Monsignor Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda, a member of the Curia, the Catholic Church’s de-facto central government, was arrested along with 33-year-old Francesca Chaouqui, a laywoman who had previously worked as a corporate lobbyist and public relations specialist. Vallejo Balda served as the secretary of COSEA, a special taskforce assembled by Pope Francis in 2013 to make the Vatican’s opaque financial practices more transparent, and Chaouqui had been invited to join the group by the Monsignor.

Two new exposés about the Vatican are due to come out on Thursday. One, called Merchants in the Temple, was written by Gianluigi Nuzzi, who collected documents from the previous Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele. The new book from Nuzzi, who is thought to be a friend of Chaouqui, will disclose more details concerning the final months of Pope Benedict’s reign, which may have ended, at least in part, due to pervasive allegations, smears, and exposes surrounding the Vatican.

The second book, entitled Avarice, was written by Emiliano Fittipaldi, who claims it will bring to light corruption during the reign of Pope Francis. The Vatican’s communiqué did not directly accuse the arrested insiders of contributing to the books, but specifically mentioned the new exposés, and hinted that they were “the result of a serious betrayal of trust of the Pope.”

“Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion, partial and tendentious interpretations. We must absolutely avoid the mistake of thinking that this is a way to help the mission of the Pope,” said the Vatican.

“We thought it was never going to come to Pennsylvania in our lifetime,” said Bosee, a former freelance writer. But the legal maneuver has backfired now that the long-time partners, together since 1970, want to get married.

While same-sex couples can wed, parents and children cannot. And an Allegheny County judge has refused a petition by the Pittsburgh couple to dissolve the adoption, leaving them no clear path to marriage bliss. “It’s sort of ironic that by doing the adoption, we thought we were getting ahead of the game,” Bosee said.

This is the question that many in Jordan have been asking in light of the recent agreement between Israel and Jordan that was reached under the auspices of US Secretary of State John Kerry. The idea was first raised by Jordan's King Abdullah in a bid to ease tensions at the holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In an attempt to prevent Jews from entering the approximately 37-acre (150,000 m2) site, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement in Israel hired scores of Muslim men and women to harass the Jewish visitors and the police officers escorting them. The men are referred to as Murabitoun, while the women are called Murabitat (defenders or guardians of the faith).

These men and women have since been filmed shouting and trying to assault Jews and policemen at the Haram al-Sharif. This type of video evidence is something that the Palestinian Authority is trying to avoid. The PA, together with the Islamic Movement, wants the men and women to continue harassing the Jews under the pretext of "defending" the al-Aksa Mosque from "destruction" and "contamination."

The installation of surveillance cameras at the site will expose the aggressive behavior of the Murabitoun and Murabitat, and show the world who is really "desecrating" the Islamic holy sites and turning them into a base for assaulting and abusing Jewish visitors and policemen.

“If the European political establishment maintains its stranglehold on power, it seems unavoidable that Islam will continue to build a political presence that will ultimately lead to Muslim uprisings and a European reaction outside of accepted political channels,” said GM Davis. Davis, a Stanford PhD and the author of “House of War: Islam’s Jihad Against the World,” believes the only way the problem could be solved peacefully is through “an effective anti-Islamic political movement” taking shape in Europe “within a generation.”

The situation in Europe already seems to be spiraling out of control. Austrians are stocking up on weapons, and intelligence analysts warn of an imminent terrorist attack in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, European governments are cracking down on their own populations, even as tens of thousands of Muslim men are marching through the countryside like an invading army. Davis argues if mainstream political forces are not able to quell the continuous influx of Muslim migrants into Europe, “grassroots organizations” will take up the “defense of Europe.”

Diana West, a WND columnist and the author of “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization,” says the real enemy Europeans face isn’t invading Muslims. It’s their own governments.

She explains: “These governments have rejected their own most basic responsibilities to safeguard and perpetuate their own peoples, religions, native cultures, law, public safety, homelands – everything except the One World ‘multicultural’ (read: non-Western) ideology. It’s staggering to behold this overt rush to abandon sovereignty and everything else for globalist prerogatives. Their template, Marxist in origin, is perhaps best described as ‘forced diversity.’” West charges that states such as Germany and Sweden are “in effect overthrowing their own peoples.”

“The situation with Islam that seems to be unfolding suggests what happened with the rise of communism and Nazism: because no one wants to face the possibility of having to use force to suppress such an ideology – and force is an undeniable possibility – then no one will recognize the nature of the problem itself.” The result is a Europe essentially doomed to inaction by its own democratic practices until it is too late.

