Earlier this year, Costa Rica was at the forefront of a campaign in the United Nations to ban both reproductive and "therapeutic" cloning. In this exclusive interview MercatorNet speaks to a diplomat who handled the negotiations.
Successful World Youth Days in Cologne this year and in Sydney in 2008 could signal a revival of Christian faith in the listless West.
Strengthening the family is the answer to many of Africa's ailments, says Kenyan paediatrician, mother and award-winning novelist Margaret Ogola.
Parenting is about more than just good behaviour, says Sydney headmaster and author Andrew Mullins. It's about the hard slog of teaching virtues.
The modern world would have been completely different without the Crusades, says historian Thomas Madden in a MercatorNet interview.
The simple fact that most of us are sleep deprived could be the cause of much family tension and psychological angst.
The bicentenary of Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar is a stirring reminder of the heroism, daring and "zeal" of the heroes of the Romantic age.
The governments of Ireland and Britain are snatching at straws in their efforts to curb binge drinking by teenagers.
Believe it or not, many people find that their joy-to-stuff ration is much, much too low after they inherit their parents' estate.
For 25 years or more, the humanities have been in thrall to post-modernist Theory. Now its empire seems to be breaking up.
A hip-hop artist with a background in action-comedy films is causing a stir with his song and video about a prenatal brush with abortion.
There are superstitions and there are superstitions. Some are marginally more sensible than others.
British police killed an innocent man on a morning communter train, thinking that he might have been a suicide bomber. It was a tragic and unnecessary blunder.
The designers of video games are often unscrupulous. Industry ratings lack teeth. Governments feel it's all too hard. The last line of defence is mom and dad.
Comparing the benefits of single-sex education and coeducation.
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