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Climate specialist Bjorn Lomborg revealed Sunday that 2022 was the 2nd weakest year for hurricanes in more than forty years (1980-2022) and yet no mainstream media have reported on this.

Anti-Christian bigotry in Europe and the U.S. is more often caused by militant secularism than religious extremism, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Friday.

The machete-wielding Moroccan jihadist Yassine Kanjaa who attacked Christians at church in southern Spain this week had been under a deportation order since June that was never acted upon, Associated Press reports.

Christian persecution spiked around the globe in 2022, Open Doors reveals in its newly released World Watch List 2023.

A Moroccan illegal immigrant attacked Christians in two Spanish churches with a machete Wednesday, killing one and wounding at least four more.

Pope Francis recalled the importance of remembering the Holocaust Wednesday, two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Celebrated Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham said this week that he is rooting for the San Francisco 49ers for the first time since Joe Montana was quarterback, thanks to the overtly Christian witness of rookie QB Brock Purdy.

The pop star Madonna has launched an attention-grabbing photo montage in Vanity Fair Italia, posing variously as the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ and featuring dolls apparently representing dead babies.

Norway’s University of Bergen has launched a study of the role played by white paint in extending white supremacy around the globe.

The once-prestigious Lancet medical journal urges a “revolutionary shift of perspective” away from human-centered health care in favor of “ecological equity” attributing equal value to all life.

ROME — The once-venerable UK Lancet medical journal is charging ahead in its climate change crusade, proclaiming “the ethical and medical urgency of the climate crisis” in its latest issue.

Nancy Pelosi summoned Catholic priests to perform an exorcism of her San Francisco townhouse to rid it of evil spirits, TMZ reported Sunday.

The Burmese army torched a historic Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay this week and also set fire to a convent of religious sisters.

Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.

Pope Francis urged a delegation of Cambodian Buddhists to conversion this week not to Christianity, but to environmental responsibility.

Pope Francis reached out this week to participants of the 50th annual March for Life in Washington, DC., offering them his apostolic blessing and thanking them for their stalwart defense of the unborn.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said this week that an uncanny parallel can be drawn between the scandal-ridden Biden family and the fictional HBO series “The Sopranos.”

Prominent evangelical pastor Franklin Graham warned Friday that America has turned its back on God and is becoming a worse country in the process.

Celebrated Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has defended a Christian hockey player’s right to sit out gay-themed activities, saying such faith-based choices don’t make him “homophobic.”

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas has blasted the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) as an unelected power with a “Godless” agenda.

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega has found Nicaraguan parish priest Óscar Benavidez guilty of “conspiracy to undermine national security” and “spreading fake news,” with a requested sentence of 8 years in prison.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that trying to convince someone to become a Christian is a “pagan” activity unworthy of followers of Christ.

Pope Francis offered condolences and prayers Tuesday to the victims and families of a lethal bombing by the Islamic State on a Christian church in eastern Congo that took the lives of at least 14 people and injured more than 60.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Saturday that “renewables are the only credible path” to avert climate catastrophe.

The back-to-back deaths of Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop George Pell constitute a “very heavy loss” for the Catholic Church, Archbishop Charles Chaput said Friday.

The once-prestigious Lancet medical journal warns this week that climate change threatens the survival of the human race “within decades.”

Australian Cardinal George Pell continues to plague Pope Francis from beyond the grave as a veteran Vatican journalist revealed this week that the late cardinal was the author of a scathing rebuke to Francis released last March.

The Bishop of Dori, Burkina Faso, said this week that violent Muslim groups are trying to impose Islam on the whole country, destroying entire villages in the process.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has decried Russia’s launching of their dead soldiers as weapons against the Ukrainian army.

Australian Cardinal George Pell has blasted the Catholic Church’s synodal way as “hostile” to the apostolic tradition in a posthumous essay published Wednesday in the Spectator.

Pope Francis has praised the late Cardinal George Pell, with whom he had many differences, saying the Australian prelate followed Jesus “unwaveringly” even in the midst of trials.

ROME — The indomitable Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s leading Catholic prelate for decades, died in Rome late Tuesday at the age of 81.

Pope Francis warned Tuesday of the dangers of impersonal algorithms taking control of important aspects of people’s lives.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Pope Francis for the first time Tuesday, with the nation’s serious demographic problems front and center in their discussions.

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF), has criticized Pope Francis for his “imprudence” in clamping down on the Traditional Latin Mass.

Pope Francis outlined global conflicts and injustices Monday, studiously avoiding any negative commentary on China.