Reports have surfaced that an outspoken Catholic priest in Maracaibo, Venezuela was viciously beaten unconscious late last week by armed security forces of Venezuela’s Cuba-backed and Castro-controlled dictatorship. Father Jose Palmar, who for years has been exposing and publicly denouncing the Castro-Communist takeover of Venezuela, was walking alongside demonstrators in a protest against the dictatorship’s... Read More

The last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, the group whose story inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99, her family say. Maria Franziska von Trapp died at her home in Vermont last Tuesday, her brother, Johannes von Trapp, told the Associated Press. “She was a lovely woman who was... Read More

Funeral ceremonies for BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor, who died last month in London at the age of 41, have taken place in his home country of Ghana. As is customary in Ghana, they are held over three days. The funeral service itself is took place on Saturday in the forecourt of State House in... Read More