Government Corruption
As Christians throughout the United States celebrate Christmas, tens of millions of their fellow believers face intense persecution for their beliefs and could be endangered if they choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Last year, at least 365 million Christians were persecuted for faith, including thousands who were killed and nearly 300,000 who were displaced, according to persecution watchdog Open Doors. Open Doors, which puts out a top fifty watc
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Read MorePope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza.
“Let us pray for a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, the Holy Land, in all the Middle East and the entire world, at Christmas,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus address Sunday. “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”
The pope also called out
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Read MoreThe year 2024 was not a good one for Iran, which saw much of its proxy army across the Middle East decimated by Israel, its puppet dictator Bashar Assad ousted in Syria, and its old enemy Donald Trump return to the White House.
Iran’s year of disaster truly began on October 7, 2023, when its terrorist proxy Hamas perpetrated unspeakable atrocities against Israeli civilians and launched the Gaza war. Iran had spent decades, and billions of dollars in aid to terrorist groups, preparing for such a moment — only to watch helplessly as Israel dismantled first Hamas and then Hezbollah in Lebanon, acting with absolute determination despite frantic calls for a ceasefire at the United Nations.
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Read MoreChina’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced the assets of two Canadian human rights groups have been frozen in retaliation for their advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans.
The two Canadian entities affected by China’s sanctions are the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) and the Canada Tibet Committee. Twenty members of the two organizations were listed by name, 15 of them from URAP.
The regime in Beijing said both groups will be prohibited from doing business with Chinese organizations or individuals, and members of the Canadian groups will be barred from traveling to China, Hong Kong, or Macau.
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Read MoreChina is stepping up efforts to train African journalists in what analysts say is a bid to crank up its overseas propaganda operations and boost its ideological influence on the continent.
The Chinese Embassy in Nairobi recently invited around 70 reporters and editors from the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, or KBC, to a media course, participants told Voice of America’s Chinese Service.
“Journalists, you are the core of the media and the key factor in the media’s success in gathering information, shaping ideas and leading a country or nation in the right direction,” Zhang Zhizhong told the journalists at the start of the event.
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Read MoreFar-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro warned President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday that he will side with neighboring Panama “until the last consequences” should the United States take control of the Panama Canal.
Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 guerilla terrorist organization and the first leftist president in Colombia’s history, is known for issuing wild, often outrageous rants through his personal Twitter account.
The Colombian president took to social media on Sunday afternoon to criticize Trump amid the ongoing debate regarding the Panama Canal after the U.S.
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Read MoreThe ongoing collapse of Cuba caused by decades of disastrous communist policies has left a significant portion of the nation’s housing in a derelict state, posing a high risk to its impoverished inhabitants, who live in buildings that could collapse at any time.
Collapsing buildings are a recurring deadly problem for Cubans. The communist Castro regime, which controls housing and all other aspects of Cuban life, appears to have no interest in improving housing for its people nor in maintaining Cuba’s historic buildings, many of which are presently in a precarious state.
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Read MoreAs we head into a new year, it’s worth taking stock of Ontario’s economy, particularly in light of the potential consequences of a second Trump presidency. It wasn’t long ago that Ontario was an economic engine in Canada and one of the country’s most prosperous provinces. But things have changed dramatically. Ontario’s economy has largely stalled, and the province has become an economic laggard.
Indeed, at the turn of the 21st century Ontario was a prosperous province and per-person GDP (an important metric of prosperity and living standards) was more than 10 per cent higher than the rest of the country, and the second-highest among the provinces.
However, as noted in a recent study published by the Fraser Institute, from 2000 to 2022 (the latest year of available comparable data), economic growth in the rest of Canada has been more than twice as fast as in Ont
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Read MoreSharia Law is threatening Christian culture. We must protect our values this Christmas – Kwasi Kwarteng
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Read MoreA memo from Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs admits that the rise of ‘alternative’ news sources is not due to Russian interference, as some members of the Trudeau Cabinet have claimed, but likely reflects ‘decrease in trust among traditional outlets.’
he explosive growth of Canadians shifting to alternative non-legacy media to obtain their news is not due to Russian “bots,” as some in the government and left-wing media claim, but reflects people’s distrust of entrenched media outlets, at least one government agency admitted.
A memo titled Foreign Interference And Right Wing Politics: The Canadian Context from Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs said that the growth of so-called “alternative and far right ‘news sources’” is not due to Russian bots but is likely due to Canadians’ suspicion of “traditional outlets.”
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