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* Birmingham charity volunteer arrested and searched – including through her hair – after silently praying in a censorship zone*Arrest and charges take place as authorities consider criminalising prayer near abortion facilities nationwideBIRMINGHAM (20 December 2022) – A charity volunteer has been arrested and charged on four counts after she told the police she “might” be praying silently, when questioned as to why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility. Police approached Isabel Vaughan-Spruce standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Vaughan-Spruce was carrying no sign and remained completely silent until approached by...

50 homosexual Italian priests have published a letter denouncing the “internalized homophobia” of the Church, announcing they “no longer want to hide.” The letter, titled “Con tutto il cuore” – With all my heart – first circulated discreetly, before being picked up by the left-leaning Italian daily Domani, followed by the Spanish publication Público.A Disjointed and Conventional ArgumentThe letter denounces the existence of “plans” aimed at eliminating all allusion to homosexuality in the seminaries and at promoting an empty sexual morality there. It adds, in a grotesque way, that this attitude finds an echo in traditionally Christian countries, such as...

Conservatives are often disappointed when Republicans tell us one thing at home when they’re running for office and do quite the opposite as soon as they cross the Potomac. It doesn’t take a long memory to remember that Republicans campaigned on “repealing Obama­care.” These Republicans came home to campaign and loudly proclaimed: “Give us a Republican House!” Conservatives stepped up and made it so. But the GOP candidates came back and pleaded: “No, we can’t repeal Obamacare unless you give us a Republican Senate.” So, conservative activists gave Republicans the Senate. To which the Republican Congress opined, “We’re close, this...

Here's the purpose as reported by Steve Bannon: The purpose is to: NEUTER THE INCOMING REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE What? How? The only leverage the incoming GOP has in Congress is the: POWER OF THE PURSE The trillion dollar Lame-Duck Omnibus creates a purse for the Establishment and thereby renders the GOP impotent in 2023. Shelby (88 years old, now retiring) and others like him who have been in Congress for decades, have sold out in paybacks to establishment uniparty lobbyists. America has been sold out. It's not over, it can still be defeated. Take this thread and this post and...

NINEVEH PLAINS, Iraq / ZALIN, Syria — With the approach of Christmas and the New Year, the Syriac Catholic Sultanate of Peace Church in Ankawa, Iraq, held an evening of Christmas hymns performed by the church choir. The event was attended by Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Hadyab Mor Nathanael Nizar Ajam, pastor of the church Fr. Nihad Qas Musa, a number of nuns, and a group of believers. In Batnaya, Iraq, the Mor Quryakos Church opened the first charity market in cooperation with the Take Heart team. The market was inaugurated by Chaldean Archbishop of Alqosh Mor Boulos Thabet at...

Scott, was initially sentenced to death for her murder That sentence was overturned in November 2020 Laci (his wife) disappeared aged 27 on Christmas Eve in 2002. She was eight months pregnant with the couple's son and they had been married for five years. Days after she vanished, her mutilated body washed up on the shore of the San Francisco Bay. Prosecutors said Peterson wanted to escape married life ( he was having an affair) and did not want the responsibility of becoming a father, so allegedly killed her in their home. He then dumped her body - and that...

"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams." Musk Twitter

Police in Moscow, Idaho, were called to Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, and Xana Kernodle's home just two months before their murders, RadarOnline.com has learned. Newly released bodycam footage showed law enforcement arriving at the scene on September 1 after being called about a noise complaint. Cops were met at the front door of the murder home by students who claimed none of the roommates were home at the time. The footage gives chilling insight as to how many people could have had the door code to get into the home, backing up claims it was a party house. Loud music...

Two people died, 12 were injured and dozens were displaced from their homes in the aftermath of a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck off the coast of Northern California and rattled the small towns of Humboldt County early Tuesday morning, officials said. Ferndale, Fortuna, Rio Dell and Scotia were among the towns that felt the most intense shaking. The two people who died were ages 72 and 82, and both had medical emergencies during or after the 2:34 a.m. temblor. They were unable to access timely medical treatment, officials said at a 2 p.m. news conference, according to ABC News...

