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<p>Hollywood celebrities who fully-backed convicted hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett have been silent, as of this reporting, in the wake of Thursday’s guilty verdict in Chicago.</p>

Pope Francis Writes to New Ways Ministry: “Thank You for Your Neighborly Work”"News broke yesterday that Pope Francis has been in correspondence with New Ways Ministry this past year, thanking the group for its work and affirming its co-founder.According to the National Catholic Reporter:“In two letters to New Ways Ministry this year, Pope Francis commended the organization for its outreach to the LGBTQ community and referred to one of its co-founders, Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick, as ‘a valiant woman’ who had suffered much for her ministry.“Written in Spanish on official Vatican stationary, Francis’ letters mention that the pope is aware...

Argentina: Pope Promotes ‘Pachamama Park’Amphitheater includes Masonic obelisk, shrines to major world religions SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is giving his blessing to an ecumenical and interreligious theme park that promotes the major world religions as equally valid pathways to an encounter with the divine. Youth gather in the Pachamama amphitheater The Parque del Encuentro (Park of Encounter) has a Catholic church, Protestant chapel, Buddhist temple, synagogue and mosque all built in a "symbolic fraternal embrace" around a Pachamama amphitheater. A five-sided "Obelisk of Human Fraternity" climaxes the structure, built in consultation with the Holy Father in...

WASHINGTON — For the first time, the Obama Foundation released a list of its super mega donors — 11 gifts of $25 million or more — while also on Thursday announcing how top donors will be using their naming rights to honor others. Last month, the foundation disclosed that Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people in the world, is donating $100 million, its biggest individual contribution to date. On Thursday, the foundation announced: * Obama Foundation board member and foundation finance chair Michael Sacks, the CEO of GCM Grosvenor? * Foundation board member Penny Pritzker — a former Commerce...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan called on the Department of Justice to file a lawsuit against his own state, claiming that its Democratic-controlled legislature violated the Voting Rights Act with its newly drawn congressional districts. "On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it is suing Texas over its new redistricting plan, alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965," Hogan's office said in a press release Thursday. "Today, Governor Hogan called on the Biden administration to immediately add the State of Maryland to that lawsuit." While Hogan vetoed the legislature's new map, Democrats hold a supermajority in both...

One of God’s names in scripture is Jehovah-Nissi. It means the God who provides, who is a banner, who lifts ups, who exalts. It’s an interesting combination of meanings all together in one word. This Hebrew word nissi was used in Jewish weddings. When the bride and groom were at the wedding party, all of the guests would make the couple sit in two chairs; then they would lift the chairs up and walk around the room, carrying the bride and groom. That action of lifting up was called nissi. I think it’s a powerful picture because marriage is a...

“. . . Being found in appearance as a man” (Philippians 2:8). Many people view Christ only as a man, but He is God. After winning a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Scottish runner Eric Liddell served as a missionary in China; he died in a prison camp during World War II. The camp’s prisoners loved Eric, for he served them so unselfishly. It was only at his funeral that they first learned he was an Olympic hero. They had had no idea of his full identity. Most people didn’t realize Christ’s full identity either, for He...

America helped to pioneer the idea of public education. But a growing number of teachers and parents are wondering if the pandemic has finally broken America’s system of public education, as a growing number of school districts close schools for days or weeks, sometimes without the option of going remote. The NYT published a deep dive on the issues afflicting public schools across the US, issues that also impact the workforce since parents who can’t bring kids to school are often stuck scrambling for child care. One example of how schools are rolling back services as the struggle with budget...

Customers attempting to print the popular anti-Biden chant "Let’s Go Brandon" on Titleist golf balls were given an error message and told their orders could not be completed. "So @Titleist has now banned the phrase ‘Let's Go Brandon!’ on their golf balls," social media strategist Caleb Hull tweeted Thursday, adding that he had been able to print the phrase on golf balls in the past

The thief smashes the back window, steals two bags and then goes back for more – all while people nearby carry on. “It’s out of control. We have people that are doing this – are breaking into cars in Nob Hill, then they go down to Fisherman’s Wharf, then they come out here. Then they go to another part of the city and the police can’t chase the cars, it’s considered a misdemeanor,” said Alan Byard, a San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officer. As a patrol special officer, Byard is part of a neighborhood police force authorized in San Francisco’s...

