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Rome Newsroom, Jun 20, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA). Gunmen in Nigeria attacked a Catholic church and a Baptist church on Sunday morning, killing three people and reportedly kidnapping more than 30 worshippers. Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed villages in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state and attacked St. Moses Catholic Church and Maranatha Baptist Church on June 19 while people were worshiping, local government officials told the Associated Press. “It was some few minutes after 7am today, while both the Catholic and Baptist churches were holding their services when the kidnappers attacked,” Reuben Buhari, a former spokesman for the local government,...

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The blessing of a gay couple. Photo: Daily Compass On June 11, 2022, for the first time in Italy, a same-sex couple received a church blessing for “marriage” in the church of San Lorenzo in Budrio, reports the Italian Catholic news site, Daily Compass. Pietro Moretti and Giacomo Spagnoli registered their marriage in the municipality of Budrio. Then, with numerous relatives and friends, they arrived at the church of San Lorenzo for a solemn mass. In order to circumvent the Roman Catholic church’s prohibition against same-sex marriages, the priests invented a special “mass of thanksgiving” in order to tie the...

The US Army has introduced Critical Race Theory to West Point cadets, new documents show, according to Fox News Digital. The “woke” lessons ask cadets about whiteness while encouraging them to apply Critical Race Theory to their answers, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and given to Fox News. The more than 600 documents were only handed over to Judicial Watch after the conservative organization sued the Department of Defense. “Our military is under attack – from within,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press release. “These documents show racist, anti-American CRT propaganda is being used to...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Confirms the Root of the Problem: Vatican IIFrancis’s May 19, 2022 interview with the editors of European Jesuit Journals provided yet another indication that Vatican II is still one of the most vital matters in the Church, and by extension, the world:“Restorationism has come to gag the Council. The number of groups of ‘restorers’ – for example, in the United States there are many – is significant. . . . There are ideas, behaviors that arise from a restorationism that basically did not accept the Council. The problem is precisely this: in some contexts the Council has...

AbstractRecently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible.The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported...

Israel’s weakened coalition government announced Monday that it would dissolve parliament and call new elections, setting the stage for the possible return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another period of prolonged political gridlock. The election will be Israel's fifth in three years, and it will put the polarizing Netanyahu, who has been the opposition leader for the past year, back at the center of the political universe. “I think the winds have changed. I feel it,” Netanyahu declared. The previous four elections, focused on Netanyahu’s fitness to rule while facing a corruption investigation, ended in deadlock....

[H/T mewzilla] CMS just EXEMPTED officials hired to enforce their vaccine mandate...from the vaccine mandate! My office obtained the memo. Stunning hypocrisy. - The Donald - America First | Patriots Win

It is the general consensus that a recession is coming. Obama Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says ‘My best guess is that a recession is ahead.’ 60% of CEO's globally think a recession is coming. Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon think a recession is coming. Some think a recession will come in 2023 and not 2022. Some think we're already in a recession. Most Americans feel that we are already in a recession. Then there's Joe Biden. Nope, no recession. Here he snaps at a reporter: One reporter asked about a growing number of economists voicing concerns that a recession was...

Day 112. Today we discuss the latest updates from across Ukraine and Europe with Telegraph correspondent Nicola Smith in Ukraine, Assistant comment editor Francis Dearnley here in the studio and Dom Nicholls from Oslo Airport.

‘Gutfeld!’ guests react to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raising the monkeypox alert to level two after its handling of coronavirus.

"It's very important for us that people don't forget. It's not interesting to speak about the war every day.. but for us it's very important," the stocky Ukrainian leader told him. The pair also acknowledged their shared interest as comedy actors. "You quit a great acting career," said Stiller, who is best known for his comedy roles in "Meet the Parents" and the "Night at the Museum" films, in a nod to Zelensky's former career as a comedy actor."Not as great as yours," Zelensky retorted, both laughing.

by Samantha Foster | 24News Joe Biden snapped at a reporter Monday after she asked about fears of an economic recession. The president spoke to reporters on the beach on Monday morning as he spent time with his family for the Juneteenth holiday. One reporter asked about a growing number of economists voicing concerns that a recession was more likely than ever. A large group of economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal said the US is entering a recession in the next year. The market is down and the GDP contracted this year. The Biden economy declined 1.5%...

Chinese officials conducted a successful test of an anti-ballistic missile system that analysts and state media billed as a bulwark against a hypothetical U.S. attack. “The test is defensive in nature and not targeted against any country,” the Chinese Defense Ministry said. The spare statement characterized the test as a “land-based mid-course missile interception test” that “achieved the desired test objective.” Chinese analysts and state media hastened to frame it as a “shield” against a hypothetical U.S. attack on Beijing’s growing nuclear arsenal. “The development of our nuclear force is very limited,” former People’s Liberation Army missile force expert Shao...

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., on Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” said people who are anti-Critical Race Theory and believed the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump were part of an extremist “racist retrenchment.” Glaude said, “With the holiday, we now have an occasion to think about the second founding. That is to say, the emergence of the U.S. nation-state shorn of slavery, not racism, but it’s the second founding where the U.S. nation-state is born without the institution of slavery. Although the 13th Amendment is passed about 6 months later, ratified 6 months after Juneteenth, Juneteenth still...

Vice President Kamala Harris discusses the historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harris commended Jackson’s performance during her Senate confirmation hearings, saying Jackson “cut through the political gamesmanship.”

With less than 24 hours until Republican voters go to select their choice for who will represent the GOP in November's U.S. Senate election, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) is calling for his opponent, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, to be disqualified for what he claimed as supporting Doug Jones in his 2017 U.S. Senate bid against then-Republican candidate Roy Moore. Brooks' overtures about the 2017 election have been a fixture on the campaign trail during this 2022 cycle. However, on Monday's broadcast of Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Brooks called the Alabama...

President Joe Biden will allow Afghans “who provided insignificant or certain limited material support to a designated terrorist organization” to “qualify for protection and other immigration benefits in the United States,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement states. Following the U.S. Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Biden opened a refugee and parole pipeline for tens of thousands of Afghans to be flown quickly into American communities without being screened or interviewed in person beforehand.

On Monday afternoon Missouri State Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden said he contacted the Missouri Highway Patrol following the release of the ad. This sounds like the Democrats’ Red Flag Laws?

John Oliver on Sunday pointed out that housing is now “the thing a 16-year-old TikTok millionaire can afford and you can’t.” (Watch the video below.) On “Last Week Tonight” the host took aim at skyrocketing rents and some of the greedy attitudes behind them.