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[Catholic Caucus] In Baoding Bishop An threatens to withhold the sacraments from those who do not registerIn the Diocese of Hebei, the official bishop published a pastoral letter claiming that over the past few months he concelebrated the liturgy with 30 priests who hitherto belonged to the underground Church. Using the pastoral guidelines issued by the Vatican in 2019, he is truing to get Catholics to join the Patriotic Association. A local source warns that the clergy has come under unprecedented pressure. The local Church had resisted so far, but now there is widespread confusion.Milan (AsiaNews) – On 15 July,...

Synod on Synodality participants in Luxembourg also expressed that 'the Church must acknowledge her errors and question herself.'LUXEMBOURG (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Church should be open to homosexual “marriage” and female preachers according to participants in the diocesan phase of the Synod on Synodality in the Archdiocese of Luxembourg. The results of a diocese-wide survey containing suggestions on what the Church should do according to thousands of Luxembourgish Catholics was released on July 5 in a 37-page report. About 4,590 of the estimated 439,000 Catholics in Luxembourg participated in the synodal process. The report was prepared by a two-person team,...

The airline suspended the sale of short-haul flights departing from Heathrow until Aug. 15. The move comes after Heathrow asked airlines to limit new bookings amid staff shortages. .... LONDON — British Airways suspended the sale of short-haul flight tickets departing from London’s Heathrow after the airport asked airlines to limit new bookings. In a statement Tuesday, the airline said the move was taken in response to Heathrow’s cap on passenger numbers. .... given the restrictions imposed on us and the ongoing challenges facing the entire aviation industry ... Europe’s biggest airport by passenger numbers announced on July 12 that...

Incoming medical students walk out on an address by a pro-life speaker at the University of Michigan, July 24, 2022. | Screenshot from Scorpiio via TwitterPro-abortion medical students staged a walkout at the University of Michigan’s white coat ceremony Sunday in order to protest the keynote speaker, who is pro-life. In a video of the ceremony, dozens of students in white coats can be seen standing up and walking out as Dr. Kristin Collier, a clinical assistant professor at the Ann Arbor-based university, takes the podium. Other people, not clothed in white coats, can be seen leaving the ceremony as...

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Manny Diaz, Florida’s commissioner of education, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as per the Biden administration’s political direction, is threatening to withhold funding from the Sunshine State and other states refusing to impose “transgender” ideology upon children in schools. Diaz described the Parental Rights in Education Act, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) into law in April, as a measure against Democrats’ and the broader left’s “radical left agenda” to “sexualize” children with “instruction at the earliest levels” of education. “We’ve seen the latest attempt by the federal government — the Biden administration...

Two people were killed and 13 were injured in a terrorist attack on an Orthodox church consecration service in Syria yesterday. The attack targeted the Hagia Sophia Church in Suqaylabiyah, about 30 miles northwest of Hama, which was being built as a replica of the famous cathedral in Istanbul. A video posted by the Antiochian Patriarchate shows the moment of the attack: His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch offered his prayers and condolences: “Our children in Suqaylabiyah are paying the price for their faith with blood. What happened in Suqaylabiyah this morning is a cheap and reprehensible terrorist act....

The alleged main Russian source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier has claimed anti-Russian bias could stop him from getting a fair trial. Igor Danchenko’s lawyer, Danny Onorato, raised the issue during a pretrial hearing on Monday. The lawyer backed up the claim, noting there are a number of Ukrainian flags around Alexandria, Virginia, amid Russia's invasion, which started in February. The attorney suggested the defense team may try to find a way to address that issue in the questionnaire for jurors during the selection process in the trial, brought by special counsel John Durham. Danchenko was charged last year...

Explanation: Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent phase with most of its surface visible by reflected Earthlight known as ashen glow. The Sun directly illuminates the brightly lit lunar crescent from the bottom, which means that the Sun must be below the horizon and so the image was taken before sunrise. This double take-inducing picture was captured on 2019 December 24, two days before the Moon slid in front of the Sun to create a solar eclipse....

Two teens have been arrested for robbing two nine year old's at a lemonade stand. According to the Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff's Department, the children were selling lemonade at a stand within an apartment complex on Wednesday. Deputies said Deante Small, 18, and a 16-year-old, approached the children and ordered lemonade. A verbal argument started when one of the teens said they were not satisfied with the amount of lemonade poured in their cups. This angered one of the 9-year-old victims. He threw a cup of lemonade at teens, according to deputies. A police report states one of the teens...

