Pope Francis urges protection of nature, weak
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis laid out the priorities of his pontificate during his installation Mass on Tuesday, urging the princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people attending to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest and to let tenderness “open up a horizon of hope.” It was a message Francis has [...]
A former member of the Westboro Baptist Church–a fringe group based in Topeka, Kansas that pickets soldiers’ funerals–apologized to the mother of a 21-year-old soldier killed in Afghanistan on a talk show Wednesday. Libby Phelps Alvarez, the former Westboro member, apologized to Sherry and Randy Wyatt for picketing the funerals of fallen soldiers like their [...]
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85. The unexpected development – the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years – surprised governments, Vatican-watchers and even his closest [...]
We have learned today that the Vatican has decided to use an ID card that has a micro-chip device embedded inside the card that is capable of being used as a tracking device. This card will be given to clergy and employees. A source inside the Vatican acknowledged that they have been thinking about this [...]
The Catholic Church has established an exorcist hotline in Milan, its biggest diocese, to cope with demand. Monsignor Angelo Mascheroni, the diocese’s chief exorcist since 1995, said the curia had also appointed twice as many exorcists to cope with a doubling in the number of requests for help over 15 years. “We get many requests [...]
Because of modern alarmist reactions to the word “Palestine,” many non-Arabs and non-Muslims take offense when it is argued that Jesus was a Palestinian (peace be upon him). Jesus’ ethnicity, skin color, and culture often accompany this conversation, but few people are willing to acknowledge the fact he was non-European. A simple stroll down the [...]
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday declared that Mitt Romney’s loss to President Barack Obama proved that “sometimes God really sucks.” As it was becoming apparently that the president was going to be re-elected on Tuesday, Beck had told a panel on his Blaze TV network that “the body of America is even sicker [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter, then issued a provocative statement through his attorney. The sentence was the result of a plea bargain [...]
Pastor: Mormonism is a cult, but Obama is like Hitler so vote Romney (via Raw Story ) A Texas pastor who believes Mitt Romney’s religion of Mormonism is a cult says that re-electing President Barack Obama is like allowing Adolf Hitler to come to power in the 1930s. First Baptist Church of Dallas Senior Pastor [...]
A blacklist of Ukrainian anti-Semites has been prepared and some names from it will soon be made public, says the freshly-elected president of the country’s United Jewish Community. “We achieved certain success in making the so-called blacklist of anti-Semites. I think soon we will allow ourselves to publish some names from it,” businessman Igor Kolomoysky [...]
AP reported anti-Islam film that sparked protests was made to help Israel, but questions surround producer of the film
September 23, 2012 No Comment
Update 2:40 pm: Jeffery Goldberg has talked with Steve Klein and Klein now says Bacile is not Israeli, probably not Jewish and his name is a pseudonym: Klein told me that Bacile, the producer of the film, is not Israeli, and most likely not Jewish, as has been reported, and that the name is, in fact, [...]
Who Is Alan Roberts, the Director of ‘Innocence of Muslims’? We Think His Real Name Is Robert Brownell
September 14, 2012 No Comment
Early yesterday morning VICE was anonymously furnished with documents that link a California man named Robert Brownell (aka Robert Brown) to the pre-production of Innocence of Muslims, the F-grade anti-Islamic film that has resulted in the killing of US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, and violent protest at and around US embassies in [...]
The still-emerging stories from shrinking circles of living Jews who survived persecution by Nazis are among the most interesting and provocative. These are not the stories retold by aging relatives at family gatherings but the tightly held secrets, unforgotten deeds and buried memories that can resonate for a lifetime. Those of us who are lucky [...]
A Roman Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in a federal case that also led to charges against the diocese bishop for failing to report suspected child abuse. Prosecutors said they would recommend that he be sentenced to life in prison. The Rev. Shawn Ratigan, 46, had been scheduled for trial later [...]
Ynet News - MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union), a member of the Israeli parliament tore up a copy of the New Testament and threw it in the trash, an act that was apparently caught on camera. Ben Ari and several other Knesset members received by mail on Monday a copy of the New Testament, sent [...]
