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Quote: "Las Vegas isn’t the only “Sin City” in America. In other cities, bad things happen and stay there, too... "

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Most Sinful Cities in America in 2025

Las Vegas isn’t the only “Sin City” in America. In other cities, bad things happen and stay there, too. From beer-loving Milwaukee to decadent New Orleans, the U.S. is filled with people behaving illicitly. No place is innocent - we all have flaws, and at some point, we all have to pay for our vices. Gambling addiction, for instance, leads to over $100 billion in losses for U.S. consumers every year, while smoking burns an over $600 billion hole in Uncle Sam’s wallet annually.
Luckily for the saints among us, all American sins are not created or distributed equally. To identify the darkest corners of America, WalletHub compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 37 key indicators of vices and illicit behavior. Our data set ranges from violent crimes per capita to excessive drinking and adult entertainment establishments per capita.
“Regardless of any particular religious tenets, certain activities are considered ‘sinful’ by society as a whole. Sometimes, these activities are always …

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Vatican now attempts to 'walk back' - really spin - it's recent rejection of the Marian title Co-Redemptrix.

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Cardinal Fernández Clarifies: “Co-redemptrix” Off Limits in Official Vatican Documents, Permitted in Private Devotion

(Photo credit: Diane Montagna)
ROME, 26 November 2025 Three weeks after Mater Populi Fidelis sparked debate over its statement that the Marian title Co-redemptrix is “always inappropriate,” the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has clarified that the phrase is not a sweeping rejection of the title itself. The Cardinal said the word “always” applies only to official Church usage from this point forward, not to every context in which the title might be used.
In comments after Tuesday’s Vatican press conference on Una Caro, the DDF’s new doctrinal Note on monogamy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández said the statement found in MPF n. 22—that “it is always inappropriate” to use the title Co-redemptrix to define Mary’s cooperation—“isn’t meant to judge” past affirmations by saints, doctors, and popes, but that “from now on” it will not be used “either in the liturgy, that is, in liturgical texts, or in the official documents of the Holy See.”
Fernández …

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Faith In The Ruins

Interesting.

Orthocat

"Thank you Tucho for your "permission" to pray my Rosary & wear the Miraculous Medal" {sarcasm} 🤪 N.B. I say so because rejecting Our Lady's unique mediation & role in salvation makes the above-mentioned devotions useless. So clearly it cannot be forbidden!

Orthocat

With Leo's Vatican 's promotion of "all things gay" many in exasperation are just asking prelates to just be honest and admit their proclivities.

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‘TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE’

‘TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE’
It’s time for the Pope and Bishops to come out of the closet
For centuries, and not simply decades, Church leaders have covered up the clerical sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults. Documentary evidence shows that this problem was recognized
as early as 98 A.D. An even larger ecclesiastical problem involved the cover-up of large numbers of homosexual clergy in the Roman Catholic Church. When Peter Damien (1007-1072), a Benedictine monk and cardinal, wrote The Book of Gomorrah in 1051, most clerical homosexual behavior was occurring in monastic communities involving priests and brothers, as most diocesan priests were married. It was only after celibacy was mandated in the twelfth century that homosexuality began to infect diocesan clergy, especially in countries where celibacy was actually enforced.
Fast forwarding to the present, studies undertaken by the late psychotherapist and researcher, Richard Sipe, concluded that
half of all priestsare …

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Prevost and Caritas promote transsexuality under the pretext of helping the "poor," when in reality they are unrepentant trans homosexual activists and prostitutes who fight against God's law and Catholic morality.
“Alessia Nobile” is a 46 year old male transvestite, homosexual porno escort.It should also be noted that the anti-Catholic Bergoglio, of infamous memory, invented this secular holiday, the Marxist "World Day of the Poor," to promote his progressive, Marxist, and anti-Catholic agenda. In doing so, he displaced Jesus Christ in favor of idolatrous worship of man, since Sunday is the Lord's Day.
When the Marxist apostate Robert Prevost calls a trans activist, transvestite, and unrepentant male prostitute “poor,” and “marginalized” he is blasphemously and maliciously saying that God and the Church have been the oppressors.
Supposedly, the Caritas organization was meant to help the poor, but it is now a Marxist organization that steals money from the Church and the worship due …More

Orthocat

I smell PR spin... As we've seen in other posts of this site, the more significant influence on Leo was his immersion in the liberation theology soaked Latin American experience. That's the key to understand his choice by Francis as his successor!

