Andre Mitchell

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  Half of all black gay men in U.S. will contract HIV in their lifetimes, CDC says

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects that half of all black gay men residing in the US at present will contract the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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  U.S. Republican Party urges members to reject LGBT drive for transgenders' use of opposite-sex bathrooms

  The Republican party's leadership recently urged its members to reject the effort of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and other school facilities designed for members of the opposite sex.

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  Christian bakers in Texas won't make wedding cake for gay couple since they 'run a business that honours God'

  Standing up to their religious beliefs, a Christian family running a bakery in Texas declined to bake a wedding cake for a homosexual couple.

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  Pope Francis' pregnant receptionist found dead inside her room: Shadow over Vatican as police probe cause of death

  Vatican City, the smallest state in the world, is usually perceived as a holy and peaceful place, being the place where the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. These days, however, a tragic death is casting on this religious city, involving no less than Pope's seven-month pregnant receptionist.

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  Christians shouldn't try to convert Muslim migrants they're helping, says cardinal: 'It's manipulation of conscience'

  Roman Catholic Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller warned Christians against extending aid to refugees with the goal of changing their faith, saying this is equivalent to "practically a manipulation of the conscience."

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  More artificial babies soon? Chinese scientists successfully grow mouse sperm cells inside laboratory

  Scientists in China have successfully bred a handful of healthy mice from sperm cells they created themselves inside the laboratory using embryonic stem cells plucked from these animals.

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  Canadian government panel criticised for recommending euthanasia even for kids

  Alex Schadenberg, the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, told LifeSiteNews that the committee generally made "very bad" recommendations on how to implement the Canadian Supreme Court's decision last year to strike down the prohibition against assisted suicide and euthanasia in the nation.

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  Worse birth defects from Zika feared: Baby with virtually no brain dies inside mother's womb

  Medical practitioners are having reasons to believe that this virus can bring worse health effects, even to the extent of killing unborn children.

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  Astronomers able to locate fast radio bursts for the first time, but more mysteries remain unanswered

  For the first time in nearly a decade, a team of astronomers were able to reach a breakthrough in the study of FRBs: they were able to pinpoint the exact source of these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves.

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  Doctors slam Obama for opening U.S. borders to more sexually transmitted diseases: 'Why would they do this?'

  The United States government, through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently decided to lift the ban on immigrants with three types of sexually transmitted diseases from entering the country. This decision has left the American medical community thinking: what could the administration possibly be thinking?

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  Catholic ethics body: Zika virus outbreak does not justify 'intrinsically immoral' use of contraceptives

  In an opinion article published on Life Site, the National Catholic Bioethics Center said the threat posed by the Zika virus infection, especially to pregnant mothers and their babies, still do not justify contraceptive use.

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  Wearing hijab can be a form of 'passive terrorism,' U.S. military policy paper says

  For Muslim women, the hijab may only be an innocent veil they use to cover their heads and chests in compliance with Islamic teachings. For the United States military, however, this Muslim attire can be considered a form of "passive terrorism."