Filipino women working overseas remit dollars back home and export Christianity to the country where they are employed.
The death this month of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we are still in danger of forgetting about the lessons of the Holocaust.
Don't sell the dinner table — family meals are making a comeback. There is even a book about their surprising power.
If the law of the land allows disabled children to be killed, can there be any cooperation with it? A thoughtful new book investigates one of the most difficult issues of our time.
An international research team has finally sequenced the chimpanzee genome and found a mere one per cent difference with the human genome. Spanish geneticist Julio Coll explains the significance in an interview.
The surprising success of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels is due to their simple, invigorating affirmation that life has beauty and meaning.
Along with the National Guard, an army of grief and trauma counsellors is bearing down on the people uprooted by hurricane Katrina. But is that what they really need?
World Youth Day in Cologne dumbfounded a sceptical German media. Here’s how an unassuming Pope tore up their agenda.
Ireland has the second-highest youth suicide rate in the world. The experts are scratching their heads about what to do.
Three eminent representatives of the “Peoples of the Book” -- Jews, Christians and Muslims -- engage in a trialogue in an effort to promote mutual understanding.
The London Zoo has placed a new primate on display for its summer tourists: homo sapiens. But does he belong behind bars with his monkey cousins?
Doctors are getting better at telling parents their baby has Down syndrome. According to research by a Harvard medical student, they need to.
It's commonly thought that filtering objectionable sites and email from the internet is virtually impossible. It's not true: we just have to try.
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.
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