Nearly three-dozen people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with a deadly and highly drug-resistant fungal infection since last June. The pathogen, a strain of yeast known as Candida auris, has been reported in 12 countries since 2009. The first…

“Alarmist” has become the newest slur label given to conservative Christians who raise concerns about the current trajectory of the culture in general or churches in particular. The “alarmist” label goes like this: “Conservative Christian leaders are using false information…

Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist and evolutionist has warned that technology needs to be controlled in order to prevent it from destroying the human race. “Since civilization began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages,” he…

On the eve of the European Union’s 60th birthday, Donald Tusk was re-elected to a second two and a half year term as the European Council President almost unanimously, with the exception of Poland, his home country. Tusk is a…

Remains of a significant number of children lie in a mass grave adjacent to a former Catholic home for unmarried mothers in Tuam, County Galway. The Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic religious order, ran the home. The grave consists of…

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the EEC (one of the European Union’s precursors), European leaders will hold a summit to discuss the question of how to keep the European Union together…

“More and more Americans are getting swept up in these (FISA) searches,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told Congress during the confirmation hearing of former Senator Dan Coates. Coates has been nominated by President Trump to head of the National Security…

EU heads of state and government are planning to meet with Pope Francis in Rome on March 24, ahead of a summit to discuss what the EU would look like after Brexit. The Summit marks the 60th anniversary of the…

The Vatican announced that Pope Francis will make a six-day trip to Colombia in September with four cities on his itinerary, Bogotá, Villavicencio, Medellín and Cartagena. The trip will take place almost a year after the government and FARC rebels…

Pennsylvania Republican State Rep. Rick Saccone held a rally in Harrisburg recently where he announced that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. next year. Religious Right historian David Barton and Sam Rohrer…

The governments of England and Wales have announced that they would let local councils decide whether to allow large retailers to open longer hours on Sunday than previously permitted. The Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England and a number…

The Croatian Bishop’s Conference has launched an initiative to legally forbid working on Sunday and called on Croatian citizens to support them and contribute to the preservation of Sunday in its historical meaning as a non-working day which is an…