Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Cardinal George Pell filed an appeal in Australia’s High Court Tuesday, insisting that he is innocent of sexually abusing a choirboy in the mid-1990s.

Germany’s Evangelical Church (EKD) said it intends to found a migrant-rescue organization and send a ship to the Mediterranean Sea to bring African migrants to Europe.

Many atheists and agnostics have a negative reaction to prayers said for them, CNN reported Monday, so Christians should probably keep them to themselves to avoid offending others.

A growing number of children are being treated for an overwhelming terror of “environmental doom” as climate alarmists spread fears of an impending climate disaster, the Daily Telegraph has reported.

The president of the war-torn Central African Republic warned Sunday that stability in Europe is conditioned upon stability in Africa because “everything is connected.”

Pope Francis has called on Italians not to insult members of their new leftist government but to pray for them.

Archbishop Joan-Enric Vives of Urgell, Catalonia, said in a letter Sunday that European nations have the “inescapable duty” to welcome migrants and refugees who are trying to find a better life for themselves.

Matteo Salvini has sharply criticized Italy’s new government’s shift in immigration policy, saying that Italy is going back to being “Europe’s refugee camp.”

“Ireland is heading for a climate change apocalypse come 2050 if we don’t implement massive changes,” claimed Emma McMenamy on Saturday in the Irish Mirror.

Forbes magazine has attributed a whole list of negative effects to “climate change,” including lost productivity, violent crime, and “cognitive decline.”

A Catholic priest in India filed a complaint to the state governor this week after a Catholic school and hostel were attacked by an armed mob of over 500 persons, which critically injured two students.

America’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback, said this week that hostility toward Christians in the world has reached an all-time high.

Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider have launched a crusade of prayer and fasting to prevent theological errors from being approved at the upcoming Vatican synod on the Amazon.

Pope Francis met Friday with Stefano Domenicali, president and CEO of the Lamborghini company, saying his generosity resembles that described by Jesus in the gospel.

The Catholic League has issued a stinging indictment of Kamala Harris’ plea for more discussion of reproductive rights, saying she has a “fixation” with aborting babies that borders on “lust.”

Evangelical preacher Franklin Graham has blasted Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his attempt to defend abortion and homosexuality as Christian positions.

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) tells primary schoolchildren that there are over 100 genders as part of its “Teach” video series, which has some concerned parents and observers up in arms.

A speedy thief seemed to be trying to beat his own record of six robberies in a half hour, cutting his time this week by 5 minutes.

ROME — Pope Francis has banned plastic in Vatican City State to stand in solidarity with environmentalists. He made the announcement from aboard the papal plane during a long-haul flight back from his recent trip to Africa.

A significant majority of Italians would have preferred snap elections rather than the unelected coalition government that excluded their most popular party, a national poll revealed Thursday.

A Dutch court ruled Wednesday a doctor accused of forcibly euthanizing a 74-year-old woman with dementia had fulfilled “all requirements of the euthanasia legislation.”

A delegation of prominent Evangelical leaders met with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on Tuesday, the eve of the anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Polish border guards boarded Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior vessel Monday and arrested the captain and one of the activists for impeding a coal ship from unloading at the Gdansk port.

Christian leaders in Ethiopia have denounced a campaign to spread an LGBT agenda in the country, calling on the government to defend the nation’s religious values.

Philippine bishops have declared they will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines in 2021 with or without the participation of President Rodrigo Duterte, who said he will not commemorate the “subjugation” of the country by Spanish colonizers.

“Any movement toward a more just and civil society can now be considered a meaningful climate action,” asserts a new essay in the New Yorker, which links gun control, immigration, and climate change.

Sudan’s new Minister of Religious Affairs Nasr al-Din Mufreh has called on Jewish expatriates to return home to the African nation following the ousting of former president Omar al Bashir.

Poverty is not something foreordained or inevitable, Pope Francis told young people in Madagascar on Sunday. He said poverty must be fought against and overcome.

Pope Francis continued his ecological campaign in Madagascar this weekend, admiring the nation’s extensive flora and fauna while warning of devastating fallout due to a loss of biodiversity.

Two prominent conservative cardinals have blasted the working document of the Vatican’s upcoming pan-Amazon synod of bishops, saying the text contains elements that undermine the Catholic faith.