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Last night, my sister said she saw something on FB about my cousin losing her son. There was no other info, and so, the first thing this morning, I sent out this email: Dear Diane, As you may know, I am not on facebook or twitter, so I get a lot of my information second-hand or not at all. I heard last night that you have recently suffered a terrible loss. I don't know if it is a rumor or not. Please let me know how you are doing. (((HUGS))) Love, ML Here was her reply: Hi MaryLou. Yes we...

The first clearance of rubble and explosives around the Al Tahera Catholic Church in Mosul has been completed paving the way for reconstruction to begin, the UN’s cultural agency said on Thursday. The church was severely damaged by ISIS during the bloody internationally-backed Iraqi government battle to wrest the northern Iraqi city back from the militants. Launched under the Reviving the Spirit of Mosul programme that aims to restore the shattered city, the agency aims to rebuild Mosul’s historic landmarks. The reconstruction of the Al Tahera Church as well as several other religious sites – including the famous Al...

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Though ranked-choice voting has been bruited about for years as a way to improve elections, I never wrote about it because the debate always seemed so abstract. It's not abstract anymore. Question 2 on the Massachusetts ballot would implement ranked-choice statewide beginning in 2022. If the initiative passes, elections in Massachusetts will change dramatically. It won't be a change for the better.Proponents of ranked-choice voting argue that the current system, in which the candidate getting the most votes wins the election, is unfair. In a two-candidate race, the winner always receives a majority of the votes, but when three or...

How many Christians call themselves warriors but have never been tested or trained? We hear about the many prayer warriors in this nation. But the sad truth is, the vast majority of them have never been trained — they’re not ready to fight. Many true believers refuse to fight the devil or do battle against his kingdom. When God does find a believer with a hunger and a desire for his blessing, he puts him into the ring to learn to fight. The Lord is going to need well-trained warriors who will prevail over all the powers of hell in...

[Note: This piece is heavy on video content.] The Democrat “vote by mail” scam is coming up a crapper. – That’s become increasingly obvious as the conservative alternative media works overtime to expose the scam for what it is. Now that their plan to steal the election has been subjected to a little sunlight, Democrat leaders over the past week have taken to urging their supporters to vote in person. Remember, it was just a couple of weeks ago that the entirety of the Democrat/Media Axis of Propaganda was focused on brainwashing voters to believe that the China Virus made...

350 million Americans combined dead. Wow. Is anyone here at FR still alive? No wonder Slow Joe tore into CBS' Errol Barnett when he asked Joe if he would take the test for dementia. That's a sore spot for Joe. And remember, twice Slow Joe said "I'm Joe Biden's husband".

London (CNN Business)Nikola founder Trevor Milton has stepped down as executive chairman after a short seller accused the hydrogen and electric truck startup of misleading investors and overstating the value of a business deal. Milton has also resigned from the company's board, Nikola said in a statement on Sunday. The company has previously denied the allegations and threatened legal action against the research company that made them. Stephen Girsky, a former vice chairman of General Motors (GM) and current board member at Nikola, will take over as chairman with immediate effect. "The focus should be on the company and its...

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UNESCO Reconstruction begins on Mosul's Al-Tahera Syriac-Catholic Church by Anup Oommen14 Sep 2020 Reconstruction and rehabilitation works have begun on Iraq’s Al-Tahera Church in the Old City of Mosul in close coordination with the UAE and local authorities.Phase 1 of the project, which included clearing the rubble and securing the project site for reconstruction, has been completed, according to the UNESCO authorities. The reconstruction works will be quite complex, as large parts of the structure’s arcades and its external walls have been damaged. Local contractors, under the supervision of skilled experts, have been chosen to do the work. In addition,...

"Take the helmet of salvation" (Eph. 6:17). The key to conquering doubt is to focus on the preserving power of God. Doubt comes to Christians in many ways. After you've sinned, your conscience might hiss at you, saying, "Surely you're not a Christian. Why would God save you anyway? You don't deserve His mercy. You're not good enough. How presumptuous to think God could ever use you!" Such doubts are common among Christians who focus on their performance rather than God's power. All too often we're quick to acknowledge God's power to save us but slow to understand His power...