Rayne Barton, 62, didn’t expect that her first visit to the doctor in months would end in arrest, but there she was on July 22, in the waiting room with her wrists handcuffed behind her back. She would not be seeing the doctor that day. Barton, of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, would not leave as requested after she refused to wear a COVID-19 face mask, which is required at Hypertension and Kidney Specialists in Lancaster. Hypertension and Kidney Specialists is an independent practice with an office on the Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Suburban Pavilion property. At the request of the office...

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...Eighth century Asia was an ever-shifting mosaic of different tribal and regional powers, fighting for trade rights, political power and/or religious hegemony. The era was characterized by a dizzying array of battles, alliances, double-crosses and betrayals.At the time, nobody could have known that one particular battle, which took place on the banks of the Talas River in present-day Kyrgyzstan, would halt the Arab and Chinese advances in Central Asia and fix the boundary between Buddhist/Confucianist Asia and Muslim Asia.None of the combatants could have predicted that this battle would be instrumental in transmitting a key invention from China to the...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered the remains of an ancient palace that may have belonged to Hulagu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan.The site in eastern Turkey's Van province, in the Caldiran district, is currently being excavated.Hulagu Khan, a Mongol warlord who lived from about 1217 to 1265, achieved military renown for leading several expeditions, including the sack of Baghdad in 1258.After the Mongol Empire splintered in 1259, Hulagu Khan became the ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanid State in the Middle East, which at its height included territory in what is now Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan,...

Marlies Dekkers speaks with with Drs. Robert Malone and Theo SchettersDuring my recent travel to Holland, Marlies Dekkers of the De Nieuwe Wereld Podcast interviewed Dr. Theo Schetters and myself. That video, made for a Dutch audience, is currently up (for now) on youtube, but it unlikely to remain on that platform. Therefore, I have also downloaded and posted it here because I believe that the subject matter which Theo and I covered in this interview is important. The data and analysis which Theo discloses is quite likely to be disregarded by corporate media, and also likely to be censored...

MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Former President Donald Trump has handed out another endorsement in Wisconsin, this time backing Adam Steen in the 63rd District Republican primary over Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The announcement was anticipated after Trump issued a series of statements signaling support for Steen without naming him directly, adding "anyone would be better” than Vos. It comes after Trump has consistently bullied Vos on his social media platform over his refusal to decertify the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Vos and other top Republicans have pushed back against decertification because legal and constitutional experts have said it's not...

GO VOTE!! Strike a blow for Liberty! See below link for Trump's endorsements Big Races: Arizona: Four statewide offices, Governor, US Senator, Secretary of State, Attorney General (Trump endorsed Lake, Masters, Finchem and Hamadeh) Also, Speaker Rusty Bowers is term-limited out of the House and wants to be promoted to Senator. Help end his career by voting for Farnsworth! Kansas: Abortion referendum Governor, Attorney General races - See below info from a FReeper on Kansas Michigan: Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State (Trump endorsed Dixon, DePerno and Karamo) Impeachment-voting Peter Meijer - vote for John Gibbs Missouri: US Senate primary...

There are new business relationships in this ever-changing world not too many years ago I saw a video that depicted the conquest of the United States using the chips embedded in airplanes, cars and phones. Chip legislation just passed the other week in Washington. Places like South Korea and Taiwan not to mention domestic US production seen providing chip replacements for China in the future... Richard Nixon had high hopes when he opened up China some 50 years ago "We can't run the world without China" were words Nixon used as he went into the White House... So why get...

Yaser Abdel Said, 65, an Egyptian-born cab driver who lived with his family just north of Dallas, Texas, allegedly shot his daughters on New Years day in 2008 Said's daughters, 17-year-old Sarah and 18-year-old Amina, were found dead in his taxi after Sarah frantically called cops and said her father had shot her Said vanished after his daughters' bodies were found, and made it onto the FBI's Most Wanted list in the following years He was eventually found being harbored by his brother and son in 2020, barely 30 miles from the scene of the killing

The remains of a dozen Revolutionary War soldiers who were killed in battle two centuries ago have been uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey, scientists and officials said Tuesday. Researchers believe they have located the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers — German troops hired by the British — in a field at Red Bank Battlefield Park along the Delaware River in Gloucester County. The remains were only discovered after a human femur was found back in June during a routine public archaeology dig at the site of the 1777 Battle of Red Bank. Further excavation...