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SÃO PAULO, Brazil - A long-time political promise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to liberalize the country’s gun laws is being opposed by the country’s Catholic bishops. On May 7, Bolsonaro issued a decree that loosens several licensing restrictions for people who want to carry firearms. The previous legislation established that only members of the security forces and a few related activities - such as officials of the judiciary system - were allowed to possess and carry guns. Now, the number of professional categories encompassed by the decree is much larger, including truck drivers, crime journalists, and any politician holding...

Seeking files on abusive priestsDALLAS (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Dallas diocese — long wracked by clerical sex abuse scandals — was raided by Dallas police officers wielding a 42-page search warrant at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police investigators conducted searches of three facilities, including a warehouse, St. Cecilia's parish and the diocese's headquarters. The warrant became necessary, said Dallas Special Investigations Division Major Max Geron, because of perceptions the diocese was withholding information critical to their outside investigation. The police investigation was prompted by an affidavit from last August in which credible accusations of sexual abuse were leveled against Fr. Edmundo Paredes,...

ROME, Italy, May 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The former editor of the Vatican’s women’s magazine says she does not like abortion, but she wants to keep it legal. Lucetta Scaraffia, 70, was permitted by Benedict XVI to found a women’s magazine for the Vatican’s principal newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano in 2012. But although she recently told a reporter for the UK Guardian that she believes abortion is bad, Scaraffia doesn’t believe it should be a crime. “I’m against abortion because I think it’s bad, but I don’t think women should be criminalised for it,” she told interviewer Angela Giuffrida this month....

Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time. “We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News...

Trump’s been worried for months that Joe from Scranton might pose a threat to him in Pennsylvania and the Rust Belt that other Dems can’t match. His fears turn out to be well-founded, per Quinnipiac.

BREAKING: Ontario appeal’s court rules Christian doctors must participate in abortion, euthanasia TORONTO, May 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario appeal court struck a blow against religious freedom today, ruling that the right of doctors to conscientiously object to participating in abortion and euthanasia is trumped by their patient’s right to equitable access to health care. In a unanimous decision released Wednesday, the appeal judges upheld a divisional court’s January 2018 ruling that quashed a Charter challenge by Christian doctors to a College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) policy. The CPSO policy requires doctors who object to abortion, euthanasia, and...

Because THAT kind of rich is simply not good for society,

Contrary to the image of potheads as peaceful stoners, "cannabis-dependent psychotic patients were four times as likely to be violent," Alex Berenson writes in his magnificent new book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. "No other factor was nearly as important. Alcohol use, which was common among the patients, made no difference." So where are all the marijuana-induced murders? As Berenson says, they're hiding in plain sight. But until you're told about the cannabis-psychosis link, you don't even notice. Crime reporters don't want to look uncool by asking about the perp's marijuana use, and, inasmuch...

IRasmussen has often been right in its election calls), but today there is a survey out from Zogby—an outfit by no means sympathetic to Trump—that shows Trump’s general approval rating topping 50 percent. And some of the internals of the polls are very striking, especially majority support for Trump among millennials, and rising support among Hispanics and blacks: At the moment President Trump’s approval rating is higher than Obama’s at the same point in his presidency—Zogby Analytics had President Obama at 48% approve/52% disapprove on 05/09/2011. . . President Trump scored well with younger Millennial voters aged 18-29 (51% approve/46%...

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today the U.S. Department of Justice released 73 pages of records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the investigation that targeted President Trump. The document production came in response to Judicial Watch’s June 7, 2018, lawsuit filed after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a December 15, 2017, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01356)). Judicial Watch seeks: All text messages sent to or from DOJ...

Mohammad Tawhidi, The “Imam For Peace” Mohammad Tawhidi is well-known as the “imam for peace” who urges fellow Muslims to support Jews and Christians, rather than join or defend those Muslims who attack them. He not only defends Israel, but insists that “Palestine is Jewish land.” He warns Christians to wake up to the Muslim peril in the West. Some think he seems too good to be true. Is he? Tawhidi recently was interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network here “We are all brothers in humanity before brothers in faith,” Tawhidi told CBN News. “Tawhidi is a third-generation Iranian-born Muslim...

Senior PA leader who called for murder of Israelis now being treated in Israeli hospital Senior Palestinian Authority leader Jibril Rajoub, who called for the murder of Israelis is now being treated in an Israeli hospital despite his own government–the PA–calling for an end of Palestinians being treated in Israel. The contrast between the Israeli celebration of life, verses the hate and murder embraced by the Palestinian Authority and its people is glaring here. Despite the ongoing propaganda against Israel, the Jewish country has only sought to be live in peace since its birth in 1948, amid efforts to obliterate...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ PATRIOTIC TRIBUTE Members of the Oregon Army National Guard display the American flag on stage while the band Kiss performs the national anthem during the “Freedom to Rock” concert in Eugene, OR, July 9, 2016. The soldiers provided a color guard for the band’s patriotic tribute to U.S. military and veterans at the concert. Oregon National Guard photo by Maj. W. Chris Clyne Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before....

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) proposed a bill that would prevent U.S.-based technology companies from helping China develop its military. While all eyes have been on the trade negotiations between President Donald Trump and Chinese officials, Hawley has his eyes on future conflicts that could involve much more than disagreements on tariffs. The senator claimed that U.S. companies need to stop pretending that technology shared with Chinese companies isn’t being handed straight over to the authoritarian Chinese government. Watch Hawley’s comments on China:

Here we go…. President Trump is laying the groundwork to ban telecommunication companies based on identified risk to national security (ie. Huawei). Nations who engage in 5-G technology agreements are on notice they may be cut-off from communication partnerships with the U.S.A. [I think Wall Street just pee’d their pants a little..] [Executive Order] By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of...

The kids may be all right after all. In response to the United Methodist Church formally hardening its anti-gay stance, the entire 8-student confirmation class at First United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska announced that they will not become members of the congregation right now. The 13- and 14-year-old students announced their decision in the most public of ways: right in front of the other church members, where they read a letter they had written together. ...

FOX News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge dropped a bomb on the deep state on Wednesday. According to Herridge, there is an email from fired FBI Director James Comey from December 2016 that indicates it was John Brennan who pushed the dossier to be included in the IC report. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy says he has seen the email and it does not look good for John Brennan. Attorney General Bill Barr assigned US Attorney John Durham to investigate the spygate scandal this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egQoB6CIlI .

Melania Trump definitely got everyone’s attention when she stepped out in a gorgeous red outfit to attend the 107th First Lady’s Luncheon on Tuesday, hosted by the Congressional Club. The first lady looked just as striking as ever in a handful of pictures she shared on Instagram wearing the sleeveless colorful number that she paired with a matching belt and loose hair. To say she looked terrific would be an understatement. She simply captioned the great post, “Honored to take part in the 107th First Lady’s Luncheon today hosted by the Congressional Club. A wonderful opportunity to come together with...

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called the recently passed abortion bill in Alabama, and other pieces of legislation that restrict access to the procedure, an example of "appalling attacks on women's lives and fundamental freedoms." Clinton joined the chorus of Democratic voices speaking out against the restrictive abortion bill passed by the Alabama Senate, which could amount to a near-total ban on the procedure in the state if it's signed into law. Clinton lumped that bill in with recently passed legislation in other states that aim to limit access to abortion. "The abortion bans in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi...