NICE, France — When a Tunisian man drove a truck down a crowded street in Nice last week in an attack claimed by the Islamic State, more than one-third of the people he killed were Muslim, the head of a regional Islamic association said on Tuesday.
Kawthar Ben Salem, a spokeswoman for the Union of Muslims of the Alpes-Maritimes, said that Muslim funerals were being held for at least 30 of those who died during the Bastille Day attack, including men, women and children. MORE
At least 75 people have died or gone missing since Monday in northern China due to some of the region’s worst flooding in years, the government said Thursday.MORE
Saudi Arabia has reclaimed the mantle from Russia as China’s top crude supplier. Oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose 12 percent month-on-month to 4.57 million metric tons (1.12 million barrels a day) in June, the highest since February, while imports from Russia fell 22 percent. It’s the third time this year that the world’s largest oil-producing nation has out-supplied Russia. SOURCE
An ancient Roman prison which boasts a couple of saints as former inmates reopened in the heart of the eternal city Wednesday after three years of excavation and painstaking restoration works.
The Mamertine Prison, which sits on the slope of the Capitoline Hill, was used as a holding cell for short periods before executions and, according to legend, briefly housed both Saint Peter and Saint Paul. MORE
MassResistance’s Maine affiliate, led by Rev. Mike Heath and Paul Madore, struck the first blow in their upcoming state-wide referendum effort to repeal the state’s LGBT law. On July 8 they held a press conference in the rotunda of the Maine State House. It was covered by the (sometimes fuming) mainstream Maine media, and was even reported in some Boston media. MORE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Italian-born nun who once challenged Billy the Kid, calmed angry mobs, opened hospitals and schools in the American Southwest and is now on a path toward possible Sainthood soon will be the subject of a TV series.
Saint Hood Productions based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, announced Wednesday a new project around Sister Blandina Segale — a 19th-Century nun whose clashes with Old West outlaws and work with immigrants has been the stuff of legend. MORE
What Father Hughes means is that, if your honest and have a love of the truth prayer will become the key to Heaven. God does not hear the prayers of hypocrites. Also what helps give strength to prayer is fasting and good spiritual readings like your daily Missal. John 9:31 now we that God does not hear sinners. but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.
Chinese students attending a Christian house church in the central Guizhou province are being threatened by government authorities who are warning them that if they don’t stop going to the church, they will be barred from going to college. MORE
They’re eager to escape flawed education systems back home, where low standards are leaving many ill-prepared for a global economy MORE
Sometimes, clouds and rain can get really scary! Yes, like an atomic bomb explosion. Hope it’s not an OMEN. Why Arizona? It’s such a nice State, maybe opened borders? Perhaps God is telling them to vote Republican. SOURCE
JNS.org – After a selection process that more closely resembled a reality television show than the usual political appointments, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that his choice for vice president is Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who beat out flashier contenders such as former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. MORE
To me Nice attack was an attack against the western liberal society. Again in this case
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was a victim of DIVORCE with three kids.
Problem is that the STATE should not be allowed to grant divorces to those married in a religious institutions. It’s supposed to be separation of church and state in the western countries but because the religions are subsidized by the state, they don’t complain. This was a hate & revenge act, his wife filed for divorce and he had a road rage conviction, according to the news services.
Along with learning how to add two-digit numbers and construct intelligible sentences, second graders in the state of California will soon learn about all kinds of family structures—including those with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents.
This week, the California Board of Education unanimously approved a history and social studies curriculum that includes prominent LGBT figures and milestones—from theStonewall riots of 1969 to the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015—for public school students. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 28 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward KrierJuly 16, 2016 ~ Our Lady of Mount Carmel, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (77)
2. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Speratus and Companions
4. Christ in the Home (51)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
What does money buy? Enslavement to the state.
President Gerald Ford stated in Rockford, IL, March 11, 1976: Continue reading
Hideous gay ‘protests’ in Boston and around the country — threatening churches and private citizens, attacking pro-marriage supporters MORE