So, um, some people did something, and now CNN's Primetime slot is empty! Oh no! While we are extremely sad to see the brilliant and legendary Chris Cuomo go, there are a ton of great candidates out there who would do a great job filling his shoes! Here are the top ten possible replacements for Chris Cuomo: #1) Jussie Smollett: He has vast experience using fake news to gin up racial hatred. A perfect fit! #2) Ghislaine Maxwell: For her skill in protecting serial sex predators. #3) Luigi from Super Mario Brothers: The Primetime slot has been traditionally filled by...

British author, commentator and curmudgeon Malcolm Muggeridge once opined that ecumenism is like two drunks walking down Oxford Circus each holding onto the other for dear life. If one falls, they both would go down together. Were Muggeridge alive today, he would note that not only is the Church of England in steep decline and heading into the sunset of its days, but the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Scotland, the established church, are in a race to obscurity. The two church's recent signing of a "Declaration" to work together, was little more than putting lipstick on a...

The inventor hopes eventually to replace human psychiatrists with artificial intelligence to review applicants' soundness of mind.Sarco' death pod on display in Venice (exitinternational.net) (LifeSiteNews) — Medical authorities in Switzerland have authorized a disturbing new method of assisted suicide that employs personal “suicide pods” to further reduce oversight of the decision to end one’s life. Unveiled years ago, Sarco Suicide Pod is a portable, 3D-printed, one-man capsule which can be flooded with nitrogen from inside, after the user answers one survey to be told the pod’s location, then another set of questions to confirm his or her intent to die....

Bogor mayor holds a groundbreaking ceremony for a Protestant group at the center of a 15-year freedom of worship row A groundbreaking ceremony has been held in Indonesia’s West Java province to kick off the construction of a new Protestant church which local officials hope will end a religious dispute that has dragged on for more than a decade. Bogor City mayor Bima Arya officiated at the ceremony for the Christian Church in Indonesia (GKI) Pengadilan, an affiliate of GKI Yasmin, on Dec. 5. Arya believes the construction of the church will end a dispute that began in 2007 when...

The latest Public Health data shows that in the past four months the fully vaccinated population have accounted for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 hospitalisations, as well as 6 in every 10 cases, and 9 in every 10 deaths.So today we’re starting the ‘Let’s all chip in to buy Dr Hilary a calculator for Christmas’ campaign, because on the 6th December, he stated on national television that 90% of the people currently in hospital with Covid-19 are unvaccinated. Proving he is either stupid, or just a liar.In an apperance on Lorraine Kelly’s ITV show on Monday Dec. 6th, Dr Hilary...

A cargo truck jammed with people who appeared to be Central American migrants rolled over and crashed into a pedestrian bridge over on a highway in southern Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 49 people and injuring nearly five dozen others, authorities reported. Luis Manuel Moreno, the head of the Chiapas state civil defense office, said a preliminary estimate listed 49 dead and 58 injured. He said about 21 of the injured had serious wounds and were taken to local hospitals. The crash occurred on a highway leading toward the Chiapas state capital. Photos from the scene showed victims strewn...

A new tourist route called “The Christian Crimea” is being developed as part of the national tourist project "Tourism and the hospitality industry" in Crimea. This issue was discussed at a meeting between the Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Chernyshenko, and the Chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, RIA Novosti reports. After the meeting, Dmitry Chernyshenko gave a number of directions, suggesting that a tourist and pilgrimage destination — a national tourist route called “the Christian Crimea” — should be developed as part of a large-scale tourist project in Crimea. For its...

From Commentsreecealmighty 3 hours ago From what I've seen, these doctors should be treasured and held with very high regard. The majority of medical "professionals" in the world right now seem to be either under some mass hypnosis, or are very weak and too scared to speak up (or both). Thank GOD there are doctors in this country that have a brain AND a backbone...I, for one, appreciate it greatly. Thank you. Front Line Critical Care Alliance: https://covid19criticalcare.com/

Chris Christie said it's "undeniable" that former President Donald Trump infected him with COVID-19 in 2020 and blasted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for not disclosing that Trump had tested positive on September 26 in an interview with PBS' Margaret Hoover. Christie added that while he had always "suspected" that Trump had given him COVID, the new revelations from Meadows' book made it "undeniable." "I was playing Joe Biden, I was siting right across from him..we had some very spirited disagreements during the debate prep, so saliva was flying back and forth between us," Christie said of...

If someone had said to you in 2019, that in the near future the mainstream headlines will be dominated for days on end with news that the UK Government held a Christmas party, then you would have most likely thought they were rather odd. But here we are.However, whilst the mainstream media has got you talking about who got what in the ‘Secret Santa’ that took place in 10 Downing Street in December 2020, they’ve managed to distract you from the fact that the UK Government is slowly boiling the nation once again by drip feeding restrictions back into play,...