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The Mad Dash toward Synodal SuicideSynodal Inc., is hurtling toward the UN's Agenda 2030 deadline, accelerating the Great Spiritual Reset before the deadline expires.The race is on. Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod wrote in the 2025 Synodal Pathways letter and addressed the need for immediate action from 2025-2028:“It is the urgency of this mission that drives us to implement the Synod, a task for which all the Baptised share responsibility.”What is this urgent mission? Why suddenly is there a frantic sprint to get there? So much for the leisurely pilgrimage of mutual listening. After years of...

Claire Brosseau survived multiple suicide attempts. Now, she wants the Canadian health care system to help facilitate her death. Brosseau is seeking what The New York Times referred to as “medical aid in dying” (MAID), “an end-of-life option that allows certain eligible individuals to legally request and obtain medications from their physician to end their life in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner,” according to Death With Dignity, an advocacy group. At age eight, Brosseau made a journal entry that she wished to die. At age 14, her lifestyle included drinking, doing drugs, and having sex while a student in...

The story of Alex Miller has many tragic antecedents...Miller, 23, an American who had served in the IDF, died of an apparent suicide in Miami, where he had been living since being discharged from the army... “We had a lot of conversations about the [2022] attack, but apparently, the attack and Noam’s death broke him. Even though he didn’t admit it, he suffered a lot,” he [father, Danny Miller] told Israel National News... The circumstances surrounding Miller’s heartbreaking death came a day after the High Court of Justice heard a petition challenging the state’s handling of discharged soldiers and reservists...

Alex Miller, a 23-year-old discharged IDF combat soldier originally from the United States, recently died by apparent suicide after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder linked to his military service... Miller was also deeply affected by the death of his close friend Sgt. First Class Noam Shemesh, 21, who was killed during fighting in southern Gaza in 2025... He was reportedly in Miami at the time of his death... Miller was his father’s only child and required special parental approval to serve in combat. At least 60 active and reserve soldiers died by suicide between October 2023 and April of this...

A stunning report out of Canada reveals a physician is now under investigation over the death of a man he met outside a coffee shop.It seems the man was depressed and had been diagnosed with a bowel disease, so the doctor took him to a hospital to be given assisted suicide.According to a report at the Daily Mail, James MacLean, the physician, now is under mandatory clinical supervision for six months.He's accused of improperly delivering Canada's assisted suicide program, Medical Assistance in Dying, to that man and another."MacLean was investigated after he approved Thomas Dillon, who had Crohn's disease, for...

A 2023 Idaho bathroom bill is now permanently in effect statewide following the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the anti-trans legislation. Attorneys for the Sexuality and Gender Alliance, a student group at Boise High School, and the state agreed to dismiss the lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday following the death of one plaintiff and the high-school graduation of another, per Idaho Education News. The late plaintiff, as Idaho Education News noted, was a trans student who died by suicide in January, identified only in court filings as Jane Doe. Lawsuits against the bathroom ban were currently pending in the...

A Catholic priest said that while seeking treatment for a hip injury at a Canadian hospital, medical workers twice offered him the option of assisted suicide, despite knowing that he was religiously and morally opposed to the practice. Fr. Larry Holland, 79, fractured his hip after falling in his bathroom on Christmas Day 2025 and subsequently went to Vancouver General Hospital to seek treatment for his injury, The B.C. Catholic, the official media outlet of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, first reported. However, despite the priest’s assertion that his condition is not and never was fatal, he says a...

Diocese of Rome announces Christian-Muslim gathering at Grand MosqueThe Vicariate of Rome has announced that the Grand Mosque of Rome will host an interreligious gathering titled “Cristiani e musulmani in dialogo alla Grande Moschea” on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 5pm. The move has prompted debate over what is proper conduct in interfaith and ecumenical meetings.The event is jointly organised by the Centro Islamico Culturale d’Italia and the Diocese of Rome. Catholic participants will include Auxiliary Bishop Marco Valenti of the Northern Sector, Mgr Marco Gnavi, responsible for the Office for Ecumenism, interreligious dialogue and new cults, and Prof Wasim...

The assisted suicide Bill will now fall when the current Parliamentary session ends and will not become law, after the final day of Committee Stage of the Bill was completed this afternoon, without the Bill passing the Lords. The fall of the assisted suicide Bill comes as new polling suggests that the Bill would likely fail if it were reintroduced to the House of Commons, and an analysis reveals there have been near-unprecedented levels of opposition to the Bill in the House of Lords. Private Members’ Bills, like the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, are only debated on...

