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The pharmaceutical giant Bayer has given an $80,000 grant to the nation’s largest abortion business. According to the Arkansas Family Council, the drug-maker provided the grant to the Planned Parenthood abortion center in Little Rock, the state capital. Here’s more: Bayer has awarded a $40,000 grant to the Planned Parenthood facility in Little Rock, according to statements from Planned Parenthood and Bayer. The grant is being awarded through a partnership between Bayer and the organization Direct Relief. According to Planned Parenthood, the abortion facility in Little Rock will receive $40,000 “to fund innovative projects in 2021, focused on expanding reproductive...

Rhode Island Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin joined a growing chorus of Catholic leaders this week in urging Joe Biden not to present himself for communion because of his pro-abortion stance. Biden claims to be a devout Catholic but holds positions on abortion, family and religious freedom that contradict his faith. Catholic and other Christian leaders have been urging Biden to repent of his support for the evil of abortion, and some bishops have warned him not to receive communion until he does. This week, Tobin told WJAR News 10 that he would ask Biden not to receive communion if he...

Pro-lifers living in half of the United States have very few options for health care under Obamacare. A new report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Family Research Council and The Heritage Foundation found that 69 percent of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, health plans in 24 states and Washington, D.C. cover elective abortions. More specifically, in seven of those states and D.C., pro-lifers have no options; all of the plans offered on the Obamacare exchange cover elective abortions, according to the report. They are: Alaska, California, D.C., Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont. These plans are subsidized by...

written by Students for Life Action calling on U.S. Senators to VOTE NO on the confirmation of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS.) About the letter to be delivered today to U.S. Senators, Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins said, “Pro-family and pro-life leaders have come together to send the clear message that weaponizing America’s healthcare systems against pro-lifers and people of faith must never be allowed or tolerated. There is a reason that Planned Parenthood and their abortion allies believe they have been ‘wildly successful’ with a possible...

I was watching Sebastian Gorka fill in for Greg Kelly tonight, and great show, had on Peter Navarro, Babbins from TX, and a few others. Then, right at the end, some blonde lady comes on and reads a whole load of legal garbage separating NewsMax from its guests who made claims about SmartMatic and Dominion and then negated EVERYTHING that Sydney Powell has stated. What a shame. So they're too scared to fight. Anyone know if OANN caved yet? Only ones saying 'Bring it' are Lin Wood and Sydney Powell.

CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2020 / 04:01 pm MT (CNA).- Spain’s parliament has advanced a euthanasia and assisted suicide bill that Catholic leaders had decried as “a defeat for all” which abandons those who suffer. The Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, passed the bill by a Dec. 17 vote of 198 to 138, with the backing of the country’s left-wing coalition and several other parties. The conservative Popular Party and the far right Vox party voted against the bill. Protesters had rallied against the bill outside of the parliament building in Madrid. They held a...

A group of anti-lockdown, pro-Trump protesters forced their way into the Oregon Capitol Monday. One report shows some of the protesters were armed with rifles, handguns, and even a pitchfork. A large group forced their way into the capitol as the legislature met on the opening day of the state’s third special session. The protesters expressed opposition to the state’s ordering of certain businesses to close. While legislative sessions are normally open to the public, today’s was closed to anyone other than lawmakers, police, some staff, and reporters, the Oregon Statesman-Journal reported. Legislators met to attempt to pass pandemic-relief measures...

Yesterday nine federal departments jointly issued a 381-page release (full text) titled Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in the Federal Agencies’ Programs and Activities. The Release amends existing rules to loosen restrictions on faith-based organizations operation of programs and activities funded by federal grants. The new rules impact grants by the Departments of Education, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Justice, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Agency for International Development. DOJ's press release on the new rules says in part: This final rule ensures equal treatment for faith-based organizations, consistent with the Constitution and other federal...

Elizabeth Banks, an actress heavily invested in the pro-abortion movement, criticized an Ohio self defense bill Friday because it could endanger innocent children. The Daily Wire reports Banks (“Hunger Games,” “Pitch Perfect”) said “Stand Your Ground” laws do not help anybody and put children and pets at risk. “Stand Your Ground is BS,” she wrote on Twitter, reacting to an Ohio bill that would allow people to shoot in self-defense even if they do not attempt to retreat first. Banks shared a personal experience to warn people about how dangerous such legislation could be. As a child, she said she...

NBC News’ streaming service Peacock host Mehdi Hasan said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump “should be prosecuted” for his “sociopathic” behavior that lead to hundreds of thousands of “preventable deaths” from coronavirus. Hasan said, “The two worst presidents of the last hundred years are the last two Republican presidents the current one Donald Trump and George W. Bush which speaks volumes about the modern Republican Party and also when you compare Trump and Bush, Bush killed hundreds of thousands of people abroad, you know, brown and black people in faraway countries we don’t care about. Donald...

