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Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani isn’t saying Donald Trump is right about his unambiguous claim that “thousands and thousands of people were cheering” in Jersey on 9/11. But he’s also not saying that Donald Trump isn’t not right. And to back up his timorous show of support, Giuliani trotted out a straight-up hate…
Barack Obama has hit back at Republicans who want to stop the US taking in Syrian refugees – with the president saying some of the language used in the wake of the Paris attacks only serves to strengthen the Islamic State terror group. Obama rounded on Republicans in Congress who are preparing legislation that threatens…
The Taliban has a brutal reputation when it comes to women’s rights: The group made its name in part by banning Afghan women from going to school or work, or even leaving the house without a male chaperone. But a new faction of Taliban militants claimed on Sunday it would permit women to work and get an…
Hundreds of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints mailed or handed in letters quitting the Mormon church on Saturday to protest against a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. Leaders of the church approved the policy last week. It added same-sex marriage to acts…
If you pulled over one hundred people on the street, and asked them to state a religious belief they hold, I’m not sure you would get any answer more plausible than “the pyramids were built for the storage of grain.” Would you now? Yet we mock Ben Carson for this, but we do not make…
Turns out the Vatican has one final burn for Kim Davis, the anti-gay clerk who flew a little too close to the sun when she released the news that the pope had acknowledged her existence. Not only was her meeting not a “real audience” with the cool guy, the day before, the Vatican confirms, the…
Pope Francis blesses the faithful at his weekly audience. Aug. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Earlier this year, Pope Francis announced an “extraordinary” Jubilee Year devoted to mercy. Jubilee, or Holy Years, have a long tradition in Christianity and Judaism and often focus on repentance and forgiveness. In Catholicism, ordinary Jubilee Years happen about every…
Lynchburg, VA—Amos 5:24- But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream. Atop the football stadium at Liberty University runs a big sign that reads “HOME OF THE FLAMES.” The same slogan as Hell. And the same beguiling tableau. Heaven and hell: two sides of the same coin, indistinguishable twins….
Continue reading the main story Video Kim Davis Speaks After Release From Jail Ms. Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., clerk, spoke at a rally after she was ordered freed, saying: “I just want to give God the glory. His people have rallied, and you are a strong people.” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date…
VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church, Wisconsin-born Cardinal Raymond Burke sat in his elaborately upholstered armchair and appeared to…