A storm has killed 13 people in the UK and in Europe with Germany hit the hardest. Hurricane-force winds of up to 160 kph knocked down trees, flooded low areas and left hundreds of thousands without power.  At least five…

The United States must embrace the Vatican, wrote Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See in a USA Today op ed. The “cordial but cooling relations” between the U.S. and the Vatican, he suggested, have not taken into…

The European Parliament has agreed to place approximately 150 of the EU’s largest banks under the oversight of the European Central Bank (ECB) beginning September 2014. The new system will be compulsory for Eurozone members, but will be open to…

The United Methodist Church’s highest court has been conducting trials that involve church policy toward gays and lesbians. While they do not change church policy, the trials encourage support of gays and lesbians as same-sex couples. In one case, the…

Evangelical Christians, pro-life groups and members of the Tea Party are a threat to the United States, and are “tearing the country apart,” soldiers were told in a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood. Any of them caught donating to those…

A Conservative Member of Parliament has said that the Guardian should be prosecuted for publishing stories about mass surveillance by the British security services revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Julian Smith, MP said the newspaper had “broken the law” at a parliamentary…

Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament went to Rome to visit the Pope on October 11, 2013. After the audience a smiling Schulz said “it was an honour and a pleasure for me to be received by Pope Francis…

In October, Los Angeles teachers for the Unified School District began wearing rainbow badges that proclaim they are allies of homosexual students and others who have chosen alternative lifestyles. In the name of protecting them from abuse, the school district…

Australia is about to descend into the abyss of the same-sex marriage debate. Bypassing the voters, the self-governing Australian Capitol Territory (ACT) has enacted a law that permits same-sex marriage. The federal government will seek for that law to be…

A new study from Loma Linda University funded by the National Cancer Institute says that vegans have lower rates of cancer than both meat-eaters and ovo-lacto vegetarians. The controlled study, for instance, showed that vegan woman had 34 percent lower…

In addition to the election of one of their own, Jorge Bergoglio from Argentina as pope, the Jesuit order has seized power in Australian politics in an unprecedented shift toward Jesuit-educated political leaders. It culminated in the election of Jesuit-educated…

A childcare worker says an employer has a duty to “reasonably accommodate” the religious beliefs of a Christian worker. Celestina Mba, 58 went to a UK Court of Appeals to plead for her right to have Sunday’s off from her…