“Austrians should have the constitutional right to use cash to protect their privacy,” said Deputy Economy Minister Harald Mahrer. “We don’t want someone to be able to track digitally what we buy, eat and drink, what books we read and…

Pope Francis met with Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia in Havana airport’s VIP lounge for about three hours Friday, February 12, 2016. After a two-hour “brotherly” discussion, they signed a wide-ranging joint statement that discussed Christianity in…

The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 countries was signed on Thursday February 4, 2016 in Auckland New Zealand amid massive protests. The sweeping trade deal has been called the “biggest trade deal in a generation.” The TPP is promoted on…

Famous movie star Leonardo DiCaprio, (the star of the movie The Titanic, among other worldly flicks), met with Pope Francis to discuss climate change. DiCaprio has been involved in “green initiatives,” for a long time. He even launched a foundation…

By Betsy Mayer The UK’s Human Fertilization and Egg Authority (HFEA) has given a Francis Crick Institute researcher permission to work with the germ-line of human cells, “the DNA in an embryo so early in its development that all of…

Some research institutions in the United States are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside of pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants. The ethical debate over inserting human…

In an attempt to keep Great Britain in the European Union, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council sent a letter to the Union’s 28 members with proposal aimed at reaching a compromise with London on its demands for remaining…

At a recent press conference in Rome, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk said, “It is necessary to put aside internal disagreements and unite efforts for saving Christianity in the regions where it is subjected to the most severe persecution.” Hilarion is…

Pope Francis was prepared to do everything he could to get a climate change agreement signed in Paris. But Cardinal Peter Turkson, who helped draft the papal encyclical on climate said Pope Francis has “deep trust” that negotiators in Paris…

The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus as a global “public health emergency of international concern” and has said that it will spread everywhere except Canada and Chile. Considered for many years to be a minor-league virus,…

The United Kingdom has gone bonkers. They tried giving school children a diverse array of 25 options to gender-identify themselves on a government-sponsored gender survey. The bizarre and misleading survey, which was given to 13-18-year-olds, included “tri-gender,” and “genderqueer,” “in…

On October 31 there will be a one-day ecumenical commemoration in Lund, Sweden of the start of the Protestant Reformation. And Pope Francis will be on hand to conduct a worship service for the 500th anniversary of the posting of…