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Priests, laypeople from Kerala's Syro-Malabar Church oppose a decision to have uniformity in celebrating MassThe decades-long liturgical dispute in India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church took a dramatic turn with priests and laypeople taking to the streets to protest the decision by the bishops’ synod to have uniformity in celebrating Mass. Catholic priests and lay groups began gathering separately on Nov. 12 in front of St. Thomas Mount, the church’s headquarters in Ernakulam district of Kerala state, seeking a review of the synod’s decision. The synod in August had agreed to implement a 1999 decision for uniformity in Mass celebration in all...

Taiwan was under a spotlight during a three-hour virtual meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Biden said the United States remained committed to the “one China” policy but strongly opposed unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. Xi said Chinese unification was the common wish for all Chinese people while mainland China would remain patient to achieve peaceful reunification with Taiwan. Xi added that Beijing would take decisive actions if Taiwan independence powers crossed the so-called red line....

Connecticut parents claimed a school district is indoctrinating elementary school students about transgenderism, including with a book for kindergarteners.Officials of the West Hartford Public Schools told parents that they could not opt out from the materials, according to a release from advocacy group Parents Defending Education. The reading list for kindergarteners included the book “Introducing Teddy,” according to a lesson sheet shared with The Daily Caller News Foundation.“One sunny day, Errol finds that Thomas is sad, even when they are playing in their favorite ways. Errol can’t figure out why, until Thomas finally tells Errol what the teddy has been...

In an unusual interview published by Vatican News ahead of the U.S. bishops’ vote this week on the document titled “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church,” Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, calls the upcoming document “totally unnecessary,” because, he says, it “was intended primarily to go after and penalize Catholic legislators.” Last June, the U.S. bishops overwhelmingly voted 174 to 55 in favor of crafting the document. A vote on a final draft is expected to come Nov. 17. The interview, conducted by Sister Bernadette M. Reis, an American Daughter of...

There were chaotic scenes on the Bruzgi-Kuźnica border crossing, where crowds of migrants could be seen breaking up concrete blocks and gathering tree branches to throw toward the Polish side. Loud bangs rang out over the crowds and a dense cloud of smoke hung overhead. Belarusian state media BeITA reported that the water cannons used by Polish forces sprayed a yellow liquid that caused burning, and that people were suffocating and feeling sick from the smoke. A CNN team was hit by the water fired by Polish guards. According to BelTA, the deputy head of the Belarusian Armed Forces' Department...

WASHINGON, DC, November 12 (C-Fam) The U.S. Department of State is once again including a section on “reproductive rights” in its annual reports tracking the human rights records of other countries’. On November 4, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that the 2020 reports, released earlier this year, have been updated with the new section. The “reproductive rights” section in the reports was first included under former President Barack Obama, then removed by former President Donald Trump’s administration, provoking outrage among abortion activists, who called on current President Joe Biden to restore it. When the 2020 reports were published in...

Boston-based State Street plans to triple the number of minority staff in senior roles by 2023 and is using diverse hiring panels to do so. Under the policy, executives must show that they have made an effort to increase minority representation at the firm or face lower year-end bonuses, according to the Sunday Times, which reported that staff will have to receive “special permission” to hire white men. Recruiters of middle management at State Street are now mandated to establish a panel consisting of four or five employees including a woman, and preferably a person of color, that will evaluate...

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Russia’s latest S-550 missile systems will serve as a mobile follow-up of the A-135 ‘Amur’ - A-235 ‘Nudol’ strategic missile defense system and will feature the kinetic energy interceptor principle to avoid a nuclear detonation when a warhead is struck, military expert Dmitry Litovkin told TASS on Tuesday."In the case of the Soviet ABM system, nuclear warheads were intended to be intercepted over the country’s Central Industrial Region by a counter nuclear blast. It was believed that both dummy targets and warheads would burn up in the emerging plasma. Therefore, the nuclear ash would all the same fall down on...

The CDC announced in July that there were 93,331 overdose deaths in the US in 2020. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 93,331 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2020, an increase of 29.4% from the 72,151 deaths predicted in 2019.Advertisement - story continues belowThe data features an interactive web data visualization. The new data documents that estimated overdose deaths from opioids increased from 50,963 in 2019 to 69,710 in 2020. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased in 2020 compared to...

Christina Karaoli Taylor, Multicultural Competency Trainer, CKT Cultural Strategies: “I challenge you [journalists] to stop thinking in terms of objective journalism. We’ll discuss why that’s not really feasible anymore.”Ron Treviño, CBS Houston News Anchor: “I don’t really care if people trust us or not, we still have to do our job. Whether they trust us is the least of my concerns -- whether they trust me or not.”Grady Tripp, Tegna Chief Diversity Officer: “At this point, if you’re not listening to a podcast, or looking at a video, or reading any of the information that’s out as far as equality...

