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Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a bomb attack near the Labor Ministry building in Baghdad on Dec. 8, 2009. The bombings appeared to be the latest in a series of coordinated attacks carried out by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.

THE Catholic Church has accepted as substantially true allegations that a Melbourne priest took part in satanic rituals in which a number of people were murdered.

Mother Teresa's House of Illusions How She Harmed Her Helpers As Well As Those They `Helped' by Susan Shields The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 18, Number 1.Some years after I became a Catholic, I joined Mother Teresa's congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. I was one of her sisters for nine and a half years, living in the Bronx, Rome, and San Franciso, until I became disillusioned and left in May 1989. As I reentered the world, I slowly began to unravel the tangle of lies in which I had lived. I wondered how I could have...

PORTLAND, Ore., August 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a rare legal maneuver the Portland Archdiocese has named 389,000 registered lay Catholic parishioners as defendants in its ongoing bankruptcy case.

Thousands of girls and boys were raped and tortured, and many were murdered, in Canada's aboriginal boarding schools, most of which shut down in the 1970's. The unchecked criminal violence suffered by these girls and boys has become a major cause of rampant child prostitution and other serious social ills among several generations of Canada's First Nations (Native/indigenous) peoples. This violence is called genocide.

UNAIDS chief warns against Philippine complacency 21 Feb 2005 11:45:02 GMT Source: Reuters MANILA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Philippines could see a sharp rise in AIDS cases in the coming years, partly due to opposition to condom use by the powerful Roman Catholic Church, the head of the United Nations AIDS programme said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's research on using an AIDS drug to protect African babies was so flawed that health officials had to use blood tests after the fact to confirm patients got the medicine. Ultimately, they had to acknowledge the study broke federal patient protection rules.

Not satisfied with the Muslim terrorist resistance in Fallujah, the LA Times is trying their hardest to inflame Muslims here in America, by publishing a huge front page, above-the-fold picture of Infidel soldiers defiling a Mosque on Arab soil. Of all the pictures of all the action in Fallujah, THIS ONE is chosen by the LA Times as represent our efforts there. American Christian GI's kicking back smoking Marlboros in their mosque after killing the faithful freedom fighters within. I'm surprised they didn't Photoshop in a pic of them roasting a pig on a spit over a pile of buring...

ANNAPOLIS — Black "slave traders" yesterday marched white "slaves" in chains from the City Dock around the downtown area in a procession aimed at fostering racial harmony. Dubbed "A Slavery Reconciliation Walk of Penitence and Forgiveness," the event had 24 participants — 11 of whom were children. It attracted about 150 spectators, according to city police Chief Joseph S. Johnson.

WASHINGTON - Bill Burkett, who has emerged as a possible CBS source for disputed memos about President Bush's Guard service, has a long history of making charges against Bush and the Texas National Guard. But Burkett's allegations have changed over the years, and have been dismissed as baseless by former Guard colleagues, state legislators and others. Even Burkett has admitted some of his allegations are false.

UN accused of collaborating with HezbollahRelatives of Beni Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaed convene press conference ahead of filing civil suit against UN. Charge kidppings couldn’t have succeeded without UN assistance and active involvement. Anat Shihor-Aharonson “Today we can say with certainty that the UN was actively involved in the kidnappings of our sons”, the families of Beni Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaed charged during a press conference they convened ahead of filing a civil suit against the UN in a US court, eight months after their bodies were returned to Israel for burial as part of the...

UN accused of collaborating with HezbollahRelatives of Beni Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaed convene press conference ahead of filing civil suit against UN. Charge kidppings couldn’t have succeeded without UN assistance and active involvement. Anat Shihor-Aharonson “Today we can say with certainty that the UN was actively involved in the kidnappings of our sons”, the families of Beni Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Sawaed charged during a press conference they convened ahead of filing a civil suit against the UN in a US court, eight months after their bodies were returned to Israel for burial as part of the...

They'd known each other all their lives, but Antoinette Jenkins stabbed her cousin in the heart Sunday in an argument over french fries, Chicago Police said. Antoine Jenkins, 19, "died for a dollar,'' a police source said. "They got into an argument over a 99-cent box of White Castle french fries.'' Antoinette Jenkins, also 19, fled after the stabbing and was found later Sunday in a hotel, said Austin District Lt. Wade Ingram. "She had all the White Castle stuff all over the hotel room,'' Ingram said Antoine's mother, Joyce Jenkins, said her heart goes out to her sister, Antoinette's...

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Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can't read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found. Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Did aliens save planet in 1908? Russians say they have found spaceship debris Members of a Russian scientific team researching the site of the Tunguska meteorite crash of 1908 say they have found remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, report a variety of Russian news agencies. The object appeared to be a large metallic block, according to the reports. The researchers chipped a piece of the object and will now test its composition. One scientist said based on his calculations, the mass of the space object headed for Earth in 1908 was nearly 1 billion tons. He believes the meteorite was...