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Two congregations in Georgia have left the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s opposition to homosexuality and merged into one church. Asbury Memorial Church and Wesley Oak Church, both based in Savannah, recently voted to disaffiliate from the UMC South Georgia Conference. Asbury, which averaged 387 attendees in weekly worship in 2019, finalized its process of disaffiliation last fall. Meanwhile, Wesley Oak, which averaged 29 attendees, finalized disaffiliation earlier this month. Asbury Memorial Pastor Rev. William Hester told The Christian Post on Monday that the decision to leave came soon after the 2019 special session of the UMC General Conference....

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told lawmakers Tuesday the delta variant now makes up 83% of cases, up from 50% at the beginning of this month. "CDC has released estimates of variants across the country and predicted the delta variant now represents 83% of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase from -- up from 50% for the week of July 3rd," Walensky testified in a hearing before the Senate Health Committee.

Leave it to liberal grifter Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin to make a fool of herself by complaining that corporate America isn’t woke enough on voting rights. Rubin’s new whiny op-ed was headlined “Corporate America must commit to action on voting rights.” The self-described “pro-democracy opinion writer” flailed that corporations “talked a good game” after George Floyd’s murder. But that wasn’t enough for Rubin. She decried how there “has been little concrete evidence [corporate America is] working to preserve democracy and the rule of law on which their businesses rely.”

While white liberals littered your Instagram feeds with black squares and Washington, D.C.'s, elite donned kente cloths to take a knee for George Floyd, the Beltway's black residents who live across the Anacostia River were being shot and murdered in disproportionate numbers, bringing the district's overall homicide count to a 16-year high. But you would hardly realize the violent crime crisis engulfing the nation's capital until this weekend, when the violence finally came to the doorstep of D.C.'s elite. During a Saturday baseball game at Nationals Park, one Arlington woman who had left the game to wait for an Uber...

Given its foundational falsehoods, does Traditionis Custodes lack juridical standing?Cardinal Raymond Burke distributes Holy Communion at a traditional Latin Mass in Rome after a LifeSiteNews and Voice of the Family conference (October 2018).July 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Article 1 of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes reads: “The liturgical books promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II, in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II, are the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”The pope here claims that the Novus Ordo is the only law of prayer for the Roman Rite. It is impossible...

Top government epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul traded accusations of "lying" about gain-of-function research at a Tuesday Senate hearing, continuing the long-running feud between the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director and the Kentucky senator. Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky are also likely to face questions at a on whether the U.S. should bring back health measures like mask mandates as the delta COVID variant spreads around the country. In his questioning of Fauci, Paul stepped close to the line of accusing Fauci of lying to Congress in...

About a week ago, a company in Utah that makes custom modifications to firearms debuted what it described as a fun new product: a kit that encases Glock handguns in red, yellow and blue Lego blocks, refashioning lethal weapons to look exactly like children’s toys. “We have been building guns out of blocks for the last 30 years and wanted to flip the script to aggravate Mom,” Provo-based Culper Precision explained on its website. It went on to argue that personal defense is a right granted by God and that gun ownership is protected by the Constitution before getting to...

Drew Hammill, a top aide to Pelosi, said the unidentified staff member was fully vaccinated and did not have recent contact with the top California Democrat, though the speaker's office is taking extra precautions as a result. "Yesterday, a fully vaccinated senior spokesperson in the speaker’s press office tested positive for COVID after contact with members of the Texas state legislature last week," Hammill said in a statement obtained by Fox News. "This individual has had no contact with the speaker since exposure. The entire press office is working remotely today with the exception of individuals who have had no...

LONDON (AP) — The British government has decided not to inoculate most children and teenagers against COVID-19 until more data on the available vaccines becomes available. Children as young as 12 with severe neuro-disabilities, Down syndrome, immunosuppression and multiple or severe learning disabilities, as well as those who are household contacts of individuals who are immunosuppressed, will be eligible for vaccination, the government said Monday. The decision to hold off giving shots to most people under age 18 was based on the recommendation of an expert advisory panel. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization said the health benefits of...

The police are investigating a shooting at an Atlanta gas station that left two people critically injured. Officers were called to the Chevron station at 2195 Piedmont Circle NE just after 8 p.m. Sunday evening. As soon as the police came some BLM agitators surrounds & taunts a white cop who was trying to respond to the shooting call. The reason is simple because the police officer was white he wasn’t allowed to help them. Below is the video of police officers who respond to a shooting in Atlanta, only to be shouted down and forced to leave because one...

President Joe Biden has failed to meet his vaccination goals. There are several reasons for this. Facebook. FOX News. Climate change, maybe. Despite this, we have to convince the people who aren’t vaccinated to get the shot. So how do you convince someone to go against a deeply held belief? It’s hard to say, but I know how I want to convince someone: screaming at them how dumb they are until they change their ways. Thus I’ve decided that’s the best way to persuade people. If we are to save everyone from this pandemic, we have to find all the...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) provided updated guidance on Monday, urging more mask-wearing — even among certain vaccinated people — and calling on everyone who is eligible for a vaccine to get the shot “immediately.” Beshear provided an update along with Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, on Monday and spoke about concerns over the delta variant.

[ransomnote: 1 minute Twitter video at link, likely to be ripe for deletion. In 2018, outlines the globalists utilization of a pandemic to seize power.]Camus on Twitter: "Conspiracy theory from 2018.... https://t.co/RQziWBPUm0" / Twitter Transcript and some images of May 17, 2018 Alex Jones video segment featured in tweet:"Alex Jones: The globalists have said in their own white papers, in their own UN documents that they want to create very specific bioweapons...""...and other systems to depopulate the planet. A lot of this from my sources is they're preparing to release bioweapons,""...claim that they are naturally occuring, ""...and then use that...

July 20th marks the six-month mark of the Biden presidency, and look at what his administration has wrought on the border. What’s occurring is simply mind-boggling, though not surprising. The numbers are way up, at least a million have crossed so far, and thousands of foreigners are being resettled in the United States.

PLANO, Texas — Doorbell camera video shows the moment a Monday explosion reduced a Plano home to splinters, sending six people - including multiple children - to the hospital. A neighbor who lives directly across the street from the home on Cleveland Drive shared doorbell camera video with WFAA that showed the moment the explosion happened. You can hear the loud bang from the explosion, then see smoke billow out and debris rain down. His own home was damaged in the explosion, and he said investigators won't let him inside. "This is a disaster!" he said.

A White House official and a staff member for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the same reception last week, officials confirmed to Axios.

A top scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that the world is shifting further away from the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, owing to factors like viral variants, social mixing, the flouting of public health measures and vaccine inequities. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, epidemiologist and WHO COVID-19 technical lead, noted an 11.5 percent increase in global cases over the last week, with a 1 percent increase in deaths. Europe saw a 21 percent uptick in infections last week, while the Western Pacific experienced a nearly 30 percent increase, for instance. Though data reflects a slight dip...

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"I have three friends who've had dinner with him in the last couple of months. All three reported that his current plans are to run for president in 2024," the former RNC official said. ========================================================================= Former commander-in-chief Donald Trump plans to run for president again, according to dinner conversations in recent months relayed by an inside source. Trump has been touting the potential 2024 bid to at least three dining buddies, a former senior official at the Republican National Committee told Rolling Stone. "I have three friends who've had dinner with him in the last couple of months. All three...

The case of a patient who experienced two facial palsies – one after the first and another after the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – strongly suggests that Bell's palsy (facial nerve palsy of unknown cause) is linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, doctors write in the journal BMJ Case Reports.