Mar 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CHRISTIAN NEWS: Portland, Oregon – An Oregon high school teacher was escorted from the building by police this week over what is believed to be related to his continued opposition to Planned Parenthood’s presence in the classroom. Bill Diss is a math and computer science teacher at Benson High School in Portland, and has taught ...
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Mar 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from Ars Technica: In January, a French court ruled that Twitter must hand over the details of people who had tweeted racist and anti-semitic remarks, and set up a system that would alert the police to any further such posts as they happen. Twitter has ignored that ruling, and now the Union of French Jewish ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The American imprisoned in Iran, in a vivid letter to his wife, described how he was beaten to the point where parts of his face were "swollen three times what they should have been" and was denied medical treatment because he was seen as an "unclean" Christian. The letter was received by Saeed ...
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Mar 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from TakePart: The most hateful church in America has some colorful new neighbors. This week, members of the Florida-based nonprofit Planting Peace unveiled a project months in the making: Equality House, an activism center located directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church outside Topeka, Kansas. From now on, the group known for picketing the funerals ...
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Mar 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - The Catholic bishops of the United States are asking the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to do something concrete and effective--rather than merely symbolic—to repeal a regulation the administration has issued under Obamacare that will force Catholics and other Christians to act against their faith in purchasing or providing health-care plans that ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from SFBG: What is going on with Michelle Shocked? The Texas alt-folk singer-songwriter, formerly known as a leftist-feminist relic of the late 1980s/early '90s, apparently went on a homophobic rant at one of her two Yoshi's shows this past Sunday in San Francisco. As the Bay Area Reporter notes, Shocked, who seems to have found ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: -- When he said Mass for the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, newly elected Pope Francis I warned these princes of the church against professing what he called “the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.” “Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil,” Francis ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: In Rome for the formal installation of Pope Francis, Vice President Joseph R. Biden wisecracked Monday that he would “lose my soul” if he skipped a reception with U.S. Catholic cardinals. “We invited the American cardinals to a reception,” Mr. Biden told Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in a meeting. “So unless I’m prepared ...
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Mar 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Entertainment Weekly: Last Sunday, the first installment of History’s five-part miniseries The Bible beat everything on television with a massive 13.1 million viewers, making it cable’s most-watched entertainment telecast this year. For producer Mark Burnett, who worked on the ten-hour special with wife Roma Downey, the success of The Bible isn’t all that surprising. ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A Republican lawmaker expressed shock that State Department officials dodged a Friday hearing to discuss the ongoing saga of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini. The failure of the State Department to make an appearance came just days after America’s leading representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council failed to raise the plight of ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The wife of an American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran, in emotional testimony Friday on Capitol Hill, told lawmakers she's "disappointed" with the State Department's lackluster involvement in the case -- as her lawyers accused the government of going completely "AWOL" in the face of prisoner Saeed Abedini's plight. In a sign of ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Live video from your Android device on Ustream Excerpted from THE GUARDIAN: The Roman Catholic church has a new pope: Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio from Buenos Aires in Argentina, , the first ever to come from South America, who has taken the name Francis. He was announced to the crowd waiting in St Peter's Square ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: President Obama dismissed the notion that an American pope would be too closely aligned with the U.S. government, pointing out that America’s Catholic bishops “don’t seem to be taking orders from me.” “It seems to me that an American pope would preside just as effectively as a Polish pope or an Italian pope ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
(Reuters) - Cardinals in secret conclave failed twice on Wednesday morning to elect a new pope, as black smoke over the Sistine Chapel showed ballots on the first full day of voting were inconclusive. After an inconclusive first vote on Tuesday night, the 115 cardinal electors should hold another two ballots later on Wednesday after praying ...
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Mar 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A controversy has been re-ignited this week as ten new ads go up on San Francisco Muni buses containing quotes used by terrorists. “Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to Allah,” reads one of the ads, which has people debating the line between free speech and hate speech. “The purpose ...
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Mar 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
1530 GMT The cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the papal conclave and the door is closed behind them. 1630 GMT Shot of Sistine Chapel chimney from Peter's Square as cardinals take part in the papal conclave. After each round of voting, either black or white smoke will appear from the chimney. Black smoke means no ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP: You have to give Imam Shahid Mehdi credit. Unlike a lot of other Muslim clergy who say that women who don’t wear hijabs or burkas or who leave the house deserve to be raped, but then don’t follow up on it, Shahid Mehdi stayed true to his belief that Islamic morality justifies sex ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JP: Arab American leaders meet US president ahead of Mideast trip, say US can facilitate peaceful, lasting resolution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict; White House: Visit is opportunity to demonstrate commitment to Palestinians. WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday met Arab American leaders who urged him to deliver a message of hope to ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from MEDIAITE: This weekend, noted atheist and best-selling author, Richard Dawkins, took to Twitter to express outrage over reports of attempted gender segregation at a University College London debate on Saturday. The debate, entitled “Islam or Atheism: What Makes More Sense?,” organized by the Islamic Education and Research Academy, featured Professor Lawrence Krauss and ...
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Mar 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
For the first time, respected Vatican reporters like Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa have Americans on their lists of papal contenders.
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