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  Protesters march outside the venue of the UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland.  CNS photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register December 14, 2018 Standing on the outside looking in as the world’s environment ministers and their armies of technocrats hammered out the rulebook for Paris Agreement on climate change, Canadian Josianne Gauthier wished there was an injection of urgency onto the agenda. Top Stories Israel's foreign workers visit pop-up Christmas market to help cure homesickness Covenant Health revises assisted suicide policy Catholics ask for more 'heart and soul' at UN environmental conference Postwar orphans were sex abuse victims of German clergy, investigation finds Proposal would increase power of archbishops in dealing with sex abuse “We need more emotion in all of this, more heart and soul,” she told The Catholic Register on a call from Poland. “Get out of your head, get out of your numbers and do what’s right. Th...

Ben Carson: We won’t allow forgotten Americans to be left behind. Here’s how. By Ben Carson December 14, 2018 at 7:06 PM A derelict building stanin the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. (Allison Joyce/Bloomberg) Ben Carson is the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development. The nation’s unemployment rate is at a 49-year low , wages are on the rise , and last year, the official poverty rate fell from 12.7 percent to 12.3 percent , with even larger decreases and record lows for Hispanic Americans and African Americans. While all these indicators are great news, not everyone is benefiting from the improved economy. Investment in many places in this country has lagged for generations. A mere 20 counties accounted for half the national increase in businesses from 2010 to 2014. Meanwhile, small counties (fewer than 100,000 residents) accounted for only 9 percent of all job growth between 2010 and 2014. Small wonder that frustration is running high among those who feel they have bee...

Nataliya Vasilyeva Dec 14, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS In this file photo from Nov. 4, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, left, walk to lay flowers at the monument of Minin and Pozharsky at Red Square in Moscow, during National Unity Day. The Russian Church said on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, that Patriarch Kirill has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other spiritual leaders, urging them to help protect the clerics, believers and their faith in Ukraine. (Credit: Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP.) MOSCOW, Russia - The Russian Orthodox church on Friday called on Pope Francis, the United Nations, the leaders of Germany and France, and other spiritual leaders to protect believers in Ukraine in the face of pressure on Moscow-affiliated clerics. Ukraine’s Orthodox clerics will gather for a meeting Saturday that is expected to f...

The flights come as both Russia and Venezuela are embroiled in major crises that have drawn fierce international rebukes. By Joseph Trevithick December 13, 2018 Russian MoD Russia says a pair of its Tu-160 Blackjacks flew a 10-hour patrol over the Caribbean Sea from a base in Venezuela. The Kremlin had recently sent the strategic bombers, along with other aircraft and supporting personnel, to the Latin American country, which is in the grips of a protracted political and economic crisis . The deployment also came in the wake of renewed criticism of Russia's intervention in Ukraine following a skirmish in the Kerch Strait in November 2018. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the sorties over the Caribbean had taken place on Dec. 12, 2018. Venezuelan Air Force F-16A/B Viper and Su-30MKV Flanker-C fighter jets also flew with the bombers during certain points of the mission, according to Russia. The two Tu-160s, along with an An-124 cargo plane and an Il-62 passenger t...

Reuters December 13, 2018 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko poses with NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of a meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will supply Ukraine's military with secure communication equipment this month, its head Jens Stoltenberg told President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting on Thursday called to discuss an escalation of Kiev's conflict with Moscow. Stoltenberg praised Ukraine's "calm and restraint" after Russia seized of three its naval vessels and their crew off Crimea last month. Part of a 40 million euros ($46 million) pledge by the Western military alliance to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces, Stoltenberg said the secure communications equipment would be delivered by the end of the year. The NATO chief reiterated support for the former Soviet nations' aspirations to join the alliance - a plan which Moscow vehementl...