The Vatican released a document on Monday calling for the church to welcome and accept gay people, unmarried couples, people who have divorced, and the children of those less than traditional families. NBC News reports that the document, which was prepared after a week of discussions at an assembly of 200 bishops on the family, […]
NBC News reports that “Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education, and Indian children’s rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi were jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest winner of the award. She was honored for “her heroic struggle,” said […]
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: We have done our best to confirm the video and translation using WikiLeaks, an email from the BBC, Huffington Post and others. We venture no opinion about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in this article. We provide only background on the origin of the video and the video itself. Israeli Channel 10 presented […]
A visibly angry President Obama said today that “The entire world is appalled” by ISIS’s slaughter of American journalist Jim Foley. As ABC News reports,“No just God would stand for what they did yesterday or every single day,” the president said during a news conference in Martha’s Vineyard. “People like this ultimately fail. They fail […]
Numerous media outlets are reported that an American journalist who was missing for nearly two years has been beheaded by ISIS. American freelance photo-journalist James Wright Foley, 40, was last seen in Syria on Thanksgiving Nov. 22, 2012 while working for Agence France-Presse. Salon reports that “A video has surfaced purporting to depict American journalist […]