Joshua Gill

NEW YORK - New York police arrested a 24-year-old man Saturday suspected of killing Gambino crime family leader Frank Cali, potentially over a love interest. Police arrested Anthony A. Comello, who lives with his parents, at a home…

TEXAS - The Southern Baptist Convention is the second-largest Christian denomination in the U.S., with over 47,000 churches each year sending millions of meals to disaster zones, thousands of missionaries and trained volunteers around…

AUSTRALIA - An Australian court sentenced the most senior Catholic cleric convicted of child sexual abuse to six years in prison Wednesday. Cardinal George Pell, former Vatican finance minister and adviser to Pope Francis,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqiyS2AmxtA HONG KONG - China lashed back Saturday at the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom’s claim that Beijing is “at war with faith,” calling it slander. Sam Brownback…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srjcTSEKnEo OHIO - An Ohio man is fasting from food for Lent and will drink only beer until Easter Sunday, like a 17th century German monk. Del Hall, an employee of Fifty West Brewing Company,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDy-aLvPxY LONDON - Malaysian authorities released Monday one of two women accused of assassinating Kim Jong Un’s half-brother with VX nerve agent after prosecutors dropped her charges. Malaysian…

FRANCE - Cardinal Philippe Barbarin offered his resignation Thursday to Pope Francis after a French court convicted him of failing to report a pedophile priest. Barbarin is the first cardinal to face trial on charges of…

ENGLAND - A horde of 200 vegans stormed a farm in Lincolnshire, England, to protest animal cruelty but caused a stampede that crushed piglets, according to the farmer. Farmer Sylvia Hook said the mob of vegans from the…

COAL CITY - West Virginia firefighters proclaimed a miracle upon discovering that a blazing inferno burned a church to ashes, but didn’t harm a single bible or cross. The Coal City Fire Department said that the Sunday fire at…

STRASBOURG - Vandals defaced a former synagogue in eastern France with swastikas in the latest of a series of anti-Semitic desecrations plaguing the region. Staff at the synagogue-turned-sports-facility in the town of Mommenheim…

OREGON - An Oregon man says he survived for five days while trapped by heavy snow in his car by eating only Taco Bell hot sauce packets. Heavy snows trapped Jeremy Taylor and his dog, Ally, in Taylor’s car on a U.S.…

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar with Pope Francis meeting with the members of the Muslim Council of Elders last month, at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, ahead of an interfaith conference, as part of the…

GEORGIA - The chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention workgroup tasked with investigating churches facing abuse allegations resigned Friday, saying his group has no investigative authority. Ken Alford announced his resignation…

Dr Idowu-Fearon (Center) at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (left) and the chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, Bishop Jame Tengatenga. Credit: Lambeth Palace ENGLAND - Liberal and traditionalist bishops…

SOUTH KOREA - A Russian cargo ship captain was drunk when his ship hit a cruise liner and later crashed into a bridge on South Korea’s coast Thursday. South Korean authorities said it was unclear whether the captain was at the helm…

VIRGINIA - Two organizations dedicated to military personnel are locked in conflict over a Bible display dedicated to POWs and service members missing in action. The Manchester Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New Hampshire…

EUROPE - The prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy said Wednesday that priests with children should leave the priesthood and fulfill their parental responsibilities. Catholic Cardinal Beniamino Stella clarified there are…

MISSOURI - A major schism looms over the United Methodist Church (UMC) as the denomination’s international conference grapples with whether or not to allow homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage. Members of the denomination’s…

DURHAM - A North Carolina priest defended his decision Monday to cancel a lesbian city councilwoman’s speech at a Catholic high school, saying it was his duty. Immaculate Conception Church pastor Rev. Chris VanHaight faced public…

EUROPE - Pope Francis will visit a Moroccan training center for imams at the end of March to promote moderate Islam and efforts to combat Islamic extremism. The pontiff will visit Morocco March 30 to 31 in the wake of his visit…

RUSSIA - A Russian woman was eaten alive by her own pigs after suffering an epileptic seizure and collapsing in their pen, local media reports. The woman’s husband reportedly went to bed early the previous day as he felt ill, but…

SYDNEY - An Australian study called for the retraction of over 400 scientific papers allegedly tainted with data obtained from forced organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience. The study, published Tuesday in the…

ITALY - Pope Francis acknowledged Tuesday for the first time that Bishops and priests had sexually abused nuns, in some cases using them as sexual slaves. Francis confirmed to reporters that certain orders of nuns have and in some…

RUSSIA - A Russian court sentenced Dennis Christensen, the first Jehovah’s Witness arrested after Russia deemed the religion “extremist,” to six years in prison Wednesday. Russian authorities arrested Christensen, a native of…

WASHINGTON - During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke on the issues of illegal immigration and why more security is needed on the country’s southern border. “We have a moral duty to create an…

EUROPE - The British government said Tuesday it believes photojournalist John Cantlie is still alive over six years after the Islamic State captured him along with U.S. journalist James Foley. Security Minister Ben Wallace told…

MIDDLE EAST - Pope Francis conducted the first ever papal mass on the Arabian peninsula during his trip to the United Arab Emirates to foster peaceful inter-religious dialogue. The pontiff conducted the service Tuesday…

ITALY - A group of prominent German Catholics called Sunday for the ordination of women and ending mandatory priestly celibacy among other changes to Catholic sexual morality. The group of nine, including prominent German priests…

ENGLAND - Archaeologists in the U.K. hope to discover the remains of a 13th-century Carmelite monastery buried beneath a bus station in Gloucester, England. The lost monastery is known as Whitefriars, also called The College of…

Texas Catholic dioceses released a list of 286 clerics “credibly accused” of sexual abuse in fulfillment of their October pledge to name the accused by January’s end. The list is comprised of data from 14 dioceses across Texas whose…