The German chancellor, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has angered Mr Seehofer, who heads the Christian Social Union (CSU), with her open-door policy and her repeated claims that Germany can cope with the estimated 800,000 to one million asylum applications it expects by the end of this year.

Mr Gabriel said that strife between the conservative parties was creating even more uncertainty in Germany as fears grow that the country cannot cope with the new arrivals. “This form of blackmail and insults from both sides is undignified and simply irresponsible,” he told German news magazine Spiegel Online on Friday.

“The dispute between Horst Seehofer’s CSU and the CDU chairman Angela Merkel would already seem bizarre at normal times." Mr Seehofer, whose state of Bavaria is the entry point in Germany for many of the migrants, has threatened unspecified consequences if Mrs Merkel does not take concrete steps to stem the flow of thousands of refugees entering Bavaria via Austria.

“Given the big challenge our country is facing due to the large immigration of refugees, the dispute between the CDU and the CSU is now threatening the government’s ability to act. The longer the dispute in the conservative bloc lasts, the more people will turn away from politics and the more ground the Right-wing radicals will gain."

Popocatepetl is an Aztec word that means “smoking mountain”, and it is also the name of a giant volcano that sits approximately 50 miles away from Mexico City’s 18 million residents. “Popo”, as it is called by locals, was dormant for much of the 20th century, but it came back to life in 1994. And now all of this unusual activity in recent weeks has many wondering if a major eruption may be imminent.

Mexico City is not in a particularly safe location. In addition to Popocatepetl, the city also sits in an area that is prone to experiencing earthquakes. One of these days we could see an event that could destroy much or all of Mexico City, and if that happened the entire economy of Mexico would immediately collapse and millions of refugees would start streaming north. So ultimately Popocatepetl is not just a Mexican problem. If a major eruption took place, it would quickly become a US problem too.

In just about every possible way that you can imagine, our world is becoming more unstable. In North America, we have been blessed with a long period of peace and prosperity, and we have had only a few major seismic events over the past several decades. But now things are changing. The planet is starting to shake, and I believe that it is going to get a lot worse in the years ahead. And these great natural disasters that are coming will combine with all of the other major problems that we are currently facing to create something of a “perfect storm” which will bring our nation to its knees.

The US space agency research claims an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is "currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from melting glaciers. Global warming theories have been thrown into doubt after Nasa also claimed current horror predictions into future sea-level rises may not be as severe.

Major studies previously made the case for global warming being a man-made problem, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which said that Antarctica was overall losing land ice. But a Nasa spokesman said: "According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. "That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008."

Siberia’s wildfire season has lengthened in recent years and the 2015 blazes were among the biggest yet, caking the lake, the “Pearl of Siberia”, in ash and scorching the surrounding permafrost. But the Russian public heard little mention of climate change, because media coverage across state-controlled television stations and print media all but ignored it. On national TV, the villains were locals who routinely but carelessly burn off tall grasses every year, and the sometimes incompetent crews struggling to put the fires out.

While Western media have examined the role of rising temperatures and drought in this year’s record wildfires in North America, Russian media continue to pay little attention to an issue that animates so much of the world. The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December’s UN climate summit in Paris.

Russia’s official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians “spend less on fur coats” while “agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that”.

In other parts of the US, working wind turbines are killing hundreds of thousands of birds and bats each year, but here the wildlife can perch on the motionless steel blades. If any spot was tailor-made for a wind farm it would surely be here. The gales are so strong and relentless on the tip of South Point that trees grow almost horizontally. Yet the 27-year-old Kamaoa Wind Farm remains a relic of the boom and inglorious bust of America’s so-called ‘wind rush’, the world’s first major experiment in wind energy.

At a time when the EU and the British Government are fully paid-up evangelists for wind power, the lesson from America — and the ghostly hulks on this far-flung coast — should be a warning of their folly. Few people were talking about saving the planet back in the early Eighties. The wind rush was a free-for-all in which get-rich-quick companies exploited ridiculously generous tax breaks to pepper the States with thousands of wind turbines.

For anyone who has questioned Downing Street’s controversial pledge — spurred on by EU green targets — to give £400 million-a-year subsidies to wind farms as well as hefty bribes to landowners in order to spur the building of an additional 4,500 turbines, the wind rush may sound eerily familiar. Indeed, America’s growing band of wind sceptics insist that what happened three decades ago in the US could easily recur over the next few years in the UK if the wheels come off the wind energy gravy train once again.