The Pontifical Academy for Life's Arcbhishop Paglia reportedly used nearly half a million euros of charitable funds to renovate his personal apartment at the Vatican.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the increasingly dissident Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, is suing a Catholic news outlet after it accused him of diverting “hundreds of thousands” of euros away from missionary or charitable projects to other ends, including renovating his private apartment. Paglia has hit back after Catholic news outlet The Pillar confidently reported last week that “Paglia used charity funds to renovate apartment.” Citing “multiple independent sources with knowledge...

DAN GEORGE: It looks like it's hard to see in here, but you can see somewhat of a tear just above, starting above the word 'out' and then continuing across the line. Do you know whether the president ever tore up notes when he was finished with them? LUNA: Yes. GEORGE: Okay. And just to be clear, did the president tear up notes when he was finished with them? NICK LUNA: Yes. I mean, at times. I don't know. Did I ever see him tear up notes? I don't know what the documents were, but there [was] tearing. GEORGE: Okay....

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Files part 8 was released on Tuesday afternoon by journalist Lee Fang. Part 8: How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign 1. Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605292454261182464? 2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605293337288015873?

Back in October, The Gateway Pundit reported on a ruling that came down from the Georgia Supreme Court that essentially gave voters the right to sue election officials: Unlike federal law, however, that injury need not always be individualized; sometimes it can be a generalized grievance shared by community members, especially other residents, taxpayers, voters, or citizens. The case was the Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. vs Henry County Board of Commissioners. The case was originally used by the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss VoterGA’s ballot case in Fulton County. However, the Sons of Confederate Veterans case ended...

A dangerous ex-convict has been charged with brutally raping and mutilating a woman in Florida just months after being released from a 20-year sentence for similar charges after doctors said he 'wouldn't reoffend.'

Senate Republicans slam the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.

Will the J6 Committee backfire as its status as a politicized vendetta becomes unbearably obvious? As I have said before, I hope that the new Congress, which begins its session in just a couple of weeks, will continue the work of the January 6 Committee, minus Liz Cheney and the other kangaroos. The New York Times, in its best slant-the-news-while-appearing-magisterial modality, described the Committee’s 100-plus-page “Executive Summary” as a “report into the effort to overturn the 2020 election.” But surely the far greater attempt to impact the 2020 election was the FBI’s infiltration of Twitter and other social media platforms,...

...six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns will be released by the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee, which voted 24-16 on Tuesday to release the years of tax records Trump has has long tried to shield. The vote was along party lines. After a years-long legal battle, the Supreme Court cleared the way last month for the Treasury Department to send the returns to Congress. The committee received six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses. Democrats are under pressure to act quickly, since only two weeks remain until Republicans take control of...

The Senate on Tuesday evening voted 70-25 to advance the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill and open debate. This is just the first procedural vote. The latest spending bill is full of special interest earmarks and pork. The bill includes $45 billion to Ukraine, $7.5 million in LGBTQ programs, Jan 6 prosecution funding and more. There is no money for border security. 3,000 pages that no one has read. Senate Republicans are giving away the incoming GOP Majority House’s power of the purse until September 2023.

Wednesday 21 December 202221 December (optional commemoration of Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor) St. Peter Canisius International Catholic Parish, Jakarta Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingSong of Songs 2:8-14 ©See how my Beloved comes, leaping on the mountainsI hear my Beloved.See how he comesleaping on the mountains,bounding over the hills.My Beloved is like a gazelle,like a young stag.See where he standsbehind our wall.He looks in at the window,he peers through the lattice.My Beloved lifts up his voice,he says to me,‘Come then, my love,my lovely one, come.For see, winter is past,the rains are over and gone.The flowers appear...