Calvary Baptist Church in Northwest Washington DC, the U.S. capitol has hired a married lesbian couple as co-pastors. Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen were presented to the congregation and approved on January 8, 2017 during morning worship. “We have found…

A momentous development in digital currency was announced in a low-key way at the Payments Panorama conference in Calgary. In a closed-to-media event, the Canadian Payments Association and the Royal Bank of Canada said they have been experimenting with a…

In yet another case of disgusting sexual predation, an Italian priest from northern Italy has been accused of pimping out some 15 women, as well as organizing and filming orgies in his rectory. Forty-eight year-old so-called Father Andrea Contin, parish…

New Zealand experienced 32,828 earthquakes in 2016. That is a record. There were also 80,000 landslides, two tsunamis and a volcanic eruption. It was literally a “groundbreaker.” In 2011, the biggest prior year, there were 29,000 quakes. “You’d be hard…

Using the term “multi-lateralism” Antonia Guterres, the new Secretary-General of the UN called for more globalization in a speech to UN staff on his first day in office as Secretary General. He called for more global solutions to address very…

Franklin Graham, son of Baptist evangelist Billy Graham and President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says that it was the “hand of God,” rather than Russian hackers, that determined the outcome of November’s presidential election. “I think…

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2017 child prostitution will no longer be treated as a crime in California. Those children caught up in sex trafficking will be treated as victims instead. Police officers in the state will be forbidden to arrest…

Fortune and Time editors gathered with select Fortune 500 and Time 100 business leaders, scholars, NGOs, non-profits church leaders and philanthropists at the Vatican on December 2 and 3 2016 to discuss ending poverty. They discussed technology and jobs, global…

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have begun to work together to remove extremist content on all their platforms through an information sharing initiative. They are creating a proactive shared database using unique digital fingerprints known as “hashes” for images and…

The U.S. Army is planning to deploy about 4,000 troops to Poland in early 2017. The troop increases are intended to be a demonstration of strength aimed at Russia. Lt. Gen. Frederick Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe, said Tuesday…

The common people of India are in a huge crisis. The demonetization enforced on them by their government is creating massive difficulties for every-day workers and businesses. Some factories in Delhi have stopped producing goods to sell. Much of the…

Pope Francis has decided to grant a plenary indulgence opportunity throughout the 100th anniversary year of the so-called apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. The indulgence year began November 27, 2016. There are three ways to obtain the…