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Fearing that the 1,500-year-old roof of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity could collapse at any time, the Palestinian Authority is looking into how to repair the wooden and leaking top of the basilica built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian around 6oo A.D. “After centuries of neglect, the ancient and dilapidated roof of Bethlehem’s Church of…

Oh what fun it is to sing in the mall while your parents and grandparents and godparents record the grand event! Wearing a cool Christmas hat! So, while singing their hearts out, challenging shoppers to have a little love in their hearts, the kids took an unexpected tumble when their portable stage collapsed. The good…

The leader of Germany’s youth-dominated Piratenpartei Deutschland, the “German Pirates Party,” has admonished members to stop calling each other names on Twitter. If they must insult one another, they need to stop doing it on the party’s highly visible social media accounts, said party Sebastian Nerz. He noted that members’ public bickering is embarrassing the party. Ironically,…

Was it a case of an over-zealous bureaucrat? Safety officials trying to make a highly visible point about the need for car seat belts? “In a case that brought amusement to the Vatican, a German court decided to throw out charges against Pope Benedict for not wearing a seat belt during his recent papal visit…

An entire era is named for her  and symbolizes uptight attitudes about sensuality. But it turns out Queen Victoria may have had a behind-closed-doors side not suspected by the 19th Century public. Imperious, unapproachable, often speaking in an aloof plural first person — as in, “We are not amused” — she gave her name to…

One day after an outraged Congressman denounced a Pentagon ban on Bibles or any other religious literature in U.S. military hospitals, the Obama Administration has dropped the policy. But questions linger. Why would unelected bureaucrats think they can ban Bibles? How did such a policy ever get approved? Who is responsible? In Texas, an ongoing battle…

A duck hunter in Utah reported to a hospital emergency room and told medical workers that his dog shot him. In the derriere.  The glutteus maximus. Emergency room workers say the hunter won’t be sitting comfortably for a few days, but is expected to recover fully. “Dogs are man’s best friend,” reported Salt Lake City’s KSL. “Except, you…

Although Governor Lincoln Chafee has decided to declare the decorated evergreen in the State Capitol’s Rotunda a “holiday tree,” a chorus of Rhode Islanders are proclaiming it a Christmas Tree. In fact, a local talk show host is planning a “flash mob” at the governor’s ceremonial lighting — and is hoping more than 1,000 singers…

As the anniversary of Iran’s 2010 Christmas raids on Christian homes and house-based churches approaches, Iran’s minister of intelligence has announced that underground Evangelical churches pose a serious threat to the nation’s youth. Meanwhile a senior Iranian religious official said Christianity is worse than Satanism. Inelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said the Ministry of Intelligence “has already…

Faced with local regulations banning skyscrapers, a Mexico City architect wants instead to build a 65-story pyramid at the center of Mexico’s religious and cultural hub. And bury it. Edwardo Suarez of the prestigious Mexico City architectural firm BNKR Arquitectura wants to burrow 1,000 feet under the Mexican capital’s most famous square, the historic Zócalo — Mexico City’s…
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