A news round up - 12 September 2012

More news you may have missed:

• Over the last forty years, the number of Baptists in the United States of America has decreased by 25%.

• Administrators at Ventura High School in California have banned an offensive chicken sandwich. I knew these are bizarre days in which we live, but I didn't realize they were this bizarre yet.

• While we're on the topic of bizarre school news, a teacher in a school in Washington, D.C. asked 6th grade students to compare George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler.

• At least 5,186 people have been in killed in the Central African Republic since December as Islamic militants continue to gain strength in the CAR.

• Lawmakers in Missouri overrode a gubernatorial veto yesterday to pass into law legislation mandating a 72-hour waiting period for any woman seeking an abortion in the Show Me State (without a clause for rape or incest).

• Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a Spinosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur even to swim the waters of the earth, in the Sahara Desert. As if it weren't obvious enough, this discovery - among others - shows that the oceans have changed increased and receded in various places for centuries, even millennia.

• Because it spans the globe, the Catholic Church faces various problems in various parts of the world that are often unknown in places where they aren't prevalent, like polygamy. This will be one of the many issues the upcoming two Synods on the family will have to discuss.

• Al-Qaeda  expanded last week into the Indian Subcontinent and from there it has already attacked Pakistan twice.