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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DgJTiaJ5Y Introduction to Father Carl Valer: [00:03] The video introduces Father Carl Valer, an Austrian Cistercian monk who served as the director of Missio Austria (a department of the Vatican’s Pontifical Mission Societies) from 2016 to 2026. The Founding of Project Hananius: [00:30] During his tenure, Father Carl founded a special initiative in Vienna called Project Hananius (also referred to as Project Hanas) to support newly baptized men and women who have fled from Iran and Afghanistan. The project offers free physical training, weekly gatherings, and catechesis to help these young immigrants grow in their Christian faith while connecting body...

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has deployed the Italian army in response to the violent riots sweeping through Italy. According to The Independent, the Italian government will deploy 500 troops to "defend Milan" and restore order after two days of chaos. Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced the decision on Monday, with the deployment expected to be finalised during a Tuesday cabinet meeting. Salvini posted on social media about the deployment, writing "from words to deeds" and sharing a photo of troops reading "From words to action: 500 more troops to defend Milan".

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Russia is a pillar of an anti-American axis led by China and joined by Iran and North Korea — the trio providing Putin with the economic backstop, materiel, and manpower he desperately needs. In 2022, Putin and China’s Xi Jinping issued a joint statement of cooperation that bluntly challenged the United States and NATO. The Russian regime is actively abetting Iran’s military operations against the United States, providing intelligence for targeted attacks on U.S. personnel, as well as drone weaponry (which Iran initially designed but Russia can produce at scale). That is to say: While Trump embraces Putin, Putin aids...

In his memoir, "Devil on My Shoulder," rocker Alice Cooper revealed that his ex-girlfriend, the late Cindy Lang, underwent an abortion during their six-year relationship. Though he said he had doubts the baby was his, he also said he didn't take any responsibility. Key Takeaways: * Alice Cooper wrote in his memoir that his ex-girlfriend underwent an abortion during their relationship. * Cooper was unsure if the baby was his and he took no responsibilty for the baby. * He said while he grew up in a Christian church and knew the church saw abortion as a serious sin, he...

The field can command six-figure salaries, but understaffing and persistent violence are pushing nurses off the front linesPaige Campbell became a nurse during the pandemic, wanting to make a difference. She landed a job after college working in the emergency department at a Fort Walton Beach, Fla., hospital.Since then, she’s been kicked, spat on and shoved to the ground. Last year, after an emergency patient strangled her, she left for a role remotely monitoring patients. Front-line nurses are in high demand, but she needed a break. “All I could think was, ‘I can’t breathe, I’m going to die here, and...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” Luke 12:35–36In biblical times, men wore long tunics that extended below the knees, often to the ankles. Though suitable for daily life, these garments could hinder strenuous activity. To “gird one’s loins,” a man would pull the back hem of his tunic forward between his legs, gather the fabric in front, and tuck it into his belt—creating a kind of makeshift pair of...

'A MUSLIM CITY': Trump's controversial warning about Paris

Abdul El-Sayed is being slammed over a resurfaced Columbia University research paper he authored with a “racist and eugenics outcome” that concluded Arab women should only breed with their own kind for optimal health outcomes. El-Sayed — who has repeatedly called himself a physician though he never completed his medical school residency — warned in the 2011 paper published in the “Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health” of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — which he insisted increased the risk of children being born premature. “Our findings suggest that interethnic mating may be associated with increased risk for adverse birth...

France's streets burned, shops were looted and stripped bare and a historic town hall collapsed under arson. Yet the most striking images from Saturday night were not the fires. They were the people who carried on as if nothing was happening.One woman jogged straight through thick black smoke past a burning barricade, treating the chaos like an outdoor treadmill session.Groups of French boomers kept dancing while buildings were torched around them, and a tour guide was filmed continuing her routine for visitors, smiling and pointing out landmarks while flames literally engulfed the city right in front of tourists.?French locals prefer...

There’s apparently not a single American who has a bachelor’s degree and understands accounting, so Stanford has no choice but to import a foreign laborer to fill in this extraordinarily technical knowledge gap.You have to count, or none of it makes sense. Remember that Congress created the H-1 labor category in the 1950s to allow temporary labor from foreign experts “of distinguished merit and ability,” after which Congress created the H-1B visa in 1990 to allow visiting workers to do scientific and technical work in the U.S. that requires “theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge.”The...

