In the West, German President-Chancellor Adolf Hitler is vilified by state media as a genocidal maniac. However, elsewhere in the world, the former fuhrer is considered a political inspiration. Adolf Hitler is as much admired today as he ever was. Yet, Soviet dictator and unelected Winston Churchill are detested. Few people have heard of U.S. President Truman who at the end of World War II was also... 

She is at an age when many Western career-driven women are just thinking about having their own family. But Imogen Banham, 30, already has plenty of maternal experience after eight children in ten years. She’s an example to society that all European women should follow. She jokes that she may be Britain’s most fertile woman, having never gone more than ten months without being pregnant since... 

Many people ask us why the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7th. These same people may also have wondered why the Soviet Union celebrated the “October Revolution” on November 7th, and the answers to both questions are related. At the time the communists seized power in Russia, Russia still used the Julian calendar, so named for Julius Caesar, who established it as the official... 

Just a few days ago, the world celebrated the beginning of a New Year, and already there are serious doubts about whether the world will still be here to see the end of it. As I’ve argued in several previous Pravda.Report articles, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become convinced that most struggles and conflicts in the world are not based on “good vs. evil,” but instead between... 

A crowd of 88,000 Jews gathered at MetLife Stadium on Saturday to celebrate the reading of the entire Talmud, a historic event that drew heavy police presence after the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the metropolitan area: The Siyum HaShas event marks the end of the 7 1/2 years it takes to read the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud, the source of ethics and laws for Orthodox Jews. The East Rutherford,... 

On Tuesday at the opening of an international conference on persecuted Christians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asserted that Europe can only be saved if it “returns to the source of its real values: its Christian identity”: “Europe is quiet,” Orban said. “A mysterious force shuts the mouths of European politicians and cripples their arms.” He said the issue of Christian persecution... 

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” So Karl Marx wrote in 1843. For three generations over the course of the 20th century his atheist disciples violently sought to break their subjects of this “opium” addiction. They failed. In many though not all parts of the former communist... 

Rival factions within the Methodist church are contemplating a divorce, weighing plans to split in half due to an intractable dispute over its current ban on gay marriage and LGBT clergy. The plan will be considered at the church’s major yearly conference in Minneapolis, set for May, which if approved would rupture the denomination into traditionalist and ‘progressive’ camps. The former branch... 

The head of the Italian League party, Matteo Salvini, has playfully mocked the Pope’s viral New Year’s handshake faux pas with a tongue-in-cheek recreation, spreading mirth online to wrap up the festive season. Pope Francis would clearly have rathered a different end to 2019 but was instead embroiled in a controversy, albeit minor, on December 31, when he appeared to slap away a rather overly... 

After receiving a strong dose of diversity, the ‘new normal’ for New Years celebrations in the Netherlands involves downplaying death, riots, arson, violent attacks, and where even the torching of an iconic Dutch windmill is barely worth mentioning amid all the other mayhem: At midnight the Netherlands rang in 2020 with firework shows in Rotterdam and The Hague, where the thick fog cleared just... 

Pope Francis, in a Saturday message delivered from the Vatican, took aim at conservative Catholics, warning that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith was turning people away, and that the church must adapt to a post-Christian west. Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See. Catholicism’s... 

British ‘ethical vegan’ Jordi Casamitjana hopes to have his whole movement recognized by an employment tribunal as a protected belief, similar to a religious faith – which could give vegan zealots free rein in the workplace. Casamitjana says he was fired from his job because of his beliefs – he disclosed to other employees at the League Against Cruel Sports that it invested its pension funds... 

Pope Francis described violence against women as “a blasphemy against God.” A day earlier, the frustrated pontiff slapped the hand of a woman who yanked him towards her. Pope Francis issued a rare public apology on Wednesday for slapping the hand of a pilgrim who grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her. The apology came as the pontiff used his New Year’s Day homily to condemn... 

The State of Israel has promised to get involved with the investigation of a non-fatal stabbing in Rockland County, New York, where a deranged Black man walked into a rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah celebration Saturday night and injured five people who were taken to nearby hospitals, according to police: The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley Region said in a tweet that... 

Footage shows Pope Francis slapping a woman’s hand in response to her grabbing his hand and yanking him toward her. Making an appearance at the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday, 83-year-old Pope Francis was greeted by thousands of tourists and Romans. When the woman tugged at the Pope, he struck her hand twice in an attempt to free his own hand and scowled as he walked away. It’s...