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…

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…

In a memorandum from the pilots union at US Airways details an incident, which some pilots believe may have been a “dry-run” for another attack using airliners. The chilling internal memo obtained by the press says there have been “several…

The Vatican bank, known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), has been anything but for Works of Religion.  With a long history of scandal, including numbered accounts for prominent politicians, stock manipulation, connections to the mafia, shady dealings…

Aiming to make the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency redundant, China’s central bank (the People’s Bank of China – PBC) inked a 3-year currency swap agreement with the European Central Bank (ECB), worth 350 billion Yuan (USD $57…

Pope Francis recently met with the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus at the Vatican. The Pope thanked the Knights for their “unfailing support” for the Papacy, otherwise known as the Holy See. “This support finds particular expression…