Former U.S. Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson hopes his country can redeem itself after torturing an unknown but certainly large number of detainees. “There is no persuasive evidence in the public record that the widespread use of torture against suspected terrorists was necessary,” he said during a press briefing Tuesday in Washington. “Torture often produces false [...]

Two new reports, put out by a cross-section of U.S. environmental and public interest groups, are attacking central rationales for the construction of a major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline proposal, which has emerged as an emblematic cause for green groups who have angrily denounced a U.S. government approvals process. A new study released Tuesday by [...]

Joan Erakit interviews JOSEPHINE BOURNE, associate director at UNICEF, on upcoming ministerial meetings on global education

The U.S. government’s main watchdog on Monday reported that U.S. corporations are paying taxes on less than half of their declared income, largely due to dozens of tax breaks that have come under increased scrutiny in recent months. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is reporting that U.S. companies received tax breaks worth around 181 billion [...]

“Be a climate-protection hero, not a climate victim” is the message energy experts from around the world are bringing to San Francisco Tuesday. It is the first conference in U.S. history where the leaders in the 100-percent renewable energy revolution will share their knowledge and vision. “There are powerful economic and environmental reasons for this [...]

The spreading economic crisis is taking a bite out of Western military spending – even as the world’s developing nations, along with Russia and China, boosted their arms expenditures last year. In a study released Monday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported a decline in military spending last year in the United States, [...]

Gustavo Capdevila interviews NÉSTOR OSORIO, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the U.N.

The powerful Swiss commodity sector is under fire here, as citizens fed up with government inaction on charges of corporate corruption, tax evasion and lack of transparency gear up for major protests. Switzerland is anything but a country rich in raw materials but it is, nevertheless, a major hub for international commodity trade, hosting some [...]

Today’s youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say “go”. This weekend at New York’s Columbia University, the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) teamed up with Columbia’s Teachers College for a symposium titled “Conversations Across Cultures: Youth Media [...]

The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025. Together, these two diseases account for around 30 percent of all deaths of children under five years old, around two million every year. According to new [...]

Contact: Andrew Walther, Knights of Columbus, 203-824-5412NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 8, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Knights of Columbus filed formal comments with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today, calling on the Administration to rescind the unpopular healthcare mandate that will force Americans of faith to cover medical services that violate their consciences without regard for their First Amendment's rights.The letter, signed by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, Source: knights of columbus

Contact: Dawn Williams, 415-651-4171, dawn.williams@ccgaction.orgWASHINGTON, April 4, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- During the oral arguments in the DOMA case before the US Supreme Court, Solicitor General Verilli stunned observers by acknowledging that the Congress can define marriage for the purpose of interpreting federal laws and regulations without encroaching on the states'rights to define and regulate the institution. He emphasized that the Court should strike the definition of marr Source: Teresa Tomeo Communications

Contact: Peggy Nienaber, Faith and Action, 202-546-8329; after business hours, 202-236-0953WASHINTON, March 28, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Reverend Dr. Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK), evangelical minister to top-elected and appointed officials on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, and a long-time observer at the Supreme Court, issued the following statement after siting in on both historic same-sex marriages cases argued before the justices this past Tuesday and Wednesday:&qu Source: Faith and Action

Contact: Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas, Elijah Ministries, 254-715-3134OPINION, March 28, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- This ruling by the Supreme Court on the so-called"Gay Marriage"issue has the potential to be the Roe vs. Wade ruling of this generation. Interestingly enough, both abominations are twin roots of the same tree nurturing the culture of death. They are both Anti-Christ, anti-life, anti-family, and anti-child. Regardless of which way the Supreme Cort rules, the truth is man cannot m Source: Elijah Ministries

Contact: Don Feder, 508-405-1337, dfeder@rcn.com; The Howard Center for Family, Religion&Society, 815-964-5819, media@worldcongress.orgWASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- World Congress of Families (WCF) was proud to be a co-sponsor of the March 26th March for Marriage in Washington, D.C. where more than 10,000 pro-marriage citizens and a coalition of more than 45 organizations from across the country and from every walk of life marched and ralli Source: World Congress of Families