Last April, dozens of Arab youths, some masked, rioted on the Temple Mount, throwing stones and fire crackers at security forces deployed to the scene. The clashes led to the compound being closed to visitors and the arrests of dozens suspected of violent acts. Such scenes constantly reoccur in the compound. Given that any development related to the flashpoint location could result in wide-spread Palestinian unrest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely try to torpedo the proposal.

If that were to happen, Regev, who heads an Knesset's Internal Affairs committee, will turn to the High Court of Justice for resolution of the sensitive issue. Initially, Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan attempted to change worshipping rights on the Mount through regulations, but delay in their implementation led Regev to seek a quicker resolution. "There is no reason that Jews should not be allowed to pray in the holiest site in the world," she said on Saturday.

Regev said she would not desist until that was achieved. "I firmly believe that each event of Muslim unrest on the Mount should lead to its closure to Arabs. The prime minister is not the only decider on the issue, and if the proposal does not pass I'll turn to the High Court for Justice in a public petition until Jews are allowed to pray with tallit and tefillin on the Temple Mount."

The Likud MK emphasized that the bill's aim was not unrealistic: "When we enforced Israeli law on the Golan Heights they said it would cause riots. But just like the sky doesn't come tumbling down when Jews pray in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the sky will not fall now."

The article, published on the infamous clickbait rag Salon.com, further proves that there is indeed a war on Christianity being waged by hard left zealots who absolutely despise Christians themselves and want nothing more than to fully remove the religion from the country.

To Tayler, and his apparent supporters at Salon, God is mankind’s “sworn enemy” while Satan is their ally in combating the Almighty. But remember, only crazed right wingers think that the liberal media is conducting psychological warfare on Christians throughout the country. “This is a direct example of a popular liberal writer gushing over the greatness of Satan; yet the American people are expected to believe that no one is attacking their religious liberty?”

Why is the liberal media promoting Satan while calling for disrespecting all Christians if there really is no such thing as a War on Christianity? Keep in mind that Tayler’s piece isn’t just the ramblings of a hate monger. It was prominently featured on a high traffic liberal mainstream news outlet that has a history of anti Christian bias. Make no mistake, Tayler’s beliefs are held by a startling number of left leaning extremists throughout every facet of the country.

He said: ‘Halloween is really a spiritual gathering presented as a form of game.’ ‘Europe is pulling away from God and Jesus and worshipping Satan. So should we really be surprised that the world seems to be going to wrack and ruin.

'And psychiatrical and psychological studies show that children can’t sleep, are agitated, depressed, obsessed, suicidal?’ Pope Francis likes to insist that Satan is real and speaks frequently about the Devil’s work.

“Microplastics are a particular threat to organisms due to their small size and their capacity to absorb persistent organic pollutants,” said the report, led by Shi Huahong of the university’s Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Research and peer-reviewed in Environmental Science and Technology. Although the oceans close to China appear to be a “hotspot” for microplastic pollutants, it is unlikely Chinese table salt is the only salt that is contaminated with plastics.

“Plastics have become such a ubiquitous contaminant, I doubt it matters whether you look for plastic in sea salt on Chinese or American supermarket shelves,” Sherri Mason, an environmental science researcher at the State University of New York Fredonia told Scientific American. “I’d like to see some ‘me-too’ studies,” she added.

The TEC recommends an indefinite moratorium on the field trials of GM crops until the government devises a proper regulatory and safety mechanism. Prominent campaigner Aruna Rodrigues argues that official regulators have hidden all data about GM mustard from the public and the independent scientific community, which is against constitutional provisions and the orders of the Supreme Court. She concludes this means one thing: mandatory rigorous biosafety protocols have not been carried out and the data pertaining to ‘mustard DMH 11’ therefore needs to be concealed.

Rodrigues asserts that the secrecy surrounding GM mustard exemplifies the appalling state of regulation and smacks of corruption. She concludes the Indian government is using underhand means to introduce GM crops into Indian agriculture and that there appears to be no place for science or transparency in this process.

Marcus Söder, the Bavarian finance minister and a potential future CSU chief, called the party strife “the most difficult situation in decades” in an interview published on Thursday.

Horst Seehofer, the CSU chairman — whose hard line on immigration has challenged the chancellor’s more welcoming policy — declined to comment on reports that he is considering pulling the three CSU ministers out of her cabinet. But he has done little to temper speculation by telling the German media: “Anything is possible.”

The CSU’s ties with the CDU have been strained before, notably in 1976, when the party briefly left its alliance in a row over parliamentary speaking time. But the two partners have always made up; knowing that their grip on power is stronger for staying together — a reality Mr Seehofer and Ms Merkel will have to weigh against their deep differences in a historic crisis.