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A Christian maid was shot dead, reportedly by her Muslim suitor, on 30 November after refusing to convert to Islam in order to marry him. Sonia Bibi, 24, was shot in the head in a street in Rawalpindi, Punjab province, and died on her way to hospital. Her father, Allah Rakha Masih, a sanitary worker, said his daughter was murdered for refusing the marriage proposal of her Muslim suitor, Shehzad, who had been following her for the past five months along with his friend, Faizan. After being refused, Shehzad threatened to kill Sonia, said her father. It is unusual for...

The Muslim man who allegedly kidnapped Pakistani Christian girl Arzoo Raja, before forcing her into marriage, is to face a charge of rape, a magistrate ruled on 9 December. The court also ordered the police to reinvestigate the legality of the forced conversion to Islam of Arzoo, who was 13 when she was allegedly snatched from her family home in Karachi’s Railway Colony on 13 October. Cases were registered by the judge against Arzoo’s “husband”, Azhar Ali, as well as against cleric Qazi Abdul Rasool Naqshbandi, the justice of peace, and facilitators and witnesses involved in the marriage under section...

Eleven Armenian prisoners of war have been killed by their Azerbaijani captors, and more than 70 Armenian soldiers taken captive following Azerbaijan’s violation of the ceasefire which had halted the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on 10 November. Footage emerged on 15 December showing the shooting of the eleven prisoners. Azerbaijani forces have also taken control of four Armenian villages in addition to territory gained during the fighting which took place from September to November this year. These incidents come amidst allegations of Azerbaijani war crimes committed during that fighting, including the beheading of two elderly men and an attack on Ghazanchetsots...

“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished” (Proverbs 27:12).

Boko Haram jihadists have seized around 40 loggers and killed three others in northeast Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, militia sources and residents told AFP on Saturday. The hostages were rounded up by the insurgents on Thursday in Wulgo forest near the town of Gamboru where they went to collect firewood, the sources said. The jihadists have increasingly targeted loggers and farmers in the northeast, accusing them of passing information to the military and local militias. "A group of more than 40 loggers left Shehuri on the outskirts of Gamboru on Thursday and never returned by evening as usual,"...

The 12 days themselves are simply the time between the two major Christmas feasts: the Nativity of the Lord on December 25 and Epiphany on January 6. Since Christmas was the major “birth” feast in the ancient Western churches and Epiphany was the biggie for the Eastern churches, the days between them inevitably gained significance. The exact origins of particular observances and festivals, though, are a little harder to nail down. Like many Christian festivals, the roots of the Christmas season can be found in pre-Christian religions and folk customs. The date of Christmas, for example, is likely connected to...

December 27 2020 The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Sagrada Familia Church, Barcelona, Spain from visitBarcelona - http://barcelonasights.blogspot.com/2011/01/visit-la-sagrada-familia-for-free.html Lectionary 17Reading 1 SIR 3:2-6, 12-14 God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. Whoever honors his father atones for sins, and preserves himself from them. When he prays, he is heard; he stores up riches who reveres his mother. Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children, and, when he prays, is heard. Whoever reveres his father will live a long life; he who obeys his father brings comfort to...

Critics fear Trump could pressure William Barr’s successor for big favors William Barr’s abrupt move to leave his post as attorney general this week has spurred fears among Department of Justice veterans that Donald Trump will put new pressures on Barr’s successor to do him big and potentially risky political and legal favors. Former justice department officials say they are worried Trump will lean on Barr’s less experienced successor, the acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, to push policies which Trump has suggested he backs, including naming special counsels to investigate President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and using the DoJ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Muslims who employed two young Christian women as live-in house cleaners in Lahore, Pakistan have forcibly converted them to Islam and are not permitting Christian relatives to see them, sources said. Nasreen Bibi, a Christian aunt of 18-year-old Maham Manzoor and 20-year-old Anum Manzoor, told Morning Star News that the separate employers of each of the sisters forced them to convert to Islam and are holding them against their will, and that police and courts have allowed it. “Both Anum and Maham have been forcibly converted to turn them into slaves, and the police...

