lifesitenews--2020-06-12--WATCH: Viral video shows pregnant mom astonished at preborn baby ‘literally standing’ in her womb

June 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A video showing a pregnant mother 's surprise and delight at her preborn baby clearly pushing up on her tummy has resurfaced and is circulating on social media .
The video shows a mother in her ninth month of pregnancy , Nami Cho , as her baby pushes against her tummy .
The 24-year-old mother was pregnant with her third child .
The young mother marveled as her baby moved around in her womb .
“ She ’ s literally standing , ” Nami said in the video .
“ What are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unborn daughter , caressing her baby bump .
Nami felt her baby ’ s feet pushing against her womb .
“ The baby is stretching out her legs and we have a baby standing in ( the ) womb , ” she said .
Nami , surprised by her baby ’ s actions , called for her family who came to share in the joy and wonder caused by the baby pushing against her tummy .
An earlier video , when Nami was six-months pregnant , showed the unborn baby kicking and moving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nami and her family marveled at her baby ’ s activity .
When the video was posted on YouTube in July 2019 , it received over half a million views .
On June 10 , 2020 , the national director of Priests for Life , Fr .
Frank Pavone , posted the video on twitter showing the active personality of the unborn baby .
“ Beautiful viral video of an UNBORN baby standing in her mother 's womb !
” Fr .
Frank Pavone tweeted .
“ What is significant about this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said to LifeSiteNews .
“ Is that it allows us to touch the humanity of the unborn child , and that is the key to solving the abortion problem.
” “ It ’ s not simply an abstract or conceptual debate , ” he continued .
“ It ’ s about discovering and rediscovering the physical , human reality of these children whom we seek to protect .
Their behavior , like stretching , yawning , and standing up , even from the womb , reminds us that they are one of us.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ us – including those in this video -- know that conceptually , ” he explained .
“ But see how those in the video react with wonder and delight when what they already know manifests itself as they see and feel the baby standing up .
It ’ s that deeper level of ‘ knowing , ’ and that wonder and awe , that we need everyone to experience , as we build the culture of life , ” Pavone said .
The birth of Nami ’ s baby was shown in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nami and her husband , Michael , went to the hospital early the morning of July 9 for Nami ’ s third cesarian section .
“ I ’ m so excited and nervous at the same time , ” Nami said on the drive to the hospital .
“ She ’ s going to be so small and cute.
” The baby was welcomed into the world later that day at the North York General Hospital .
When the little baby girl , named Mina , was given to her mother for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the joy of the mother seeing her baby after carrying her for nine months .
“ She has dimples , ” Nami said , caressing her tiny daughter ’ s face .
The baby slept with her mother before being introduced to her two brothers , Galahad and Ziek .
While most babies learn to lift their heads at the age of two months , Mina accomplished this feat at only one month of age ; it appears she has continued to develop the active personality she so clearly displayed in the womb @

‘She’s literally standing,’ the young mother marveled as her baby actively moved around in her womb
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June 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A video showing a pregnant mother's surprise and delight at her preborn baby clearly pushing up on her tummy has resurfaced and is circulating on social media.
The video shows a mother in her ninth month of pregnancy, Nami Cho, as her baby pushes against her tummy. The 24-year-old mother was pregnant with her third child. The young mother marveled as her baby moved around in her womb.
“She’s literally standing,” Nami said in the video. “What are you doing?” she asked her unborn daughter, caressing her baby bump. Nami felt her baby’s feet pushing against her womb. “The baby is stretching out her legs and we have a baby standing in (the) womb,” she said.
Nami, surprised by her baby’s actions, called for her family who came to share in the joy and wonder caused by the baby pushing against her tummy.
An earlier video, when Nami was six-months pregnant, showed the unborn baby kicking and moving around in her mother’s womb. Nami and her family marveled at her baby’s activity.
When the video was posted on YouTube in July 2019, it received over half a million views. On June 10, 2020, the national director of Priests for Life, Fr. Frank Pavone, posted the video on twitter showing the active personality of the unborn baby.
“Beautiful viral video of an UNBORN baby standing in her mother's womb!” Fr. Frank Pavone tweeted.
