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A Catholic from Zhejiang is fined for hosting Msgr. Shao Zhumin in his private chapel. The prelate, recognized by the Holy See, but not by the Party, is branded as an emissary of a "foreign institution". All attempts by the Party to eliminate pastors and unofficial communities, tearing up the premises of the Agreement between China and the Holy See.Rome (AsiaNews) – An increasing number of unofficial bishops in China are being prevented from carrying out their ministry. Placed under house arrest or detained in other locations, isolated, fined or encumbered in their daily lives render any gathering between the...

On Sunday, the New York Times committed a rogue act of journalism. It reported on an obvious violation of the Espionage Act by Joe Biden’s Special “Presidential” Envoy for Climate, former Secretary of State, former Democrat presidential candidate, former senator, and perennial douchebag John F. (Mr. Teresa Heinz) Kerry.You can read the whole story in Shipwreckedcrew’s post NYT: John Kerry Disclosed Israeli Military Operations in Syria to the Iranian Foreign Minister, but this is the synopsis.In March of this year, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif set down for a seven-hour “oral history” (I was going to make a joke...

Outnumbered over ten to one by Soviet led forces and betrayed by their sponsor, these mostly civilian volunteers fought till the last bullet. In three days of relentless close-quarter fighting they made monkeys of the Soviet commanders at the scene and their Cuban lackeys and cannon-fodder, inflicting losses of 20 to one. Castro and Che were jittery there for awhile, urging caution in the counterattack. From the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and militia were taking, the two Soviets satraps assumed they faced at least 20,000 invading "mercenaries," as they called them. Yet it...

Five Great Catholics in Prison in Hong Kong. "They Are the Confessors of Our Day"On Friday April 16, in Hong Kong, nine top defenders of freedom were sentenced and put in prison. Five of them are Catholics. Father Gianni Criveller of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), a professor of theology who spent twenty-seven years in China, has met them in person and on the very day of their entry into prison sketched a vibrant profile of them on "Mondo e Missione," the magazine of the PIME, and on “UCA News,” a Catholic outlet with a focus on Asia.With...

The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese ChristiansLast November, Pope Francis, for the first time, called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. However, during his solemn Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any reference to those suffering human rights abuses under China’s Communist regime when he named an array of countries, such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, and Tigray where people are plagued by violence and conflict.All things being equal, there is one group...

Cardinal Parolin says church divisions stem from misunderstanding 'reform' VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Three days after the preacher of the papal household called on Catholics to repent for the ways they are dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and they are harmful."Anyone who sees the situation of the church today has to worry about these things because they are there," Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, told Spain's church-owned COPE radio network April 5. "It does a lot of damage to the church."Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, had spoken...

To be totally candid, it was hard for me to believe the headline was real. “Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden: ‘We feel used and betrayed.’”Seriously? They “feel used and betrayed” because the pro-abortion president they helped put in office did exactly what he said he would do? They “feel used and betrayed” because he carried out his campaign promises? They “feel used and betrayed” because he stayed true to the Democratic Platform?I could understand feeling embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated at their extreme naivety. But “used and betrayed”?Joe Biden made it absolutely clear that he was running as a pro-abortion president....

On the Appointment of Bishops, China Is Doing Everything on Its Own. And the Pope Kowtows“A slap in the face for the Vatican.” This is how "Bitter Winter," the top online newspaper in the world for information on religion in China, presents the full text of the new directory issued by the State Administration of Religious Affairs for collecting in a single database all the information on religious personnel present in the country, to push its control to an almost Orwellian level:> Enter the “Administrative Measures for Religious Clergy”: Be Afraid, Be Very AfraidThe 52 articles in the directory have...

In a handwritten letter sent exclusively to Religion Unplugged, Cardinal Joseph Zen reflected on the Vatican’s continued cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, declaring the Church in China “schismatic,” and placing the blame on Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin. “I will never fight with the Pope, but the Pope never tried to silence me, so [I] will continue to protest against Parolin,” Zen said. Cardinal Zen, a retired bishop from Hong Kong, has been an unwelcome commentator on the Vatican’s secretive and opaque deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the rights of the church in China. However,...

Dr. Peter Navarro joined Steve Bannon and The War Room on Saturday morning. During their discussion on voter fraud, Navarro brought up the actions of Mike Pence. Navarro, along with millions of Trump voters, believe what Mike Pence did will go down in history as one of the greatest betrayals of a president and the country. Mike Pence did not have the courage to confront the obvious election fraud. He sided with the enemies of America. Dr. Peter Navarro: Look, what Mike Pence did to Donald J. Trump I think will go down in history as one of the biggest...

Mark 13:12 brother will deliver brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. A time is coming when a neighbor will be betraying a neighbor to the government. And don't think it will only be a liberal betraying a conservative. Conservatives WILL betray fellow conservatives. Why? How? Consider that one can be a conservative for different reasons. For example: one may be a conservative because he thinks it is immoral to kill, so they are against abortion; one may be against taxes because it is stealing, one...

Remember when the tribal leaders were “optimistic” about Joe Biden and overwhelmingly voted for him? The honeymoon is already over for the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah. Joe Biden wasted no time destroying tens of thousands of jobs his first day in office by canceling the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden also put a 60-day moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits on federal lands and states in the west and southwest are furious. The Ute Indian Tribe in Fort Duchesne, Utah blasted the Biden Administration’s restrictions on federal energy development. “Your order is...

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It looks like the betrayal of our country is now complete. The (Republican) state legislatures and the (conservative) federal judges have caved. The (Republican) members of Congress have also stuck their heads in the sand and certified what many are calling a totally fraudulent election. And the (conservative) Supreme Court has betrayed the Constitution. On top of this, the (Republican) Vice President has washed his hands of all responsibility for the future of our nation. Worst of all, in my mind, is that our religious leaders, as a body, have gone utterly silent in the face of the worst spiritual...

What is going on in this clip? What is the coin and who are those people giving it to him? Sorry if already posted, sorry if I didn't post correctly.

Gallery of Shame List especially pertaining to the shameful acts of the November 2020 Presidential election by politicians and lawnakers. Those who betrayed.

Donald Trump is the Tiberius Gracchus of our day. He is the guy who noticed that while the American Republic had swept all foreign enemies before it, the working class had suffered despite the great riches of empire. Donald Trump decided to run for public office despite his great family wealth, and to put forth his formidable political skills to benefit the American Working Joe. He failed, because the American political establishment buried their traditional political differences in the face of Trump's challenge, and in fact had him [well, we'll have to see if they let him live free, or...

Pence makes public the fact he never left the Capitol. Joint Session to resume at 8pm.

The Vatican “gifts” Hong Kong to the Chinese RegimeThe next Archbishop of Hong Kong will be completely pro-China. We are talking about Msgr. Peter Choy, who has already been appointed even though the official announcement has been postponed: first, because of the awareness by the Vatican that this announcement will further fracture the church in Hong Kong, and now also because of the coronavirus crisis. The agreement between the Holy See and China – which remains secret even to this day – thus claims a new victim, the church in Hong Kong.After more than a year of waiting, the new...

Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong KongIn a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China.The mission keeps such a low profile that it isn’t listed in the Roman Catholic Church’s formal directory of every priest and property in the city. The two monsignors who staff the outpost have no formal standing with Beijing or the Hong Kong government, and they don’t conduct official work, not even meeting Hong Kong officials. The tenuous foothold is a...