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New Hampshire Republicans have launched a “Censure Sununu” petition after the governor vetoed the Republican legislature’s redistricting maps. If successful, the petition would publicly condemn Republican Gov. Chris Sununu (R) for vetoing redistricting maps, making anti-Trump statements, and generating anti-free speech restrictions around abortion clinics.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in his sermon after the Divine Liturgy at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy touched upon the issue of so-called “burnout”. – A bishop once related to me that a certain priest had complained of a burnout. I said: either you ought to send him to a monastery for hard work, or else have him defrocked. Christian Orthodox clergy cannot burn out: they can only burn for Christ. Those who complain of a “pastoral burnout”, plainly speaking, have no idea of what the priestly vocation is all about, what the purpose of their study...

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On World No Tobacco Day Pope Francis notes that health is a God-given gift and invites all men and women to take good care of it. World No Tobacco Day, marked annually on 31 May, is part of a global campaign that aims to raise public awareness about the damage the use of tobacco wreaks on our health and about the many ways in which it threatens the environment we live in. Pope Francis has joined his voice to the campaign saying that “The culture of life is a heritage that we Christians must share with everyone.” His words came...

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday that the United States is planning on “cooperation” between its National Guard and Taiwan’s military amid mounting threats from communist China.Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a rank conferral ceremony for military officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force, at the defence ministry in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 28, 2021. (Annabelle Chih/Reuters)The announcement comes as China, which wants to claim the self-ruled island as its own, has stepped up its military harassment of Taiwan in recent years. Last week, China’s military organized military drills in the sea and air spaces surrounding Taiwan,...

A Vatican-approved Chinese bishop remains in detention more than one year after his arrest for allegedly violating the communist country's repressive regulations on religious affairs. Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang was arrested May 21, 2021, reported ucanews.com. A day earlier, police arrested 10 priests and an unknown number of seminarians from a Catholic seminary in the diocese that was set up in an abandoned factory building. About a year ago, authorities in Xinxiang shut down Catholic schools and kindergartens in line with a government ban on education by religious groups. All those arrested were accused of violating China's regulations...

Shanghai's two-month lockdown has taken its toll on Chinese migrant workers, who are planning to leave at the first opportunity. In this final part of a two-part series on the trend of reverse migration, CNA's Low Minmin speaks with an analyst who says the trend is likely to stay until Shanghai's economy is back on track.

Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson expressed his willingness for a “conversation” on raising the minimum age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 and “AR-15-style weapons” amid fresh talks on gun reform following a deadly mass shooting in Texas last week. Hutchinson told CNN’s John Berman on Tuesday that he supported an ongoing bipartisan dialogue between a group of U.S. senators to potentially draft new gun control legislation. Hutchinson said one area the bipartisan congressional group should look at is “the AR-15-style weapons,” and whether the minimum age to purchase one should be raised.

The United States will provide Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems and munitions, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday. The commander in chief wrote in a New York Times op-ed that his administration would provide the weapons that “will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.”

Bishop Bätzing added that Pope Francis ‘disappoints’ him since the Pope is not enacting enough change in the Church.(LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Bishop’s Conference (DBK), has demanded that Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality and the role of women “must be changed.” Bätzing made the comments in a May 22 interview which dealt extensively with his desire for change in the Church, along with his disappointment at Pope Francis for not ushering in enough change. Meanwhile Bishop Bätzing is forging ahead with radical attempted changes to Church teaching in Germany via the Synodal Way, looking to...

Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who is now fighting for her political life after taking on former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies, may need Democrats and independents to survive an increasingly difficult primary battle. Ms. Cheney’s bid for a fourth term could be cut short in August, when she faces two Republican opponents in an Aug. 16 primary. A new poll of GOP primary voters, commissioned by the conservative Club For Growth, found Ms. Cheney trailing Republican opponent Harriet Hageman by a staggering 30 points. The poll showed Mrs. Hageman with 56% of the vote, Ms. Cheney...

“To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion” (Proverbs 1:4).

It should be all over in about one week, but David McCormick’s U.S. Senate campaign showed signs Tuesday of fighting vigorously to the end for a full and accurate recount of the primary contest between he and self-declared “presumptive nominee” Dr. Mehmet Oz. Recount results are supposed to be made public no later than June 8. The eventual winner will take on Democratic Party nominee and sitting Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the general election for the right to succeed U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who is not seeking re-election. By day’s end Tuesday, Oz, the former heart surgeon-turned-daytime television...

A shooting at a New Orleans university campus left one person dead and two others wounded, police reported on Tuesday. One female died from gunshot wounds while two males were injured following a shooting on the campus of Xavier University of Louisiana, which is a historically Black Catholic university. New Orleans police reported that officials responded to Xavier University’s convocation center after gun shots were heard in the parking lot just before noon local time. A high school graduation had just finished.

The African journalist who interrupted Jen Psaki’s final White House press briefing earlier this month says the financial processing company Stripe is cutting off his publication’s income. Today News Africa correspondent Simon Ateba provided The Post with copies of messages informing him that his website’s offer of a “lifetime” subscription — for $1,490 — violated Stripe company policies and therefore he’d have to start from scratch with another payment processor. “Hi Simon, We’re writing to inform you that we have determined your business, todaynewsafrica.com … is in violation of the Stripe Services Agreement. Specifically, we are unable to accept payments...

The U.S. House Democrat in charge of keeping the chamber blue in November’s midterm elections said Tuesday that Republicans running in suburban swing districts are trying to “hide” their views on abortion and gun legislation from voters. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney said during a call with regional reporters that GOP candidates in centrist districts have begun downplaying the impact of a potential Supreme Court ruling that would end five decades of nationwide abortion protections. They’re also trying to avoid discussing whether Congress should pass new gun laws following two mass shootings, said Maloney, of New York....

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted that she “was wrong” about inflation and that while “unanticipated and large shocks to the economy” are a part of the reason, she also “didn’t fully understand” supply bottlenecks that have hurt the economy. Yellen reacted to clips of her downplaying the inflation threat in 2021 by stating, “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take. As I mentioned, there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices, and supply bottlenecks...

Connecticut officials are looking to hire what has been described as a “misinformation sheriff” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections amid fears of the spread of what the elites consider to be election “misinformation.” The $150,000 hire is part of the state’s larger effort to “educate” the public on all matters related to the elections prior to the midterms. A copy of Gov. Ned Lamont’s (D) midterm budget contends that “malicious foreign actors have demonstrated the motivation and capability to significantly disrupt election activities, thus undermining public confidence in the fairness and accuracy of election results.”

Rick Wilson, a top adviser to the Lincoln Project, which is a left-wing super PAC, said recently an upcoming campaign would target Republicans such as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and their corporate donors. According to Wilson, the group was planning to shell out a few million dollars for the campaign, the Washington Post reported May 23.