Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis” and the head of the Roman Catholic religion, has called for believers of all religions to pray in solidarity on May 14 to ask God to rid the world of the coronavirus pandemic. He also asked that vaccines be made available to all persons threatened with infection. Bergoglio […]

(Al Jazeera) — Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing 14 people, including two newborn babies, their mothers and an unspecified number of nurses. At least 14 people were killed in the morning assault on the Barchi Hospital, officials said on Tuesday. Continue reading this […]

(National Review) — Attorneys representing three female high school track athletes in their effort to bar biological males from competing against them filed a motion on Saturday calling for the presiding judge to recuse himself after he forbid the attorneys from referring to the transgender athletes at issue as “males.” The ADF filed suit in February against […]

(ABC News Australia) — Arianwen Harris used to joke that homeschooling was her “worst nightmare.” “I’ve never wanted to homeschool,” she said. … The Queanbeyan family has begun the process of registering for longer-term homeschooling after seeing how well the children were doing at home, especially the eldest. “He had been struggling with reading and […]

COALINGA, Calif. (KFSN) — Coalinga declared all businesses in the city “essential,” defying California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency ‘shelter in place’ order. The Coalinga City Council passed the resolution in a 4-1 vote on Thursday evening. The resolution said that all businesses in the city are allowed to stay open and operate ‘for the duration […]

(Fox Business) — U.S. employers cut 20.5 million jobs in April, a record-shattering number that pushed unemployment to 14.7 percent, the highest level since the Great Depression, as the coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented economic catastrophe. The grim Labor Department report provides one of the most comprehensive looks at the economic damage inflicted by the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC-TV) — A [Tennessee] church is doing its part to help the most vulnerable in the community during the coronavirus pandemic by feeding seniors living in senior housing facilities. “Our seniors are so precious,” said Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church’s Senior Pastor J. Lawrence Turner. “It’s a risk if they do go out, if they […]

(Voice of the Martyrs Australia) — Many Christians are facing increased persecution during the coronavirus pandemic, especially in parts of Indonesia where even small family gatherings of Christians are being protested. Pastor Si of Huria Kristen Batak Protestant (HKBP) church was gathering with a very small group of family in his home when a Muslim […]

 (Pensacola News Journal) — Jubilee Church in Pensacola will do its part during the pandemic to feed the needy when it distributes 53,000 pounds of food Saturday morning. Partnering with Feeding the Gulf Coast, Jubilee Church and Pensacola Caring Hearts will hold a drive-thru food distribution service between 9 a.m. and noon Saturday — […]

(Press & Journal) — More than 300 boxes of food were given out to people in need at the Living Hope Church on Schoolhouse Road in Londonderry Township on Friday. It was the second time the church has given away the boxes each filled with 35 to 40 pounds of perishable and nonperishable food. The […]