This school year, colleges and universities across the country will be offering courses on “queering” children, the Bible, and theology in general. Pomona College, for instance, will offer a course arguing that “the figure of the Child” is used to “justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness.” Courses on “queer theologies,” meanwhile,…
Reports in from Venezuela that starving people in that country, the beneficiaries of those glories of Bolivarian socialism, are now breaking into the zoos and butchering the animals in order to be able to eat them. We have seen this before of course, but when the Parisians did it they did actually have the excuse…
A Syrian boy rides his bicycle amid the rubble of destroyed buildings being removed by a bulldozer in Harasta, on the outskirt of the Syrian capital Damascus on July 15, 2018 LOUAI BESHARA (AFP) In April, reports emerged US was looking to build an Arab force to replace its troops in northeastern Syria Saudi Arabia on…
The German Interior Ministry has announced it has reached a deal that will allow it to return asylum-seekers to Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez agreed to a similar compromise last week. The German Interior Ministry said it had reached an agreement with Greece on Friday that will see it send back certain asylum…
The Vatican has finally broken its silence on the “predator priests” grand jury report, saying the church is on the side of the victims. “Those acts were betrayals of trust that robbed survivors of their dignity and faith,” said Vatican spokesman Greg Burke. “Victims should know that the pope is on their side,” Burke added….
British Union flags also incinerated in huge bonfire in Derry, in an event deemed a ‘hate crime’ by police. British and Israeli flags on a bonfire that was later set ablaze on August 15, 2018 in Derry, Northern Ireland. (Screenshot: Twitter) Israeli flags were burned Wednesday in Northern Ireland, along with various other flags, as…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been an outspoken critic of President Trump’s immigration policies. But in a speech in 2009, Schumer espoused views against illegal immigration that sound strikingly similar to what President Trump has said since 2015. Speaking at an immigration policy conference at Georgetown Law, Schumer said, “Illegal immigration is wrong,…
The German Cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft bill that would add a third gender option to official identity records. The bill allows intersexual people to register their gender as “divers,” which translates roughly to “miscellaneous” or “other,” and would come into force by the end of the year. Until now, people in a similar situation could only…
Testimony from dozens of witnesses and half a million pages of internal church documents contained credible allegations against more than 300 predator priests JEWEL SAMAD (AFP/File) A sweeping grand jury report uncovered credible allegations Tuesday against more than 300 predator priests and identified over 1,000 victims of child sex abuse covered up for decades by the…