“Storage Wars” star Darrell Sheets has died at 67. According to the release obtained by Page Six, police responded to reports of a deceased person at Sheets’ home. “Storage Wars” star Darrell Sheets has died at 67. According to a press release from the Lake Havasu City Police Department, the reality star died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. According to the release obtained by Page Six, police responded to reports of a deceased person at Sheets’ home. The reality star passed away from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. “The male was pronounced deceased...

A scientist experimenting with anti-gravity tech was found dead at 34 after warning that her life could be in danger, marking another mysterious case of deaths and disappearances in recent years. Amy Eskridge was just 34 years old when she allegedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022. However, neither the police nor the medical examiners have publicly released any details of an investigation ever taking place. Before her death, she was openly researching and trying to develop anti-gravity technology, a way to control or cancel out gravity, which could revolutionize space...

Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, confirmed Thursday that they found former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax dead in his home in an apparent murder-suicide.“I’m here to confirm the identity of our shooter in this murder-suicide that happened several hours ago as former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said in a press conference Thursday morning. “Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside of their home and then shot and killed himself.”“This has been an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce,” he added.Fairfax reportedly shot and killed his wife in the...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Dr. Cerina Fairfax before he killed himself inside their Northern Virginia home, police confirmed Thursday morning. Police said the couple was going through a divorce. Shortly after midnight on April 16, Fairfax County police officers responded to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive, where they discovered the bodies of an adult male and an adult female inside the home, Captain Chris Cosgriff said. Investigators believe Justin Fairfax man shot Cerina Fairfax before turning the gun on himself in what police described as a domestic incident....

Google Engineer Jumps to His Death from 14th Floor of Company-s NYC HQ A Google engineer has jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company headquarters in New York City in what appears to be an apparent suicide. The man, who has not yet been named, was found on the ground on Thursday’s 15th Street side of the building. Police found the man unconscious after receiving multiple phone calls about the incident. The Google engineer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died. The officer discovered handprints on the 14th-floor ledge, according to one source speaking...

“I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants,” Pedro Sanchez headlined his New York Times op-ed. “The West needs people. Currently, few of its countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline.” Spain’s demographic decline is helped along by the nearly 1,000 euthanasia cases a year. Those who die are replaced with the growing flood of Muslim championed by Sanchez. The West needs people, but only certain kinds of people, and it euthanizes the wrong kind. Spain’s population is set to shrink by one more...

A pedophile who murdered a 13-year-old girl after getting her pregnant has died in prison in an apparent suicide, officials said. Jarvis Butts, 43, was found dead in his cell at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson, Michigan on Wednesday. He was just two weeks into a 35 to 60 year sentence for the murder of Na'Ziyah Harris. Prison staff said they 'provided life-saving measures which were unsuccessful' and noted that state police are investigating Butts's death as a suicide. He pleaded guilty to murdering Harris in January 2024 after impregnating her and prosecutors said he targeted...

An orphaned boy in New Hampshire took his own life just one week after his 13th birthday when he “couldn’t handle” the relentless bullying he faced at school, his distraught family said. Josiah Michael Dwinell, 13, jumped off a bridge in Alstead, New Hampshire on March 12 — just eight days after his birthday, his aunt Shaena Lyon confirmed on Facebook. Josiah’s mother, Amber, passed away unexpectedly in 2021, according to her obituary. Amber changed her Facebook profile picture to an emblem for “overdose awareness” in 2020. Her cause of death isn’t immediately clear. Josiah was taken in by his...

A Los Angeles high school’s “secrecy policy” kept a California couple in the dark about their only child’s gender identity, helped “sever” the family’s relationship — and ultimately drove the teen to suicide, his parents alleged. Dylan Parke was already struggling to fit in as a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles in 2019-2020 when he told school staffers he would use she/her pronouns and go by the name “Aria,” as he transitioned into a woman. Parke had been diagnosed with depression, was in mental health treatment and “appeared easily influenced and preoccupied with how others perceived...

Almost 40 per cent of new homes built by 2030 will be needed for migrant housing, Conservative Party analysis shows. The research is based on the Office for Budget Responsibility's latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook which expects a net migration of 1,172,792 people between 2026 and 2030. The means there would need to be around 499,000 extra homes to house new arrivals, according to the ONS average household size. During the next four years, the UK is forecasted to build 1.34million new homes, meaning 37.1 per cent could be used to home migrants. The figure was used to hit out...

Canada will soon mark a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths via the country’s assisted suicide or Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. The program is due to “celebrate” its tenth anniversary on 17 June, having claimed the lives of more than twice the number of Canadians who died in World War II (42,042). The latest figures show 15,767 Canadians were killed by the government in 2024, or more than 5% of deaths that year. That works out at 45 Canadians a day. The figure has increase significantly year on year. In 2021, 9,842 Canadians were killed by the government. As The...