to look forward to in 2018 as it relates to the White House and its faith agenda. Appearing on CBN’s Faith Nation, White told hosts David…

At 8:07 Saturday morning, January 13, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency pushed a button, which sent a message to all cellphones in the state. It read: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS…

Singapore is clear in its position as to why it bars certain foreign religious preachers from entry, said Home Affairs and Law minister K. Shanmugam in parliament on January 8. They will be banned if they preach religious intolerance or…

White evangelical Protestants, especially the core of “born again” or “fundamentalist” believers among them went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016 — more than 80 percent in the November election, according to exit polls — the highest degree of loyalty the…

“Pope Francis today issued a blueprint for geopolitical stability, calling for a de-escalation of tensions in Korea, for nuclear disarmament and for world leaders to recognize that migrating to another country is a ‘fundamental human right.’ He set out his…

Russia’s ambassador to the Vatican has praised the current relations between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches, adding that more cooperation is needed to preserve the foundations of Christian civilization. “The situation that has formed in the world by…

As fierce rains pounded Southern California, homes were swept away, roads were overwhelmed and widespread rescues forced homeowners to reckon with yet another major disaster. After the fires devastated Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, hundreds of residents were…

The conservative Law and Justice government in Poland has taken a decidedly regulatory approach toward Sunday shopping. On Sunday, November 24, the government approved a law to ban Sunday trading within the next three years. If the law passes parliament,…

Shanghai police recruited some high-tech assistance for catching criminals—an artificial intelligence system that can instantaneously identify any of the nearly 2 million faces in its database. The artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm called Dragon Eye uses China’s national database of 1.3…