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CV NEWS FEED // Two University of Notre Dame faculty members, including a Roman Catholic bishop, have criticized President Rev. John Jenkins for imposing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on campus. As CatholicVote reported, Jenkins announced earlier this month that “Notre Dame will require all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – to be fully vaccinated as a condition of enrollment for the 2021–22 academic year.” “Please register your vaccination at this site,” Jenkins wrote, providing a link. The web page Jenkins linked to includes a message asking students to “upload a picture of your vaccine card.”On Monday, the student-run newspaper...

Bach’s cantata 'Die Elenden sollen essen', performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, broke the ice in his new post. At last, his appointment as cantor in Leipzig had been finalised and he had moved with his family (almost 20 children!) from Köthen to Leipzig on 22 May 1723. And his first actual duties as cantor were carried out at the service on Sunday 30 May 1723.

JERUSALEM — As his Muslim neighbors and fellow Jericho residents make their way home for the iftar, which breaks the daily fast throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Franciscan Father Mario Hadchiti hands out small bags of dates and water to passersby in front of the Franciscan Good Shepherd Church. It is a tradition the parish priest, originally from Lebanon, began when he arrived in Jericho nine years ago. “Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims and an expression of love,” Hadchiti said April 24. “As a Franciscan I should love all people, all nature, everybody. Pope Francis has...

Recently, a mainland Chinese netizen named “v64500” wrote on the online forum “V2EX” that his internet-connected television was scanning electronic devices in his house and uploading the data to a company called “Gozen Data.” The netizen revealed that his television is a mainland Chinese brand called “Skyworth.” The netizen thought the television was a bit slow and checked its backend service program and “found something called ‘Gozen Data’ and had no idea what it was doing.” The netizen said the television used the Android system. After studying the data for a while, v64500 found that “this thing [Gozen Data] scans...

Moscow, April 28, Interfax - Christians are more exposed to persecutions in Africa than in the Middle East, experts of the Russian Orthodox Church arrive at such a conclusion in their report On Situation of Christian Population in Africa. "For the recent years, the epicenter of persecutions against Christians has moved from the Middle East to Africa. Situation in Nigeria causes the greatest concerns. This country holds the first place in the world for its level of anti-Christian violence", the document of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations says as it is posted on the Moscow Patriarchate official website....

Beijing’s top intelligence agency has rolled out a new anti-espionage regulation, subjecting institutions and companies to tighter surveillance, including on students and scholars going abroad from China. This announcement was made on the same day that the United States announced that in the national interest it will allow entry for students and scholars from certain countries, including China, Iran, Brazil, and South Africa. They will be exempt from existing travel bans. The Chinese regime’s first anti-spy regulations, which were announced and took effect on April 26, allow the Ministry of State Security, the intelligence agency, to compose a list identifying...

THERE is a great need to raise awareness of how the police in modern Britain are clamping down on the freedom of Christians to proclaim in public places the teachings of the Scriptures. I and my colleague Pastor John Sherwood, the Minister of a north London church, were preaching the gospel together in the centre of Uxbridge (in the PM’s constituency) on Friday April 23, as we regularly do. I began the preaching and referred to the grave abandonment by our nation of its Christian foundations, an abandonment which has manifested itself in, for example, the redefinition of marriage. This...

NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio are leftist New York’s version of Godzilla vs. King Kong. They have been fighting ever since DeBlasio was elected mayor. City Mayors and NY Governors never really get along, but with these two, it’s war. Each has an inflated ego, and each acts like a monster toward anyone who dares to disagree with their policies. Thus, the two have been engaged in an epic battle to determine which can screw over New York the worst. Each of the leftists has problems. DeBlasio comes off as sanctimonious, arrogant, and...

Hong Kong passed a new immigration law on April 28 that gives authorities the power to prevent people from entering and leaving the city, raising concerns that Chinese mainland style “exit bans” will be implemented in the financial hub. The United States expressed that it is “deeply concerned” about the new law. Meanwhile, a recent study shows that more than half of the local youth that took part in the survey want to leave Hong Kong in the future. According to the public broadcasting service Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) passed the “Immigration Amendment...