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - From this year, Christmas becomes a public holiday throughout Iraqi territory. This is what the members of the Iraqi Parliament decided, expressing unanimously their agreement to the proposal made in recent months and made public during a meeting between the Iraqi President, Barham Salih, and Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako. The measure takes on particular importance in view of the apostolic visit that Pope Francis has planned to make in Iraq from March 5 to 8, 2021. The Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, immediately after hearing the news of this unanimous decision of...

Those who resist the novelties of the crisis in the Church are condemned to be 'alone' and 'sterile', he saidVATICAN CITY, December 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has renewed his attack on members of Vatican bureaucracy who object to the theological novelties being forced on the Church. Some of the novelties arising in the crisis, he said, come from the Holy Spirit. In his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia, the 84-year-old Argentinian pontiff said today that the crisis in the Church “is a necessary moment.” Crises should not be confused with conflicts, he stated. “Crisis generally has a...

Secretary General. Joined by 34 other countries, the document enshrines the Trump administration’s pro-life diplomacy on the official record of the General Assembly. “The United States strongly supports the dignity of all human beings and protecting life from the moment of conception throughout the lifespan,” Ambassador Kelly Craft wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres transmitting the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family. Following the letter, the declaration was issued as an official document of the United Nations last week and circulated on December 11, after having been translated into all six official UN languages....

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Yard, MarylandThe United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the largest industrial facility in the Department of Homeland Security. It falls under the Coast Guard's Engineering and Logistics Command. It is the Coast Guard's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility, and part of the Coast Guard's core industrial base and fleet support operations.The Yard has designed, built, maintained and...

Seconds after he received the shot, Biden, wearing a face mask, said his fellow Americans had nothing to fear in receiving the vaccine. "I'm doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared, when it's available, to take the vaccine," Biden said. "There's nothing to worry about. I'm looking forward to the second shot." Biden also praised President Donald Trump for his administration's efforts in helping accelerate the process of bringing Covid-19 vaccines to Americans. "I think the administration deserves some credit getting this off the ground with Operation Warp Speed," Biden said. "This give us great hope," he said.

Representative-Elect Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) has declared that he will contest the electoral college results of the 2020 election during the congressional certification of the results on January 6.Cawthorn made the announcement at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was delivering a keynote speech.“In a lot of these liberal swing states, which have liberal Governors and liberal Secretaries of State, you can see they have broken the law and gone against our Constitution in this election,” Madison Cawthorn stated in his speech.“And because of that, on January 6 – the people of western North...

The current political climate, and more specifically, the politics that have invaded the church, are causing increased division among those who profess to be Christians. Whether it’s a tweet from Beth Moore denouncing so-called Trumpism and nationalism, or a radical right-leaning group pointing to Trump as the Savior, the divide has left many people confused. Here are a few points I’m hoping will help, but first, I’d like to begin with a question: Since when did being concerned about protecting innocent life become nationalism, and wanting God’s Word honored and the freedom to preach the gospel become Trumpism? Could it...

With the Texas House Committee on Transportation currently studying the funding of highways in Texas, advocates of toll roads and other funding methods are making their voices heard. As part of the interim charge by Speaker Dennis Bonnen, the committee was tasked with investigating whether “the current mix of use fee-based funding for the state highway system, including registration fees, tolls, and fuel taxes, and [determining] if current funding generated is sufficient to maintain cost demands” — making recommendations for additional methods for funding road infrastructure projects. Ordinarily, the committee would hold meetings and receive testimony from relevant state agencies...

A controversial expert witness testified in court Monday that there were voting irregularities in a $1.1 billion Dallas County College bond election. ... “There were 38 precincts where there were more ballots that were canvassed than there were ballots documented on the audit logs and that’s very concerning because they are coming from the same data source,” Pressley testified. Pressley testified as an expert witness for Kirk Launius, a former Dallas County sheriff candidate who is seeking to overturn the results of the bond election ... Approved by 71.46% of voters in the election, the bond package, now on hold,...

TAPPER: “I have to ask you, President Trump held a meeting on Friday in which he reportedly discussed with his disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn martial law and force new elections in states that Biden lost and discuss appointing Sidney Powell and issuing an executive order to seize voting machines. This is, needless to say, quite alarming and scary to a lot of people. What will Senate do to make sure this doesn’t happen?” ROMNEY: “It’s not going to happen. It’s going nowhere. It’s really sad in a lot of respects and embarrassing because the president could, right...