At least 185 people have been killed in fighting between Nigerian forces and Islamic extremists in a north-eastern town, according to officials. A local government official in Baga has visited Borno state officials on Sunday with information that the massacre started on Friday and lasted for hours, AP reports. He added that 185 bodies had been buried, but the death toll is thought to be greater, as... 

Members of armed Chechen groups who in August 1996 took part in fighting against federal forces in Grozny. The US may be shocked that the terrorist suspects behind the Boston bombings are Chechen natives, but Russia has long cautioned Washington about giving asylum to Islamists from the North Caucasus, political analyst Dmitry Babich told RT. Two bombs exploded in Boston during the city’s Marathon... 

One person has reportedly been killed and 66 wounded when clashes erupted outside a Coptic cathedral in Cairo after funeral prayers were held for four Christians killed in sectarian violence. There are conflicting reports on how exactly the clashes erupted. AFP, citing witnesses, writes that mourners who were chanting against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood were pelted with stones as they left the church.... 

The holiest Jewish site in Syria – the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus – has been looted and burned, and its roof blown off. The Syrian army and rebel forces have both blamed each other for the demolition of the historic landmark. It is believed that the Jobar Synagogue, one of the world’s oldest, was built atop a cave where the Prophet Elijah once hid from persecution. One of the... 

President warns ‘extremists thrive in chaos’ as he resists US lawmakers’ calls to involve US any deeper in Syrian uprising. Barack Obama delivered a grave warning on Friday about the danger of post-Assad Syria becoming a haven for Islamist extremists. He portrayed a nightmare scenario in which Syrian institutions were destroyed beyond recognition and the country divided by sectarianism,... 

Eight Femen activists undressed and flashed their breasts inside the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The notorious female group marked Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation in typically scandalous and blasphemous fashion. The Ukrainian feminazis entered the Gothic cathedral on Tuesday dressed in long coats, before disrobing near the altar. The bodies of the activists were painted with slogans... 

Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I, appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after being elected by the conclave of cardinals at the Vatican on March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, of Argentina has been elected as Pope. He is the first Pope from Latin America in the history of the Catholic Church. The new Pope was announced by French Cardinal Jean-Louis... 

Cardinals attend a “Mass for the Election of the Supreme Pontiff” in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on March 12, 2013. Black smoke has billowed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, indicating that cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have not chosen a new pope on their first day in the Vatican conclave. The secret vote for the selection of the next pontiff got underway on... 

The Iranian female activists have followed the footsteps of the scandalous Ukrainian FEMEN movement, flashing their breasts in protest against the hijab headscarf, women wear in the Islamic world. The action performed by members of the Iranian Communist Party and the Organization Against Violence on Women in Iran took place in the center of the Swedish capital, Stockholm on Sunday, and was dedicated... 

Pope Benedict XVI Cardinals from all around the world have gathered in the Vatican to discuss ‘what sort of Pope the Church needs now’, following the resignation of Benedict XVI. More than 100 Catholic cardinals began talks in Vatican City on Monday to help identify candidates for the papal position. French cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois told reporters, “We’re going to take as much time as we need... 

The ancestor of all mammals (including humans) is said to be an animal similar to a rat. The recent media splash (originally published in The New York Times) about finding the hypothetical common ancestor of all mammals is based upon nothing more than the evolutionary argument (assumption) that DNA and biological similarities between species is evidence for common ancestry. However, what if the DNA... 

The Obama administration has declared war on the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations in the US. The soon to be implemented “Affordable Care Act” has several provisions in it which will adversely affect religious organizations. The US government is requiring religious organizations to comply with this law, some of which violates their religious beliefs. The law requires all... 

In what some are calling a display of divine displeasure at the pope’s decision to resign, a bolt of lightening struck the Cross atop the dome of Peter’s Basilica in Rome only hours after the Pope’s shocking announcement. The pope’s decision left Catholics confused and bewildered as to the direction in which the Church is now headed.”Quo Vadis” is a Latin phrase... 

It looks like an episode of Dan Brown’s sagas involving secret societies, conspiracies, the opus Dei and the prophecies of Malachy, who predicted the pope’s resignation and a final crisis in the already chaotic history of the Catholic Church. Are the days of Armageddon finally near, especially after the Maya deception of 2012? Last night a lightning stroke a dome in the city of the Vatican.... 

A stunning Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) report prepared for President Putin, which is circulating in the Kremlin today, states that Pope Benedict XVI was forced to resign this past week over Catholic Church fears that this 85-year-old leader of over 1 billion Christians was “mentally and physically unprepared” to deal with the coming revelation about the truth of alien beings. In our 22 January...