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"Leo from Chicago" - The Documentary

"Leo from Chicago" - The Documentary
The Vatican Dicastery for Communication presents the documentary "Leo from Chicago," with interviews, footage, and images that trace the history and explore the roots of Robert Francis Prevost in his native United States, including in-depth interviews with Louis and John Prevost. A production by journalists Deborah Castellano Lubov, Salvatore Cernuzio, and Felipe Herrera-Espaliat.
10 November 2025, 18:00

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Personality cult pill helps to swallow heresies

K R Ross

Well, at least he was not a bouncer in a seedy night club.

Orthocat

See how Catholic Inc. is ALREADY priming the process to have Leo canonized someday. And he's only been in office 6 months!! 😱

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Who was Pope St. Leo the Great and what did he do?

Throughout the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church there have been a variety of popes who chose the name Leo, but only one has come to be referred to as "Leo the Great."
This title is typically given to a saint
"The Great" is not an official title that is awarded by the pope or the Vatican, though at times this may happen, as with Pope Benedict XIV who was the first to call St. Gertrude of Helfta "the Great."
Generally speaking it is a "popular" title (not an official one), given to an individual by the people, who all agree about the greatness of the person.
St. Leo the Great
The only Leo to be called "the Great" is
The
One of the most famous episodes from his life was his encounter with
When Northern Italy had been devastated by Attila, Leo by a personal encounter with the King of the Huns prevented him from marching upon Rome. At the emperor's wish, Leo, accompanied by the Consul Avienus and the Prefect Trigetius, went in 452 to Upper Italy, and
This highlights St. Leo's desire for …

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Mike the Pike

I thought the new pope was Pope Bergoglio II (a.k.a. the Heretic Prevost).

Malki Tzedek

It looks like a safe bet that the truly "Great" has no competition in that regard.

Does the God-Man need collaborators to complete His Passion? Can we really console Him in His sorrows, even though living centuries after His Ascension into Heaven?

heraldsusa.org

Called to Be Co-Redemptors!

It was 1177.
When the enemy army came into view, Baldwin IV did not fear in the face of the terrible and obvious disproportion of forces: one crusader to more than a hundred Mohammedans.
If we meditate a little on these two episodes, some questions are bound to arise in our souls, such as whether the sufferings endured by the God-Man were insufficient, in such a way so that He would need collaborators throughout history to complete His redemptive Sacrifice. And
Sister Josefa Menéndez
Called to be co-redemptors
4 is composed not only of the roses of the martyrs, but also the lilies of the virgins, the ivy of married persons, the violet of the widows; and
Co-redemptor? Yes – it is no exaggeration! – and this does not just apply to those who are already part of the Church Glorious, but 5 discusses this topic with his characteristic clarity and simplicity, as we will see below.
The priesthood of every baptized person requires sacrifice
“In my flesh I complete”
This
“For the sake of His …

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Once again Ann Barnhardt cuts through all the crap and gets down to the truth of the matter! She is a "gem among gems" to use a Peanuts reference. 😊 I was downcast that the Vatican's former Holy Office was condemning the title Co-Redemptrix for Our Lady when I realized that bad faith actors have NO RIGHT TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS ON DOCTRINE!! I don't know why this action so rattled me - my own past experience in seminary demonstrated the HATRED modernists have towards the Mother of God! It was so bad I got in trouble for praying the Rosary with fellow seminarians!! 😲

barnhardt.biz

“They that explain me shall have life everlasting.” Confirmed by the Antipope and Antichurch: the Blessed Virgin Mary absolutely IS the Co-Redemptrix, and should be referred to as such at every opportunity. Pre-reading assignment.

Pre-reading assignment for the forthcoming essay on why the Blessed Virgin Mary ABSOLUTELY IS THE CO-REDEMPTRIX, and should be referred to as such at every possible opportunity henceforth.
I can’t tell you how delighted I was to see that Antipope Robert “FtR” Prevost and that odious groomer faggot Tucho “Heal Me With Your Mouth Open” Fagnandez have decided to fight their Luciferian fag war against the Mother of God. This is going to be FANTASTIC. Talk about a “teaching moment.” My goodness, it’s all laid out in scripture. This is the Lesson of the Mass of many Marian feasts and votive Masses. It’s Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) chapter 24. Read up, Protestants. Ya Boi Luther tore this book out of the Bible because it smashes his foul heresies.
Remember, these words were written nearly 200 years before Our Lord’s Incarnation, obviously a prophecy of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces, and Queen of Heaven and Earth. Look especially at verse 31. …

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Toties quoties” (Latin: ‘as many times as’) devotion
Beginning on, November 1st , at noon and continuing to Midnight, November 2nd , the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church to pray for the dead, reciting 6 times during the visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church, may gain: A plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory. This indulgence may also be gained from noon of the following Saturday until Sunday Midnight, but only by those who did not gain the indulgence on All Souls’ Day (Raccolta #590).

