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Photo: foma.ru One of the most recognizable images of Russian Orthodoxy, the wooden Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Kizhi Island in Karelia, has finally reopened to the public for the first time in 41 years. More than 100 unique specialists labored over the 15-year restoration of the 22-domed church, for which the A. S. Rakhmanov All-Russian Center for the Preservation of Wooden Architecture was created, reports the Russian Ministry of Culture. The head of the Ministry, Olga Lyubimova, attended the reopening ceremony. The church is scheduled to be re-consecrated on its patronal feast on August 19. The...

Less than 0.004% of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization and less than 0.001% died from the disease, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data highlights what leading health experts across the country have highlighted for months: Covid-19 vaccines are very effective at preventing serious illness and death from Covid-19 and are the country's best shot at slowing the pandemic down and avoiding further suffering.

LifeSiteNews has obtained Bishop Douglas Crosby’s letter stating that unvaccinated priests ‘may not be permitted entrance’ to hospitals and schools. In ‘order that all clergy can carry out their ministries effectively, including celebrating Mass and the other Sacraments, it is imperative that they get fully vaccinated,’ he wrote.HAMILTON, Ontario, July 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In a letter obtained by LifeSiteNews, a Canadian bishop warned priests that their ministry may be restricted if they don’t receive an experimental coronavirus vaccine. “Anyone who does not receive the vaccines may find themselves limited in their ministry,” wrote Hamilton’s Bishop Douglas Crosby in a...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — By the Fourth of July, Provincetown’s tourist season had built to a prepandemic thrum. Restaurants were booked solid, and snaking lines formed outside the dance clubs. There were conga lines, drag brunches and a pervasive, joyous sense of relief. “We really thought we had beat Covid,” said Alex Morse, who arrived this spring as town manager. “We had internalized those messages, that life will be back to normal. We beat this. We are the most vaccinated community in the state.” Mr. Morse didn’t think much of it, five days after the holiday, when the town’s Board of...

In June, an American scientist discovered that more than 200 genetic sequences from COVID-19 patient samples isolated in China early in the pandemic had puzzlingly been removed... Wuhan University...sequenced a short stretch of genetic material from virus samples taken from 34 patients at a Wuhan hospital. The researchers posted their findings online in March 2020. That month, they also uploaded the sequences to an online database called the Sequence Read Archive, which is maintained by the National Institutes of Health... Bloom became aware of the Wuhan sequences this spring while researching origin of COVID-19. Reading a May 2020 review about...

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:( Isaiah 46:9-10)Approximately 30 percent of the Bible is prophecy. In the passage above, the God of the Bible challenges humanity, to believe in Him, who alone “declares the End from the beginning” and whose counsel always stands. How did Peter, Paul and the Apostles of the New...

"I can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation I've had with every president of this country, period," Steele said, during a Thursday livestream for the Lincoln Project..."

Getting a COVID vaccine isn’t just a matter of red and blue. Despite remarks from President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempting to blame Republicans for slowing vaccination rates around the country, data shows that even some reliably left-leaning voting blocks are hesitant to get jabbed.... ...In fact, some of the groups that voted most enthusiastically for Biden are among the least likely to be vaccinated.... ...The disparities between political leanings are even greater when race is taken into account.... ...Biden won 92 percent of the ballots cast by black voters and 59 percent of those cast by...

Every Monday in the city of anarchy, on what Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot once called “Accountability Mondays” without irony, the media tallies the number of the weekend murdered dead and the wounded. And the Democrat politicians point fingers at each other. More than 70 people were shot this past weekend, with 12 dead. Over the July 4 weekend, more than 100 people were shot, among them more than a dozen children, and 19 were killed. And so on, weekend after weekend, weekday after weekday. Violence, the fear of violence and its after-effects are the top issues in Chicago. More than...

Former President Donald Trump has been holding meetings with “Cabinet members” at his golf club in New Jersey this week, according to a top ally. Mark Meadows, who was Trump’s final White House chief of staff, said the work at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, is focused on “what comes next” with regards to 2022 and 2024 elections, after which Newsmax host Steve Cortes (himself a former Trump adviser) asked whether he wanted to break any news about his meetings with the former president. “We met with several of our Cabinet members tonight,” Meadows said. “We actually...

Early in my teen years, I remember seeing a bootleg Jimi Hendrix tape in the room my older brother and I shared. I picked it up, and started playing it–that was it, I was hooked on rock and roll music! Jimi Hendrix–like many rock and roll musicians–had a lot of issues, but I don’t believe there’s any doubt that he had real genius in his music. I dived into the genre, and began listening to Led Zeppelin, the Doors (who later became my favorite), the Rolling Stones, the Who, Aerosmith, UFO (great and underrated!) and others. But my favorite, for...

Kentucky state trooper says he had to switch from 'pursuit' mode to rushing a woman in labor to the hospital .."I couldn’t believe that this person just passed me at that speed approaching from the rear," Adkison recounted. I was kind of mentally, you know, preparing myself for that, to go into pursuit mode, and turn on my siren. She’s still not stopping initially. And eventually, she pulls over after a couple of miles," he said. When he approached the vehicle, he realized the driver, Jacqueline Cornish, was pregnant and she explained she was in labor. The seven-year trooper offered...

The subject of emergency guns, or apocalypse guns to use the vernacular, comes up often. I don’t call the pandemic or an ammo shortage an emergency. My emergencies have been personal, not civil, but just the same, memorable. Folks who have never skinned a deer or used a gambrel have some idea they will live off the land. They may end up dumpster diving. Canines are stringy, so let’s hope the impending doom doesn’t come anytime soon or some of the folks may be eating dog. A popular TV show has generated a little different type of collecting. Several...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 121 A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will...

THE WOMAN WITH THE ROSE John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front...

Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano told One America News this week that he will ask the Pennsylvania Senate’s Intergovernmental Operations Committee he chairs to issue subpoenas to compel counties to cooperate with his effort to investigate the 2020 election. On Friday Pennsylvania counties Tioga and Philadephia declined to participate in the Senate’s forensic election audit. ..... Snip..... The Epoch Times reported: A Pennsylvania senator is preparing to ask a panel he chairs for the authority to issue subpoenas to compel counties to cooperate with his effort to investigate the 2020 election. “We’re eagerly awaiting my committee coming together when I can...

A top Border Patrol union official is warning that agents are having to release COVID-positive migrants into the U.S. "day in, day out" -- amid the ongoing crisis at the border, which also has Border Patrol agents worried about their own health. "Not everyone we encounter we test, only those that exhibit some type of symptoms and not everybody has symptoms that has it," Chris Cabrera, a vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, said Saturday on "Fox News Live." "And we’re releasing people out of the door day in and day out with actual positive tests for COVID...

Biden globalist handlers are set to repeat the mail-in ballot election theft of 2020 Video...

noted zydeco musician was shot as he was on stage at a Louisiana music festival Friday night, according to family and authorities. Chris Ardoin, a third-generation zydeco performer, was struck in his back, his wife Kerri Ardoin said on his Facebook page early Saturday.... ...The sheriff's office said there were thousands of people leaving the event at the time of the shooting. Two people with guns jumped on the running boards of a vehicle that was exiting, the agency said, but they were arrested by deputies. No identities were released.

DENVER (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech.