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Chicago Cardinal Heckled and Booed During Pro-Life RallyChicago Cardinal Blase Cupich was booed by a number of pro-life demonstrators at a Chicago rally Saturday for his alleged failure to oppose abortion more vigorously.Some of the protesters at Chicago’s March for Life carried green signs with white lettering that read “Cupich is the culture of death” and one video reproduced a tweet by the cardinal in which he insisted on the sanctity of life “from birth until natural death,” instead of “from conception.”According to a report by Carlos Esteban for infovaticana.com, Cardinal Cupich has tended to shy away from the pro-life...

California is moving to dramatically expand and fund the number of abortions performed in the state. Its motivation: the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade this summer.

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'I Urge, then, First of All, that Requests, Prayers, Intercession and Thanksgiving be Made for Everyone: for Kings and All those in Authority that we May Live Peaceful and Quiet Lives in All Godliness and Holiness.' 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.Psalm 69:16O Jehovah, Answer my Prayers, for Your Lovingkindness is Wonderful;Your Mercy is So Plentiful, So Tender and So Kind.

For those that might be interested, here are links to a couple of fascinating articles a reader sent to me that appear to show that mandated Covid lockdowns were planned years ago. http://www.agmiw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Transcript-The-Covid-Plan_Rockefeller-Lockstep-2010.pdf https://realnewsuk.com/2021/Rockefeller.pdf I believe we are getting close to the Rapture and the Tribulation Period, and it is my opinion that there is no doubt about it. One, concerning Israel: there will be two major immigrations of Jews to the Promised Land at the end of the age: 1) A first wave of Jews returning as unbelievers before the Tribulation Period, and 2) A second wave of Jews...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

The Greek word ‘pharmakeia’ has appeared in debates over COVID-19 prevention measures, particularly opposition by some charismatic and evangelical Christians to vaccines against the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The topics people search for each year on Bible Gateway are always interesting, according to Jonathan Petersen, content manager of the website. But this year’s may be the “most intriguing,” Petersen wrote on the site. Searches for the words “sorcery” and “sorceries” saw the biggest spike, increasing 193% over the last year on Bible Gateway, which allows users to read and search the text of multiple translations of the Bible.

Police keep target on Canadian preacherTRANSCRIPTOnce again, police are targeting a Polish-Canadian pastor known for speaking out against government tyranny. Just hours into the new year, Protestant street preacher Artur Pawlowski found himself handcuffed and dragged off to jail. Church Militant's Nadia Hazimeh has more on his arrest. Artur Pawlowski, pastor, Cave of Adullam congregation: "If you are watching this video right now, that means I am in jail and they successfully arrested me." Alberta police arrested pastor Artur Pawlowski Saturday evening, along with his brother Dawid. An attorney for the Pawlowskis claims cops pulled them over following their involvement...

Priest’s Book Tells Sad Tale of Jesuits’ Abortion Complicity in the USCOMMENTARY: The late Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski knew how badly some of his brother priests and his superiors had betrayed the Society of Jesus.Need a prominent cleric to give cover to Catholic politicians who vote to preserve and expand abortion access? For more than 50 years, the Jesuits have had a man at the ready. It is a grave scandal in one of the Church’s most venerable orders.Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, who served as chaplain of the House of Representatives from May 2011 to January 2021, gave an...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

‘We strongly believe in families, so we have done everything in the last decade to help families have children … and improve their standards of living.’(LifeSiteNews) — Hungary has logged its highest birth rate in 27 years at the end 2021, owing to the country’s commitment to family values. According to the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), Hungary had a birth rate of 1.59 children per woman between January to November last year, which represents a 78% increase since 2010, when the birth rate was at 1.25. It is also the country’s highest birth rate since the year 1995, which...

Catholics can support a woman’s right to kill her unborn child in good conscience declared Jesuit Father Pat Conroy in an interview published Wednesday in the Washington Post. Father Conroy, who served for a decade as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives drew a distinction between being pro-abortion and pro-choice, insisting that “a pro-choice Democrat isn’t a pro-abortion person,” and it is an error to judge any pro-choice Democrat “as pro-abortion.” “I want to know the American who thinks the government should take away their choice in any area of their life — any area of their life,” the...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The attack on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, “represented a direct blow to the heart of American democracy,” the Vatican newspaper said. Marking the first anniversary of the storming of the Capitol, the newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, explained to readers, “The attack on the Capitol was the degenerated development of the ‘Save America March,’ organized by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump to contest the election that had decreed his defeat.” In its Page 4 article, the newspaper noted that it took three hours to secure the building after the siege began and that, when it...

Dear friends, I probably already lost many readers with the title alone, but if you can hang in there and objectively read on you will see that what we share is true and indeed the Day of the Lord is at hand! For our day is EXPONENTIAL growth in every facet of godlessness and lawlessness and how long can an unrepentant nation service in light of Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS judgments! It is my personal opinion as well as many others that our nation and its republic officially died as of 4:00 AM January 7th, 2021, and no optimistic appraisals and...

Large-scale restoration work at the famous flooded bell tower in Kalyazin, Russia, has been completed, and the internationally-known site is now open to the public. “The bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral is known far beyond the borders of Russia. This object is interesting for tourists and historians, a significant symbol of the spiritual heritage of the Tver Province. It’s important to preserve this unique structure for future generations,” Tver Governor Igor Rudenya said while inspecting the site in May, reports the Tver administration. The restoration project won the All-Russian Competition for the Best Projects for Creating a Comfortable...

Every empire at one point had some beauty and/or uniqueness that made it stand apart from all the rest. At one point in their being, each empire/kingdom/nation had signs of their distinctive existence dotting their landscape and was reflected by the vibrant towns and cities teeming with their people and customs. However, just as with the laws of thermodynamics regarding entropy, every empire returns to the common ground of absolute zero after they are collapsed. “When we look back through the remnants of the once-great kingdoms, we repeatedly see man’s attempt to thwart the ravages of time. Great structures, towering...

How lonely sits the city That was full of people! How like a widow is she, Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces Has become a slave! Lamentations 1:1 The thought of ghost towns has been on my mind as of late. Not so much the dilapidated wooden remnants of the old gold and silver prospecting communities scattered about the old American West, but the abandoned cities in the central and eastern United States. Some of these were abandoned when the local steel or paper mill closed down. Others were closed due to some type of...

Dublin, Ireland, Jan 4, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Ireland is preparing to follow France in offering free contraception to women under 25 years of age. The French government introduced the measure on Jan. 1, while the Irish authorities have promised to make contraception free for women aged between 17 and 25 years from August. French officials said that the change would apply to three million young women out of a population of 67.4 million people. Contraception is already free for minors (under 18s). Along with Sweden, France has the highest total fertility rate of the 27 member states of...

Moscow, December 29, Interfax - Death penalty may be reinstated in Russia only if the relevant moratorium is suspended, but that won't happen in the coming years, as Russia and other countries will not agree to that, Secretary of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Alexander Tochenov said. "Countries of the so-called civilized world, to which Russia belongs, have signed an agreement on death penalty moratorium. Therefore, this may happen only in the case of moratorium suspension under certain circumstances. Anyway, I believe that won't happen in the coming years because Russia will not agree to...

A pro-abortion think tank is decrying 2021 as “the worst year” for abortion rights in nearly 50 years as dozens of laws aimed at restricting access to abortion have passed at the state level in 2021. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research organization formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, released a report earlier this month titled “State Policy Trends 2021: The Worst Year for Abortion Rights in Almost Half a Century.”The report is the latest of several Guttmacher Institute publications highlighting the passage of numerous laws at the state level this year, which the organization and other pro-choice advocates characterize as...

Moscow, December 29, Interfax - An inter-factional working group for the protection of Christian values is being created at the State Duma, a source at the parliament told Interfax. "The group for the protection of Christian values is being created. The purpose of its creation is consolidating the efforts of parliamentarians and the Russian Orthodox Church in legislative work and upholding traditional values," the source said. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has given his blessing to the creation and activities of the group, the source said. State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolsoy of the United Russia faction is...