The E-U says employers may forbid the wearing of visible symbols of religious or political belief...and a bookseller group apologizes for sending a publication some deem as anti-transgender to independent stores.

20 states supporting South Carolina’s defense of a new abortion law...unmarked graves found on the grounds of another Catholic-run Indigenous residential school in British Columbia...and Pope Francis is back in the Vatican

A blind Chinese dissident and new U.S. citizen says the human rights situation in China is getting "worse and worse"...Pope Francis continues to recover...and a possible thaw of relations between Israel and Turkey.

The Biden administration is renewing genocide allegations against China..the World Health Organization issues new recommendations on human genome editing...and Pope Francis to remain in the hospital a few more days.

Parents of abducted students calling for international pressure on the Nigerian government...Christian leaders call on rival leaders of South Sudan to personally sacrifice for peace....and a Catholic group calling out Canada's Prime Minister over the Residential Schools scandal.

Missouri's governor opposes door-to-door promotion of Covid vaccines...South Carolina's governor appealing the pause of a new abortion law...and Mexico's Supreme Court rules on a law limiting abortions for rape victims.

The U.S. Air Force ruled largely responsible for 2017 Texas church shooting...over 120 students kidnapped from Baptist school in Nigeria...and the Pope continues to recover from surgery.

Police investigating vandalism at churches in Manitoba...vandalism at Spokane area Planned Parenthood...and the Pope recovering from surgery.

The U-S Supreme Court will take up one Religious Freedom case but has declined to hear another...and the Vatican is calling for an all-out effort to combat Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Britain's Methodist Church to allow same-sex marriages on its premises...Canada's Prime Minister speaks out on recent fires and vandalism at Catholic churches...and the Vatican hosts an evening prayer service with the leaders of Lebanon's Christian churches