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In Adorers of the Blood of Christ v. Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co., (ED PA, Sept. 30, 2021), a Pennsylvania federal district court dismissed a claim for damages under RFRA brought by an Order of Catholic nuns whose land was condemned for construction of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline. They alleged that the taking violated their religious exercise because of their belief in the need to protect and preserve creation. In 2018, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals held that their suit seeking an injunction against the pipeline should be dismissed because their challenge should have first been brought before the...

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was thrown into the brig for daring to rebuke military leadership for surrendering to the Taliban, arming the terrorists group with $83 billion in US weapons, and stranding thousands of Americans and green card holders in the country. The outspoken officer was formally charged with six violations and referred to a special court-martial. On Friday Lt. Col. Scheller was slapped with a $5,000 fine and reprimand. Russia Today reported: Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has been issued a letter of reprimand and docked $5,000 in pay for his public criticism of the US’ heavily-scrutinized withdrawal from Afghanistan,...

Get your holiday themed masks and porch heaters ready. Masks and outdoor gatherings will still be the best way to make holiday gatherings safe this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in new guidance. The CDC's number one advice is for all those who are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine before people get together and travel at the holidays. For kids ages 11 and under who aren't yet eligible to get the vaccine, the CDC recommends all those who will be around them over the holidays be vaccinated to protect them. Unvaccinated adults in...

State-run newspaper Minskaja Pravda asked to avoid publication of satirical articles against the Catholic Church. Intervention of the Apostolic Nuncio in Minsk, Monsignor Ante Jozič. Priests painted as Nazi collaborators; the memory of the martyrs of Rositsa besmirched.Moscow (AsiaNews) - The Belarusian Ministry of Information has asked the editorial staff of the state newspaper Minskaya Pravda to take measures to avoid the publication of material similar to the recent satire and violent criticism of the Catholic Church. On Sept. 7, the newspaper had placed on its front page an illustration with a scathing caricature of Catholic priests, depicted as collaborators...

ANNA DUGGAR LLC's | Why do the Duggar's have so many LLC'S? Anna Duggar has alot of LLC's and I am curious to what they all are. Why so many? does she sell something? Anna has ALOT of kids to support so financially she Must be doing ok. I do not claim and never have claimed to know every single thing about this family (if I did, that would be stalkerish). I'm sure u know more than I do about the LLC'S so please comment or email me.

Moscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who told TASS that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland, the visiting US Undersecretary of State, in Moscow on Tuesday. Ryabkov added: “We emphasized the unacceptability of a US military presence in Central Asian countries in any form whatever.” Prima facie, Ryabkov has squashed the disinformation media campaign by Washington that at the Russia-US summit in Geneva in June, President Vladimir Putin had offered...

‘What we want to do is simply to care for souls, to seek every lost sheep, and to lead them back to our Father's house with our holy Catholic Church.’(LifeSiteNews) — A group of persecuted Chinese Catholics told LifeSiteNews of its hopes to reach tens of thousands of uncatechized souls in China with the good news of the Gospel. Psalm 42 Ministries was established in October 2020 to bring faithful Catholic teaching to an online audience in China whom they hope to fully catechize, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to control and suppress the influence of religion there. The...

But a slim majority have not heard their congregation’s leaders say much about themAs houses of worship continue to reopen, most U.S. adults who regularly attend religious services voice confidence in their clergy to provide guidance on the coronavirus vaccines – and far more say they have heard their pastor, priest, rabbi or imam encourage people to get vaccinated than have heard their clergy raise doubts about COVID-19 vaccines. But a slim majority of regular worshippers say they have not heard their religious leaders say much about vaccinations either way, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted Sept....

When the news broke that Superman is coming out as bisexual, it became a trending topic on Twitter, which is not how I typically determine whether something is important. To me, it was important because, like millions of Silver Age comic book kids growing up with Superman in the 1960s, I feel a sense of ownership. Back then, my devotion extended beyond the comic books to include the daily reruns of the syndicated TV show, “Adventures of Superman,” starring George Reeves. The producers had the foresight to film the last four seasons of this 1950s classic in color, but the...