Peter Stoner wrote in his book, "Science Speaks", that mere coincidence cannot explain the prophecies Jesus fulfilled. He applied the science of probability to show the chance of only eight prophecies being fulfilled in one man. That probability was calculated to be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000! That's 1 in quintillion. When Stoner's calculations were submitted to the American Scientific Affiliation for verification, both a committee of review and the Executive Council found them "dependable and accurate in regards to the scientific material presented" (see foreword by H. Harold Hartzler in Science Speaks). It doesn't take a mathematical genius to understand that...

You’ll have heard various climate change fanatics call for lockdowns to be used to reduce carbon emissions – because they worked so well to curb the spread of COVID-19! Well, it’s starting. India’s Supreme Court is calling for a lockdown in New Delhi because of a “health emergency”. But the “emergency” is not due to COVID-19. It’s due to air pollution. NPR has more. At a hearing Monday, justices ordered authorities to halt all nonessential travel on roads in the national capital region. They also told them to close offices in the area, shifting tens of millions of people to...

Iran have been accused of playing a man as a goalkeeper for their women's national team against fierce rivals Jordan who have demanded a 'gender verification' probe. Zohreh Koudaei, 32, saved two penalties during the 4-2 shoot-out victory over Jordan in Uzbekistan on September 25, meaning the Iranian women's team qualified for its first ever Women's Asia Cup. The President of Jordan's FA, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, tweeted a letter 'requesting a gender verification check' on Koudaei from the Asian Football Federation (AFC).

Major update: The judge in the Rittenhouse case has just informed the media, “I think the jury is going to retire for the evening.” The twelve jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse case are in deliberations after a tense court trial that has national ramifications. The prosecution has botched a weak case that alleges Rittenhouse is guilty of killing two men and injuring a third man during a Black Lives Matter riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. Rittenhouse’s defense maintains he acted in self-defense. Although all of Rittenhouse’s victims were white,all of them had serious criminal records, and they were...

Germany is planning new Covid restrictions for 14 million unvaccinated citizens as it battles soaring coronavirus cases, mirroring a health apartheid imposed in Austria... The incoming Social Democrat (SDP) government today warned that unvaccinated people will be barred from going to work and travelling on public transport. The new government will also recommend that everyone should work from home unless they have a 'compelling business reason'. 'This is actually a lockdown for the unvaccinated,' said Dirk Wiese, the deputy head of the SPD parliamentary group. Around 14 million Germans eligible to be vaccinated have not taken up the offer. ......

Lawmakers say they have received scant information from the FBI about a recent ransomware investigation, with top bureau officials offering few answers about decisions that cost U.S. businesses millions of dollars and produced questionable results. During a Nov. 16 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on ransomware, the FBI was questioned about its handling of the July attack against U.S. IT company Kaseya—in which hackers from the ransomware group REvil exploited a vulnerability in Kaseya software to exfiltrate the data of some 1,500 U.S. businesses, schools, hospitals, and other entities. In September, it was revealed that the FBI had obtained...

Io Dodds Tue, November 16, 2021, 11:13 AM·2 min read A Florida woman with Covid-19 whose husband had battled in court to get her treated with ivermectin has died of her illness. Tamara Drock, a 47-year-old teacher from Loxahatchee near Palm Beach, Florida, passed away from Covid complications on Friday after 12 weeks in hospital, according to the Palm Beach Post. Her Husband, Ryan Drock, had sued the hospital last month to force doctors to administer ivermectin, an anti-parasite medication that has become a cause célèbre for Covid sceptics and supporters of Donald Trump despite little evidence of its benefits.

When Kamala Harris considers movie titles that make people think of her, she probably goes straight to “Wonder Woman.” I have news for her: Every time she opens her mouth, people are wondering, “What Planet Are You From?” It’s pretty clear everyone in the White House hates her and is blame-leaking to every reporter around in hopes of emerging from this explosion in the stink-bomb factory without carrying any failure fragrance. All politicians blather, but Harrisblather is like an air salad with vapor croutons and nullity dressing. She went all the way to France to offer insights like, “We must...

A US Air Force team based in Africa rescued a British citizen who had suffered a heart attack on board an American cargo ship in the Indian Ocean this weekend, according to the US military. The Warfighting Recovery Network received an “urgent request” on Saturday for a mariner “experiencing symptoms of a heart attack,” on a US flagged cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, about 500 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya, a press release from US Africa Command said. After the urgent call came in, a team of five US Air Force pararescuemen were deployed. They flew an...