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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Decries ‘Predatory Models of Development’ in Amazon Synod Closing Mass VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis denounced exploitation and “predatory models of development” that plunder the poor and wound “sister Earth” in the Amazon synod closing Mass Sunday. “In this synod we have had the grace of listening to the voices of the poor and reflecting on the precariousness of their lives, threatened by predatory models of development,” Pope Francis said in his homily Oct. 27. “The mistakes of the past were not enough to stop the plundering of other persons and the inflicting of wounds on...

FULL HEADLINE: U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller had her fingernails pulled out before being repeatedly raped by ISIS leader: Yazidi sex slave reveals torment of aid worker's harrowing final months as the secret wife of al-Baghdadi A Yazidi woman kidnapped and detained as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's personal sex slave has told how the ISIS leader repeatedly raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller – who he had taken as a secret bride. Speaking to MailOnline, blue-eyed Muna, 16, revealed that after his depraved jihadi cohorts ripped out Miss Mueller's finger nails, Baghdadi told her that she would become his wife 'by force' Miss...

BREAKING: Speaking this morning on CBS "Face the Nation," Obama's Jt Chiefs Vice Chair James Winnefeld bashed Trump for "piling humiliation" on ISIS after lethal raid on its kingpin:"If you look back at the bin Laden raid, we treated his body with respect that is due under Islam"

Her husband, Carl Mueller, added that it was "important" to him that Trump knew of his daughter's story and thanked the president for mentioning Kayla Mueller's name in his address Sunday morning. "He knows her story. He's been briefed on it, and he knows, and that’s important to me," he said, according to the Republic. "I don’t think anything would have stopped him from getting this guy." Mueller, an Arizona-born human rights activist working with Doctors Without Borders in Syria, was abducted in 2013 after leaving a hospital and remained in ISIS captivity for months, reportedly being forced into marriage...

TUCSON, Ariz. – The number of bodies recovered from a mass grave in Mexico near the Arizona border has risen to 42 after three days of searching, the Sonora attorney general's office said. A group of Mexican mothers who belong to the group Madres Buscadoras de Sonora, or Searching Mothers of Sonora, discovered the mass grave Thursday near the beach resort town of Puerto Peñasco, commonly known in Arizona as Rocky Point. Staff members from the attorney general's office, as well as forensic workers from the state's criminal investigations unit, joined the mothers in their search. They will help transport...

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FULL TITLE: Family of al-Baghdadi victim responds to his death following harrowing raid: 'Grateful to our president' Diane Foley, whose son James was beheaded at the behest of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a statement Sunday saying she is "grateful" to President Trump and the "brave troops" who carried out the raid against him. Al-Baghdadi, who took over as the head of ISIS after his predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, detonated a suicide vest as U.S. special forces closed in. Troops were sent to attack a compound in northern Syria where al-Baghdadi was located, according to...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The International Association of Chiefs of Police conference kicked off in Chicago on Saturday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivered welcoming remarks as the conference got underway this weekend. A notable person missing from the event is Chicago's Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Johnson said he will boycott President Donald Trump's Monday speech to the IACP's 2019 conference

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took a veiled shot at President Trump on Sunday after he announced the death of ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, lamenting that the “Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified” in advance of the raid. Trump announced on Sunday that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi died as a result of a raid conducted by U.S. special forces. “Last night the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump said in an address on Sunday. “He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless...

ATLANTIC CITY — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was greeted with thunderous applause and chants of “Nancy, Nancy, Nancy” as she delivered the closing remarks at the New Jersey State Democratic Committee conference here Friday night. But the often-boisterous crowd came to a hush when Pelosi walked away from the teleprompter displaying her prepared remarks, grabbed a microphone, and went off script to address the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The last 10 days have been very difficult for our country,” Pelosi said. “This is not a cause for any joy...

First Elijah Cummings died and now Katie Hill resigns. Katie had quite the short congressional career. In related news John Conyers, who had among the longest congressional careers, and was ALSO forced to resign for inappropriate behavior with staff, died today. He also served on the Watergate impeachment committee back in the day. And in other news Lisa Page was sleeping with Andrew McCabe in addition to Peter Strozk. Been quite a day for the democrats!