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A Catholic Life: Indulgences for the Faithful Departed

Merciful Lord, Jesus, grant them everlasting rest.
The faithful who devoutly recite the 129th Psalm, De Profundis or who say the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Eternal Rest, in supplication for the faithful departed, may gain an indulgence every day in November and a plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, if this pious practice is repeated daily for a month.
The
The faithful who devoutly offer prayers at any season of the year in intercession for the souls of the faithful departed, with the intention of so continuing for seven or nine successive days, may obtain a plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, if they perform these devotions daily for the entire month. (Pius IX – Jan. 5, 1849)
Those, who during the aforesaid month of November, take part in public services held in a church or public oratory in intercession for the faithful departed may gain a plenary indulgence, if they attend these exercises on at least fifteen days and, in addition, go to confession, receive Holy …

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Cardinal Cupich degrades the Mass - California …

Headline: "The liturgy must be “a school of peace” and “a project of solidarity”
subtitle: "The liturgy is not about God...." 😱

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Psalm 69:9
"For the zeal of Your House consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me."

Orthocat

Liberal modernist NCR {not supposed use term catholic} whines about "conservative younger priests. Blames John Paul II & Benedict XVI... Quote: "As a result of the papacies of John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI, it is not surprising that "over 70% of the youngest priests described themselves as either 'conservative/orthodox' or 'very conservative/orthodox,'... Once again, the theological views of younger priests are out of sync with their peers and with the Catholic population. Catholics tend to favor progressive views on married priests, gay marriage, Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics and the use of contraceptives."

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While out of sync with lay Catholics, conservative young priests are future of US church

Thirteen men being ordained to the priesthood during a May 25, 2024, Mass at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn., lie prostrate during the litany of saints. (OSV News file/The Catholic Spirit/Dave Hrbacek)
For decades, older priests have complained about conservative younger priests who have been coming out of seminaries in recent years, while those younger priests have complained about old liberal priests. The views of younger priests are especially important because they are the future of the American church. Us old guys are dying off.
"
The 2025 National Study of Catholic Priests," released this month by the Catholic Project of the Catholic University of America, gives us data on which to reflect as the church faces its future.
When priests were asked by the project to describe their political views, the responses show an increase in political conservatism among younger generations of priests. The change began in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected, and continued to grow …

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"Conservative Novus Ordo" does not mean anything Catholic.

Orthocat

It used to be that religion in general, and Christianity specifically, was seen as more appropriate for women whereas men lived in "the real world." For example: One running plot point of the old TV series The Waltons was the wife Olivia trying to convince her husband John to get baptized & right with God. Fast forward to today, and as reports come in that young men are increasingly drawn to the faith, women are spouting agnostic woke views. For instance: a pastor's wife is tattooed and opining on social media how all her former morality was brainwashing from organized religion!

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The Silent Exodus: Why So Many Young Women Are Turning Away From God

The Silent Exodus: Why So Many Young Women Are Turning Away From God
By PNW StaffOctober 23, 2025
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Something has shifted in the soul of a generation. Nearly four out of ten young women today--38% of Gen Z--say they have no faith at all. They identify as atheist, agnostic, or simply "nothing in particular." For the first time in modern history, young women are walking away from faith faster than men.
That statistic should shake us. For centuries, women have been the spiritual anchors of families and churches--the ones praying over children, organizing communities, and holding faith together when men walked away. Now, something in that moral fabric has frayed. A generation that once sang in youth groups now scrolls through endless feeds of influencers who preach self-love, not self-sacrifice; affirmation, not redemption.
The numbers are not abstract--they tell a human story. Only 58% of young women have prayed in the past week. Less than a …

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Isaiah 7:9
“Unless you stand firm in Me (God), you will not be steadfast.”

john333

The Picture says it all pants instead of dress

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Simply Saying the Novus Ordo in Latin Is NOT the Solution

