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A bishop in the Romanian Orthodox Church has resigned after a video was released apparently showing him engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old male student from his seminary. The Bishop of Husi, Corneliu Barladeanu, was suspended when the video was released, and on Friday resigned ‘for the peace and the good of the Church,’ […]

A Pakistani Christian boy faces a death sentence after he was arrested and charged with burning pages of the Quran. Asif Massih, 18, was taken into custody on August 12 after an alleged incident took place in Jam Kayk Chattha village, near the town of Wazirabad, in central Punjab province. Pixabay Police confirmed Massih is […]

Senior politicians, terror experts and Christian leaders will come together for a major two-day conference discussing religious unity in British cities. The shock of Brexit and the horror of terrorist attacks on London and Manchester have highlighted the need for Christians to take a leading role in transforming UK towns, said event organiser Roger Sutton. […]

A federal appeals court has reinstated a $2.3 million award to Marlow Humbert, who was held in solitary confinement in a Baltimore jail for over a year after being arrested for rape. DNA tests cleared the man of the crime within a month of his arrest, but police did not share the results of those […]

How will Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, react to tomorrow’s solar eclipse? Probably with the same mixture of denial and panic that they bring to virtually every issue, from regulations to crime to climate change. Fortunately, there is a third way, one grounded in rational debate, respect for the limits and power of science, […]

Terry Colon, Suck.comThey must have been tough—these past 30, 40 or even 50 years—for comedy legend Jerry Lewis, who has died at the age of 91. Once an immensely popular and respected peformer, philanthropist, and technological innovator (he invented a system that provided immediate on-set rushes for directors back in the day), Lewis lived the […]

Djembayz, Wikimedia, Creative CommonsThe comedian and activist Dick Gregory has died at the age of 84. Talk about a career that’s virtually impossible to categorize. From avant-garde joke teller to civil-rights figure to diet guru to conspiracy mongerer, he lived a full life that in many ways mirrors all the twists and turns of American […]

While one need not embrace racism or tribalism to be an economic nationalist, an affinity exists between the two dispositions. Reason Staff|Aug. 20, 2017 11:01 am Pacific Press/Sipa USA/Newscom Antiglobalism and anticosmopolitanism might flow purely from economic ignorance, but it is hard to believe that’s all it is for many people, argues Sheldon Richman. Too […]

Obama was not the friend CEOs think the president of the U.S. should be. But in Trump, they’re finding out what it’s like to have a real enemy. Reason Staff|Aug. 20, 2017 9:55 am Chris Kleponis/CNP/AdMedi/SIPA/NewscomMost business executives fumed and groused for the eight years Barack Obama was in the White House. He was a […]

A man reacts at an impromptu memorial where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain.Reuters The Catalonia police on Sunday said investigators were still working on the hypothesis of 12 suspects in the Barcelona attacks that took place on Thursday and that one man was still sought. Speaking to local radio, […]