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Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the intense urban development program launched in Egypt, each new urban district built in compliance with the guidelines established by the civil authorities will also have its own church, in accordance with the regulatory plan. This was confirmed by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, who, on Saturday, February 5, presided the celebrations for the inauguration of the new church built in El Salam City, an urban industrial and residential district that was built in recent years in the vast area of Cairo. The declared intent of the presidential provisions - Egyptian political analysts report...

On behalf of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Helmut Dieser welcomed the recently launched German Catholic LGBT campaign, and declared a ‘new’ approach to sexuality.BERLIN (LifeSiteNews) — The German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) has officially supported the #OutinChurch LGBT campaign publicly backed by 125 Catholic Church employees, including clergy. On January 24, the LGBT campaign released their seven-point list of demands to the Catholic Church, including for a change in Church “doctrine” on sexuality, as well as a documentary entitled “How God Created Us,” which has been characterized as “the biggest coming out in the Catholic Church” by German Christian magazine...

You guys gotta hear this. This guy talks about how China is using Tik-Tok to mine the videos of entrepreneurs, cooks, and people who make things to teach to their kids while rewarding the dancing and dog videos, to keep our generation of kids stupid. This is a very intriguing Limbaughesque take. Please just watch the video and don't complain about Twitter

<p>Police report that multiple arrests have been made related to the protest as Mayor Jim Watson warns that someone may get killed or seriously injured because of the irresponsible behaviour of some of those involved.</p>

The American-born Olympic ice skater who gave up her U.S. citizenship to compete for China has fallen on the ice for a second time, infuriating her adopted homeland. Beverly Yi, 19, was born in the U.S.A. but a few years ago decided to renounce her American citizenship and moved to China to make her debut as a Chinese figure skater. She changed her name to a Zhu Yi and began appearing in competitions in the communist nation. Yi’s debut was bad enough, but China’s ardent Olympics fans were sparked to anger all over again on Monday when Zhu Yi fell...

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who spent thousands on her own private security last year, continues to champion the “Defund the Police” movement, despite its floundering popularity among Democrats. “My colleagues keep telling us to wait. They keep telling us defunding the police and investing in communities won’t work,” the congresswoman tweeted. “Well their policies keep ending up with police murdering Black people. Enough patronizing. Listen to the movements that are telling you how to save lives.” Bush’s tweet follows a comment from President Joe Biden slamming the “Defund the Police” movement and blaming guns from the crime wave in...

Two people have been arrested amid clashes as protesters surrounded Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Sir Keir was protected by police and removed by car near Parliament shortly after 17:00 GMT on Monday. Protesters could be heard shouting "traitor" and criticising his record on Covid, and there were some cries of "Jimmy Savile". Some Tory MPs urged Boris Johnson to withdraw his false claim that Sir Keir failed to prosecute Savile. Labour has not commented but it is understood Sir Keir, a former director of public prosecutions, returned safely back to his office and was not harmed during the incident....

This was supposed to be the big coming-out party of Chairman-for-life Xi with his 100-year-old Communist Party. Instead, it’s turning out to be a massive faceplant and it’s hurting both NBC and the game’s advertisers. for an Olympics Even Putin can’t be bothered to stay awake for the ‘excitement’ of it all.China’s Wuhan Wheezer boomeranged just in time for many Olympic hopefuls to find themselves quarantined in horrible conditions. By comparison, photos of the food visiting athletes have been given there make Michelle Obama’s nightmarish lunch program look like it had been designed by Jamie Oliver.But conditions in isolation are...

Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem has introduced HCR 2033, which calls for the elections of Maricopa, Pima and Yuma Counties to be set aside and ultimately decertified based on “clear and convincing evidence that the elections in those counties were irredeemably compromised.” “The circumstances surrounding these elections undermine voter confidence in the election system, moreover, they ultimately translate into doubts about election integrity,” Finchem said in a statement. Finchem — who is a candidate for Arizona Secretary of State — has been a staunch supporter of election integrity, namely the Maricopa County audit.The Marciopa audit previously unearthed numerous election irregularities,...

Masking is a divisive issue, however, at the end of the day, it is a scientific question. Pre-pandemic, community masking was discouraged because the pre-existing evidence was negative. This is why Fauci was critical of it in early March 2020 on 60 minutes. In the pandemic, masking has become a marker of politics. Good liberals wear them and bad conservatives don’t. As a scientist stuck in the middle, with my colleagues J. Darrow and I. Liu, we performed an umbrella review of this topic. We found very poor quality data, insufficient to support community masking, particularly for years on end....

