If the U.S. House of Representatives’ tax bill becomes law, partisan politics would overtake the nonprofit world, casting institutions designed to promote the public good into the depraved den of identity politics and selfish motives. This would become a seismic…

A bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed the Senate in a historic moment in Australian politics, setting up a final vote in the House of Representatives. The bill breezed through 43 votes to 12, and the moment was met with…

Under Pressure from its dominant Catholic Church, Poland will end shopping on Sundays by 2020. The nation intends to protect Sunday as a day of rest, and promote family time. Poland’s religious makeup is 87% Catholic. In addition, there are…

Pope Francis reiterated his appeal for the world to do more to protect the environment, stressing the importance this can have in reducing the risk and impact of natural disasters. “On 13 October, we observe the international day for the…

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has plunged into fights long sought by the religious right, issuing a 25-page memo bolstering legal protections for people of faith, rolling back employers’ requirement for birth-control coverage and reversing a policy that included…

Mr. Trump has an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the U.S. federal court system, and he’s working diligently on it. Mr. Trump could potentially appoint hundreds of conservative judges into lifetime appointments on the federal bench. The profile of his nominees…

The first state in Australia has voted to make voluntary euthanasia legal. The state of Victoria’s upper house voted to approve a bill permitting a doctor to assist patients to voluntarily end their lives. Victoria is now poised to become…

The Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee has curtailed one of the last legislative limits on a president’s power to shape the federal courts, giving Donald Trump more freedom than any U.S. president in modern times to install his…

In a powerful move, My Faith Votes announced that Gov. Mike Huckabee has accepted the position as the organization’s Honorary National Chairman, succeeding Dr. Ben Carson who is now serving as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Gov. Mike…

Far from the news headlines Germany and two of its European allies, the Czech Republic and Romania, quietly took a radical step down a path toward something that looks something like an EU army in the making while avoiding the…

In early October, reports surfaced that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed or assaulted multiple women over decades. Weinstein was fired from the studio he co-founded after a wave of more than 80 women accused him of sexual harassment…

Unfortunately, but as we predicted, Australians have emphatically voted in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, saying “yes” to the historic social change by a substantial margin of 61.6 per cent to 38.4 per cent. After years of political stagnation, the public has now…