In the wake of
Well-meant or not, this idea is an absolute non-starter, for several reasons.
First, the old and new missals have surprisingly little overlap. All one has to do is compare them side-by-side to see that both the Order of Mass and the Propers of the Mass are largely divergent. The classic article here is Matthew Hazell’s, demonstrating that only 13% of the orations of the old missal are found intact in the new one (and not 17%, the already-low figure at which Fr. Anthony Cekada had arrived, but which turns out on closer inspection to be too generous).
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As I demonstrate in
Novus Ordo and TLM Side-By-Side
An acquaintance of mine explained to her ten-year-old son, an avid altar server, that the local bishop, when he announced the end of the TLM, offered to substitute for it a Novus Ordo in Latin,
A virtuous man looks for a wife who is beautiful on the inside as well as on the outside, with the former — the internal character — valued most of all. He’s not interested
At the …

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P. O'B

Is this picture what Leo was referring to when he said, "Some forms of worship do not foster communion with others and can numb our hearts"? No, because here we have a cow, pigs, a donkey, what might be a horse, and presumably people all in communion with each other.

Orthocat

Today at morning Mass at my church [N.O.] we were treated to the "memorial" of "saint" John XXIII. The priest kept calling him "the Good Pope" which he claimed {I wouldn't know since I was a baby then} was what everybody called him. The priest further cited John XXIII's comment about being against the "prophets of doom" and instead called the (2nd Vatican) Council to dialogue with the world. I believe the Fatima Center has made a good case that John might have been referencing the 3rd Secret, wherein Our Lady warned of the consequences of ignoring the need for penance & consecrating Russia to her Immaculate Heart.

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The Curious Case of John XXIII

The Curious Case of John XXIII
Pope St. John XXIII was a pope of many surprises
Sometimes history looks a little more like spaghetti than a straight timeline of events. And the case of Pope John XXIII — and the case of the Johns before him — can be no different. I’m thinking of my brother who used to say, “History is the most boring subject. You’re living in the past!” Well, sometimes the past is more interesting than it looks.
Pope John XXIII was a pope of many surprises. I think it’s fairly well known that he was expected to be a “stop-gap” pope who wouldn’t really shake up things in his old age. Yet, as the Holy Spirit would have it, John XXIII was elected and quickly initiated the Second Vatican Council. His successor, Pope Paul VI — who would close the council — remarked that “this holy old boy doesn't realize what a hornet's nest he’s stirring up” according to George Weigel.
It gets better.
Oddly enough, that wasn’t the first hornet’s nest to do with a Pope John XXIII. …

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Volenti non fit iniuria.

Jeffrey Ade

What a bummer of a memorial! I also believe the Fatima Center. God bless you!

Orthocat

"Trad washed" 2025 Jubilee image

Here's something I got from a traditional apostolate. It looks like they revised the horrible Jubilee Year logo to be more palatable to faithful Catholics. Compare to original:

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Oh, my goodness, that original, official, logo shouts homosexual!! 🙏 🙏 🙏

Orthocat

"The text opens with Revelation and [the] Magnificat but lands, almost immediately, on the United Nations, Medellín, Aparecida, and “popular movements.” That arc gives the game away. Scripture supplies the epigraphs; the program comes from the sociology. The result is a document that speaks tenderly of almsgiving and the sick while catechizing the faithful into a theory of power, space, and class. If love for the poor is the hook, the line and sinker are political “structures of sin,” “dictatorship of an economy that kills”

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The Gospel According to Marx: Leo XIV’s ‘Dilexi Te’ and the Church of the Poor

The Gospel According to Marx: Leo XIV’s ‘Dilexi Te’ and the Church of the Poor
Leo XIV’s first exhortation promises a Church “close to the poor.” What it delivers is a baptized socialism where salvation sounds suspiciously like wealth redistribution.
The text opens with Revelation and Magnificat but lands, almost immediately, on the United Nations, Medellín, Aparecida, and “popular movements.” That arc gives the game away. Scripture supplies the epigraphs; the program comes from the sociology. The result is a document that speaks tenderly of almsgiving and the sick while catechizing the faithful into a theory of power, space, and class. If love for the poor is the hook, the line and sinker are political “structures of sin,” “dictatorship of an economy that kills,” and the Church as partner to movements that “make history.” The Fathers are canvassed, monasticism is enlisted, and Francis is effectively made co-author from beyond the grave. The poor are everywhere in the text, yet …

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Another great post by Ann Barnhardt. Loved this quote: "You have a “disciple” who doesn’t really believe in Jesus or what He says – he just pretends to because he thinks he can gain power and wealth by associating with Jesus for now. He’s just working the “Jesus angle”. But everything he is doing behind the scenes is working in direct opposition to Our Lord. Now, this “disciple” starts trying to appear pious and devout by pontificating that all wealth and resources should, by definition, be redistributed to “the poor”. But in truth, he is just a thief." 👏

