Reflecting the spirit of the age, the Canadian Senate has approved new gender-neutral wording for O Canada, Canada’s national anthem. And now the new lyrics to are official. Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly says the two word revision to the…

At least ten people died as Taiwan was hit with a 6.4 earthquake just after midnight on Wednesday the 7th of February. Rescuers combed through rubble at Hualien, a tourist city of about 100,000 people about 120km south from Taipei,…

Weather manipulation, known as geoengineering, has been around for millennia and is just as controversial as ever. Now the US government has recommended studies into two areas of geoengineering research. It is even talking about spraying sulfur dioxide in the…

The editor of the Barbados Advocate has published an article that advocates the union of church and state and getting the nation back to God. Here is his article. “For some time now, there have been calls for God to…

A railroad track switch locked into the wrong position apparently caused an Amtrak passenger train to crash into a stationary freight train in South Carolina at 2:30 in the morning, Sunday February 4, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring 116…

In an effort to further ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic Church, the Lutheran bishops from Finland made their annual pilgrimage to Rome. They presented Pope Francis with a document to help address remaining differences between the two communions. The document…

Nuclear war, Cyberattacks and environmental disasters top the list of threats to global stability in 2018, according to a survey of 1,000 international leaders from business, government, education and service groups. Some of them are man-made, while others are natural. The…

According to a letter published by the European Evangelical Alliance, the Religion and Civil Society Ministry of Kazakhstan prepared a draft bill, called an Amending Law, which proposes changes to three codes and nine laws, including the 2011 Religion Law….

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law a bill that largely limits trade on Sundays, saying it will benefit employees’ family life. The legislation, worked out by the conservative government and the Solidarity trade union, is expected to draw protests…

The president of war-torn Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadére and his entourage, was granted an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on January 25. The Holy See says in a press release that it appreciates “the positive efforts made…

Evangelical churches today can be found in almost every neighborhood in Latin America — and they are transforming politics like no other force. They are giving conservative causes [read Catholic causes], and especially political parties, new strength and new constituencies….

Imagine a store with no cashiers, no lines, and no registers. This is what Amazon is testing in its Amazon Go store on the ground floor of its Seattle headquarters. The online retailer opened its Amazon Go concept store to…