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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

According to the paper, a nuclear war between India and Pakistan could send between 5 and 47Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Even more devastating, a U.S.-Russian nuclear war may produce up to 150Tg of soot, causing a nuclear winter. When a nuclear weapon is detonated, the immense amount of energy released vaporizes everything within a certain radius, depending on the power of the bomb. Close to the epicenter of the explosion, it can reach temperatures of up to 180,000,000 F. These widespread fires and destruction, combined with the atmospheric disturbance caused by the shockwaves of the bomb, would cause...

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development reiterated the Pope's call to the faithful that taking an abortion-tainted COVID shot is 'an act of love' in new promotional material.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – As worldwide public health agencies announce a slowing down on national COVID-19 shot drives, even treating the virus like seasonal influenza, the Vatican has released a new video renewing calls for vaccine development and distribution for the novel coronavirus as an “act of love.” “The Pandemic and the Magisterium of Pope Francis” is the third part in a series of materials created by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting...

Prosecutors have described an "off the books" scheme to help top officials of the Trump Organization to avoid paying some of their taxes Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty as part of an ongoing investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into the former president's business, court filings show. Persons familiar with the plea deal told NBC News it may come as soon as 9 a.m. on Thursday but did not specify its terms. Prosecutors have described an "off the books" scheme over 15 years "to help top officials in the Trump Organization avoid paying...

Adèle Milloz plummeted to her death along with a friend she was hiking with on Friday. Their bodies were discovered Friday evening, and officials believed they were roped together when they took the fatal plunge. It is unclear why they fell, and authorities have said they are investigating. Some hikes were cancelled in the aftermath of the fatal accident, according to reports. Milloz, who grew up in the Alps, won several European and world titles in ski mountaineering, a sport where players hike up a mountain and ski down, according to The Sun. She was no longer competing at the...

In a 1945 summary, a U.S. Army Air Forces unit on Okinawa described August as “an eventful month in world history.” That understatement holds up 77 years later. Events had accelerated in the spring and summer of 1945. Germany surrendered on May 8 but Russia already was shipping massive amounts of men and materiel eastward. Moscow and Tokyo had a non-aggression treaty that Soviet premier Joseph Stalin cancelled on August 9. That night a massive Russian assault into Japanese-held Manchuria opened the Far East end game, briefly overlapping impending Japan’s surrender to the Allies. American forces began deploying from Europe...

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says the newly released Transport Emissions Reduction PLan is 'hugely ambitious' but it is achievable On Monday afternoon, Auckland Council released its proposed Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway, which sets out what is required to achieve a 64 percent reduction of the city's transport emissions by 2030... The plan released today lays out the map to fewer gas guzzling cars including: Converting 30% of the city's vehicles to electric-especially commercial ones Reducing traffic in neighborhoods A ten-fold increase in so called active travel-walking and cycling Aiming for a five-fold increase in the number of public transport trips...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson SHREDS the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #FoxNews #tucker

A Justice Department lawyer Monday asked Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to keep sealed the affidavit included with the warrant the FBI used to raid former President Donald Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, last week, arguing its public release would compromise the investigation. Reinhart is the judge who approved the FBI's warrant for the raid and later ordered the DOJ to respond to a suit seeking the public release of the warrant. While the warrant ultimately became public, the affidavit remains sealed. The DOJ argues that releasing the document would reveal too many details about the investigation and undercut its efforts. "If...

Madrid, Spain, Aug 12, 2022 / 01:32 am In a move that could destroy the largest cross in the world, Spain’s government wants to turn the world’s longest basilica into a “museum of the horrors of Franco.” The Basilica of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen lies at the center of a memorial site, about 45 km (28 miles) northwest of Madrid. The landmark under the towering cross includes an abbey and the basilica. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco ordered its construction to honor the fallen of both sides during the Spanish Civil War. The bodies of...

Secularists in France have expressed their outrage on social media after a viral video from a priest at Saint Nicholas du Chardonnet in Paris. In the video, Father Chautard of the Society of Saint Pius X questions the nature of modern secularism, which has become in many ways about opposing God rather than simply dealing with worldly concerns. You can read an English translation of his remarks below, provided by French website Fide Post: "In our current society, what is that cult of secularism ? This is the rejection of God. This is a republican religion, the religion of the...

President Joe Biden is planning to extend his vacation this week after he wraps up his time on Kiawah Island in South Carolina. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data cited by the Associated Press, Biden plans to be in Wilmington, Delaware, from Tuesday until Friday after he leaves Kiawah Island.

Below is a machine translated interview that gives a unique insight into Dostoevsky’s relationship to the Orthodox Church, specifically to the Optina Monastery and Elder Ambrose, and the prophecies about the revival of Russia.The famous Optina hermitage monastery, celebrated by the elders, hosted the "Days of Dostoevsky" for the first time this summer. [See video below for a summary of the events] VIDEOMany revelations were given to the great writer through communication with the Optina elder Ambrose, to whom Dostoevsky visited in 1878, after the death of his four-year-old son Alyosha. In an interview, leading Russian Dostoevsky researcher, founder of...

From August 3–7, The Phillips Academy Poll polled 971 Registered Voters in Georgia and found Republicans leading in races across the board with the support of suburban voters. The Phillips Academy Poll found Republican Herschel Walker leading incumbent Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock by 1.6% in the 2022 Georgia senate election, which is less than the poll’s margin of error. Walker is a Trump-endorsed former NFL running back, while Warnock was a pastor prior to his election. Warnock is leading by 64% among Black voters even though both Warnock and Walker are African American. Warnock also has strong support among low-income...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Afghanistan government to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. For some reason Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin still leads the Defense Department following the worst foreign policy disaster in US history.

A second attempt to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón failed Monday after officials announced that there were not enough signatures to qualify the recall for the ballot, after observers were excluded from the count. The recall effort gathered 715,833 signatures — far more than the 566,857 needed, representing 10% of registered voters in the county. However, county officials announced the they had eliminated nearly 200,000 of the signatures that were submitted. “520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid,” the county registrar said in a statement (emphasis removed). “To qualify the...

Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on Sunday told Fox News that 14 whistleblowers from within the FBI have come forward with concerns about the Department of Justice's alleged political bias following the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week. “Fourteen FBI agents have come to our office as whistleblowers, and they are good people. There are lots of good people in the FBI. It’s the top that is the problem," the Ohio Republican told the outlet. “Some of these good agents are coming to us, telling us … what’s going on... the political nature now of...

The Army transferred some of its satellite operations to the Space Force on Monday, marking the latest move to reorganize and grow the youngest military branch. In addition to control of the communication satellites, 500 people will transfer from the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, based in Huntsville, Alabama, to Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado as part of the expansion.

Donald Trump’s legal team demolished the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) media spin that denied having the former president’s passports in their possession following the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago last week. On Monday, former President Trump claimed on his social media site TruthSocial that the FBI “stole” his passports during the raid that shook the political world last week. “In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” he said. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!” As Breitbart...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) claimed Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump was “100%” inciting supporters to violently threaten the FBI after the raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate. Blitzer said, “You’ve seen this joint FBI Department of Homeland Security bulletin. It is now warning of what they call unprecedented violent threats in the wake of the search of Mar-a-Lago. Do you hold the former President Donald Trump responsible for inciting his supporters?”