6+ min ago  (147+ words) Despite urgent warnings from Pope Leo XIV, the ultra-conservative Society of St Pius X in Switzerland has consecrated four bishops without the Pope's approval " an act by which those involved incur automatic excommunication and which triggers a schism within the…...

2+ min ago  (522+ words) The Karoun Human Rights Organization recently published a poignant grievance letter written by Mostafa Helichi, also known as Jamal, an Ahwazi Arab poet who has been detained since December 2024. Helichi was sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges of "forming…...

17+ min ago  (899+ words) The June heatwave that broke a series of temperature records in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global warming in a continent once complacent about its relatively gentle climate and its ambitious goals on reducing emissions....

15+ min ago  (141+ words) Pride month's biggest weekend continued along the downtown waterfront with music, parades and more. By Ashley Neyra, Hannah Walls St. Petersburg's waterfront was vibrant with every color of the rainbow Saturday, as revelers gathered for a festival before the St....

42+ min ago  (257+ words) India Today Britain will formally apologise on Thursday for a decades-long practice in which tens of thousands of unmarried mothers were separated from their babies and the children were put up for adoption. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the final…...

24+ min ago  (922+ words) A family-owned pediatric dentistry office in Mahoning County, Melissa Mullane Padgett, DDS, employs mostly women, the majority of whom are moms. The practice is one of only 22 employers in the state participating in a little-known childcare subsidy program: Child Care…...

3+ min ago  (379+ words) Julia Gillard now says she didn't know what she was voting for in 2013, but the patron of LGBTQA+ activist group Equality Australia, Governor General Sam Mostyn, can't be in any doubt. Equality Australia is at the forefront of enforcing what…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1190+ words) Editor's note: This is part of a series exploring the lives of Great American Catholics ahead of the United States' 250th anniversary celebration. (OSV News) " As the Revolutionary War drew to a close and the 13 former British colonies were being transformed…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (232+ words) Following the unauthorized episcopal consecrations carried out by the ultra-conservative Society of St Pius X, the Vatican has officially confirmed the excommunication of the six individuals involved. The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that the four…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (138+ words) During the panel session, the Director-General highlighted the statutory mandate of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in promoting sustainable energy development and underscored Jigawa State's abundant solar and biomass resources as strategic assets for expanding clean energy investment, improving energy…...