Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Thursday that the United States, along with several other countries including Russia, China, North Korea and Assad’s Syria—have “a distorted vision of the world.” Eugenio Scalfari, a reporter with the paper…

More than 200 years ago, the United States had recognized religious liberty in its constitution as an inalienable right. It is a right granted by God, not by human governments. Americans have been vigilant in defending that right, until now….

Social media companies face fines of up to €50 million if they persistently fail to remove illegal content from their sites under a new law passed in Germany. The German parliament on June 30 approved the bill aimed at cracking…

As new strains in the political relationship between the United States and Europe has brought them to the brink of unraveling, the relationships between the Catholic bishops on both sides of the Atlantic are becoming more united. This stronger-than-ever bond…

The U.S. President’s team of strategists are seeking to undo what they see as federal overreach are looking back as far as the New Deal, and some even further, to the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th Century….

U.S. lawmakers are using a new spending bill to target the Johnson Amendment to the IRS code that effectively bars nonprofits like churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Many pastors believe the laws have a chilling effect on their…

People in China have been paying cash for things for thousands of years, long before other civilizations. Now, increasingly, they’re paying with their cell phones. Chinese consumers are essentially leapfrogging plastic credit and debit cards, and going straight from cash…

Ontario’s has passed a “family” bill that critics describe as “totalitarian.” Bill 89 was approved by a vote of 63 to 23 and gives the state more power to seize children from families that oppose the LGBTQI and gender ideology…

Angela Merkel, the three-term German Chancellor, met with Pope Francis for 40 minutes in a meeting behind closed doors. The meeting with the pope was Merkel’s sixth. The Vatican said they spoke about “the upcoming G20 meeting in Hamburg, the responsibility…

Australia’s highest ranking Roman Catholic Cardinal George Pell has been indicted by Australia Police on multiple counts of sexual assault. This brings the sex abuse scandal to the highest ranks of the Vatican. Cardinal George Pell, 76, is chief financial…

The state of Illinois’ social services policies now bar social workers from employment and foster families from caring for children if they refuse to facilitate a child’s gender transition. The state’s director of the Department of Children and Family Services…

At a cost of AUD $43.8 million (about USD $33 million) Victoria, Australia has rolled out an initiative to put “Doctors in Secondary Schools” as the program is called. The program will “fund general practitioners (GPs) to attend up to…