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Agents posing online as young girls and women helped lead investigators in Tennessee to the arrests of nearly three dozen people, including two ministers, this month, part of an intensified yearlong effort to combat prostitution and human trafficking in minors. MORE
May 30, 2016 – Within the Octave of Corpus Christi Semidouble Feast
A Reader Writes: “You Speak of Fatima as a ‘Private Revelation'”
“It Is Not”
From: Mary Novus Ordo Fatima Chapel Continue reading
Many of America’s young adults appear to be in no hurry to move out of their old bedrooms.
For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center has found.
Nearly one-third of millennials live with their parents, slightly more than the proportion who live with a spouse or partner. It’s the first time that living at home has outpaced living with a spouse for this age group since such record-keeping began in 1880. MORE
AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of Pakistanis and Afghans have been lining up at a local swimming pool in Hamburg, Germany, to be baptized as Christians. In the Netherlands and Denmark, as well, many are converting from Islam to Christianity, and the trend appears to be growing. Indeed, converts are filling up some European churches largely forsaken by their old Christian flocks. MORE
In a country still deeply riven by division over differences — in race, class, political affiliation and more — it is Mpho Tutu’s “sameness” to her new wife that has created a stir.
Tutu (now Tutu-Van Furth) is the daughter of South Africa’s first black archbishop and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and is really only the “same” as her wife in one way — they are both women. But in almost every other imaginable way, they are different. Tutu is black, South African, a devout priest and, as she puts it, “vertically challenged.” Marceline Tutu-Van Furth is lanky, Dutch, atheist and a professor of pediatric diseases in Amsterdam. MORE
In a pigs eye, you say, ha.
Doctors in south China claimed to have successfully transplanted the cornea of a pig onto a 14-year-old boy’s eye.
The bio-engineering transplant was carried out by a medical team at the Sun Yat-sen University’s Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre in Guangzhou Province on February 25, reports the People’s Daily Online.
Since the operation, the boy has slowly regained sight in his right eye, according to the article. If the claims are true, millions of patients suffering from corneal blindness across China could be helped. MORE
You may not have noticed, but our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. According to Volcano Discovery, 40 volcanoes around the globe are erupting right now, and only 6 of them are not along the Ring of Fire. If that sounds like a very high number to you, that is because it is a very high number. As I have written about previously, there were a total of 3,542 volcanic eruptions during the entire 20th century. When you divide that number by 100, that gives you an average of about 35 volcanic eruptions per year. MORE
Roman Catholics have gotten a bad reputation: they’re responsible for the Dark Ages, the Crusades, and the Inquisition. They’re anti-science, anti-Semites, and anti-freedom. Each of these accusations is an oversimplification that perverts history. MORE
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will defy the Roman Catholic Church and seek to impose a three-child policy, putting him on a new collision course with the bishops a day after he called them “sons of whores”.
The southern mayor has yet to be declared the May 9 poll winner, but an unofficial vote count by an election commission-accredited watchdog showed him ahead over his four rivals, three of whom conceded defeat. Duterte assumes office on June 30. MORE
Lava bombs and a giant luminous ash cloud were seen spewing from the peak of Mount Etna in dramatic video footage captured on Saturday. MORE
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis embraced the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican on Monday in a historic encounter both sides hope will lead to greater understanding and dialogue between the two faiths.
The first Vatican meeting between the leader of the world’s Catholics and the highest authority in Sunni Islam marks the culmination of a significant improvement in relations between the two faiths since Francis took office in 2013. MORE
Hundreds of ecstatic pilgrims are flocking to a statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be crying a single tear of blood.
Images of the statue with a red liquid dripping down its cheek have been shared on social media, prompting a mass pilgrimage to Floridablanca in Columbia.
Locals believe they have witnessed a miracle and others are swarming to catch a glimpse. MORE
(NaturalNews) Recent tests by the Portuguese No GMO Coalition showed that volunteers in the country had extremely high levels of glyphosate in their urine, placing their contamination rate well above that of many places in Europe. Every single one of the 26 volunteers had cancer-causing glyphosate in their urine; MORE
The European Union Flag with Its Twelve Sun-colored Stars on a Sky-Blue background, the Flag’s Designer, Arsène Heitz, now admits that He Based His Design,on the Description of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. John’s Apocalypse 12,and also based on a medal created by Saint Catherine Labouré following a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary which also has twelve stars on the back of the (Miraculous) metal.. ..The Flag, as Fate Would Have It, Was Adopted on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Little did Mr. Heitz realize that the E.U. and their flag is a reflection of the “Beast of the Apocalypse.” Continue reading
Isfahan is best known for its architecture. It is so beautiful, Iranians say, that to visit the city is to see “half the world.” And, Isfahan is famous for its carpets in classical Persian court styles.
But, in Poland, the city is known for still something else. It is “Isfahan – the City of Polish Children” [“Isfahan – Miasto Dzieci Polskich”]
In June, 2008, the Polish postal service issued a stamp that explained why. The stamp shows a small boy dressed in a cadet’s uniform. Draped behind him is an Isfahan carpet emblazoned with the Polish eagle. And next to him is the city’s nickname in Polish: “Isfahan – Miasto Dzieci Polskich.” MORE