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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, has discussed with Pope Francis how Europe's economy should better serve people.Merkel flew to Rome Saturday for a 45-minute session with the pope at the Vatican. Her Christian Democrat party depends heavily on support from Protestant and Catholic voters, and the chat and photo opportunity could be a campaign boost.On Thursday, Francis blasted what he called a "cult of money" tyrannizing the poor. Merkel said the two discussed regulation of financial markets, adding that the economy hasn't always served people like it should.She said Francis stressed the need for a strong and just Europe. The Vatican said the two exchanged views on how Europe can be a community of values, including religious freedom....
For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business.Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic nation — were th...
Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first eviden...
A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbol...
Over a decade ago, the man now set to become Pakistan's next prime minister stood at this border crossing with archenemy India to inaugurate a "friendship" bus servi...
The surge in oil production in the U.S. and Canada and shrinking oil consumption in the developed world is transforming the global oil market.The threat of chronic o...
Massachusetts State Police beefed up patrols around the reservoir that supplies Boston's drinking water after seven foreign students were caught trespassing in the a...
Peter Johnson, Jr. weighs in
Chancellor Angela Merkel has shrugged aside a book that suggests she may have been closer to East Germany's communist system than previously thought, saying she's ne...
Saudi Arabia said five more people have died of a deadly new virus from the same family as SARS, and two other people were in intensive care.The seven cases were dis...
Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically impo...
Germany says its leader is in Afghanistan to on a surprise visit to the nation's troops serving with NATO's force in a war against Taliban insurgents.German military...
A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the tr...
A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.The webs...
Author Raymond Ibrahim gives his thoughts on how we are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world came into being
Saudi Arabia has confirmed four new cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that appears centered in the Arabian Peninsula but that has also been rep...
Author Raymond Ibrahim gives his thoughts on how we are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world came into being
Saudi Arabia's monarch has replaced the commander of the kingdom's air force.The official Saudi Press Agency says that Crown Prince Salman received Lt. Gen. Mohammed...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said European countries must agree on how to generate sorely needed economic growth, and stressed it was important that France pursue...
A Lebanese man was sentenced to 300 lashes with a whip and six years in prison for his role in helping a Saudi woman convert to Christianity and flee the kingdom in ...