There have been 38 homicides over the past four years in L.A. city parks. Over the same period, there have been 267 rapes, 1,844 assaults with a deadly weapon and 1,050 robberies. MORE

Residents on several eastern Caribbean islands have been advised to evacuate their homes after volcanoes that have remained quiet for decades rumbled into life.

Officials issued alerts on the island chain of St Vincent and the Grenadines, home to more than 100,000 people, as scientists rushed to study the renewed activity. MORE

A powerhouse storm explosively intensifying in the northern Pacific could rank as the strongest nontropical cyclone observed in that ocean basin.

The storm’s pressure has already dropped to 928 millibars on New Year’s Eve, and is predicted to drop as low as 920 millibars, which would be even lower than extreme cyclones that formed in the same vicinity in 2014 and 2015. MORE

Behold the Child Jesus offering for us to His Heavenly Father the first drops of His blood. Ask the grace of beginning this year with a renewal of fervor and generosity. 
From the Meditations on the Life or Our Lord Jesus Christ by the Rev. Father Bruno Vercruysee, S.J. 1859

Can’t say that I blame them. The U.S. closed their doors.

Chinese and European Union leaders agreed on Wednesday to make it easier for companies to operate on each other’s territory, a significant geopolitical victory for China when criticism of its human rights record and handling of the pandemic have left it increasingly isolated. MORE

‘Mom, We Need Food’: Thousands in South Sudan Near Famine MORE

Hundreds of migrants freezing in heavy snow in Bosnia camp … MORE

My decision some months ago to try to help a victim of clerical sexual abuse was not an easy one. I had neither personal experience with the victim nor firsthand knowledge of the facts in the case.  And since The Remnant is not an investigative journal, I had to weigh the potential for a good outcome against the certainty of scandalizing the faithful by publicizing the alleged sins of a priest. MORE

In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China. MORE

The Senate vote on Wednesday was a major victory for Latin America’s growing feminist movement, and its ripple effects are likely to be widespread. MORE

Officer Wells noted he began to walk towards the RV and Wells stated ‘This is my truth, I literally heard God tell me to turn around, I’m a spiritual person and so truly believe I am lead by that voice when I do this job.’ VIDEO

Depending on the app you use, three or four strong earthquakes hit off Chile on December 27, 2020 at 9:39 pm UTC.

These are called synchronous quakes, each of them having a ‘s-wave’ and a ‘p-wave’ MORE

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit central Croatia on Monday at 6.28 a.m. local time (0528 UTC), Croatian state television reported. The epicenter was near the towns of Petrinja and Sisak, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of the capital Zagreb. MORE