A Catholic priest who was setting up a monastery in Gassanieh, Syria was seized by Islamic extremist rebels last Sunday and executed.
The Vatican confirmed over the weekend that Islamists beheaded Father Francois Murad. According to the Catholic news service, the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra front was behind the savage murder. Continue reading
A fast moving wildfire has taken the lives of at least 19 firefighters in an area 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, Arizona.
According to officials on the scene, members of the “Prescott Granite Mountain Hotshots” were on the front lines of the fire when somehow there was a shift that trapped the firefighters in the middle of the flames. Continue reading
A mother and her two daughters, one only 17, were killed by the woman’s stepson after he saw a video of the daughters laughing on the front porch of their home.
The stepson considered it to be a violation of the family’s honor to have the two young women laughing with small children outside the home. The killer belongs to a sect of Islam where women are not allowed to be seen anywhere except by male relatives.
The BBC found mobile phone footage of the women smiling and laughing in the rain outside the family home with young girls. Apparently an audio recording was also found where one of the young women accepted a gift from an admirer.
The killings came in the same region where last year five young women and two men were brutally murdered after a video was found of them singing and dancing at a wedding.
Human rights advocates say that at least 900 women are killed a year in that region in Muslim “honor killings”.
The Republic of Ireland has reported that in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013 a decline in business and services. The two consecutive declines means the economy is officially back in recession.
Preliminary estimates show the country’s GDP was down .6% in the first quarter of 2013. Continue reading
A homicide bomber detonated his device near a church in the Christian quarter of Damascus in a terror attack aimed at killing Christians.
Rebel sources confirmed four people dead in the attack in the Bab Sharqi. The apparently target of the terrorist was the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox church. Neighboring shops were also damaged in the attack. Continue reading
Central Washington was shaken Wednesday night by a 4.3 magnitude earthquake.
“Wiggle, jiggle and shake with a popping sound that sounded like someone slapped the house,” Chris Millsap of Manson told KGW. Continue reading
A report released today by the Department of Energy’s inspector general says that an earthquake could destroy the building at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that produces the plutonium cores of nuclear weapons.
In the event of a collapse, deadly levels of radiation would be released into the air. Continue reading
Rivers from North Dakota to St. Louis are being issued flood warnings after a series of heavy thunderstorms dumped significant rainfall across the upper Midwest Wednesday.
The National Weather Service said more than 5 inches of rain fell in many areas and it was likely to have more rain through the night Wednesday into Thursday. However, local officials in parts of North Dakota reported 8 inches of rain and Iowa officials reported up to 7 inches. Continue reading
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation was dealt a blow by a federal judge who denied their demand that a statue of Jesus be removed from a government plot in Montana.
The statue of Christ, part of a monument built to honor World War II soldiers, is located in the Big Mountain ski resort in Whitefish, Montana. The anti-Christians said that the simple existence of the statue constitutes government endorsement of Christianity. Continue reading
Democrat Texas Senator Wendy Davis tried to stop a vote on a Texas abortion law that passed the House by a large margin and seemed to fail when 15 minutes before midnight she was found to have violated the rules of a filibuster.
But pro-abortion advocates then screamed and yelled for half an hour to keep the Texas Senate from being able to carry out their duties as elected officials causing the bill to die because it was not voted on before the midnight deadline. Continue reading