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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis attacked religious conservatives in a recent speech, accusing them of “championing” homophobia and transphobia in the “name of religion,” adding that they must be “exposed and silenced.” “These are very dangerous times and I’m very happy to be in a room with people who are fighting the best fight they can fight,” Curtis said to an audience at the Out100 Celebration, a red-carpet event honoring those who Out magazine has named as trailblazers in the LGBTQ community, according to a report by Fox News. Ironically, the Halloween star went on to say that she “prays” that...

President Biden said he received ashes from the cardinal for Ash Wednesday and they prayed together for the people of Ukraine. “I was with the cardinal this morning. He came over and he gave me ashes. We both prayed for that, for the people of Ukraine,” Biden told reporters, with ashes noticeably on his forehead.

Pope Francis publicly expressed “pain and shame” on Tuesday over the rape and molestation of children by priests in Chile and later listened, prayed and cried at a private meeting with victims, Reuters reported. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the meeting took place in the Vatican embassy in Santiago. “No one else was present. Only the pope and the victims,” the spokesman said. “This was so they could speak of their suffering to Pope Francis, who listened to them and prayed and cried with them.” It was only the second time on his overseas trips that the pope has met...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Thursday he prays lawmakers can restore a "spirit of civility" to the nation's capital. Speaking at the annual National Prayer breakfast, Obama said divisions in Washington are nothing new, but "there is a sense that something is different now, that something is broken, that those of us in Washington aren't serving people as well as we should." Obama said America's leaders are quick to unite in times of crisis, such as last month's devastating earthquake in Haiti. But when it comes to long-term problems, he said, lawmakers can become absorbed by ideology and power...

CALDWELL, N.J. (CNS) – Immaculee Ilibagiza knows what it is like to rely on the power of prayer. With nothing other than rosary beads and prayer to sustain her, she survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide by hiding in a small bathroom with seven other women for 91 days. She lived through the systematic slaughter, when an estimated 800,000 people -- including most members of her family -- were brutally murdered in the central African nation. She told her story of survival to students at the campus of Dominican-run Caldwell College April 18, just two days after a lone gunman killed...

Prayer Needs: Prayer requests for members of our armed forces: Tracey, Sgt. Kevin Downs (injured), stm, nckerr, Jason Special Ongoing Prayer Requests:Prayer Vigil for the nation and its leaders - please consider joining us in a 24 hour a day prayer vigil to lift up our leaders and pray for our country, especially on the immigration issue, and other pressing matters:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640434/posts Please remember to pray for our military.  Between dealing with the enemy overseas, and the enemies of the military at home, they need our prayers and good wishes and support.  Epecially remember those who are being unfairly impacted by...

Prayer Needs: Prayer requests for members of our armed forces: Tracey, Sgt. Kevin Downs (injured), stm, nckerr, Jason Special Ongoing Prayer Requests:Prayer Vigil for the Immigration Issue - please consider joining us in a 24 hour a day prayer vigil to lift up our leaders, especially the House and the conference committees on the immigration issue:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640434/posts Please remember to pray for our military.  Between dealing with the enemy overseas, and the enemies of the military at home, they need our prayers and good wishes and support. Please pray for all those touched by the earthquake in Java.  Over 4000 people...

Prayer Needs: Prayer requests for members of our armed forces: Tracey, Sgt. Kevin Downs (injured), stm, nckerr, Jason Special Ongoing Prayer Requests:Prayer Vigil for the Immigration Issue - please consider joining us in a 24 hour a day prayer vigil to lift up our leaders, especially the House and the conference committees on the immigration issue:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640434/posts Please remember to pray for our military.  Between dealing with the enemy overseas, and the enemies of the military at home, they need our prayers and good wishes and support. Please pray for all those touched by the earthquake in Java.  Over 4000 people...

Prayer Needs: Please lift up the following in your prayers today: Please pray for a friend of Alamo-Girl's. The friend's mother has been diagnosed with a cancerous polyp in her colon. Sadly, the cancer has already invaded her liver. Surgery is scheduled next week.  Please lift up both the friend and her mother in your prayers. Quix asks us to pray for Jason who is in Special Forces and having a really rough time of it after a personal loss:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1634946/posts?page=11#11 infool7 reports: "I just received an email from Bill [the brother who has been missing]: 'sorry tell everyone im fine...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first Easter Sunday as pontiff, praying for peace Iraq, negotiated solutions to the world's nuclear disputes and dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians. Looking tired, Benedict led nearly 100,000 pilgrims, tourists and Romans in Mass in St. Peter's Square. His 79th birthday coincided with Easter, when Christians commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion. "Today, even in this modern age marked by anxiety and uncertainty, we live the event of the resurrection, which changed the face of our life and changed the history of humanity," Benedict said in the traditional...

Indonesia arrests cleric as he prays for Osama's safety By Kathy Marks in Bali 20 October 2002 Indonesian police finally moved yesterday against a militant Muslim cleric linked with al-Qa'ida, arresting Abu Bakar Bashir as he lay in a hospital bed in central Java. Mr Bashir, accused of being the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical Islamic group – which he denies even exists – was under armed guard as police waited to question him about a spate of church bombings in December 2000. He runs a religious boarding school near the Javanese city of Solo, and collapsed on...