The owner of two dogs that mauled a man in a Brisbane park on Friday evening has spoken out in their defence, claiming her dogs are not dangerous. A 37-year-old man was mauled by two pit bulls in Seventh Brigade Park on Kittyhawk Drive in Chermside at around 6pm on Friday. He was found by paramedics with life-threatening injuries to his arms, leg and face while the dogs fled the scene after police fired at them, which resulted in a police search involving aerial support. One dog was located shortly after the search begun but one remained at large overnight...

Look who is talkin'! El-Sayed’s hypocrisy is hard to ignore: after accusing Haley Stevens of dual loyalty over her support for Israel, and bashing AIPAC, he suddenly (Oct/2026) becomes defensive when asked about his own views on the Muslim Brotherhood. If he believes politicians should be held accountable for their affiliations, loyalties, and political connections, that standard must apply equally to everyone—including himself. You cannot demand transparency and accountability from others while treating legitimate questions about yourself as off-limits. That is not principled scrutiny; it is a double standard. Typical el Sayed. But it's far worse, because the Muslim Brotherhood...

The Trump administration is asking a federal court to order election officials in California to set aside any vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming midterm election returned by people the federal government has identified as "likely non-citizens" and prohibit them from counting those ballots unless the voter's citizenship status is verified.After announcing that federal criminal charges had been filed against 28 foreign nationals living in California who fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections (most of whom actually voted in at least one election) in "Operation Protect the Vote," Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said they'd filed an emergency motion...

A mom of seven was fatally struck by a train on her morning run in Arizona — likely because she was in her “own world” filming herself while wearing noise-cancelling headphones, according to her family. Thelma Candelaria, 47, had started filming her morning runs around Eloy as part of a health kick that coincided with her also getting baptized, her grieving family told KTVK. She shared her last clip early Thursday, where she told her Instagram followers she was taking running “seriously” as she flashed a peace sign and gave a thumbs up. She ran and then filmed a train...

The U.S. finished the 2026 fiscal year with a budget deficit of nearly $2 trillion, the latest measurement to underscore the extent of the country’s financial stress. The $1.992 trillion figure was about 12% higher than the $1.775 trillion deficit in the prior fiscal year, the Treasury Department reported Friday. It’s the third-highest annual deficit in U.S. history, behind only 2020 and 2021, when the federal government was doling out trillions of dollars in financial stimulus amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2026 fiscal year saw record sums for both receipts and outlays, according to a Treasury Department official. With Friday’s...

New York plans to drop part of its statewide ban on Native American imagery for school sports logos. The Department of Education said Monday it will recommend that the Board of Regents, which adopted the 2023 mandate and issued a June 2025 deadline for rebranding, saying districts that didn't comply could lose state aid, now leave those decisions to local school districts. "Legal challenges brought by Long Island school boards against the Board of Regents' regulation addressing Indigenous mascots have been unsuccessful. Most recently, a federal appeals court dismissed Wantagh's challenge, finding that the district could not pursue its claims...

Republican Sen. Jon Husted leads Democrat Sherrod Brown by less than a point in Ohio’s 2026 U.S. Senate race, according to polls. The survey, published by ActiVote, put the appointed incumbent at 50.2 percent to the former senator’s 49.8 percent, a 0.4-point edge among 400 likely voters, well inside the poll’s 4.9-point margin of error. The firm conducted the poll between September 26 and October 18, with a median field date of October 7. ActiVote reported that the contest comes down to the middle of the electorate. “The race is decided in the center, where Husted leads by 56% to...

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are planning to use DNA evidence to try to prove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) committed immigration fraud, as part of the sprawling investigation into the congresswoman, sources told The Post. People familiar with the years-long criminal probe said the feds have made use of whistleblowers, government records and now obtained DNA in an effort to substantiate decade-old allegations that Omar — and possibly members of her family like her father — defrauded immigration authorities. One source said the DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur...