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  • Pope emphasizes right to food in address to 500 experts

    02/07/2015 11:58:57 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 66 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Feb 7, 2015 9:42 AM EST | Colleen Barry
    Pope Francis emphasized the right to food as fundamental in a video address Saturday to 500 experts starting work on a wide-ranging document aimed at raising awareness and proposing solutions to issues including hunger, obesity and food waste. Francis said the paradox of abundance described by Pope John Paul II—whereby there is food for everyone yet not everyone can eat—continues to be an issue “despite the multiplication of organizations and responses by the international community on nutrition.” […] He also urged them (the experts) to show courage in protecting the planet “the mother of everything that asks respect and not...
  • C.S. Lewis and Catholic Converts

    02/06/2015 7:36:04 PM PST · by Steelfish · 65 replies
    Catholic World Report ^ | November 19, 2013
    C.S. Lewis and Catholic Converts November 19, 2013 While Lewis himself never entered the Catholic Church, his writings have led a dizzying array of converts across the Tiber.
  • Dad Divorced by Wife Over Son With Down Syndrome Raises $350K

    02/06/2015 5:36:27 PM PST · by goodwithagun · 20 replies
    Yahoo! Parenting ^ | February 6, 2015 | Rachel Bertsche
    When Samuel Forrest first met his newborn son Leo, he fell in love. “They took me in see him and I looked at this guy and I said, he’s beautiful,” he told ABC news. “He’s perfect and I’m absolutely keeping him.”
  • Francis: "Today too there are many Christians who are killed by those who hate Jesus"

    02/06/2015 2:03:11 PM PST · by Medjman · 12 replies
    Vatican Insider: La Stampa ^ | Feb 6, 2015 | Domenico Agasso jr
    At this morning’s mass in St. Martha’s House Francis talked about "the martyrs of our times, men, women, children who are being persecuted, hated, driven out of their homes, tortured, massacred … who are meeting their end under the authority of corrupt people who hate Jesus Christ”
  • B Franklin Wrote 4 The National Gazette, Quoting the Koran & Calling 4 Enslavement of Christians

    02/06/2015 1:09:02 PM PST · by wtd · 17 replies
    Infidel Bloggers Alliance ^ | February 6, 2015 | Pastorius
    Did You Hear About The Time Ben Franklin Wrote a Column For The National Gazette, Quoting From the Koran, and Calling For The Enslavement of Christians? I bet you think I'm kidding. I'm not. The first thing we need to understand is Ben Franklin was petitioning Congress for the abolition of slavery in the USA: Author, "Theodore Parker" wrote “Historic Americans” in which he describes founding father, Benjamin Franklin, abolitionist extraordinaire, quoting the koran in defending his abolition petition to Congress You see the young nation in its infancy. “Hercules in his cradle, “ said Franklin; but with a...
  • Local Media Pumping Pope Visit in September...Silent About Bibi's Visit in March

    02/06/2015 5:04:16 AM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 5 replies
    2/6/15 | sff
    The Pope is visiting the states in SEPTEMBER. He is NOT scheduled to visit Florida. Bibi is coming to America in just a few weeks. The Pope is SUPPOSEDLY good buddies with Obama. Bibi is opposed to Obama's scheme to destroy western civilization. Guess which event is being celebrated by the local Florida media.
  • Evidence of God Discovered Cross of Water

    02/05/2015 7:17:41 PM PST · by purcre · 34 replies
    Gloria tv ^ | 5/2/2015 | purcre
    An unexplainable miracle cross of water photograph has been revealed by the photographer Ruello and is sighting it as evidence of God. The freaky photograph seems to defy the laws of physics. Ruello also processed the Vatican Veronica Veil in 2011 revealing a hidden image of Christ
  • Darrell Waltrip National Prayer Breakfast 2015

    02/05/2015 6:23:24 PM PST · by cripplecreek · 23 replies
    youtube ^ | 2/5/15 | Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Waltrip National Prayer Breakfast
  • VIDEO: A Rebuttal To Obama’s MORONIC Prayer Breakfast Remarks

    02/05/2015 3:04:26 PM PST · by StevenCrowder · 53 replies
    LouderWithCrowder.com ^ | 02/05/14 | Steven Crowder
    Today, our president made a comparison between Christians and ISIS that is so unbelievably absurd, so mind-numbingly stupid, that it could only be addressed in a video rebuttal. Please watch, enjoy and share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwF0_KmBAY
  • Valerie Jarrett said what??

    02/05/2015 6:30:50 AM PST · by javie · 83 replies
    Valerie Jarrett said what?? In her own words: “I am Iranian by birth and of my Islamic Faith. I am also an American citizen and seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself” - Valerie Jarrett Stanford University 1977.
  • Val Kilmer's family believe he DOES have a tumor and is refusing medical treatment because of his

    02/05/2015 3:44:42 AM PST · by dennisw · 17 replies
    MailOnline ^ | 2 February 2015
    Val Kilmer's family 'believe he DOES have a tumor' and is refusing medical treatment 'because of his Christian Science beliefs' He took to his Facebook page to deny reports that he has a throat tumor over the weekend. But now TMZ reports that family members of Val Kilmer believe the actor is in denial over his health, and is refusing treatment due to his belief in the Christian Science religion. TMZ report that members of Val's family have known about the tumor since summer, and urged him to see a doctor, but Christian Science followers are known to believe that...
  • Mummified monk in Mongolia 'not dead', say Buddhists

    02/05/2015 3:05:02 AM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 30 replies
    bbc.com ^ | 4 February 2015 | bbc
    A mummified monk found preserved in Mongolia last week has been baffling and astounding those who uncovered him. Senior Buddhists say the monk, found sitting in the lotus position, is in a deep meditative trance and not dead. Forensic examinations are under way on the remains, found wrapped in cattle skins in north-central Mongolia. ... The monk was discovered after being stolen by a man hoping to sell him on the black market.
  • Woman Hijacks Podium at Muslim Event: ‘False Prophet’ Muhammed ‘Will Never Dominate Texas!’

