
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
With the suspects of yesterday’s deadly terrorist attack on a French magazine still on the loose, experts around the world are asking the question – will France finally confront its increasingly threatening Muslim population?
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Paris police say masked gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” stormed the offices of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and gunned down 12 people in retaliation for publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
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A new poll has found that the new 114th Congress contains not a single atheist and only one member who says she is unaffiliated with any major religion.
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A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau has found that one in five young adults in America are living in poverty, the highest level ever recorded.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSTired of having his homilies interrupted by beeping cell phones, a priest in Italy has installed a jamming device that won't allow calls to get through to phones inside his church.
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During a moving speech to Iraqi Christians earlier this month, Prince Charles said he is worried that the world may be returning to the "dark ages of public executions" and warned people against sharing grisly beheading videos made by terrorists such as the Islamic State.
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Thousands of immigrants who are hoping the president's controversial new executive order on immigration will allow them to stay in the country may soon have those hopes dashed as a federal judge ruled against the president yesterday, accusing him of making an unconstitutional end-run around Congress in drawing up the new law.
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A new rule published by the U.S. Department of Labor which will implement an executive order signed by President Barack Obama this summer will not only forbid discrimination against the same-sex attracted but prohibits an employer's disapproval of this conduct.
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The District of Columbia City Council passed a bill this week that will repeal an exemption to a human rights bill that allowed religious schools to practice their faith as it pertains to homosexuality and will now force them to choose between their God and the government.
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You read the title right! A new advertising campaign for Coca-Cola's new "high end" milk product features naked women wearing nothing but milk, sparking an outcry from consumers around the world.
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