In Hesse Germany all retailers including grocery stores can now decide whether they want to allow the unvaccinated in their stores. Hesse includes Frankfurt, the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany. The pressure on the unvaccinated grows and grows! In Hesse, all retailers, including the supermarket, can now decide for themselves whether they want to implement the 3G rule (vaccinated, tested, recovered) or the 2G rule – so far there have been no access restrictions in supermarkets to give everyone the option of basic services grant. The Hessian State Chancellery confirms to BILD that the “2G option model” also applies to...

The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs, including research about the coronavirusThe chief of the World Health Organization on Wednesday honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s and ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs, including research about the coronavirus. The recognition from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came more than a decade after the publication of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot's...

Quantum teleportation of an unknown input state from an outside source onto a quantum node is considered one of the key components of long-distance quantum communication protocols. It has already been demonstrated with pure photonic quantum systems as well as atomic and solid-state spin systems linked by photonic channels. Now, a team of researchers from the Netherlands, Brazil and China has demonstrated quantum teleportation of a polarization-encoded optical input state onto the joint state of a pair of nanomechanical resonators. “The use of optomechanical devices is a breakthrough because they can be designed to operate at any optical wavelength, including...

NDP leader Rachel Notley used the opportunity to criticize the UCP and Albert Health on Twitter for mentioning the boy’s death along with stating he had “pre-existing conditions.” Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley and her MLAs attacked Jason Kenney and the Alberta government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the wake of a 14-year-old boy’s death due to terminal brain cancer. On Tuesday, Simone Spitzer took to Facebook to call out Alberta Health for labelling her younger brother Nathanael’s death COVID-related. Nathanael was, in fact, already dying of Stage 4 brain cancer in palliative care, but tested positive for COVID-19...

An advocacy group that warns about the threat of a nuclear Iran has sounded the alarm after the US Treasury Department last week without explanation lifted sanctions on two firms that produced ballistic missiles for the Iranian regime. United Against Nuclear Iran is questioning why the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFA) suddenly announced it would be removing sanctions on Mammut Industrial Group and its subsidiary Mammut Diesel. Both companies were sanctioned in September 2020 for “providing support to an entity in Iran’s ballistic missile program.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has foolishly put herself—and the safety of the people of Chicago—in a game of chicken, with at least half the police force ready to defy her vaccine mandate and be sent home from work by City Hall without pay, rather than comply. “She wants to play a game of chicken. Well, we’re in a semi. And she’s in a Smart Car. And she wants to play chicken?” said Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara told me on Thursday. “That’s her decision.” I figure Chicago’s little Napoleon in pants suits caves by Friday. As I type...

Introduction: Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which a confused old man - Joe Buckstop - stumbles into the presidency, and spends his entire term in his basement. Each evening, an aide walks downstairs and serves him his bowl of soup, and engages him in conversation about current events, in a losing effort to keep his mind hale. Tonight's episode is an excerpt from the ongoing series, "Evening Soup with Basement Joe," by John F. Di Leo, a fictional chronicle of the events of 2021, a political satire available in paperback or eBook from Amazon. "Good evening, sir!...

Eritrea and Burundi along with North Korea are the only countries that have yet to roll out COVID-19 vaccination campaign. This was revealed by WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyseus in his October 13, 2021 coronavirus briefing. He bemoaned the increasing lack of vaccines which according to him impacted a number of African countries stressing his call for more access to jabs. "As you know, 56 countries who were effectively excluded from the global vaccine marketplace were not able to reach the target of vaccinating 10% of their populations by the end of September - and most of them in Africa.

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The fatal stabbing of British Member of Parliament David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said on Saturday (Oct 16), at they investigated the second killing of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. The Metropolitan Police said its preliminary findings had revealed "a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism". Amess, a 69-year-old pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, was stabbed to death inside a church on Friday while holding a fortnightly consultation with his constituents in the small town of Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, east of London.

A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Friday over her endorsement of Terry McAuliffe for Virginia governor during a press briefing, which the group alleges is a violation of the Hatch Act. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, requesting that an investigation be launched to determine if Psaki violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal government employees from participating in political campaign activities in their official capacity. The president and vice president are exempt from this rule. The complaint points to Psaki's comments during...