A 28-year-old Muslim man by the name of Qasim Khan has been receiving death threats from his own community members after he willingly left Islam and embraced Hinduism. While talking to the media, he said, “My name was Qasim and after I converted people from Muslim community are threatening to kill me & my family. I need police protection.” Aligarh Superintendent of Police (Crime) Arvind Kumar informed that a case has been registered based on his complaint. He added that Qasim is being threatened by some people and that security has been deployed outside his house in Aligarh. As per...

The Kremlin's security service says it thwarted a plot to carry out an attack in the country's southern republic of Dagestan. The FSB found "weapons, a large amount of ammunition and an explosive device." Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday it had prevented an attack by a terrorist group with links to the Islamic State (IS) armed group. The FSB said it had arrested four people who were set to carry out the offensive in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan. "Members of the group planned to detonate an explosive close to an administrative building belonging to security services,...

CHICAGO -- A man was shot and killed by an employee while trying to commit a robbery at a store Saturday on the West Side, police said. He walked in to a cell phone store about 6:50 p.m. in the 3200-block of West Chicago Avenue, pulled out a gun and demanded property, according to Chicago police. A store employee, a 29-year-old man, pulled out his own gun and fired shots at the robber, striking him in the chest, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The 29-year-old has a valid concealed-carry license, police said....

Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers told Bloomberg on Friday that $2,000 stimulus checks for Americans would be a "pretty serious mistake." Summers, who was reportedly an adviser to President-elect Joe Biden's campaign, said boosting consumer spending was the wrong route to economic recovery. The checks could overheat the US economy, he told Bloomberg.

“A Great Way to End Things” (Luke 2:22-40) Our text today is the story of Mary and Joseph presenting the infant Jesus at the temple and the reactions of Simeon and Anna. As we will see, what happens in this story is “A Great Way to End Things.” And that applies not only to the persons involved but also to us. A great way to end things. The first thing it ends is Mary’s time of purification. Reading again the opening verses of our text: “And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they...

Private donors who’ve contributed millions of dollars to the Black Lives Matter organization have come foreword to ask, where did all the money go? And, while the answer remains unknown, we know for sure that the money isn’t going to the supposed victims BLM claims to fight for, and now the donors and local chapters are getting pissed. The far-left organization went from being a group that most Americans rejected into one of the most beloved brands of the Democratic Party. ... BLM became so powerful that it could turn hundreds of thousands of “mostly peaceful protesters” out into the...

On April 30th, AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced a “landmark agreement” for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The agreement involves AstraZeneca overseeing aspects of the development as well as manufacturing and distribution while the Oxford side, via the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group, researched and developed the vaccine. Less than a month after this agreement was reached, the Oxford-AstraZeneca partnership was awarded a contract from the US government as part of Operation Warp Speed, the public-private COVID-19 vaccination effort dominated by the US military and US intelligence.Though the partnership was announced in April, Oxford’s Jenner Institute had already...

15 minutes of Jovan Hutton Pulitzer who possesses too much common sense and sheer intelligence. We posted him before a couple weeks back on FR but it faded. Now it emerges as the definitive solution to uncovering the fraud in the 2020 election. Gist of the video: * Ballot artifacts tell the real story. * Ballots & BALLOT SCANNED IMAGES (BSI) owned by American people, kept intact for 22 months. * Courts conjure up technical nonsensical reasons why ballots can't be examined. * Mail-in ballot processing leaves definitive technical irrefutable evidence. 1. Mail-in Ballots go through a machine. 2. Machine...

vigilante2 sent me a link to this video. https://youtu.be/U6aM7WHm-NA The cursor in this screenshot at the 2-second mark points to a plume of smoke. If you watch for that plume in the video you will see it appear and move across the screen. A second later the explosion cloud appears. We live in interesting times.

Another pro-Trump rally/demo being held in Nagoya , Japan as I write . There are been others in Osaka and Tokyo .

President Donald Trump's call for lawmakers to raise the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000 has divided Republican senators.