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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. Passover Medley - Liberated Wailing Wall Passover Medley - Lyrics & translation For For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7...

Participants in a Department of Defense training exercise at a Boston hotel entered the wrong room Tuesday and mistakenly detained a guest instead of the person assigned the role of the person to be detained, according to the FBI. The mistake happened about 10 p.m. ET with the Boston Division of the FBI helping the U.S. Department of Defense in conducting the Defense Department exercise. The exercise was meant to simulate a situation that personnel might encounter during an actual incident.

Researchers found that broccoli contains certain molecules that bind to a receptor within mice and help to protect the lining of the small intestine, thereby inhibiting the development of disease. Said Gary Perdew. "Our research provides strong evidence that cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts should be part of a normal healthy diet." According to Perdew, the wall of the small intestine allows beneficial water and nutrients to pass into the body but prevents food particles and bacteria that could cause harm. Certain cells that line the intestine—including enterocytes, which absorb water and nutrients; goblet cells, which...

About 95% of people with bowel cancer survive if it is identified early, so increased screening is vital. Yet more than 60% of those at increased risk are not being screened and almost 20% of people at average risk are having unnecessary colonoscopies. How can screening be improved in the most impactful and cost-effective way? To find out, our team tested a new method of risk-based colorectal cancer screening within a general practice setting. This is where the Colorectal cancer RISk Predictor tool (CRISP) comes in—a web-based risk assessment and decision support tool that improves appropriate screening for bowel cancer...

A new study shows that 90 percent of pregnant women do not receive adequate nutrients during pregnancy from food alone and must look to supplements to fill that deficit. However, they also discovered that 99 percent of the affordable dietary supplements on the market do not contain appropriate doses of key micronutrients that are urgently needed to make up for the nutritional imbalance. "Nutrition is critical for a healthy mom and a healthy baby. Too little of certain nutrients can cause pre-term birth, low birthweight, birth defects and other health challenges. At the same time, too much could change how...

A transgender teen is in custody after authorities say they recovered a manifesto detailing her plan to attack three schools and churches in Colorado just four days after Audrey Hale murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville. William Whitworth, 19, who goes by the name Lilly and is referred to with female pronouns in arrest documents, was arrested on March 31. She was a student in the school district that she planned to attack between 2014 and 2016, authorities say. In a manifesto that was recovered in her home, Whitworth called Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...

Woke protestors were accused of destroying a bible while screaming down a conservative speaker at the University of Albany on Tuesday. Conservative speaker Ian Haworth were posted a picture of a crumpled up bible which he said protestors destroyed 'for no reason whatsoever' while they were shouting down his remarks about free speech on college campuses. He had been invited to the public university to speak by its chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), an organization dedicated to promoting conservative politics founded by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. But as he began his presentation, Haworth said a crowd of students 'stormed'...

Patients with low sodium levels before or after total knee or hip arthroplasty are more likely to experience adverse outcomes, reports a study. Hyponatremia is an overlooked sign of trouble following total joint arthroplasty (TJA), according to Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS. They write, "Efforts should be made to evaluate and, if possible, address hyponatremia in the preoperative period." In 84.6% of patients, sodium levels were normal both preoperatively and postoperatively. Another 9.4% of patients had normal sodium levels preoperatively but had hyponatremia (serum sodium level <135 milliequivalents per liter) postoperatively; 2.1% had hyponatremia preoperatively but normal sodium levels postoperatively; and...

A San Diego federal judge has issued a ruling that blocks four provisions of California’s strict handgun law, becoming the second U.S. district judge within two weeks to rule that parts of the state’s Unsafe Handgun Act likely violate the Second Amendment. Judge Dana Sabraw’s ruling in the San Diego case could potentially open the door for Californians to purchase hundreds of types of semiautomatic pistols that state officials currently deem “unsafe” and thus do not include on a roster of approved handguns. But the judge issued a stay on his decision, giving Attorney General Rob Bonta time to appeal...

Boston, Mass., Apr 4, 2023 / 16:42 pm Two more individuals have been indicted for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in connection with a string of pro-abortion attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers in Florida. The FACE Act prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.” Earlier this year, the Department of Justice brought FACE Act charges against two Floridians, 27-year-old Caleb Freestone and 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart, for spray-painting threats on a pro-life clinic in Winter Haven, Florida; an...

