Indiana Bishop Suspends Priest for Criticizing Black Lives Matter
The bishop of Lafayette, Indiana, has suspended a priest from public ministry for penning an essay saying that Black Lives Matter had betrayed the civil rights legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass. Last week, Lafayette Bishop Timothy Doherty suspended Father Theodore Rothrock, the pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic parish “in the wake of Father Rothrock’s […]
Forbes Scrubs Climate Activist’s Apology Essay from Website
Forbes published an apology essay on Sunday by Michael Shellenberger, a former environmental activist, but for whatever reason — perhaps bowing to pressure from left-wingers on staff, or something else — the magazine has since removed it. In the op-ed, Shellenberger explained, “I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last […]
Annexation Will Probably Go Smoothly. The Problems Will Come Later.
The timing and scope of the plan is still uncertain, but when Israel announces its expected decision to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, the world’s attention will turn to the immediate impact. People who care about the region will be watching closely to see if Palestinians rise up in protest, if the Palestinian Authority […]
UK looks to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink after winning bid for bankrupt satellite company OneWeb
The U.K. government is set to try and take on Elon Musk’s Starlink after it was crowned the winning bidder of failed satellite company OneWeb at an auction in New York. Like Starlink, OneWeb is aiming to establish a satellite network that can beam high-speed, low latency internet to Earth. Founded in 2012, OneWeb raised around […]
France: Macron ousts security chief after police protests
French President Emmanuel Macron ousted his top security official Monday following protests over police brutality, as part of a government shakeup aimed at focusing on France’s post-pandemic economic recovery for the remaining two years of Macron’s term. The man named as France’s new interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, is facing a preliminary investigation into a rape […]
China Threatens to Blow up US Aircraft Carriers
The US sent two carrier groups to the South China Sea in a show of force intended to intimidate China in its aggressive takeover of a disputed archipelago. China responded by boasting of its “wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons”, claiming that the mega-warships operated “at the pleasure of the PLA [People’s Liberation Army]”. The response by […]
City in China issues a bubonic plague alert
Health officials from a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a bubonic plague warning on Sunday after a suspected case of the highly infectious disease known as the “Black Death” was revealed. The health committee of the city of Bayannur issued a third-level alert, the second-lowest category in a four-level system. The […]
Major power orders Christians: Renounce God or we’ll cut off food and housing
China’s communist government is warning elderly Christians that they will lose basic benefits if they don’t stop praticing their faith. Bitter Winter, the online magazine about religious liberty and human rights in China, reports the Communist Party is threatening “to take away the last means of survival from elderly believers,” the government benefits of “housing, food, […]