The Department of Defense (DOD) announced it is canceling U.S.-Mexico border wall construction efforts that were paid with funds that were initially allocated for the military. Former President Donald Trump ordered the diversion of billions of dollars in military and defense funds toward building the wall, using his emergency executive powers. “The Department of Defense is proceeding with canceling all border barrier construction projects paid for with funds originally intended for other military missions and functions such as schools for military children, overseas military construction projects in partner nations, and the National Guard and Reserve equipment account,” said Jamal Brown,...

Buying Butchered BabiesBiden ends pro-life policyBiden spokesperson Jen Psaki dismissed on Friday Catholic concerns over fetal tissue harvesting, saying this White House "respectfully disagrees" with Catholic teaching. The pro-life community is disgusted Biden directed the Health and Human Services Department to remove President Trump's ban on fetal tissue harvesting.Lauren Enriquez, deputy media strategist for Students for Life Action:The Biden administration wants us to believe they care about children who are in cages at the border. They want us to believe they care about vulnerable people in our country. The question I have is if you do not care about children...

The Polish government will not include the possibility of a third gender – separate from male and female – when it implements new harmonised European Union identity cards. It says it does not want to be part of an “ideological revolution”, but some lawyers believe this could breach EU law and an opposition MP has promised legal action.

Auntie Maxine is up to her old ways, America. Actually, Mad Max is continuing her “always ways” — with a vengeance. Now that the Devil’s spawn is finally out of office, the loony California Democrat can focus her entire, bitter self on other people and things — like evil employers who conduct criminal background checks on job applicants.As reported by The National Pulse, Maxine Waters (D-LOON), and Maryland Democrat Rep. David Trone introduced legislation on Thursday that would deny federal grants to businesses that conduct criminal background checks on job applicants.Think about that, for a minute. What could possibly go...

- Five women and 86 men were found crammed inside home in Southeast Houston Friday - Police were investigating suspected kidnapping when they executed a search warrant and found the people huddling inside the home - All the occupants are adults in their 20s and 30s; they told police they had not eaten in a while - Some of the people had symptoms of COVID, including fever and loss of sense of smell and taste Houston police were investigating a kidnapping report when they found what they believe to be more than 90 adult human smuggling victims crammed into a...

"One thousand dollars," said the lawyer Tolman, in a severe and serious voice. "And here is the money.” Young Gillian touched the thin package of $50 bills and laughed. "It's such an unusual amount," he explained kindly to the lawyer. “If it had been $10,000, a man might celebrate with a lot of fireworks. Even $50 would have been less trouble." "You heard the reading of your uncle's will after he died," continued the lawyer Tolman. "I do not know if you paid much attention to its details. I must remind you of one. You are required to provide us...

Some Christians don’t want to be connected to other members of the body of Christ. They commune with Jesus, but they deliberately isolate themselves from other believers. They want nothing to do with the body, other than the head. A body can’t be comprised of just a single member, though. Can you picture a head with only an arm growing out of it? Christ’s body can’t be made up of a head alone, with no limbs or organs. His body consists of many members. We are knit together not only by our need for Jesus but also by our need...

“‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ . . . but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:54-55, 57). The Resurrection seals what we could not: victory over death. Death is the great enemy of mankind. It comes to everyone without exception. It violates our dominion of God’s creation, breaks apart relationships, disrupts families, and causes us to grieve the loss of loved ones. However, Christ’s resurrection has broken the power of death for Christians because “death no longer...

USCCB has 'nothing in the works' on Biden and CommunionRecent reports that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops may at their spring general assembly press pro-abortion Catholic politicians not to receive Communion are unfounded, and at best ignorant of ecclesial structure, a source close to the conference has told CNA.A source close to the USCCB told CNA April 29 that they believe such reports from the AP and the Washington Post are either “just totally ignorant of the Church's structure,” or meant “to pressure the bishops into silence” regarding the Equality Act.The Equality Act would amend federal civil rights law...

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