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Even though I think it is so very premature to be talking about who is going to win the GOP nomination for president (Donald Trump?) in 2024, I think it is even crazier to talk about who would be the eventual nominee’s Veep choice. However, being that I’m a political junkie and I write for a political site, I am willing to suspend my normal rules of engagement to partake in a little bit of fun speculation.Even though we are 15 months or just 490 days until that election happens.As I was perusing some interesting articles to set aside for...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 27, 2023 / 11:00 am Thirty Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter on the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision vowing to continue to support abortion despite the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The group of Democrats, led by Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro and including former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, cited their Catholic faith and St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici as reasons to support abortion. “The fundamental tenets of our Catholic faith — social justice, conscience, and religious freedom — compel us...

Police not releasing his Bible, Gospel tracts after release with no charges pendingUPDATE: 3:40 p.m. ET June 29: Schiavo told The Christian Post Thursday that he collected his Bible, microphone, speaker and tracts at the Canterbury police station. Original: A street preacher who was arrested for preaching in Canterbury, England, while an LGBT pride event was being held is calling on Christians “not to back down and bow before” the LGBT movement. In an interview with The Christian Post, Ryan Schiavo, an American-born street preacher who typically spends about half the year in the United Kingdom, discussed his June 10...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.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)Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1).

VLADIMIR Putin's warlord Ramzan Kadyrov today admitted he "might not live long" as he appeared bloated in a bizarre video. The Chechen brute - one of Putin's closest allies - posted the footage to "prove he is still alive". The 46-year-old bearded strongman was hit by a swirl of rumours over the weekend that he was close to death from kidney or liver problems. His discoloured right hand in the video suggests he has undergone recent medical treatment, according to reports. In the footage, Kadyrov is seen with Russian MP Adam Delimkhanov - who was reported to have been killed...

Paris, FRANCE – There have been at least 40 attacks on police stations, 270 officers have been wounded, and more than 3,000 rioters have been arrested as violence rocked numerous cities in France for the fifth night in a row following the officer-involved shooting of a Muslim teen. The riots began in Paris and its suburbs but have spread to other cities and towns across the country. The violent protests also spread to French-speaking areas in Switzerland and Belgium, according to The Telegraph. Rioters in Belgium have torched cars and used fireworks as weapons against law enforcement officers who are...

Catholics will not be able to attend the traditional Mass in the Vatican, which has marked the annual pilgrimage for over a decade.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– For the first time since its inception, the international traditional Mass pilgrimage held in Rome annually will not be granted permission for a traditional Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica. Since it began in 2011, the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, now known as the Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage, has drawn thousands of Catholics to Rome from across the globe out of love for the traditional Mass and sacraments. With the exception of disruption caused during the...

A Russian commander who fought against Ukraine since the war's inception has been killed in action in the Donbas region. Yevgeny Pisarenko, commander of the Chechen armed formation known as Akhmat, was pronounced dead on Monday by two fellow soldiers. He went by the nickname "Big," which also translates to "The Great" in a Russian context. "Thanks to the parents who raised such a Hero...A BIG man with a BIG heart!" Akhmat unit commander Apta Alaudinov wrote on Telegram

Four people were killed and another four were wounded when a gunman wearing a ballistic vest started shooting in Philadelphia Monday night, according to a report. The deadly gunfire rang out in the Kingsessing part of the city around 8: 30 p.m. A suspect was under arrest, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing authorities. At least two juveniles were among the victims shot, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known.

The 2024 battle for the Senate started with a bang earlier this year and has not let up, as candidates in top races continue to roll out their campaigns and incumbents scratch and claw to win reelection. Their efforts will determine who will control the upper chamber for the next two years. Democrats are trying to play defense in a number of red-leaning states to hold on to their one-seat majority, while Republicans fight recruiting battles in several states to give them the best shot at winning a majority.

HOUSTON - A pregnant woman held her ground and fended off a would-be robber attempting to rob her and her husband at a Houston gas station.

As missiles rained down on Kramatorsk last night, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding at least 56 more (see more below), Kyiv did one of the things that Russian President Vladimir Putin hates the most: it celebrated the diversity of its LGBTQ+ community with the Sunny Bunny Film Festival, Ukraine’s first film festival dedicated to queer filmmaking. It was a milestone for the flamboyant and attention-grabbing activist in Ukraine, which despite being more open than Russia, is still conservative when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. “You’re the first to know!” she exclaimed about her name change, through her...

The Russian military mission in Syria says that drones of the US-led military coalition violated flight safety rules 14 times today... US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visiting imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich today... China responding to US-led economic warfare over the manufacture of computer chips...Now China will require government permission to export raw materials... The US State Department putting out a "Level 3" travel advisory for China and Hong Kong... This protest walk in the eastern German town of Bitterfeld this evening. Hundreds expressing opposition to government policies and worsening economic conditions... In France more than 3200...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò founds group to help priests and religious resist ‘the Bergoglian revolution’Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has founded his own international organization to help “canceled” priests and religious.On Saturday, it was announced that the former papal nuncio to the United States has become the patron of a civil association named Exsurge Domine (“Arise, Lord”), which will defend not only destitute clergy and religious but the “perennial Tradition of the Church”:… under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Domine has been founded, which has as its social purpose ‘to provide assistance, support and material help to clergy, religious...

Steve Cortes, a former Trump surrogate who now is the spokesman for DeSantis' Never Back Down PAC, participated in a Twitter Spaces discussion Sunday night with the anonymous Twitter user CryptoLawyerz. 'Right now in national polling we are way behind, I'll be the first to admit that,' Cortes said. 'I believe in being blunt and honest. It's an uphill battle but clearly Donald Trump is the runaway frontrunner.' 'In the first four states which matter tremendously, polls are a lot tighter, we are still clearly down,' he said. 'We're down double digits, we have work to do.' While Cortes became...

The FReeper Canteen Presents...~ Independence Day, July 4, 1776 ~ Preamble to the Declaration of IndependenceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its...

Presales for Angel Studios’ Sound of Freedom have skyrocketed to $10 million ahead of the film’s July 4th opening across 2,600 locations. According to Deadline, the studio is "spotting a 6-day $20M start which is extremely impressive for a non-major studio adult thriller," and over one million tickets have been bought for the based-on-a-true-story film following a former Homeland Security agent, played by Jim Caviezel, who rescues abducted children around the world.

The Portland Police Bureau have arrested the white man accused of violently attacking a Black food truck owner while yelling racial slurs, according to FOX 12 News. Police say the local tips on his whereabouts were appreciated but not helpful in locating him. The cops say they caught him as he walking on the street past traffic control. Daniel Thomas Warren, 40, was arrested after officers saw him walking by the 12300 block of Southeast Division Street. Warren was booked in Multnomah County jail on one count of second-degree assault and currently doesn’t have a bail bond amount. It’s unclear...

In the late 1850s, the U.S. Army experimented with using camels as pack animals in the American Southwest, where horses and mules routinely suffered from dehydration. Camels from the Ottoman Empire were shipped to the United States in 1853. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ordered they be tested on routes across the desert to California. The camel experiment was a success, but the Army was wholly uninterested in camels. Before there could be an internal struggle about it, the Civil War broke out in 1861. The secretary of war became president of the Confederacy, and the idea died out. The...

At least 39 universities in 17 states have installed morning-after pill vending machines, and at least 20 more are considering them, the Associated Press reported, citing the American Society for Emergency Contraception. “With some states enacting abortion bans and others enshrining protections and expanding access to birth control, the machines are part of a push on college campuses to ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available,” according to the report.