President Trump's successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent Democrats scrambling on Sunday, as several top party leaders had complained publicly in recent days that the White House had no "real plan" to combat the terror group following the U.S. pullout in Syria. In a dramatic sign of how Democrats' messaging apparently backfired, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" ran an ill-timed sketch suggesting that Trump had created "jobs" for ISIS -- just hours before the president held a news conference announcing al-Baghdadi's demise. The sketch aired around the time the two-hour late-night raid in northwest Syria...

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015 had no pollster, rapid-response team or fundraiser. A bare-bones staff fueled by pizza and energy drinks toiled in a makeshift office at Trump Tower. His opponents vastly outspent him - and lost. But as president, Trump's campaign machine has dramatically escalated, powered by a historically large war chest of donations large and small that has given him a head start over the eventual Democratic nominee. At this point in the last election, Trump's campaign employed 19 consultants. Now, there are more than 200. When Trump had all but locked up the nomination by May...

HOW THE LEFT’S LICENTIOUSNESS AND LUNACY VALIDATES THE BIBLE FReepers differ widely in our personal faiths, but we unite in detesting the Left’s outrageous worldview and politics. It may surprise you that the Bible explains just why those people degenerate as they have. Paul details their step-by-step decline in Romans 1 (I’ve highlighted each successive descent): “18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to...

The body parts of terrorist ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had barely been collected when the left wing media began dunning Trump for his words and actions and demanding respect for the slain terrorist. Trump minced no words in describing the outcome of the raid: He died after running into a dead-end tunnel “whimpering, and crying, and screaming all the way. The compound had been cleared by this time, with people either surrendering, or being shot and killed. Eleven young children were moved out of the house, and are uninjured. The only ones remaining were Baghdadi in the tunnel, and...

Following President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during a US military raid in northwest Syria, a number of Democrats hoping to unseat him welcomed the news and congratulated US troops, but were mum on Trump’s involvement in the risky operation. In a statement, former Vice President Joe Biden congratulated “our special forces, our intelligence community, and all our brave military professionals on delivering justice” to Baghdadi. Author Marianne Williamson offered in a tweet “Praise and thanks for the military bravery and brilliance that carried out the mission,” and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney...

Democrats are accusing Attorney General William Barr of using the Justice Department to do President Donald Trump's political bidding. Democratic criticism of the attorney general comes amid media reports that a department probe into the FBI's investigation connections between Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign has now become a criminal investigation. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, accused Barr on Sunday of “weaponizing” the Justice Department. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats have called on Barr to recuse himself from the department's investigation. "Bill Barr, on the president’s behalf, is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after the...

For the first time in his presidency, President Donald Trump will visit Chicago on Monday for a pair of scheduled events. The president will address the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference at McCormick Place, and will also attend a fundraiser at the Trump International Hotel and Tower during his visit. Trump’s visit to Chicago is his first since March 2016, when protests canceled a scheduled rally at the then-UIC Pavilion at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Campaign organizers told those planning to attend the rally for then-candidate Trump that after consulting with law enforcement, the decision was made to...

Excerpts from “The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History” (Center Street, Hachette Book Group, Oct. 29, 2019) a 368-page book being published Tuesday by journalist Lee Smith. The Democrats’ push to impeach President Trump began long before the whistleblower’s complaint regarding the president’s July phone call. The origins of the effort to undo the 2016 election date back to former FBI Director James Comey’s March 20, 2017, testimony in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “We’d been hearing since the election about Trump...

Joe Biden refused to rule out serving only one term as president if elected in 2020, claiming he was not ready to “make that judgement at this moment.” The 76-year-old former vice president, who would be the oldest person ever inaugurated as commander in chief if elected in 2020 save for his Democrat rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), made the admission during an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday in South Carolina when asked if age mattered among White House hopefuls. “Right now it’s a legitimate question to ask, just like it was legitimate to ask me when I...