HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH

There’s a reason he’s called the King of the Jungle. Generic photo of a lion in Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. Photo:  Joachim Huber/Wikimedia Commons A pride of lions feeding on a buffalo failed to protect its dinner from a pack of hungry hyenas and jackals in Tanzania, but the king of the jungle quickly restored order. In the Ngorongoro Crater, said to feature one of the densest populations of lions, a group of safari tourists observed the amazing encounter from afar but managed to capture the remarkable wildlife footage. The 100100 Channel , which posts wildlife videos from its African safari clients, called it a “Jungle battle between lions and hyenas and the king.” In the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the pride of lions was feasting on a downed buffalo while also trying to discourage hyenas and jackals from getting in on the kill. Eventually, the hyenas and jackals overwhelmed the lions and begin devouring the prey, some jumping onto each other to get to ...

. View gallery . . . . BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, at their first assembly since gay marriage became legal nationwide, vowed Monday to uphold marriage as only the union of a man and a woman and to seek legal protections for those who share that view. Related Stories The Bishops’ Theological Divide   The Wall Street Journal Kentucky clerk to let deputies issue gay marriage licenses   AFP Vatican Disputes White House Guest List for Papal Visit   The Wall Street Journal Facebook® Account Sign Up. Join for Free Today!   Sponsored   Some bishops said they were committed to reversing the U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling last June. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, said a concerted effort was needed to "build a consensus" to do so. As a model, he pointed to new state laws that have made it harder to obtain an abortion, even as the procedure remains ...

Lions destroy tires and attempt to shatter windows to get at the humans inside. Photo: Emmanuel Bayo/ Caters News A pride of hungry lions attacked a jeep full of tourists in Serengeti National Park, destroying tires and attempting to shatter windows to get at the terrified humans inside. Safari tour guide Emmanuel Bayo from Arusha, Tanzania, witnessed the encounter from nearby and snapped off a few photos that showed the lions in attack mode at the famous Tanzanian park. “It was quite scary, really — the lions are very hungry in the park and hadn’t had a kill for a while,” Bayo  told Caters News . “The truck was driving past with people inside and the lions smelt the humans. “Then they were trying to get inside for about an hour and wreaked havoc.” Lions tried to eat the tires of the safari truck at Serengeti National Park. Photo: Emmanuel Bayo/ Caters News Tourists inside were terrified as the lions mauled the truck for an hour. Photo: Emmanuel Bayo/ ...

Share 9 Tweet 8 Comment 24 For more than forty years now, the Religious Right has been a powerful force in the United States, helping reshape the Republican Party and realign the nation's politics and culture. Typically considered a grassroots movement of conservative Catholics, evangelicals, and Mormons, and the political organizations that mobilized their efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, the Religious Right's intellectual and ideological origins trace back further into the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s, for example, religious conservatives mounted a theological defense against the powerful ecumenical movement of mainline Protestantism and began to stitch together a loose alliance that would make later political partnerships possible. As historians and other scholars continue to investigate the "long history" of the Religious Right, many observers also wonder what the future holds in a secularizing United States. Here, th...

Tanzania's President-elect John Magufuli (L) takes the Oath of Office during his inauguration ceremony at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Nov. 5, 2015. Dan Joseph Tanzania's new president, John Magufuli, was sworn in Thursday, despite continuing disputes over the October 25 election. Magufuli along with the east African nation's first female Vice President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, took the oath of office in front of cheering crowds at Uhuru Stadium in the capital, Dar es Salaam. "I, John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, do solemnly swear that I will execute my duties as the president of the United Republic of Tanzania, with integrity to fulfill the responsibilities of my roles diligently...," he said in Swahili. In a short speech, Magufuli promised to work hard to implement the pledges he made during the campaign. "We are aware of the trust and enormous responsibility that you have assigned us ...but with God's guidance, people's cooper...

The Rev. James Martin Editor's Note: The Rev. James Martin is a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America and author of the new novel  "The Abbey." The views expressed in this column belong to Martin. Author Father James Martin (CNN) The Synod on the Family, the gathering of bishops from around the world that just concluded, changed no Catholic doctrine. None. But you wouldn't know that from the fierce reactions the synod evoked. Even the possibility that the church might deal more openly with, for example, divorced and remarried Catholics or the LGBT community, sent some Catholics into a near frenzy. It seemed out of proportion to the synod's discussions as well as the final document, a rather workaday overview of issues related to the family. The final report did not, for example, say that divorced and remarried could return to Communion. Instead it talked about possible avenues of reconciliation that already existed. Nor did it approve...

By DAVID GIBSON Religion News Service Pope Francis smiles as she arrives for the afternoon session of the last day of the Synod of bishops, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015. Catholic bishops from around the world vote Saturday on a final document to better minister to families following a contentious, three-week summit that exposed deep divisions among prelates over Pope Francis' call for a more merciful and less judgmental church. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Vatican City • A momentous and divided gathering of global bishops ended Saturday by endorsing ways that could lead to greater participation by divorced and remarried Catholics — a major source of friction here — while the 270 churchmen declined to take up the even more controversial issue of how and whether to be more welcoming to gays. The final document was an obvious compromise intended to gain support from both reformers and hard-liners and achieve as much consensus as possible. The three-week meeti...