Beautiful viral video of an UNBORN baby standing in her mother's womb! #WednesdayWisdom #prolife pic.twitter.com/JFRcToBC20 — Fr. Frank Pavone ���� (Text LIFE to 88022) (@frfrankpavone) June 10, 2020
“What is significant about this video,” Fr. Frank Pavone said to LifeSiteNews. “Is that it allows us to touch the humanity of the unborn child, and that is the key to solving the abortion problem.”
“It’s not simply an abstract or conceptual debate,” he continued. “It’s about discovering and rediscovering the physical, human reality of these children whom we seek to protect. Their behavior, like stretching, yawning, and standing up, even from the womb, reminds us that they are one of us.”
“Now just about all of us – including those in this video — know that conceptually,” he explained. “But see how those in the video react with wonder and delight when what they already know manifests itself as they see and feel the baby standing up. It’s that deeper level of ‘knowing,’ and that wonder and awe, that we need everyone to experience, as we build the culture of life,” Pavone said.
The birth of Nami’s baby was shown in a vlog posted on July 12, 2019. Nami and her husband, Michael, went to the hospital early the morning of July 9 for Nami’s third cesarian section.
“I’m so excited and nervous at the same time,” Nami said on the drive to the hospital. “She’s going to be so small and cute.”
The baby was welcomed into the world later that day at the North York General Hospital. When the little baby girl, named Mina, was given to her mother for the first time, the camera captured the joy of the mother seeing her baby after carrying her for nine months.
“She has dimples,” Nami said, caressing her tiny daughter’s face. The baby slept with her mother before being introduced to her two brothers, Galahad and Ziek.
While most babies learn to lift their heads at the age of two months, Mina accomplished this feat at only one month of age; it appears she has continued to develop the active personality she so clearly displayed in the womb.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-13--Globalist elites to gather in Swiss resort town to plan post-COVID ‘Great Reset’

June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — “ Nothing will ever be the same again.
” It was the mantra that we heard in many countries at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic .
It came with a warning that a “ new normal ” would replace the existing order .
Easy travel , interpersonal relations , large gatherings , even things like shaking hands would have to give way to long-term social distancing , drastic rules , and surveillance .
But these changes on the personal level are only a part of the picture .
The World Economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ England and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , has launched an initiative revealingly dubbed “ The Great Reset , ” with the objective of “ rebuilding ” the world ’ s economic and social system in order to make it more “ sustainable.
” The idea has received the full support of the U.N. secretary general , António Guterres , former president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005 .
Technically , a reset is a re-initialization : in the language of our digital era , it means erasing all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and formatting it anew in view of a fresh start .
Transposed to human activity , a reset means a revolution : a deep transformation of all that is done , thought , or believed — making a clean break with the past .
For many decades , the World Economic Forum , founded by Prof Klaus Schwab in 1971 , has been getting heads of state , billionaires , and heads of big business together yearly in order to reflect on economical and governance issues and work toward a common end : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to supersede national sovereign decisions , promoting nondiscrimination , “ to transform economies and societies.
” For a long time , its yearly meetings in Davos were held discreetly , even secretively .
This has slowly changed , as the WEForum ’ s objectives have become more mainstream : its main meetings , schedules , and list of participants are now available online even though it is widely said that many talks and decisions of the mighty take place after official hours .
But the 2021 edition promises to be quite different .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Swiss skiing resort town of Davos as usual — and no one enters Davos at that time of year without an official invitation to the Forum — this time , there will be global online participation for a virtual forum including many “ stakeholders ” and young people who will be told they will have a determining voice for the world to come .
Some would call that “ group dynamics.
” Over the months running up to the January Davos meeting , “ The Great Reset Dialogues ” will prepare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promises to be well worth watching by those who want to know how the globalists of the World Economic Forum want to reshape the future .
And , yes , they can be called “ globalists ” because that is how the Initiative ’ s present ambassadors are portraying themselves .
An example ?
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed .
He said : “ I consider this painful global pandemic to be a complex , adaptive challenge .
In a connected and interdependent world , a complex and adaptive challenge can not be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can only be addressed through ... collective action and global cooperation.
” This fits in neatly with António Guterres ’ s wish that 10 percent of the Earth ’ s GDP be used internationally to respond to the economic and sanitary fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic , with “ global ” solutions in view of “ rebirthing ” society .
Looking at WEForum ’ s Great Reset Initiative that grew out of the COVID Action Platform , it appears that most of the chips are already down .
