But things indeed have changed: The Castro regime briefly hooked up with the Rolling Stones for the simple expedient of filling its coffers with millions more in tourist money. Yes, it was billed as a “free concert,” like Woodstock and Altamonte. In fact, the AP estimated that half the fans in the front sections were foreigners.

In the meantime, Castro’s subjects — while allowed to boogie a bit — essentially remain the impoverished and oppressed subjects of a totalitarian regime.

Indeed, repression has actually cranked up steadily in direct proportion to the Stalinist regime’s enrichment through tourism, especially owing to President Obama’s policies that recently swamped Cuba with more than half a million visitors last year from the United States and contributed an estimated $5.6 billion in remittances and travel expenditures to the regime’s coffers.

As a direct result, desperate Cubans are risking their lives to flee Cuba at a rate unseen in decades. MORE

These animal rights groups are putting animals on the same level as humans. I wonder if they have ties with the Hindu religion?

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) –  Authorities say a teacher from North Carolina has been arrested after he disrupted an Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.

A group of six animal rights activists interrupted the noon Mass on Sunday. VIDEO

A volcano on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands erupted on Sunday afternoon, reported the U.S. Geological Survey, sending ash 20,000 feet into the air.

The Associated Press reported the agency as saying the Pavlov Volcano, which is about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted at 4:18 p.m. local time. The agency said the eruption also led to tremors on the ground.

The USGS raised the volcano alert level to “Warning” and the aviation warning to “Red.” MORE

Why is it whenever we manage to open up borders with other countries the first thing we do is send in Satan’s agents?

The British legends made history becoming the first international rock band to play in Cuba, when they performed a free concert in Havana. Report by Matt Spencer.

CHICAGO (AP) – Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States – an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels’ move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering. MORE

The consequences of excessive and underage drinking affect virtually all college campuses, college communities, and college students, whether they choose to drink or not.

• Death:  1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes (Hingson et al., 2009).

• Injury:  599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2009).

• Assault:  696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking (Hingson et al., 2009). MORE

Much progress has been made thanks to a cold front, and now after a week of burning, the largest wildfire in Kansas history could end Sunday.

The Anderson Creek wildfire that’s burned through nearly 400,000 acres in two states since Tuesday is likely to be fully out soon, according to published reports, as snow fell on Kansas Sunday. MORE

HOW CAN A POPE BE THE LEADER OF A NON-CATHOLIC CHURCH WITHOUT THEM BEING THE ANTICHRISTS OF SCRIPTURE?

Francis-Bergoglio Is Preparing to Overturn Catholic Doctrine on the Sacraments
From: The TRADITIO Fathers

The Italian Press Is Roiling with the News that Bergoglio’s document concluding the Anti-synod on the Family which is signed and is scheduled to be released in mid April 2016, will use a “Battering Ram” to overturn Catholic Doctrine on the Sacraments.
Several Newchurch Leaders, shocked at Francis-Bergoglio’s heretical policies are publicly confronting him with the teaching of the Church that if he does so, he is NO POPE! Continue reading →

The first case of Zika virus acquired in California through sexual contact was confirmed by health officials on Friday.

State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith said the case involved an infected partner who returned from a country where Zika virus was circulating,

Smith said the woman who was infected was not pregnant and had not traveled out of the country. She and her partner have fully recovered. The couple are from San Diego County and the man had traveled to Colombia. MORE

UNBELIEVABLE! This man isn’t even Catholic!

In his Easter message to the world on Sunday, Pope Francis condemned terrorism as “a blind and brutal violence,” while proposing that it should be fought with “weapons of love.”

The Pope was delivering his “Urbi et Orbi” (To the City and the World) message before some 70,000 pilgrims and tourists who braved tight security to be able to hear the Pope in and around Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City.

The message has been posted on the Vatican’s website in Arabic, Italian, German, French and Portuguese, but curiously not in English. MORE

The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed. MORE

HANCEVILLE, Alabama (AP) — Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, has died. She was 92.

Known to millions of viewers simply as “Mother Angelica,” the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network died Easter Sunday at the rural monastery where she lived about 45 miles north of Birmingham, according to EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw. MORE

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Saying: The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

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This goes against the Christian family teachings where man is the head of the household and woman are the servant member of God’s creation.

In her 50th Easter season as a nun, Sister Antonia Sanchez participated in something new.

For the past 49 years, since she joined the order of Religious Mary Immaculate at age 16, Sanchez has watched priests wash the feet of men on Holy Thursday. This week, Sanchez was before the altar herself at the nation’s preeminent Catholic shrine. She was the one removing her shoes and socks. And then the pope’s representative to America washed her feet. MORE

On primary day in Florida it was like Palm Sunday for Donald Trump, replicating a trend seen in contest after contest: Evangelical and Catholic voters swinging decisively for the GOP front-runner. The question is, why?

…Conservative evangelicals and Catholics feel betrayed by the politicians they helped elect in the past. An observation shared by a man in Alabama was heard over and over again: “We voted for these people, and look at the state of marriage. We voted for them, and I’m now competing for jobs with people coming across the border. Why not give Trump a chance? He says he’ll protect the border. He says he’s pro-life now. I believe him and nobody owns him. He could be different. MORE