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  • Vadym Novynskyi: Zelensky’s Mission to End Christianity in Ukraine & Why America Is Still Funding It Video—1/2 hour

    05/27/2025 6:01:26 AM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 14 replies
    YouTube ^ | 5/23/2025 | Tucker Carlson
    Do Americans have any idea that Zelensky has declared war on Christianity in Ukraine? Vadym Novynskyi knows. He spent three terms in the Ukrainian parliament but now risks prison for defending his church.
  • "They still make human sacrifices..." ~ How Christian were the 6th century Franks, anyway?

    05/24/2025 6:27:33 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 18 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | May 23, 2025 | Florentius
    The nation of the Franks are well known today as the progenitors of modern France, as well as the barbarian nation that most readily and ardently embraced Catholicism. As Saint Avitus of Vienne shows in his letter to King Clovis upon the latter’s baptism in AD 496, the subject Christian Romans placed great hopes in the conversion of the Frankish king and his court, and the event was an occasion of great joy. This was particularly true given Clovis’s previous history as a ruthless conqueror who defeated and dissolved the last remnant of Western Roman power in Gaul, the so-called...
  • 20 people, mental health business, and a church charged in sober living scheme in Arizona

    05/23/2025 11:05:46 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    Twenty people, a mental health business and a church were charged in an indictment that alleged Arizona’s Medicaid program was defrauded $60 million in a scheme involving billing for mental health treatment and addiction rehabilitation, the latest indictment in a series of crackdowns in the state focusing on sober living homes. The indictment announced Tuesday alleged Happy House Behavioral Health LLC was paid the money for services that were either never provided or only partially completed and that there was billing for clients who were deceased and incarcerated. Authorities say sober living homes referred clients to the behavioral health business,...
  • American Prayer Vigil, May 23, 2025

    05/23/2025 4:42:55 AM PDT · by norsky · 19 replies
    May 23, 2025 | free republic intercessors
    Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; 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) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • Promise Keepers CEO Shane Winnings Warns Christians Against New ‘Demonic’ Movie

    05/19/2025 8:26:00 PM PDT · by Morgana · 72 replies
    Chruch Leaders ^ | May 19, 2025 | Jessica Lea
    Movies with violent, sexual, or demonic content are going to have an impact on people’s hearts, even if they are unaware of that impact, says Promise Keepers CEO Shane Winnings. Winnings joined ChurchLeaders for an interview about the response he has gotten to a video he made warning people against going to see the upcoming horror movie, “Him.” “Before I was a born-again Christian, I might’ve been really interested in this. There’s something in people that wants to, you know, see something scary or something dark,” said Winnings. “There’s this fascination with the demonic. And I really wanted to use...
  • ‘RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS’: White House Calls Out Episcopal Church Over Refusal to Help White Refugees

    05/14/2025 3:39:26 PM PDT · by george76 · 63 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | May 13, 2025 | Tyler O'Neil |
    The White House condemned the Episcopal Church on Tuesday after it withdrew from federal refugee resettlement programs in protest when the government asked the church to resettle white refugees from South Africa. In a Monday letter, a top church leader noted South Africa’s history of Apartheid and said that assisting the refugees cuts against its “steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.” The Episcopal Church’s government relations arm had touted in 2024 its efforts to help “undocumented immigrants.” The Episcopal Church’s decision to terminate its decades-long partnership with the U.S. government over the resettlement of 59 desperate Afrikaner refugees raises...
  • Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government

    05/12/2025 10:39:21 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 67 replies
    RNS vis MSN ^ | May 12, 2025
    (RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration. In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of...
  • A White Socks fan in the Vatican

    05/10/2025 7:00:24 AM PDT · by NorthernDancer · 60 replies
    American Thinker ^ | May 10, 2025 | Frank Friday
    Now comes the amazing news from the brother that the new Pope is a genuine White Sox fan, as are all the kindly old school priests and sisters south of I-55, on into Indiana and Michigan. That’s a huge point in his favor and it appears he frequently voted in the Republican primaries in Illinois (that state does not have specific party registrations)…. Apparently, Pope Leo XIV has no hostility to the Latin Mass, while Pope Francis hated it. His public comments also indicate he has no interest in pushing the homosexual agenda or ordaining women. These are all things...
  • AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL, May 9, 2025

    05/09/2025 5:30:37 AM PDT · by norsky · 20 replies
    May 10, 2025 | Free Republic Intercessors
    Posted on 5/7/2025, 4:39:26 PM by spirited irish Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; 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) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • ANALYSIS First American pope in history has strong record of defending sanctity of human life

    05/08/2025 3:28:11 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 115 replies
    Live Action ^ | May 8, 2025 | Cassy Cooke
    Want to know how long the new pope has been active in pro-life? - Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was co-founder of the campus right-to-life organization “Villanovans for Life”—the oldest college pro-life club in the U.S. (he was Class of 1977)! @samuelhlee - @JennieMFL Love that our new Pope is a marcher for Life! 🎉🎈👏 - Robert Prevost @drprevost Marcha por la vida en Chiclayo. ¡Defendamos la vida humana en todo momento! - @CatHadro And in a sentence I never thought I would write - Pope Leo XIV once retweeted my husband’s news article. “Catholic group to Illinois...
  • Sacramental Snitches: Church to Excommunicate any Priests Complying with Washington State Law

    05/07/2025 7:41:51 PM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | May 7, 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    We previously discussed the legislation passed by Washington State democrats that requires priests to violate the sanctity of the confessional to report child abuse. I described the law as “blatantly unconstitutional” in eviscerating the right to the free exercise of religion. The state is moving to create an effective system of sacramental snitches and the Catholic Church is declaring “enough.” It has announced that any priest who complies with the law will be promptly excommunicated. We previously discussed the proposed legislation that would target priests who learn of any “reasonable” basis to believe that a child “has suffered abuse or...
  • Will the Next Pope Be Another ‘Pope of Islam’?

