The most powerful storm of this winter season started last night in the nation’s capital and was morphing into a painful blizzard with gale-force winds pushing heavy snow and coastal flooding, as at least 10 people have been killed. MORE
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Was A 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Questioned By Police Over A Spelling Mistake?
Every letter counts
British police are disputing the account of a Muslim family that says it was investigated over a spelling mistake made by a 10-year-old boy.
Last month, the boy had written in a school assignment that he lived in a “terrorist house” when he was trying to write “terraced house,” his family told the BBC.
Authorities questioned him at home the next day and examined a laptop, the family said. MORE
Francis may become first pope to visit Rome mosque
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is studying an invitation to visit the Grand Mosque of Rome — extended to him several days after his first visit to the city’s Great Synagogue.
If he accepts, Francis would be the first pope to visit the mosque. He received the invitation on Wednesday (Jan. 20) during a short audience he gave to Muslim community leaders at the Vatican. MORE
Pope Changes Church Rule for Gender-Friendly Pre-Easter Rite
Pope Francis has changed church regulations to correspond to his rule-breaking celebration of the Easter Week ritual of washing the feet of men and women, Christians and not, in a sign of universal service.
Vatican rules for the Holy Thursday rite had long called for only men to participate, and popes past and many priests traditionally performed the ritual on 12 Catholic men, recalling Jesus’ 12 apostles.MORE
VIDEO: WILD ELECTION OUTCOME PREDICTED BY RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT
Sputnik reports, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for World Economy and International Relations published its annual foreign policy forecast, detailing US internal politics. And the winner is…Hillary Clinton. She, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for World Economy and International Relations’ (IMEMO) annual forecast is poised to defeat Republican Marco Rubio in November.
Prominent Rabbis Sternbuch, Amar Hint that the Messiah is “Just Around the Corner”
Two prominent rabbis in Israel – Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar – have hinted in public that the Messiah is “just around the corner” based upon certain world events taking place today.
Rabbi Sternbuch, vice president of the Rabbinical Court and head of the Eidah Charedit organization in Jerusalem, recently said that people should “put on their Shabbat clothes in preparation for the Messiah.” MORE
VIDEO: FED EMPLOYEES CAUGHT BRAGGING ABOUT FEDERAL LAND GRABS
“We went out to the mine and the owners were two little guys that had been in the Second World War,” a California park service employee recalls at a retirement celebration for Mojave National Preserve Superintendent Mary Martin in 2005. MORE
Gazans displaced by war get 1,000 new homes
More than 1,000 Palestinian families have taken possession of new apartments as part of a large Qatari-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip.
Saturday’s units are the first batch of a 3,000-apartment complex that was announced when the former Qatari ruler, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, became the first head of state to visit Hamas-ruled Gaza in 2012. MORE
Church child abuse scandals ‘tip of iceberg’ say real-life stars of Oscar-tipped film
The child abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church are only the tip of the iceberg, the journalists who exposed one of the hierarchy’s biggest cover-ups said Wednesday.
Walter Robinson and Mike Rezendes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering how the Church had hushed up the activities of nearly 90 paedophile priests in Boston, told AFP that thousands more have escaped justice in the United States alone.MORE
The Second Coming? Perfect cross forms in the sky prompting fears of ARMAGEDDON
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Head of Russian Orthodox Church: ‘Rise of ISIS is because ‘godless’ world has accepted homosexuality’
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has suggested the rise of ISIS is partly the result of the world accepting homosexuality.
Patriarch Kirill claimed Muslims may be fleeing to join the terror group in Syria and Iraq to avoid being part of a civilization that holds events like Gay Pride.
The 69-year-old said it was little surprise so many were joining the caliphate and that he could offer more ‘simply frightening examples’ of how the ‘godless civilization’ was growing. MORE
Traditional Catholics turn a blind eye to God’s wrath & the Space ship Challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger & Sign of the Beast of the Apocalypse 1986
by Joseph Saraceno
On or about December 1985, I was working on an article entitled “the Two Horns of Anti-Christ” I can’t remember who the particular priest’s were that I was in contact with at that time, but I remembered one that I had just recently met and was promoting his newsletter. A Father Dan Jones from Colorado. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Staggering civilian death toll in Iraq
(CNN)Nearly 19,000 civilians were killed in Iraq between January 2014 and October 2015 — a toll the United Nations calls “staggering” in a new report.
The report, released Tuesday, outlined the horrific impact that Iraq‘s ongoing conflict is having on its civilian population.
Much of the suffering was attributed to ISIS, the brutal Islamist terror group which has declared an Islamic caliphate across the vast stretches of territory it holds in Iraq and neighboring Syria. MORE