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One million people, including 850,000 from abroad, are allowed at this year's hajj after two years of drastically curtailed numbers due to the pandemicWhite-robed worshippers from around the world have packed the streets of Islam’s holiest city ahead of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the coronavirus pandemic began. Banners welcoming the faithful, including the first international visitors since 2019, adorned squares and alleys, while armed security forces patrolled the ancient city, birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed. “This is pure joy,” Sudanese pilgrim Abdel Qader Kheder told AFP in Mecca, before the event which officially starts Wednesday. “I almost can’t believe...

Denver Newsroom, Jul 5, 2022 / 16:00 pm A Catholic priest overseeing missionaries serving in Hong Kong reportedly told the missionaries that they should prepare for a much more difficult future, as the Chinese government tightens control over the exercise of religion in Hong Kong. Archbishop Javier Herrera Corona is the outgoing head of the Holy See Study Mission in Hong Kong, a low-key presence on the island which represents the Vatican’s only outpost in China, and from which Vatican diplomacy observes the mainland. In 2016, the Pontifical Yearbook reported in a footnote the address and telephone number of the...

This November, Pritzker will face his favored opponent, Bailey, in what will be a heavily contested race for the gubernatorial seat in the Prairie State.. On June 28, Illinois held its gubernatorial primary election, which featured several Republican candidates, including Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, State Senator Darren Bailey, and political outsider Jesse Sullivan. Irvin, a popular local official who happens to be black, had been the favorite among the GOP candidates. But a funny thing happened in the months leading up to the vote. When the ballots were tallied, Irvin ended up in third place, well behind Bailey and the...

Father Jesusmary Missigbètò responds in writing to Pope Francis, after the pope confirmed the sanctions imposed on the priest by Opus Dei.Editor’s note: The following is the response of a Catholic priest from the Ivory Coast written to Pope Francis, following the confirmation of sanctions imposed upon him for writing to the Pope about the pontiff’s “heresies.” The priest writes under the name Father Jesusmary Missigbètò: his first open letter can be read here, with the second here, the third here, and the fourth here.(LifeSiteNews) – To the Reigning Pontiff Pope Francis, I have just received the Decree of the...

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Sunday cast doubt that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) could prevail in the state’s primary because “there are not enough Democrats” to propel her to victory. In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Barrasso referred to Cheney’s outspoken rhetoric against the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol and her position as vice chairwoman on the House panel investigating the riot as potential trouble in the race ahead of the Aug. 16 primary election. “Wyoming politics is very personal. It’s face to face. It’s town to town,” Barrasso told host Mike Emanuel. “The travel that...

Picnic in the Netherlands, is a supermarket company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that delivers groceries with small electric cars. Video at site.

Explanation: Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. Spanning half a light-year, the features seen in the Cat's Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the bright central object may actually be a binary star system. The term planetary nebula, used to describe this general class of objects, is misleading. Although these objects may appear round and planet-like in small telescopes, high resolution images with large telescopes reveal them to...

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My sources have already confirmed to me that one of the two convicted persons is Konstantin Nikitenko, a shooter on an armored car carrier, and the other is a machine gun shooter known as "Frost".Information on the fate of the two Ukrainian prisoners seems to be fairly certain, all the more so as their detention in the Elenovka detention center in Donetsk has been confirmed by several sources.

Speaking at the National Urban League conference, Biden said 'I should have had one Republican kid grow up and make money' So if they put me in a home I get a window with a view, you know what I mean?' Biden's daughter Ashley is a social worker His son Beau is Delaware's Attorney General, and son Hunter is a practicing attorney who is also in the board of directors for a Ukrainian gas company. Snip Sprinkling his speech with quotes from civil rights leaders such as the late Whitney Young and Martin Luther King Jr., Biden said minority gains...

Fears of further Fed tightening continue to weigh on metals markets. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its most recent policy meeting. As CNBC reported, central bankers remain fixated on inflation. CNBC Reporter: The minutes of the latest Fed meetings show that officials agreed that another rate hike of 50-75 basis points would likely be appropriate at its meeting later this month. Officials also acknowledge that there could be an even more restrictive stance that could be appropriate if inflation remains high. Now, the minutes show that Fed officials were worried about inflation becoming entrenched, that was...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Ernest E. West All info and photos from this website Ernest E. West (September 2, 1931 - May 1, 2021) was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 12, 1952. He was raised in an orphanage at the Methodist Children's...