The “ green economy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inequalities , ” “ stakeholder capitalism , ” and “ sustainable development goals ” ( as in the U.N. ’ s “ SDGs ” ) are the recurring terms in WEForum ’ s articles presenting the Initiative .
None of these is new or original ; in fact , the main thing that has modified the situation is the pandemic , which is being used as a driver for change .
How ?
Through the global economic crash that accompanied it “ thanks ” to lockdown .
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As for the Reset itself , it was already being talked about before the Chinese coronavirus was moving out of Wuhan .
On December 30 , 2019 , for instance , the Financial Times published a YouTube presentation under the title “ Why capitalism needs to be reset in 2020.
” Here the recurring theme is “ stakeholder capitalism , ” by which “ a company ’ s approach to people , the planet , and innovation — including how it protects and applies the value added of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital-allocation decisions ” ( as the WEForum site explains ) .
Presenting the Great Reset Initiative of which he is one of the main leaders , Prince Charles seemed quite pleased with the situation : “ We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis .
Its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change , ” he said .
Key quotes from the virtual online meeting .
during which World Economic Forum president Prof. Klaus Schwab , Prince Charles , and several others presented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such remarks .
Noting that “ climate change ” was a much greater danger than the coronavirus pandemic , Prince Charles hoped for a “ green recovery ” : “ It ’ s an opportunity we ’ ve never had before and may never have again , ” he said .
Considering our planet almost as a person , he said : “ Our activities have been damaging her immune system.
” Schwab called the present situation a “ unique window of opportunity.
” We must “ build a new social contract , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change our mindsets ” and our “ lifestyles , ” he also remarked .
Will this be a remake of the French Revolution that held , with Jean-Jacques Rousseau , that man is born naturally good and corrupted by society , and that society must result from a “ social contract ” in which laws and moral norms are not the expression of divine law , but of the will of the majority ?
History has shown that revolutions built on that premise end in tyranny .
One of the major objectives of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reducing inequalities , ” which in everyday terms means “ redistributing wealth.
” This idea takes for granted that inequality is evil of itself .
Speaking during the virtual Great Reset meeting , Guterres said the COVID-19 crisis should lead to a response to “ unsustainable levels of inequality and the lawlessness of cyberspace.
” Carbon taxing and “ renewable energy ” are also high on the Great Reset agenda .
Guterres quoted the need to “ advance towards zero emissions ” and implement the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socialist mindset and eco-radicalism , advocate “ for universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights , ” U.N. jargon that includes contraception and abortion — not least because the human population is seen as nature ’ s and “ biodiversity ’ s ” main enemy .
The IMF ’ s managing director , Kristalina Georgieva , who grew up in Communist Bulgaria , promoted the same “ green ” approach .
While the IMF is providing emergency assistance that is expected to run up to 100 billion dollars , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a smaller economy at the end of 2020 than they started out with at the beginning of the year , Georgieva stated : In other words , financial assistance must be used and distributed in order to favor ecologically correct enterprises .
She added that there must be “ low carbon incentives , ” taking “ advantage of low oil prices ” to add “ a carbon price as an incentive.
” “ We need a Great Reset , not a great reversal , ” she concluded .
Perhaps the most noteworthy speaker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reset was Ma Jun , of ( Communist ) China ’ s Green Finance Committee .
He is also special adviser to the governor of the Chinese Communist Party–controlled People ’ s Bank of China and was presented before his talk at the virtual launch of the Great Reset as an “ NPC member.
” “ NPC ” stands for the National People ’ s Congress , which in theory is the highest political authority in China , where , however , president Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party reign supreme .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be “ greener than any of the previous recoveries , ” through the financing of “ green projects ” that must be “ higher than any time in history.
” Ma also said “ Consumption stimulus needs to be green .
Governments could make a list of green consumer goods and these should be given preference on list of consumer subsidies and coupons.
” Noting that migrant workers have lost jobs in China , he added : “ Instead of paying them unemployment benefits , we should ask them to plant trees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ non green projects , ” Ma Jun proclaimed , they should be subject to “ new regulations ” obliging them to meet “ strict environmental standards ” and be made to “ release information ” about their compliance “ on a mandatory basis.
” Remember that these recommendations were being made by Ma Jun not for China alone ( which is the world ’ s largest carbon-emitter , with new coal plants planned for building up to 2030 ) , but for the whole world .
He was in fact echoing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( formerly British Petroleum ) ’ s CEO , who said earlier , “ Any recovery stimulus should have green conditions attached.