    02/03/2015 8:24:29 PM PST · by Windflier · 32 replies
    LiveLeak.com ^ | 30 January 2015 | unattributed
    The 11th annual 'Texas Muslim Capitol Day' didn't go too well for moozlims in Texas.
  • Another Delhi Catholic Church vandalized

    02/03/2015 4:58:43 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    Vatican Radio ^ | 02/02/2015 15:33
    Another Christian place of worship has been vandalized in the Indian capital, New Delhi, the fifth such incident in two months. The attackers broke open the main gate of St. Alphonsa’s Church in the Vasant Kunj area, early Monday morning and entered the sacristy, before opening the tabernacle and scattering the host, Delhi archdiocese spokesman Father Savarimuthu Shankar told UCANews. In the morning, parish priest, Fr. Vincent Salvatore found the tabernacle open and the ciborium missing. The sacred hosts were scattered on the altar and the floor. The parish is named after Sister Alphonsa, India’s first woman saint canonized by...
  • UK votes to allow world’s first ‘three-parent’ babies

    02/03/2015 4:09:36 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 02/03/2015 | [das/rc (AP/Reuters)]
    Great Britain has voted to allow the world’s first “three-parent” in vitro fertilization. The new technique uses the DNA of three people to prevent mothers from passing mitochondrial diseases on to their baby. The new treatment that was allowed by the British Parliament on Tuesday is known as “three-parent” in vitro fertilization (IVF) because the babies, born from genetically modified embryos, would have DNA from a mother, a father and from a female donor. In Britain’s House of Commons on Tuesday, health minister Jane Ellison started the debate on mitochondrial donation by urging support for this change. “This is a...
  • ‘Wives can’t refuse sex’, imam tells Berlin mosque

    02/03/2015 2:54:42 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 28 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 03 Feb 2015 10:51 GMT+01:00 | Tom Barfield
    A preacher at a mosque in Berlin’s southern Neukölln district has told worshipers that women should be confined to their homes and submit whenever their husbands demand sex. “A woman must turn her home into a flourishing garden for her husband, so that he does not flee from her like a leper or a lion,” Sheik Abdel Moez al-Eila told the congregation at the Al-Nur mosque. The sermon was delivered on January 23rd, but has only just come under broad public scrutiny after a video of the address surfaced on Sunday. The imam went on to say that women should...
  • Killed for 'being gay': ISIS savages blindfolded man and threw him off tower block -

    02/03/2015 6:47:37 AM PST · by C19fan · 42 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | February 3, 2015 | Emma Glanfield
    A man has reportedly been blindfolded and thrown off a tower block in Syria for ‘being gay’ before being stoned to death after surviving the fall. New images have emerged appearing to show ISIS militants hurling the man off the seven-storey building in the town of Tal Abyad in Raqqa. The man, who was supposedly being punished for having a ‘homosexual affair’, apparently survived the fall, but was stoned to death by a waiting crowd at the foot of the tower block.
  • The Principle (A Movie Review)

    02/03/2015 2:11:10 AM PST · by walkinginthedesert · 9 replies
    There has not been in recent years a documentary getting as much negative feedback and comments than that of the Principle. Now there is nothing entirely wrong with this (We have freedom of speech). However the problem comes in the fact that most of these comments and movie reviews have been mere character attacks against the producers of the movie, or they have been made by either people who have admitted to not having even watched the movie, and lastly by people that although they have seen it, have done so in a way that is completely biased and quite...
  • The True Veronica Veil Second Shroud Discovered —(Shroud of Turin Connection)

    02/02/2015 7:38:19 PM PST · by Swordmaker · 48 replies
    GLoria TV ^ | 26/01/2015 | John Cage
    I appeal to Pope Francis to make this discovery known to the world, your people have kept this secret from you. The world needs to know. These incredible images of the abused and tortured face of Jesus Christ were processed from the St Peters Veronica Veil in 2011 by the experimental photographer myself Vincenzo Giovanni Ruello. The link to the Shroud of Turin has been made showing the identical same face. The discovery is gaining prominance world wide. The St Peters Veronica Veil has now been authenticated and is not a legend but the second true Shroud in existance predating...
  • URGENT: Obama’s Muslim Adviser Busted Going Off on Insane, Anti-Christian Rant [TWEETS]

    02/02/2015 4:27:33 AM PST · by DBCJR · 18 replies
    Conservative Tribune ^ | Saturday, January 31st, 2015
    "Elibiary...states that, “no matter xenophobia & hatefulness from this loud ‪#‎Christianist‬ subculture, we won’t abandon our vision for this nation.” [See other Tweets]