As expected, Canada has signed an information sharing agreement with the United States to comply with the U.S. law known as FATCA. There are many such agreements, but this one involves sharing information about Americans who have bank accounts in…

House Speaker John Boehner, a Jesuit-trained Roman Catholic, invited Jesuit Pope Francis to speak before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress. Boehner sent a one-page letter to the pope on the first anniversary of his election to the pontificate. …

Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who is head of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, will meet with Pope Francis in May in Jerusalem. He said he looks forward to the meeting “with expectant joy and an abiding sense…

Sometimes there is good news. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, a Christian family, fled to the United States from Germany in 2008 because they believed they should homeschool their children instead of subjecting them to the secular propaganda of German schools….

“Some of the nation’s most conservative states are propelling the same-sex marriage juggernaut back toward the Supreme Court.” Since the Supreme Court struck down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that banned federal benefits to married same-sex couples,…

Much about Ukraine and its strategic peninsula, Crimea, is in the news these days. George Mason University reported in 2005 that historian researchers in Russia have fingered the Vatican as the cause of the Crimean war in the 1850s.  In…

Kenneth Copeland (KCM Ministries) is a Pentecostal, evangelical preacher who trained under Oral Roberts. Copeland, a tele-evangelist has been united with the Catholic Church in Sunday keeping. But it goes much beyond that. He has become a strong advocate of…

Claiming to uphold the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge has struck down Texas state constitution ban on same sex marriage, though leaving it in place pending a ruling by an appeals court. The amendment to the Texas constitution was approved…

Women, who are pregnant or plan to be pregnant, should eat plenty of green, leafy vegetables, which are good sources of B9 or folate. Folate is essential to normal fetal development, especially the brain, spinal chord and other neural anatomy. …

“Animal rights come before religion,” said Denmark’s Minister for Agriculture and Food, Dan Jørgensen.  Jørgensen was defending Denmark’s new ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of kosher (Jewish) and halal (Islamic) meat. The change in the…

Nevada’s Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto, did a flip flop three days after strongly defending Nevada’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying that her arguments were “likely no longer tenable” in light of a San Francisco federal appeals court decision in…

Leaders of the American Jewish Institute met with Pope Francis in a private audience. The pope thanked them for maintaining “dialogue and fraternity” and said he hoped that Jewish and Christian communities would continue to engage in fruitful dialogue. He…