” This would mean allowing non-compliant businesses to die after having been badly wounded by lockdown .
Looney also admires China : “ Chinese recovery could engine us out of the crisis , ” he said .
Moving back to the World Economic Forum ’ s publications on the COVID-19 crisis and the proper way out of it , we must not forget that gender ideology is also part of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John Miller titled “ Great Reset : Why LGBT+ inclusion is the secret to cities ' post-pandemic success , ” weforum.org claimed that “ a strong positive correlation exists between LGBT+ inclusion and economic resilience.
” “ In particular , cities that embrace diversity may reap an ‘ inclusion dividend ’ as they begin to rebuild their economies , ” it went on to say .
While the crisis is “ threatening to roll back decades of progress in the fight against poverty , ” it said that “ LGBT inclusion ” will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Open for Business , ” a coalition of companies that promote “ LGBT+ equality.
” “ This is a significant finding : a one-point increase in social acceptance suggests a three-point increase in that economy ’ s economic resilience index , even when controlling for GDP per capita .
Could LGBT+ inclusion be a secret ingredient for economic resilience ?
, ” wrote John Miller .
He suggested that “ openness ” and “ innovation ” are linked to the acceptance of homosexual and trans lifestyles .
“ Now is the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stigmatizing them .
Creating inclusive societies isn ’ t just the right thing to do ; as the evidence shows , it ’ s an important part of an economic strategy focused on resilience and recovery : ” Miller ’ s conclusion is also a clear indicator of what the COVID-19 crisis is being used to promote .

The objective is 'rebuilding' the world's economic and social system in order to make it more 'sustainable.'
June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — “Nothing will ever be the same again.” It was the mantra that we heard in many countries at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It came with a warning that a “new normal” would replace the existing order. Easy travel, interpersonal relations, large gatherings, even things like shaking hands would have to give way to long-term social distancing, drastic rules, and surveillance. But these changes on the personal level are only a part of the picture. The World Economic Forum, together with Prince Charles of England and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has launched an initiative revealingly dubbed “The Great Reset,” with the objective of “rebuilding” the world’s economic and social system in order to make it more “sustainable.”
The idea has received the full support of the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, former president of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005.
Technically, a reset is a re-initialization: in the language of our digital era, it means erasing all hardware and data on a hard disk and formatting it anew in view of a fresh start. Transposed to human activity, a reset means a revolution: a deep transformation of all that is done, thought, or believed — making a clean break with the past.
For many decades, the World Economic Forum, founded by Prof Klaus Schwab in 1971, has been getting heads of state, billionaires, and heads of big business together yearly in order to reflect on economical and governance issues and work toward a common end: free global trade, common world rules to supersede national sovereign decisions, promoting nondiscrimination, “to transform economies and societies.”
For a long time, its yearly meetings in Davos were held discreetly, even secretively. This has slowly changed, as the WEForum’s objectives have become more mainstream: its main meetings, schedules, and list of participants are now available online even though it is widely said that many talks and decisions of the mighty take place after official hours.
But the 2021 edition promises to be quite different. While a physical meeting will be held in the Swiss skiing resort town of Davos as usual — and no one enters Davos at that time of year without an official invitation to the Forum — this time, there will be global online participation for a virtual forum including many “stakeholders” and young people who will be told they will have a determining voice for the world to come. Some would call that “group dynamics.”
Over the months running up to the January Davos meeting, “The Great Reset Dialogues” will prepare the event in an online series that promises to be well worth watching by those who want to know how the globalists of the World Economic Forum want to reshape the future. And, yes, they can be called “globalists” because that is how the Initiative’s present ambassadors are portraying themselves.
An example? Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. He said: “I consider this painful global pandemic to be a complex, adaptive challenge. In a connected and interdependent world, a complex and adaptive challenge cannot be solved by individual countries alone — it can only be addressed through … collective action and global cooperation.”
This fits in neatly with António Guterres’s wish that 10 percent of the Earth’s GDP be used internationally to respond to the economic and sanitary fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, with “global” solutions in view of “rebirthing” society.
