The world is in flames, Christians beheaded all over the Middle East, much of that region in anarchic chaos, increased nuclear saber-rattling from Russia, many parts of the world crippled economically, hundreds of thousands dying from malaria, and a billion
The report rocketed around the Internet, trading in equal parts outrage and glee–outrage that the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF might be spiking tetanus shots of poor African women with a sterilizing vaccine, glee that they’d been caught. Doubts
An analysis of UN human rights reporting just released by the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam) shows that Western Europe has put gay rights in the developing world front and center in tackling human rights issues at the UN.
The Catholic Archbishop of Detroit has cancelled a speech by the founder of a Catholic LGBT-rights group at odds with Catholic teaching. Archbishop Allen Vigneron cancelled the appearance of Francis DeBernardo, executive director of something called New Ways Ministry, a
American Cardinal Raymond Burke, recently demoted from the highest legal office in the Vatican, told a conference in Ireland that Catholic layman should write to the Pope to voice their opinions about the general Synod of Bishops to take place
(United Nations) – El Salvador is currently undergoing something the UN calls the Universal Periodic Review, a fairly new human rights process that looks at countries’ implementation of various human rights treaties. And even though no UN treaty mentions abortion,
In announcing the State Department’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, Secretary of State John Kerry invoked the name of Matthew Shepard, a gay young man who was murdered many years ago and whose death remains an iconic moment for those fighting
A top British rabbi told a Vatican conference on marriage today that Great Britain is developing into the most divided society than at any time in the last 150 years. Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief Rabbi of the United
A veritable who’s who of the global pro-family movement and other religious leaders gathered in Paul VI Hall inside the Vatican this morning for what will be three days of talks from faith and public policy leaders that will result
Atheists and others are practically giddy at a new data analysis that shows a correlation between an increase in Internet use and a decrease in religious affiliation. Writing at Salon.com, frequent critic of religion, Amanda Marcotte, celebrates the new data.
A rapper using the name Tef Poe was among the delegation from Ferguson, Missouri to the Geneva-based UN Committee on Torture. On Twitter, Poe bragged he was going to Geneva “to slap these Ferguson pigs with war crime charges and torture charges.” Michael Brown’s
The UN General Assembly is set to debate whether to name 2016 as the Year of the Camelid. The resolution, sponsored by Bolivia, reads in part: Noting that camelids are strictly herbivorous, even-toed ungulate mammals that first appeared in America
On Wednesday, a UN committee in Geneva asked State Department representatives what the federal government was doing to prosecute psychologists who help patients change their same-sex attractions. The questioning came during the U.S. report to the UN Committee on Torture
Harvard students are enjoying an opportunity to learn all the details of anal sex during what has become an annual event at the elite school. At a Tuesday panel called “What What in the Butt: Anal Sex 101,” experts from
The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest LGBT pressure group, has issued a report along with scare-videos called “The Export of Hate” that targets Christian conservatives who work on LGBT issues overseas. The targeted Christians are calling foul.
A delegation of American LGBT activists is traveling to Geneva, Switzerland tomorrow to make the case to the UN Committee on Torture that “conversion therapy” is a form of torture and should be designated as such in international law. They intend to
Are UN blue helmets about to march down Elizabeth Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri? They would have to be sent by the UN Security Council where the U.S. has a veto, so that’s unlikely. But Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown,
The joy parishioners feel this week that the Church of the Holy Innocents was saved from the chopping block is tempered by the fact that the priest who had a hand in saving it was transferred last spring by New York’s
Last week the Singapore High Court demurred in overturning Singapore’s 76-year-old law against men having sex with men. In deflecting the case, the High Court said the law was a matter for the legislature and that the court should not
In a huge setback for LGBT activists, this week, the high court of Singapore upheld the country’s ban on anal and oral sex between men. Challengers to Section 377A of the Penal Code argued that the ban violated their rights to
Last week, transgender military personnel from various countries allied with the United States convened a conference in Washington, DC to put pressure on the U.S. military to allow transgender soldiers to serve openly. Organizers claim more than 15,000 transgender soldiers now serve
A Catholic university located in Chicago has given its blessing to a student organization for “pagans,” according to The Campus Fix. Loyola University of Chicago, a Jesuit school, pushed back a little bit and asked the group to change its name
Transgender military personnel from a number of American allied countries met in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss what they say are the benefits of allowing open transgenders in active military service. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the conference
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi opened the October 7 press conference saying the conference organizers asked him to issue a declaration regarding the press reports about the new Vatican discussion document–which they said would liberalize the church’s standards–had “misrepresented” it. Lombardi
Vatican — Opposition increases in Rome as gays celebrate, traditional Catholics fret, bishops complain, and no one seems to be able to explain exactly what the document released Monday means for the Catholic Church. Late Monday night, experienced hands with
A gay advocacy organization’s bid to own a proposed “.gay” domain address has been rejected by the governing body of domain names. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit body located in California that governs
VATICAN CITY, Vatican– Today, the Vatican released the controversial compilation document that will guide the Synod of Bishops next year. The document was put together by a committee and was intended as a distillation of the speeches given by Bishops
A new report from UN statisticians says their earlier predictions about global population stabilization are wrong and that we are on the cusp of major and dangerous growth. The UN Population Division has traditionally been an objective purveyor of information
Though it has been only a rumor until now, and has not yet been announced by the Vatican, a close associate of Cardinal Raymond Burke has told Breitbart News that the rumors of his departure are true, and the announcement
A small coalition of hard-left groups have called on GOP chairman Reince Priebus to “shun” several social conservative groups for their positions on homosexuality. An expensive full-page ad appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post signed by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
German brothers and sisters are on the verge of being able to have sexual relations without worrying about breaking the law and going to jail. A government committee has said laws that ban incest are a violation of right to sexual self-expression.
After years of steady and even dramatic increases in support, a new Pew survey has found support for same-sex marriage declining. Pew found more Americans support same-sex marriage than oppose it, but that support had dropped five percentage points between February
Last Friday, to a packed hall at the modernist Ford Foundation building not far from the UN, former Sec. of State and presumptive presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she was embarrassed that the United States has never ratified the UN
Pope Francis reportedly plans on removing Cardinal Raymond Burke from head of the Apostolic Signatura (Vatican “Supreme Court”) and relegating him to the largely ceremonial role as head of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The new role would see
A source close to Timothy Cardinal Dolan has told Breitbart News the impending announcement about New York parish closings which could number as many as 60 has been held off until Cardinal Dolan returns from Rome in late March. The
A pioneering professor at the University of California pled guilty on Friday of traveling to foreign countries to have sex with underage boys. The professor, Walter Lee Williams, was a pioneer in what is called “queer studies” and worked at
Monsignor Charles Pope put up a fiery response to Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s decision to allow organized LGBTs to march in the Catholic St. Patrick’s Day Parade next year. Just as quickly, the angry column was yanked by his superiors from
When she was in the Iowa state legislature, GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst supported a change in the Iowa constitution which would have recognized the unborn child as a person from the moment of conception. Called “personhood”, the idea has
It was reported this week that the cause for the canonization of Bishop Fulton Sheen, known in the 1950s as the TV Priest for his awarding-winning and widely-watched television show “Life is Worth Living,” had been mysteriously halted. There was
For a time in the 1950s, Bishop Fulton Sheen was one of the biggest television stars in America. His prime-time show “Life is Worth Living” had one of the biggest audiences in TV history. He went up against Milton Berle