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Repost by Request: Jesus Christ, Economist

(Antipope “FtR” Prevost belched forth a document today on “the poor” that is being described as something ghostwritten by a UN staffer who used an AI text generator. –AB ’25)
The weekend before His Passion, Jesus went and stayed with His friend Lazarus (whom He had raised from the dead) and Lazarus’ sisters Martha and Mary. Mary brought out a very expensive flask of ointment for the dead and applied it to Jesus’ feet with her hair. The whole house was filled with the sweet smell of that ointment. And guess who gets all mouthy about this? Yep. Judas Iscariot – who already was planning to sell out Jesus, and had been planning on cashing in on Him since the miracle of the loaves and fishes a few days earlier. Specifically, when Our Lord told the people that they must eat His Flesh and drink His Blood, and kept repeating it over and over and over again to be sure that everyone understood that He meant it literally, Judas (with urging from satan) decided that Our Lord was nuts and started …

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@Orthocat... I know that you are very pro-life, I just wish that Barnhardt was. By my count she has posted one prolife video by a speaker(not her) in the past 8 years. Even the post that you cite makes satire of abortion....."Stop obsessing about the baby killing. My friend and consultant Prof. John Schellnhuber says there are 6.5 BILLION too many of you".

"Every headline this week pointed to the same quiet apostasy: a Church that substitutes gesture for truth... Bishops who measure moral consistency by CNN talking points. Cardinals promising “integral ecology” while the ancient Mass is treated as ecological waste. It is the seamless garment once more, not as thread, but as solvent, dissolving distinctions, flattening doctrine, and catechizing confusion."

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The New Normal

The New Normal
How Rome’s new moral vocabulary replaces doctrine with optics and worship with theater
Every headline this week pointed to the same quiet apostasy: a Church that substitutes gesture for truth. Tears for corruption, but silence for idolatry. Pamphlets against Islamophobia released as Catholics are butchered in the Congo. Bishops who measure moral consistency by CNN talking points. Cardinals promising “integral ecology” while the ancient Mass is treated as ecological waste. It is the seamless garment once more, not as thread, but as solvent, dissolving distinctions, flattening doctrine, and catechizing confusion.
Tagle’s Tears for Corruption, Silence for Idolatry
Cardinal Tagle gave a heartfelt lament over corruption’s toll on the poor. Fine words. But listen closely. The homiletic pathos never seems to find its way to blasphemy in worship, doctrinal confusion in catechesis, or the ongoing immiseration of parish life under bureaucratic liturgical decrees. “Do we still …

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"If Rome prefers climate theater to the Kingship of Christ, then Rome will keep its theater. We will keep the Faith."

chris griffin

What about the 73 million babies murdered every year. Are they not worth a mention? Does anybody care? Why no outrage? Where is compassion?

christianpost.com

Altar boy goes into hiding, could face death penalty over false allegation

A Christian altar boy in Pakistan has gone into hiding and could face the death penalty after he was accused of posting content on Facebook that some Muslims found offensive. He has denied the allegations and claims his own uncle created a fake account in his name.
Religious freedom advocates are raising alarm about the case of Asher Bhatti, a resident of the Nishter neighborhood in Lahore, accused of blasphemy along with his uncle.
A police complaint was filed against Bhatti and his uncle, Samuel Paul, on Sept. 16 by a resident named Muhammad Umair, who alleges the “Asher Bhatti” Facebook account shared material that blasphemed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The complaint alleged that the content caused public outrage among the local Muslim population.
Umair seeks prosecution of Bhatti and his uncle under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s penal code, a provision of the blasphemy law that is punishable by the death penalty or life in prison.
Religious freedom advocates have long criticized …

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thanks for share it!! my great online friend, brother @Jeffrey Ade We are always outraged and firmly condemn the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by such vicious Islamic extremists... But what's funny here is that the stupid orthodox Catholics and Christians who support Trump, JD Vance, and the current Republicans are talking about their concerns about the situation in Syria, and I can't help but laugh at that. How ridiculous is it that Trump, whom these guys support so much, has lifted a large number of sanctions on Ahmed al-Shara, the leader of the Syrian Islamic extremists and interim president, and now the situation of the Syrian Christian community and religious minorities is getting worse, and they are completely silent about this? If we are always angry and vocal about the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by Islamic extremists, I am convinced that the same should be said about the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by …More

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This is what happens under Islam! Just imagine what would happen under Noahide. Oh yes, the Gaza Genocide!