Marriage | The French National Assembly approved same-sex marriage today,
finalizing a law that has divided the country and sparked massive
protests for months. Police braced themselves by the thousands
ahead of the vote,
Marriage |
Months of protests from hundreds of thousands of traditional
marriage supporters have failed to withstand a shove toward
homosexual marriage in France. This…
Marriage |
The French National Assembly approved a bill Tuesday that legalizes
gay marriage and allows same-sex couples to adopt children,
following months of protests…
Islam |
In secular Europe, countries are starting to see a blowback, not
toward their historic Christian roots, but toward Islam. Islam has
been growing in European…
International |
The Egyptian government declared emergency law in three canal
region cities following recent violence and demonstrations. Cairo
scholar Essam Abdalla told me…
International |
“Terrorists should be on notice,” said Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta today in London, following the Algerian army’s raid to
release an unknown number…
International |
The French defense minister says fighting in Mali will be “long,”
as French forces today moved into towns just south of areas
captured recently by Islamic…
International |
And then there were none. As recently as two weeks ago, military
experts were discussing the hard-to-fathom option of the Obama
administration leaving as few…
Newsworthy |
In your face. President Obama will nominate former Republican Sen.
Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense later today, and even before
the nomination was…
International |
Tensions are growing in Maban County, South Sudan—an area we’ve
focused on that has a rich heritage of Christian ministry and has
since mid-2011 attracted…
France |
One of my favorite films is the 1986
Jean de Florette,
so when its star Gérard Depardieu was suddenly all over the
newspapers here I was sucked into what is…
International |
In another shooting by suspected Islamists in Karachi, five female
health workers vaccinating children against polio have been killed
in Pakistan. Masked men…
