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Wreaths Across America

It was a busy day at Arlington National Cemetery.

(ARLINGTON) - There was a total of 143,000 wreaths place in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, December 14, 2013. This is Section 60 and it took almost two hours to place the hand made wreaths from the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine.

Their mission is to Remember, Honor, Teach. They receive no government funding. The cost of our programs are paid by individual wreaths sponsors, corporate donors and volunteer truckers.

The Pope`s Nose For News And The Ascension of Charlie (Rose)

While the voices in South Africa paying homage to Nelson Mandela had scarcely fallen silent, while Edward Snowden was still trying to figure out Moscow's transit system, and while the Nobel Committee in Oslo was called into emergency session, the word went forth...

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Two days ago, a puff of white smoke emerged from the top of the Time Life building on the Avenue of The Americas in Manhattan, and the world went delirious with joy.

Time's managing editor, became the world's most famous media midwife with the coronation of the most humble Pope in 1700 years as the Magazine's Parson (make that Person) Of The Year.

The Islamists` Hijacking of Arab Hope

It was this tunnel vision which was responsible for turning the Libyan revolution into an anarchic forest of guns threatening the nation’s stability and the future of the Arab Maghreb.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - Long before the self-righteous Islamists turned genuine street grievances into violent movements, Egypt was the crown of the Arab Spring and Syria was the second best hope to reap the flowers of the spring.

Today, however, hope and optimism have been hijacked by pretentious religious demagogues and tunnel-visioned ideologues with a pedantic monopoly on God.

ISRAEL: Jewish Mom Makes Case for Intactivism

What kind of a state is this?! What is this? Where do we live? Could the Religious Court force upon me anything during the divorce? In particular, religious oppression, unnecessary cutting of the penis of a helpless baby?

(TEL AVIV) - “Help! I’m asking for the help of the public! I am a mother to a baby. The Rabbinical Court is forcing me to cut my year old son against my will (circumcise him) while subjecting me to heavy financial sanctions daily!

After my exposure to the information regarding circumcision, I refuse to mutilate my baby. I don’t have the right and I do not agree! He was born whole and he will stay whole! His integrity is his full right!

A Jew Argues for Child Rights Over Religious Circumcision

Censuring circumcision in Europe is about child protection, not anti-Semitism.

(TEL AVIV) - Circumcision without consent violates a person’s right to bodily integrity, a cornerstone of post-Holocaust human rights law.

Two years ago, in response to an article I wrote questioning circumcision, the British historian Geoffrey Alderman dedicated his column to my character assassination, describing me as “a leading anti-Jewish Jew of the younger generation.”

Kevin Annett: Pope Bergoglio flaunts UN Deadline on Child Trafficking as 30 Child Skeletons Discovered at B.C. Native School

Children's remains were just discovered in a mass grave on the grounds of a United Church residential school for native children in Port Alberni, B.C.

(VANCOUVER B.C.) - In an interview today with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Kevin Annett, field secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and State discusses how Pope Bergoglio is using the basic methods recommended by Machiavelli in flaunting a UN-imposed deadline for revealing Vatican-controlled data on child trafficking.

They have also been tightening up rules covering up child abuse in the Catholic Church.

Love for Jesus Can Bring Christians, Muslims Together

Muslims also love and revere Jesus as one of God's greatest messengers to mankind...

(WASHINGTON, DC) - “Behold! The angels said: ‘O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him. His name will be Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and the Hereafter and in (the company of) those nearest to God.’”

Before searching for this quote in the New Testament, you might first ask your Muslim co-worker, friend or neighbor for a copy of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text. The quote is from verse 45 of chapter 3 in the Quran.

Nativity

The quiet flakes blessed us with memory, like a benediction, and settled in love on the whole of creation, even on the unmarked graves of the forgotten children up at the old Indian residential school.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The last Christmas we were all together hangs over memory like the fog that year in the Alberni Valley.

It was a time of gathering, two years and more of labor summoning so many together where once there were but a few. And it was a time of ending.

Come Clean, Jorge: An Open Letter to the Bishop of Rome (aka `Pope Francis`) from Kevin Annett Dispatched December 6, 2013

Call no man on earth your Father, for you have only one father, who is in heaven. - Matthew 23:9
Above everything, any successful ruler must appear to be religious. - Nicolo Machiavelli

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - That dumb little smirk of yours is really starting to bug me, Jorge.

Like, so what if you're the CEO of the richest corporation on the planet? I don't care how many media moguls adore your ass. Try some decorum, man. Consider the lilies of the field, or something.

Why Pope Francis Will Not Change the Catholic Church

Alliances of Catholic activists are attempting to convince Pope Francis that four Papal doctrines are unjust in light of new understandings, and should be changed. Vatican apologists believe that to change would require historical evidence that Papal Infallibility was an ancient error.

(NEW YORK) - The election of Pope Francis has been welcomed with excitement and hope by faithful Catholics, both liberal and conservative, who seek change in our troubled Church.

This first Pope from the Americas is from Argentina, a humble man who identifies himself with the downtrodden, he proudly says “My people are poor and I am one of them”, a different view than would be expected from the Vatican hierarchy, bringing about hope for positive change among Catholics.