What should have been a happy homecoming to Norway for Leif and Terese Kristiansen turned into a parent’s worst nightmare when the Barnevernet (Norway’s child welfare agency) brutally removed their son, Kai, after they started homeschooling.

In late January, Turkey started to invade Afrin in North-West Syria, as it wants to eradicate the self-governance of the Kurdish, Arab, Syriac-Assyrian and Turkmen peoples in The Federation of Northern Syria, and to destroy the Syrian Democratic Forces (which were responsible for defeating ISIS in North and East Syria, with help from the US and EU Member States).

Innocent civilians in Afrin have been killed.

Over a year ago, we were alarmed about an increasingly serious problem related to gender ideology in sport.

Unfortunately, the rules of the International Olympic Committee still allow a man to compete in a woman's competition if his testosterone level for the last 12 months does not exceed 10 nanomoles per liter.

King Michael of Romania - the country's last monarch - has passed away. (+RIP)

Aged 96, King Michael died of a cancer-related illness at his residence in Switzerland, on Tuesday.

This "book of prayers and condolences" will be sent to the Romanian Royal Family - including Princess Margareta, who will now receive the title of Queen.

In Belgium, the Red Cross has ordered the local branches to remove the crucifixes which now adorn the premises of its local branches. The organisation claims to be doing so in the name of impartiality and neutrality...

But, many volunteers of the association have expressed their disagreement, within the local branches.

The European Union demands imposing "effective gender mainstreaming" on Latin American countries, if they want to be party to a free trade agreement with the EU. Reject this form of cultural imperialism!

This week's International Consultation on Christian Persecution in Budapest heard from both persecuted Christians and government ministers.

The backdrop to this conference, of course, is the war on, and persecution of, Christians and other minorities which continues to affect the Middle East and Africa, and which has precipitated the ongoing migration crisis in Europe.

WARNING ABOUT UKRAINE'S EDUCATION LAW!

The European Parliament will vote on the EU's accession to the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the so-called Istanbul Convention), at its September plenary session - in only a few days, on 12 September!