    05/03/2025 6:37:11 AM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    Frontpage mag ^ | April 28, 2025 | Robert Spencer
    Will the Roman Catholic Church continue its policy of ignoring jihad and appeasing Muslims? Will the next pope continue the last pope’s consistent record of appeasing Islam? The late Pope Francis had a long record of whitewashing Islamic jihad violence and making moral equivalence arguments in order to downplay jihad terror. Back in 2017, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, noticed the pope’s yeoman service for the Islamic cause and thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.” Francis was not just a defender of Islam but also a defender of the...
  • Why I Left My Megachurch

    05/01/2025 7:55:50 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 44 replies
    From House to House ^ | John Porter
    Recalling a sober moment he had while at Cornerstone Church, Chan said he baptized a kid from a gang but that kid later left though he was quite involved in the church. "One of my friends asked him, 'Hey, how come you're not at Cornerstone anymore?' He said 'I didn't understand church. When I was baptized, I thought that was going to be being jumped into the gang where it's like 24/7 they're my family, because I didn't know it was just somewhere we attend on Sundays." When Chan heard that, he said it made him sick. "That makes me...
  • Sexual abuse must be a key issue at Conclave

    04/30/2025 1:23:29 PM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 14 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 30/4/2025 | CG
    At the General Congregations, the so-called pre-conclave, the cardinals gathered in the Vatican are currently discussing the state of the Church and the profile of the next pope. What "skills" will the next head of the 1.4 billion Catholics need? And what issues will the cardinals be particularly concerned with when they soon retreat to the Sistine Chapel for the Papal election, the Conclave? "I believe that the issue of abuse will already play a role in the preliminary discussions, the so-called pre-conclave," German child protection expert Hans Zollner told the news agency Kathpress in Rome based on conversations with...
  • Is Parolin's hope for the Papacy fading?

    04/30/2025 9:54:14 AM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 14 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 30/4/2025 | CG
    The Pope's loss of confidence, the financial issue, or a lack of pastoral experience are obstacles Is Parolin's candidacy fading? "Although Francis appointed him as Secretary of State, over time he realized he no longer trusted him," La Nación reports, quoting a bishop of the Curia, who maintains that, if elected, Parolin will hinder the "flourishing of the Church" brought about by Bergoglio. He has traveled all over the world, and he is the only one whom the most heterogeneous conclave in history knows and values. Furthermore, at the second of the novendiales, held this Sunday, he launched his candidacy...
  • Cardinals Eijk and Sarah provoking serious thought amomg Cardinals

    04/29/2025 10:37:50 PM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 7 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 29/4/2025 | CG
    While the Italians are agitated and the Spanish are conspicuous by their absence, two voices resonate strongly in the Synod Hall: those of the Dutchman Willem Eijk and that of the African Robert Sarah. The general tone among the cardinals is surprisingly serene.
  • American Prayer Vigil, April 25, 2025

    04/24/2025 9:52:49 PM PDT · by norsky · 24 replies
    April 25, 2025 | Free Republic Intercessors
    Please join is prayer for America!
  • Europe Sees Surge in Church Attendance and Baptisms as Globalist Leaders Continue to Fail the People (VIDEO)

    04/24/2025 10:40:24 AM PDT · by george76 · 23 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Apr. 24, 2025 | Jim Hoft
    Western nations are experiencing a spiritual awakening as church pews fill up and baptismal fonts overflow. From France to Belgium, from the United Kingdom to the United States, a dramatic surge in Christian faith is sweeping across the West—a revival many are calling a “silent revolution” against the failures of globalism, mass migration, and leftist cultural engineering. British conservative commentator Mahyar Tousi highlighted the trend in a powerful new video, reporting on a massive rise in church attendance and adult baptisms this past Easter. With soaring numbers across multiple countries, it’s clear that Christianity is no longer in retreat—it’s fighting...
  • Poll: 7 in 10 Americans to celebrate Easter this year

    04/19/2025 6:45:48 PM PDT · by george76 · 2 replies
    Center Square ^ | 4/19/ 2025 | Dan McCaleb
    Nearly 70% of Americans plan to celebrate Easter in some form this year, according to new polling. Of the 69% who say they do plan to celebrate, 36% will celebrate it primarily as a religious holiday, 13% will celebrate it as a secular one, and 19% will celebrate it as both, according to the polling from Napolitan News Service. The 69% figure is down slightly from previous years, when 73% to 74% of registered voters said they would celebrate between 2022 and 2024. More than half – 52% – who are celebrating said they would do so as a religious...
  • Atheists are now the largest group in Germany

    04/19/2025 3:13:39 PM PDT · by Salman · 75 replies
    Le Monde ^ | April 16, 2025 | Elsa Conesa
    Is Germany on the path to secularization? In 2024, for the first time, the country recorded more individuals without religious affiliation than Catholics and Protestants, according to the research group Weltanschauungen in Deutschland, which bases its findings on publications from the German Bishops' Conference and the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). Indeed, Germany reported 47% atheists, compared to 45% Catholics and Protestants combined, and 4% Muslims. In 1990, only 22% of Germans identified as non-religious. By way of comparison, non-religious individuals have been in the majority in France for several years, with a National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies...