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Thousands-celebrated-Palm-Sunday-in-the-streets-of-Qaraqosh-last-weekend.-Credit-Twitter-Father-Naim-Shoshandy-CopyAn American website considered that the gradual return of Christians to their homes in the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq, and the celebration of their holidays, notably Palm Sunday, represents great importance for the followers of a religion that suffered from the control of the terrorist organization ISIS over their areas. A Syriac priest in Baghdida told the American website that reviving these rites is a great gift represented by the renewed ringing of church bells in the Nineveh Plain. The American website Angelos, which specializes in Christian affairs, said in a recent report, “The celebrations of Palm Sunday in...

AFP John Burger - published on 12/23/21 On the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR, we look back at the dozen years when a formidable superpower gave way to a revolution of conscience. As they did each evening, a small Catholic family in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic sat in their living room, watching the evening news. It was October 16, 1978, and the announcer said that that day at the Vatican, a bishop from Poland had been elected as the new pope of Rome. He took the name Pope John Paul II.The family’s only child at the...

Shirlene Hernandez, A 72 year old great-grandmother, was attacked and pummeled at a San Antonio gas station. The thug used her car door to bash her in the face. Three other men tried to tackle him, but he got away in Hernandez’s car. Minutes later, the perp slammed into the back of a tanker truck on I-35 near Somerset, Texas. The thug died at the scene. No local media, nor police, have disclosed the identity of the perp. They have only said that he had escaped from medical detention. Family members started a GoFundMe campaign to buy Hernandez a new...

A top cardinal at the Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis’ apprehension about Germany’s “Synodal Path,” telling EWTN in an exclusive interview that critics have raised “legitimate concerns” about the controversial re-assessment of Church teaching on sexual morality and other critical issues. "I very much hope that the German bishops will not simply defend themselves but really enter into a dialogue. Because there are legitimate concerns behind this that have to be taken seriously,” Cardinal Kurt Koch said Thursday. The Swiss cardinal, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, spoke to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser for the EWTN...

Black Lives Matter protesters got into an altercation with police in Pittsburgh that ended with a black officer striking one of the protesters, according to images captured at the scene. A group of roughly 20 activists gathered to protest the death of Jim Rogers, who died in the hospital after being tasered by eight police officers in October. Several officers from the Wilkinsburg Police Department and others soon arrived on the scene and declared the event an unlawful assembly, ordering the group to stop blocking the street.

I have a new noun for your vocabulary: Holoportation. It's an amalgam of "hologram" and "teleportation," and though it may seem like it, it isn't just a niche sci-fi term buried somewhere in Isaac Asimov novels and Star Trek episodes. NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid gives a space greeting Oct. 8, 2021, as he is holoported on to the International Space Station. In October, NASA used this mind-boggling, futuristic mechanism to bring NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid onto the International Space Station while he was safely planted on our planet. No rockets necessary. Schmid was joined on this...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Authorities said six men have been arrested in a crime wave that stunned the Bay Area during the holidays with a series of brazen robberies. The suspects, ranging in age from 18 to 20, were allegedly involved in smash-and-grab robberies that targeted San Jose jewelry stores and other businesses.

BREITBART BIDENFLATIONUKRAINE WAROPEN BORDERDEM-CITY CRIME WAVETRANSANITYMASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE David Plouffe: Trump Will Not Run for President in 2024 PAM KEY18 Apr 20220 1:26 Former campaign manager for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign David Plouffe said Monday onMSNBC’s “The Beat” that he believed former President Donald Trump will not run for president in 2024. When asked about Trump, Plouffe said, “I said for some time, and I may end up eating these words, I doubt he ends up running. Because I think, at end of the day, you can see the trend lines. In some focus groups that have been...

NAMPA, ID—Local construction worker and faithful husband Joseph Smithereen has recently placed sanctions on his wife of fifteen years after she invaded his side of the bed, again. "That does it!" yelled Smothereen. "Despite my continual warnings, she has proceeded with a totally unprovoked take over of my side of the bed. Her actions have left me with no choice but to impose heavy sanctions." Martha Smithereen will reportedly have restricted access to the television, bathroom, and laundry machine. He has also worked with foreign allies to inhibit her ability to import foreign essential oil. "If she relinquishes control of...

President Joe Biden’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Monday evening it will not enforce mask mandates at airports in light of a judge’s order on Monday that declared mandates on federal airplanes illegal. “The agencies are reviewing the decision and assessing potential next steps,” a Biden administration official said. “In the meantime, today’s court decision means CDC’s public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time.”

“Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour” (Proverbs 19:4).

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that it was disturbing that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has his “finger on the nuclear button,” was “distant from reality.” Clapper was reacting to Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer saying Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Putin believed Russia was winning the war in his invasion of Ukraine.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Military Academy West Point, New YorkThe United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort, since it sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River with a scenic view, 50 miles north of New York City. It is the oldest of the five American service academies and educates cadets for commissioning into the United States Army. The academy was founded in 1802, one year after President Thomas Jefferson directed that plans...

Proponents note their signature volume rivals the number of votes that put Mayor Brandon Bochenski in office in 2020. In only a few months, a group of worried voices opposing a proposed Grand Forks corn-milling plan has ballooned into a political movement big enough to demand a citywide vote on its future. A total 4,797 signatures were deemed valid by the city this month on a petition demanding a vote on a development deal with Fufeng Group, the China-based agribusiness behind the facility. Though the city had deemed the petition invalid--it has done do for legal and technical reasons--those nearly...

Vice President Harris on Monday announced the U.S. will avoid testing anti-satellite missiles, urging other nations to follow the lead of the Biden administration after a Russian test last November created a field of debris in space. Harris announced the self-imposed ban on the tests, known as direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing, during a visit to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Administration officials expressed hope that the policy would become an international norm for other nations to abide by, calling the anti-satellite missile tests “one of the most pressing threats to the security and sustainability of space.”

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The White House declined to comment Monday on the results of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation that reportedly found no border patrol agents were guilty of whipping migrants crossing the Southern border in September 2021. White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to address reports showing the agents involved with the accusations were cleared of criminal wrongdoing, despite accusations from President Joe Biden and other administration officials that they were guilty of whipping or “strapping” the migrants.

Beto O’Rourke had called for an end to Title 42 for months. He said the emergency health order from the federal government, which allows officials to turn away migrants at the border to control spread of COVID-19, was ineffective and has led to mass repeat crossings which overwhelm an already overworked Border Patrol staff. But earlier this week, O’Rourke raised some eyebrows. He called on the White House not to end the health order until it had laid out a plan to help border communities deal with the increase of migrants expected after its end in May. O’Rourke’s comment confused...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that congressional Republicans were a threat to national security. Wallace said, “Over the weekend, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, either ignorant of which is always possible with him or unbothered by, also likely, his own continued startling hypocrisy, suggested Russia would never have invaded Ukraine ever in the first place if the U.S. had simply provided weapons to President Zelensky sooner. Here’s why that matters. You’ll remember just two years ago, Kevin McCarthy repeatedly defended the twice impeached ex-president’s campaign to hold up military aid for Ukraine in the...

U.S. natural gas prices surged to the highest level in more than 13 years Monday as Russia’s war on Ukraine causes a global energy crunch and as forecasts called for cooler spring temperatures. Futures jumped 10% to trade as high as $8.05 per million British thermal units, the highest since September 2008. The jump builds on recent strength, with natural gas coming off five straight positive weeks. Prices later retreated slightly, with the contract ending the day 7.12% higher at $7.82. “The impact of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is likely to be long-lasting for North American natural gas...