The medical misinformation problem isn’t going away, with around three-quarters of physicians saying inaccurate medical information has made it harder to treat patients and has impacted patient outcomes, according to a Morning Consult poll conducted on behalf of the de Beaumont Foundation.This comes after nearly three years of a global pandemic that put healthcare in the crosshairs of medical misinformation. Indeed, medical misinformation existed before COVID-19, but the politicization of the pandemic made the issue ripe for inaccurate and misleading medical information. The more than 800 physicians included in the survey indicated that politicization and misleading medical claims have had...

A Canadian male powerlifter participated in a women’s event and broke a record as a means of protesting against biological men competing in female sports. Avi Silverberg, who has been the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for over a decade, identified as a female in order to compete at the Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta. He broke a record that was held by a transgender lifter who was also in attendance. The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), an athlete activist group, shared a video of Silverberg at the competition, approaching the platform while wearing a regular men’s...

California Governor Gavin "The Jackal" Newsom has decided to eliminate overt historical Christian references within the state. Newsom believes the references are demeaning, cultist and even racist. Newsom plans to eliminate the references through the use of Executive Edicts as the offending references are brought to his attention by his Offensive References Committee. Executive Edict #1 will rename Los Angeles to Sodom, San Francisco to Gomorrah, San Jose to Josetown, San Diego to Diegotown, San Luis Obispo to Luisville and the San Andreas Fault to Trumps Fault.

American medics and hospitals providing sex-swap drugs and surgeries for children have the support of the “highest levels of the Federal Government”, a senior official has said. The Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, a man who lives as a woman, said “proactive outreach” is needed to “educate the public” that any opposition to ‘gender-affirming care’ is “ideologically and politically motivated”. He told staff at Connecticut Children’s Hospital to “push back” in their communities and schools when ‘gender-affirming care’ is questioned. ‘Dubious studies’Levine has previously criticised a law in Florida requiring teachers to inform parents when their...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds 'state-sponsored media' NPR on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

Fr. John Lovell returns to The John-Henry Westen Show for a discussion on the sorry state of the Church and the noble work of the Coalition for Canceled Priests.(LifeSiteNews) — The co-founder of the Coalition for Canceled Priests believes it is only a matter of time before a faithful remnant of the Church will be forced underground because of social and political tyranny as well as the increasing severity of modernist heresy. Fr. John Lovell was kind enough to join me on today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show to share his thoughts on the sorry state of the Church...

WASHINGTON (TND) — In a trial against leaders from the right-wing group The Proud Boys, defense attorneys claim they are aware of at least 40 undercover informants embedded within the group and other right-wing protesters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In their filing, the defense says that the FBI, Homeland Security and D.C. Metro Police were all embedded within the group, who are accused of being complicit in the initiation of the Capitol riot.Last week, an FBI informant embedded within The Proud Boys on Jan. 6, identified in the record only by the name "Aaron," testified for...

Fr Patrick Pullicino was dismissed for upholding Catholic marriage teachingA London National Health Service (NHS) trust has reached a £10,000 settlement with a Maltese priest and retracted its statement that its policy on equality and diversity took precedence over religious belief, admitting that the phrase should have been worded differently. Patrick Pullicino, a 73-year-old former professor of neurosciences, put up a fight after he was removed from the chaplaincy of a psychiatric hospital for answering a patient’s question about the Church’s teaching on marriage. Pullicino, who left the medical profession to join the priesthood nearly four years ago, filed a...

Yesterday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that “it’s not for us to decide” if last week’s deadly mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville — a shooting that left six innocent people dead — was a hate crime. The Biden administration can’t say one way or another whether a women who identified as a trans man and shot up the school she once went to after reportedly expressing her resentment toward her parents for having sent her there was motivated by hate. But you’d better believe that the White House knows hate when they see it. And where...

According to local reports, the attack occurred south of the Lebanese city of Tyre, in the vicinity of the Palestinian Rashidieh refugee camp. The attack is said to have happened in open areas in the refugee camp and in the village of Al-Kalila, the area where the rockets were launched from yesterday.