WASHINGTON — A little over a week ago, The Liberty Loft reported on the shocking data presented by attorney Thomas Renz at Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-Wisconsin) panel discussion titled COVID-19: A Second Opinion. Among the numbers were a 1,000% rise in neurological issues and 300% increases in cancer cases and miscarriages from the five-year average ever since the COVID-19 jabs have been used in the military.The numbers came from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) while three whistleblower doctors from the Department of Defense (DOD) provided the info the Renz.Now, allegations are emerging that the DOD is wiping data from...

Billionaire venture capitalist and Paypal founder Peter Thiel has decided to leave the board of Meta Platforms (the company formerly known as Facebook) after its annual shareholder meeting in May, according to an announcement from the company released just after markets closed on Monday afternoon.According to reports published by Bloomberg and the NYT, Thiel is leaving Meta’s board so he can focus on backing political candidates who support President Donald Trump’s agenda during November’s midterms, which Thiel sees as “crucial to changing the direction of the country.” Both reports cited anonymous sources familiar with Thiel’s thinking. He doesn’t want his...

HERE’S A MESSAGE for the trolls who have been posting vicious comments about Justin Trudeau testing positive for COVID-19: get a life. What kind of person could be so callous as to wish bad things on another human being who has contracted a potentially life-threatening virus? I’m not talking about nasties from the other side of the country, either, though I’m sure there are plenty of those. No, I’m talking about the mean-spirited critics here in our own town and region who have been posting comments such as, “who cares?” and “what a joke” and “the little baby,” and “coward.”...

[Catholic Caucus] Sub Petro? Marx, Hollerich, and the 'synodal path'Delegates to the German “synodal way” voted last week in favor of a document calling for liturgical blessings of same-sex couples and the sacramental ordination of women. The day before, a Luxembourg cardinal called for a “fundamental revision of doctrine” on homosexuality. And Germany’s most prominent cardinal, on the same day, gave the controversial view that permitting married men to become priests might ameliorate the sexual abuse crisis.Of course, it seems certain that the Church will not adopt the positions called for by the synodal path and the cardinals in question....

@ChadPergram A) From the pool. GOP ME Sen Collins on RNC censuring Cheney/Kinzinger: Those who were assaulted police officers, broke windows and breached the capitol we're not engaged in legitimate political discourse, and to say otherwise is absurd. B) Collins: The GOP started this year with a decided advantage on the issues that will determine the outcome of the fall elections. C) Collins: But every moment that is spent relitigating a lost election or defending those who have been convicted of criminal behavior moves us further away from the goal of victory this fall.

“The situation has reached a crisis point. And in times of crisis, it is important for federal leaders to show leadership, to urge de-escalation, and to work together to find solutions,” Singh wrote in the letter, a copy of which was shared with Global News. “Solutions are needed not only to the convoy and the resulting blockade, but to the broader situation facing Canadians — a health care system on the brink, health care workers facing burn out, and Canadians who expect a plan on how to get through to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Olympians in tears over poor living conditions, lack of food at Winter Games It’s apparently not all fun and games at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Complaints from athletes and officials are pouring in about the alleged poor living conditions, dining options, isolating rooms, and debilitating weather conditions, according to social media posts. German Alpine skiing coach Christian Schwaiger criticized the catering in Beijing and raised concern about limited food options to fuel the high-performing pro athletes. “The catering is extremely questionable because really it’s not catering at all. “There are no hot meals,” Schwaiger said, via the Sun....

An Oregon man posed as a federal agent and convinced a woman that she was training to become a DEA officer for an entire year before the real feds were tipped off about the pair by local police, court documents revealed. Robert Edward Golden, 41, is facing federal charges of impersonating a federal agent for the ruse, which saw him take his wide-eyed protégé on bogus ride-alongs throughout the city of Portland and gift her with a phony badge she thought was real, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. What's more, the man even duped his malleable mentee to...

The governors of four states announced plans Monday to lift statewide mask requirements in schools a month or two from now, citing the rapid easing of COVID-19′s omicron surge. The decisions in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon were announced as state and local governments grapple with which COVID-19 restrictions to jettison and which ones to keep in place. The changes also come amid a growing sense that the virus is never going to go away and Americans need to find a way to coexist with it.

House Resolution 5421, passed on party lines, and Senate bill S626 will amend the Lacy act to prohibit the transportation into or within the US of all live animals of all types. Exceptions are: 1 - farm animals 2 - cats and dogs 3 - any animal that was traded in very large numbers during the calendar year 2021. It should be noted that the pandemic greatly reduced animal shipments during 2021. This will destroy most of the pet industry. Only those most popular 50 species of fish sold by chain stores in vast quantities will be listed. It should...