Religion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNejN0dyOUo AUSTRALIA - Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Catholic clergyman ever convicted of child sex crimes, will face a rare live court broadcast Wednesday as he appears before a judge in…

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,…

BOCA RATON - The recent Jew/Israel hating rhetoric coming out of the mouth of Democrat House Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, should have had the shivers running up and down the spines of American Jews. It did not. It should…

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…

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…

Political activist Linda Sarsour speaking to a crowd of onlookers at The Women’s March on Washington which took place one day after the Inauguration of President Donald Trump. Photo credit: C-SPAN. WASHINGTON - Women’s March co-chair…

NEW JERSEY - A New Jersey university dean is resigning after the school decided to ban Chick-fil-A as a restaurant on campus despite it being students’ top pick. The university said in an email to students in November 2018…

NEW YORK - House Democratic leaders plan on bringing a resolution to the floor Wednesday after backlash from Jewish lawmakers, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments on Israel. …

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…

The Supreme Court justices gathered for a new photo with the addition of new Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch both joined the Kavanaugh opinion that they will need to decide whether governments may deny…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in a heated exchange with Elliot Abrams, the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela regarding his role in the Iran-Contra affair in February 2019. Credit C-SPAN. MINNESOTA - Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar claimed…

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…

Screenshot of the employment section of the Open Society Foundation website with George Soros added from the Festival of the Economy of Trento, 2018 photo by Niccolò Caranti, Wikipedia Commons. WASHINGTON - Money tied to George Soros, a…

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…

Martha E. Pollack, center, is introduced as the university's 14th president at a press conference in 2016, with Jan Rock Zubrow, who chaired the search committee, and Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the board of trustees. Photo credit:…

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…

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…

MISSOURI - The Missouri House passed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, marking a significant push to make the state more restrictive on abortion. The House voted 117-39 in favor of the…

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…

MARYLAND - A 40-foot Celtic cross sits in the center of a roundabout in Bladensburg, Maryland. On its pedestal are inscribed the names of 49 local boys killed in the First World War. That veterans memorial — known colloquially as…

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…

NEW YORK - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) officially gave the upcoming abortion film “Unplanned” an “R” rating Friday for “some disturbing/bloody images” of aborted babies. Movies are rated R for profanity,…

MONTPELIER - The Vermont House passed a bill Thursday that gives women the right to have elective abortions up until birth and strips away rights of unborn babies. The House approved H-0057 by a 106-36 vote. The bill…

CALIFORNIA - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced Monday that Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib will be speaking at CAIR-Michigan’s annual banquet only days after the Hamas-linked organization revealed that…

EUROPE - The Catholic Church has officially recognized that it has internal guidelines in place governing procedures when clerics father children, The New York Times reports. The admission may be the first of its kind and comes days…

WASHINGTON - Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP…

EUROPE - The Vatican announced Saturday that it defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after an investigation into years-old sexual abuse allegations against him were found credible. McCarrick cannot appeal the punishment,…

WASHINGTON - Minnesota Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar responded to President Donald Trump’s calls to resign over her anti-semetic tropes. https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1095683268693905410 “You have trafficked in hate…