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“Nobody needs to coach the Pope,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan at a media launch event last night, “he’s a natural.” Asked to speak on Pope Francis and what makes him so popular, the Cardinal homed in on the Pope’s style

“Catholics shouldn’t speak as if we were agnostics, or too embarrassed to talk about God,” said Australian Cardinal George Pell to a roomful of journalists Wednesday night. “Our job is to keep God in the news,” he said. The event

Married couples should cultivate “a healthy eroticism,” a Brazilian couple told the Pope and bishops gathered in the Vatican Thursday morning. Arturo and Hermelinda As Zamberline from Brazil spoke about the importance of keeping passion alive within a marriage, offering

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Kurdish riots continue as Turkey deals with the Kobani conundrum Why do so many Chinese expect war? Kurdish riots continue as Turkey deals with the Kobani conundrum Turkish army tanks have been lined up

The Food and Agriculture Organization in Sierra Leone (FAO) released a report over the weekend that revealed a dire need for food and basic services in the country.  The report was completed in collaboration with the state Ministry of Agriculture

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AP) — Tens of thousands of teachers, activists and residents marched and blocked a major highway in the Guerrero state capital Wednesday to protest the disappearance of 43 teachers college students and demand that authorities find them. The

HONG KONG (AP) — Talks between the Hong Kong government and student leaders of a democracy protest that has blocked main roads in the Asian financial hub for nearly two weeks are canceled because they’re unlikely to be constructive, a

(AFP) Worries over the worldwide spread of Ebola grew Thursday after three more health workers were quarantined in Spain and North America threw up border controls at main ports of arrival from the plagued African states. The United States and

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 331 deaths have been reported in eastern Ukraine since last month’s cease-fire deal between Russian-backed separatists and government troops, the United Nations said Wednesday. Hostilities are persisting in the main rebel-held city of Donetsk,

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish nursing assistant may be the first person in the ongoing epidemic to catch Ebola outside of Africa, but she probably won’t be the last, experts warn. Still, even as more people with Ebola arrive on

(AFP) The deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa is something unseen since the outbreak of AIDS, Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Oct. 6 (UPI) — Rumors that North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has been deposed have heightened in intensity following a surprise trip by the country’s No. 2 leader to visit South Korea. Kim has not

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two suicide bombers struck in Yemen on Thursday — one targeting a gathering of Shiite rebels in the country’s capital and the other hitting a military outpost in the south — in attacks that killed nearly

(Reuters) – China is on the hunt for a Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said on Thursday, after the animal roamed across the border, likely in search of food. The tiger, named Kuzia, was

(AFP) Street clashes pitting Kurds against radical Muslims left 23 people wounded in Germany, police said Wednesday amid fears that fighting in Syria and Iraq could further inflame passions. Riot police used batons, pepper spray and water cannon to keep

Thousands of Kurds are flooding the official White House Facebook page with messages, entreating President Obama to act to save Kobane from ISIS. The online campaign started when “public figures launched the first appeals” on October 6, and has continued

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 8 (UPI) — Former President Jimmy Carter was critical of current foreign policy in a wide-ranging interview, saying the United States “waited too long” to engage the Islamic State. Carter added he found it difficult to

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone burial teams have gone back to work one day after organizing a strike over pay and abandoning the dead bodies of Ebola victims in the capital. In neighboring Liberia, however, health workers said

The commander of the U.S. Southern Command said al Qaeda raises “a lot of money” by allowing Latin American drug cartels to traffic cocaine into Europe through West Africa, explicitly associating the two enterprises. “We know that the cocaine that

A North Korean diplomat speaking before reporters insisted that North Korea does not have prisons or “things like that,” but confirmed publicly for the first time the existence of “re-education through labor” camps in the isolated communist nation. The Associated

Even as details of the latest ISIS plot to behead innocents on the streets of London emerges, the machinery of the European Union’s massive bureaucracy is well along its plan to impose crippling economic and cultural sanctions on Israel if the

A “large percentage” of illegals captured trying to enter the United States through Mexico are from West Africa, said the commander of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) in explaining how his team is keeping an eye on the Ebola crisis. 

Graffiti that appears to be in support of the Islamic State terrorist group has been popping up throughout the District of Columbia. The most frequently displayed message reads “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greater) in Arabic, and at the bottom, ISIS,

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for multiple massive explosions on Tuesday at the French Cultural Center in Gaza City, according to a flier that has been making the rounds in the Strip. Photo Credit: EPA The flier told Gazans