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Matthew 23:1-12 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus turns his sharp eye and withering critique on the many ways that religious leaders fall into corruption. What precisely is bothering Jesus? Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority.At the core of Jesus’ program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens, to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well. If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing, at the same...

The World Health Organization warned that Gaza hospitals are at a breaking point. That was October 12. UNICEF warned that incubators were hours away from being shut down due to lack of fuel in Gaza: That was October 22. Now, let's look at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City last night, where Hamas held a rally, complete with huge video screen: Notice all the lights, inside and outside the hospital. Looks like they had plenty of fuel there, three weeks after supplies were supposed to run dry. It's a miracle! UNICEF and WHO are useful idiots, willing to believe the lies...

After hearing testimony from former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) assailed Attorney General Merrick Garland wanting to know "why certain Justice Department and FBI officials improperly delayed and impeded investigative activity into the Biden family." "Consider that the FBI had information from a credible source that Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, had paid then-VP Joe Biden and Hunter Biden a bribe of $5 million apiece to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired," Grassley said. "Further, Joe Biden was video taped publicly bragging about how he withheld a billion...

On Oct. 19, 2023, Israel Today posted an article by Charles Gardner (author, founder of Christian Publications International, former correspondent, former reporter, etc.) that says tyrants have tried to destroy the Jews before and suggests that the Hamas killing rampage is “a sure sign that God has a glorious plan in mind which the enemy (Satan) is determined to prevent.” I think Garder is right, and here is my understanding of what he wrote: >In Egypt, Pharaoh’s order to midwives attending women giving birth to cast Hebrew male babies into a river was an effort by Satan to prevent the...

<p>New polling confirms that President Joe Biden is losing young voters at an accelerating rate and, as a result, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump holds an edge in five battleground states.</p><p>The polls, conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, found that the tide has turned in five states that voted for Biden in the 2020 election, as Trump now leads by 10 points in Nevada, six in Georgia, five in Arizona, five in Michigan and four in Pennsylvania. Biden maintains a two-point lead in Wisconsin.</p>

A top Hamas military commander has broken ranks to criticise the terror group’s leaders, claiming that its barbaric October 7 attacks were never supposed to target Israeli civilians. In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the leader of a battalion of 400 Hamas terrorists claimed that the initial plan was to kill Israeli soldiers and take some troops hostage. But he said that orders were changed at the last minute by Hamas political leaders which led to the savage rape, torture and murder of more than 1,400 children, women and men. Hundreds of Israelis were taken hostage back...

Dialogues Health. 2022 Dec; 1: 100074.Published online 2022 Nov 10. doi: 10.1016/j.dialog.2022.100074PMCID: PMC9647013PMID: 36785641 Associated DataData Availability StatementData for Pfzier/BioNTech BNT162b2: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2034577; data for Moderna mRNA-1273: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389 (accessed on 10 January 2021).Go to:AbstractTreatment and vaccine efficacy in clinical trials are often reported in the media and medical journals as the relative risk reduction. The present article explains why the relative risk reduction is a misinformative measure that promotes disinformation when reporting efficacy in clinical research studies such as randomized controlled trials for COVID-19 vaccines. The relative risk reduction is based on the relative risk, a proportional measure or ratio used...

The 30th day of the war: at least one wounded by anti-tank fire on a vehicle near the Lebanese border Netanyahu: "Sinwar doesn't care about his people and is behaving like a little Hitler in a bunker" • The IDF spokesman revealed: Hamas launched rockets only 75 meters away from a hospital in Gaza • The IDF located dozens of guns, explosive drones and ammunition in the Gaza Strip • Iron Dome intercepted a Tab in the territory of Lebanon • Publication was allowed: the Nahal patrol fighter, Yonatan Maimon, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip •...

CHICAGO (AP) — Brunch dates and flag football games might be a little easier to get to this Sunday, when phones grace early-risers with an extra hour of rest before alarm clocks go off. The downside: Next week across most of the U.S., the sun will set well before many folks step foot out of the office, leaving them to run errands or take walks in utter darkness. Come Nov. 5, daylight saving time is out and standard time is in, and will last until March 10

2 would-be robbers shot at, 1 fatally, in Philadelphia pizza shop

Ukraine is a jobs program for the "military industrial complex." Senate Minority Leader Mitch “Glitch” McConnell spoke at the defense industry-funded CEPA Forum in Washington D.C. .. and made a very revealing comment about the state of the war in Ukraine.

Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon as hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday tried to storm an air base that houses U.S. troops, hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due in Ankara for talks on Gaza.

U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged him to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire as more died in a strike on a refugee camp overnight. A spokesman for the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said earlier on Sunday that Israeli military had struck the Maghazi refugee camp overnight, killing at least 47 people. In a separate attack, 21 Palestinians from one family, including women and children, were killed in Israeli strikes targeting Gaza overnight, the health ministry said.

It looks like Hamas realizes that is is outmatched by Israel’s military power, and is getting desperate. According to recent reports, Hamas is now offering to release civilian hostages in exchange for a short, five-day ceasefire."Although the terms have varied in recent weeks, Hamas has indicated most recently that it would release all civilian hostages in exchange for a five-day pause, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive matter. Israeli military captives, whose precise number is unknown, would be retained, possibly to eventually be offered in trade for Palestinian prisoners...

A far-left activist is shocked when he finds out that the young Muslim women he marched with at yesterday’s anti-Israel protest in London do not share his views on LGBTQ+ issues.

Israel’s construction sector says it has asked the government to allow companies to hire up to 100,000 workers from India to replace 90,000 Palestinians who lost their work permits since the start of the war. Yan Boechat reports from the West Bank.

Former President Barack Obama is coming under scrutiny for his recent remarks on Israel’s war on Hamas, giving moral equivalence to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by linking them with Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinian lands. “What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it,” Obama said, following that statement immediately by saying, “And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.” Obama made the remarks Friday at his Foundation’s “Democracy Forum.” Video excerpts of Obama’s comments were posted Pod Save America’s X page.

VIDEO Sleepy Joe Biden was struggling to stay awake during his meeting with the President of the Dominican Republican. However, there was something that the Dominican President said that momentarily aroused Joe from his normal lethargy.

The United Nations (UN) is launching a new effort that seeks to usher in plans promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ensure that all members of the public have been issued global “digital IDs” by the year 2030. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is launching a project to advance the agenda, which the UN claims will be implemented “inclusively.” The project is based on what’s known as “digital public infrastructure,” aka, DPI. The unelected globalist organization’s justification for demanding that the human race be pinned down with “digital IDs” is the...

What’s the deal with Muslim calls for, not just violence, but eating the flesh or drinking the blood of their infidel enemies? Consider the case of Ahed Tamimi, described by Wikipedia as a Palestinian activist… in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. She is best known for appearances in images and videos in which she confronts Israeli soldiers. Tamimi's advocates consider her a freedom fighter for Palestine… In December 2017, she was detained by Israeli authorities for slapping a soldier. The incident was filmed and went viral, attracting international interest and debate. Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison...