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Better To Be An Atheist Than A Hypocritical Catholic

Pope Francis has delivered another criticism of some members of his own church , suggesting it was better to be an...

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Sunni Islam’s Al-Azhar In Cairo Dialogue With Vatican

Representatives of Sunni Islam's prestigious Al-Azhar institution and from the Vatican held talks in Cairo on Wednesday...

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Pope Calls For Quick Accord To End DR Congo Violence

Pope Francis on Sunday urged leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo to act quickly to resolve its political crisis...

International

Pope Appears To Back Dakota Pipeline Opponents

Pope Francis has appeared to back Native Americans fighting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. The Pope said...

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Myanmar Army Ends Operations In North Rakhine

Myanmar's army has halted "clearance operations" in northern Rakhine, a senior official said Wednesday, ending a...

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Dear Otiko Djaba, How Much Would You Ask For Human Trafficking This Year?

By: James Kofi Annan I know you just came out of a very turbulent vetting and approval process. It was tough, so you...

International

Pope Urges Prayers For Unborn Children Under Threat

Pope Francis on Sunday urged the faithful to pray for unborn children threatened by “the termination of pregnancy”...

International

Pope Forces Conservative Out In Condom Battle

Pope Francis has forced the head of an ancient Catholic order to resign in an unusually public rebuke of conservative...

International

Pope Francis Warns Against Populism, Citing Hitler

Pope Francis on Saturday warned against populism, saying it could lead to the election of "saviours" like Adolf Hitler....

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Pope Francis Warns Against Rise In Populism

Pope Francis has warned against a rise in populism and the dangers of allowing political crises to usher in dictators...

Opinion

Facing The Trump Presidency – Will The Monroe Doctrine Finally Die?

Due to Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential election this November North American foreign policy will...

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Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s No Longer An Atheist, Believes ‘religion Is Very Important’

The founder of Facebook has found religion, it seems, according to a cheery holiday message he posted on the social...

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Christmas ‘hostage To Materialism’

Saturday's Mass was the first major event of the Christmas season for the Pope Pope Francis has said that the true...

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Pope Francis Marks Christmas Mass At Vatican

Pope Francis has celebrated a late-night Christmas Mass at the Vatican amid heavy security. The head of the Catholic...

International

Congo Opposition Says Not Planning Mass Protest At End of Kabila Term

Democratic Republic of Congo's main opposition bloc said on Saturday it was not planning a march against President...

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2016 ‘World’s Most Powerful People’

Two Africans made Forbes international’s list of ‘The World’s Most Powerful People’ for the year 2016....

International

Facebook To Start Putting Warning Labels On ‘fake News’

Facebook says it will start applying warning labels to some "fake news" stories that users share on the social network....

Opinion

Why Protestant Christians Are No Better Than Roman Catholics! (Part I)

Readers of this column of mine may have been starved of my teachings for a while seeing as it’s now been over two...

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Donald Trump Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

US President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2016. The property tycoon was...