[Catholic Caucus] Desiderio Desideravi: Desires of a Delusional TailorLike most of his writings, Bergoglio’s recent apostolic letter, Desiderio Desideravi, is so full of pseudo-Catholic gaslighting that it should be avoided by almost every Catholic wishing to preserve peace of soul. In it, he attempts to convince his “dearest sisters and brothers” that his great love for the Mass prompts him to call all souls to be spiritually nourished through its faithful celebration. One almost forgets that he is writing the letter to justify his vicious persecution of those who actually seek to make the Tridentine Mass the center of their...

WAYNESBURG, Pa. - A 911 dispatcher has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he failed to send an ambulance to a woman in rural Pennsylvania who was bleeding and incoherent and who died a day later, authorities said. The dispatcher, Leon Price, 50, of Waynesburg, had indicated on a 911 call with the woman's daughter, Kelly D. Titchenell, that he would not send an ambulance to her mother, Diania L. Kronk, unless Kronk agreed to go to the hospital, according to a criminal complaint.

Former President Trump during an event in Alaska late Saturday called Tesla CEO Elon Musk a “bullsh*t artist” for supporting the former president’s opponents in 2016 and 2020. “He said the other day, ‘Oh, I’ve never voted for a Republican,’” Trump said at a rally. “I said, ‘I didn’t know that,’” Trump continued. “He told me he voted for me, so he’s another bullsh*t artist.” Last month, Musk tweeted that he voted for a Republican for the first time in Mayra Flores, who flipped a traditionally Democratic House seat in a Texas special election. The Tesla CEO donated to Hillary...

After some early hesitation over concerns the systems could be used by Ukrainian forces against Russian territory, reluctantly drawing the U.S. into the fight, Washington said it would initially send four Himars to Ukraine, and train Ukrainian forces to use them. These advanced systems are mobile launchers capable of striking targets from a maximum distance ranging from about 60 kilometers to nearly 500 kilometers depending on the type of ammunition used. “We needed to persuade them, to show them proof,” said Mr. Reznikov. “In the Izyum case, we were precise [in targeting] a Russian command center for aerial operations. It...

Add one more critical shortage to the world's swollen list. Countries for months have been hoarding fertilizer - and now they are weaponizing it, making sales in return for geopolitical favors. Last July, China's National Development and Reform Commission stopped major companies from exporting fertilizer. In September, Beijing imposed a prohibition on exports of phosphates, a primary fertilizer ingredient, until at least the middle of this year. In October, Chinese officials added inspection requirements to aid enforcement of the bans. The moves were a reaction to rising prices in China and elsewhere. China's fertilizer bans created shortages. The country's traditional...

Pope Francis calls for ‘zero tolerance’ on sex abuse, is silent on his own permissivenessPope Francis has a 'confusing' record with regard to sex abuse, including protecting prominent abuser prelates like Theodore McCarrick and Bishop Zanchetta.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has stated that there must be “zero tolerance” to sexual abuse within the Catholic Church but remained silent on his own record regarding the protection and cover-up of abuser clerics.Speaking to Reuters on July 2, in an interview released July 8, Pope Francis stated that “we have to fight against every single case.”“As a priest, I have to help...

Russian and Ukrainian diplomats held four rounds of talks to try to resolve the crisis in February and March, but stopped meeting after Kiev pulled out of negotiations as US and European officials announced that the conflict must be decided on the battlefield, and sent tens of billions of dollars-worth of military hardware and economic aid to Kiev. The United States and its European allies are conducting “secret consultations” aimed at ending the Ukrainian crisis, Germany’s Welt newspaper has indicated. In an commentary published Friday, former US ambassador to Germany John Kornblum and German journalist Rudiger Lentz claimed that the...

Marine engineer George Johnson Armstrong on this date in 1941 was hanged at Wandsworth Prison … attaining an unenviable distinction as the first of five Britons executed under the Treachery Act of 1940. One of the very first laws enacted by the incoming wartime government of Winston Churchill as the Wehrmacht overran France, the Treachery Act anticipated two potential difficulties in punishing various forms of aid that folk might thereafter attempt to extend to the Third Reich. We’ll let all about those difficulties: if we rely upon the Treason Act — the main Act, as I have said, is an...