He's on-the-air, and on-fire. Chris Plante from WMAL in DC, is rated in America's Top 10 Talk Radio Show Hosts. His show is the "prep work" for many other shows. And, unlike the others, he pulls no punches, tells it like it is and doesn't take any BS from liberal, demonKKKrat, leftist, commie, socialist, fascist, marxist and anarchist callers. He's the guy we'd all like to sit down with and have a dbl-cheeseburger and a cold one, while talking about the state of America, and the crazies who are pulling the strings, behind-the-scenes. Get a fresh refill of your favorite...

On this date in 1761,* the Jesuit Gabriel Malagrida became a late casualty of the Tavora Affair and the Lisbon earthquake when he was garroted for heresy. Malagrida (English Wikipedia entry | Portuguese) was a 72-year-old Italian with decades of missionary service to the Portuguese New World colonies under his belt. He had, in his time, been a prominent exponent of the Jesuits missions’ policy in the Amazon, which amounted to asserting their own jurisdiction against the secular government’s attempt to order its overseas territories. (There’s more on that conflict here.) And this only exacerbated his principal sin of being...

Catholics bring Christian values to people of other faiths by living out God's word and doing charitable work Paul Nguyen Van Phuc leads a prayer attended by members of the Cursillo movement at a church in Hue on July 18. (Photo: UCA News)John Nguyen Tuan, a retired military doctor, invites his friends to parties at his home at Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and his patron feast. They offer presents to one another and listen to hymns together.Tuan encourages them to make donations and visit patients and people without relatives. He has given more than 50 copies of the New Testament to...

All the polls aside, President Trump is positioned to win a historical victory in November. We can thank the inept Democrats who have sowed the seeds of their loss even before Hillary was defeated in 2016. Their preoccupation with "Hate Trump" started the moment they realized he might be the GOP candidate. Once elected, the deep state did everything they could to sabotage him and his administration. The House invested months in trying to impeach him. But President Trump is not your normal politician. He has stood up against the slings and arrows. He's taken their best shots, and he's...

New York City was among three cities labeled “anarchist jurisdictions” by the Justice Department on Sunday and targeted to lose federal money for failing to control protesters and defunding cops, The Post has learned. Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., were the other two cities on the list, which was approved by US Attorney General William Barr. “When state and local leaders impede their own law-enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest,” Barr said in a statement set to be released...

A dense fog enveloped this City on Wednesday night, followed yesterday morning by a heavy fall of rain, which has continued, with brief intermission, ever since. Rain commenced falling all along the Hudson River as early as Wednesday evening, and a thick fog prevailed, which interfered seriously with navigation -- it being almost impossible to distinguish the lights on the steamers and other vessels for any considerable distance. The fog was also very dense last night. The storm, fortunately, has thus far been unaccompanied by the high winds which usually mark the Equinoctial, and the shipping in our harbor and...

The Left lost their sense of humor years ago and now every minor official and functionary with a D after their name behaves as if they are Soviet commissars. Take Barb Byrum for example, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County MI. She wants to prosecute a woman in Mason, a small town outside Lansing, for a joke. From The Detroit News: Official: Toilet display in Mason mocking mail-in voting is a crime A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official. The resident put a toilet on their lawn...

A surgeon and a hospital system executive stepped down from a Tennessee hospital last week after the executive -- not a licensed physician -- participated in a patient's surgery, according to statements issued by both the CEO and the hospital system. Greg Neal, MBA, was CEO of Bristol Regional Medical Center near the Virginia border when he was invited to observe a live surgery last week, according to his statement. A surgeon then asked Neal if he wanted to make the initial incision, which he did. A surgeon and a hospital system executive stepped down from a Tennessee hospital last...

I always felt a sense of dread when I had to read one of Justice Ginsburg’s decisions as part of my legal research. Her writing was turgid and convoluted. The worst thing about her decisions, though, was how she misused case authority to create new principles out of whole cloth. Nothing shows that more than in her determination to bypass our American Constitution and law and look to foreign constitutions, laws, and customs. Ginsburg did not much like our Constitution, and she wasn’t shy about showing it. In 2012, Ginsburg showed up in Egypt, offering some “helpful” advice to the...