Looking at WEForum’s Great Reset Initiative that grew out of the COVID Action Platform, it appears that most of the chips are already down. The “green economy,” “de-carbonizing,” “fighting inequalities,” “stakeholder capitalism,” and “sustainable development goals” (as in the U.N.’s “SDGs”) are the recurring terms in WEForum’s articles presenting the Initiative. None of these is new or original; in fact, the main thing that has modified the situation is the pandemic, which is being used as a driver for change. How? Through the global economic crash that accompanied it “thanks” to lockdown.
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As for the Reset itself, it was already being talked about before the Chinese coronavirus was moving out of Wuhan. On December 30, 2019, for instance, the Financial Times published a YouTube presentation under the title “Why capitalism needs to be reset in 2020.” Here the recurring theme is “stakeholder capitalism,” by which “a company’s approach to people, the planet, and innovation — including how it protects and applies the value added of its data — must figure more prominently in capital-allocation decisions” (as the WEForum site explains).
Presenting the Great Reset Initiative of which he is one of the main leaders, Prince Charles seemed quite pleased with the situation: “We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis. Its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change,” he said.
Key quotes from the virtual online meeting. during which World Economic Forum president Prof. Klaus Schwab, Prince Charles, and several others presented the Great Reset Initiative, included many such remarks.
Noting that “climate change” was a much greater danger than the coronavirus pandemic, Prince Charles hoped for a “green recovery”: “It’s an opportunity we’ve never had before and may never have again,” he said. Considering our planet almost as a person, he said: “Our activities have been damaging her immune system.”
Schwab called the present situation a “unique window of opportunity.” We must “build a new social contract,” he said. “We must change our mindsets” and our “lifestyles,” he also remarked.
Will this be a remake of the French Revolution that held, with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that man is born naturally good and corrupted by society, and that society must result from a “social contract” in which laws and moral norms are not the expression of divine law, but of the will of the majority? History has shown that revolutions built on that premise end in tyranny.
One of the major objectives of the “Great Reset” is “reducing inequalities,” which in everyday terms means “redistributing wealth.” This idea takes for granted that inequality is evil of itself. Speaking during the virtual Great Reset meeting, Guterres said the COVID-19 crisis should lead to a response to “unsustainable levels of inequality and the lawlessness of cyberspace.”
Carbon taxing and “renewable energy” are also high on the Great Reset agenda. Guterres quoted the need to “advance towards zero emissions” and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the U.N. These SDGs, with their socialist mindset and eco-radicalism, advocate “for universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights,” U.N. jargon that includes contraception and abortion — not least because the human population is seen as nature’s and “biodiversity’s” main enemy.
The IMF’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, who grew up in Communist Bulgaria, promoted the same “green” approach. While the IMF is providing emergency assistance that is expected to run up to 100 billion dollars, with “170 countries” expected to have a smaller economy at the end of 2020 than they started out with at the beginning of the year, Georgieva stated:
We see a very massive injection of fiscal stimulus[.] … But it is paramount that this should lead to a greener, fairer, smarter world in the future.
In other words, financial assistance must be used and distributed in order to favor ecologically correct enterprises. She added that there must be “low carbon incentives,” taking “advantage of low oil prices” to add “a carbon price as an incentive.” “We need a Great Reset, not a great reversal,” she concluded.
Perhaps the most noteworthy speaker at the virtual launch of the Great Reset was Ma Jun, of (Communist) China’s Green Finance Committee. He is also special adviser to the governor of the Chinese Communist Party–controlled People’s Bank of China and was presented before his talk at the virtual launch of the Great Reset as an “NPC member.” “NPC” stands for the National People’s Congress, which in theory is the highest political authority in China, where, however, president Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party reign supreme.
Ma Jun insisted that the post-COVID recovery must be “greener than any of the previous recoveries,” through the financing of “green projects” that must be “higher than any time in history.”
Ma also said “Consumption stimulus needs to be green. Governments could make a list of green consumer goods and these should be given preference on list of consumer subsidies and coupons.”
Noting that migrant workers have lost jobs in China, he added: “Instead of paying them unemployment benefits, we should ask them to plant trees and pay them for that.”
As to “non green projects,” Ma Jun proclaimed, they should be subject to “new regulations” obliging them to meet “strict environmental standards” and be made to “release information” about their compliance “on a mandatory basis.”
Remember that these recommendations were being made by Ma Jun not for China alone (which is the world’s largest carbon-emitter, with new coal plants planned for building up to 2030), but for the whole world.
He was in fact echoing the wish of Bernard Looney, BP (formerly British Petroleum)’s CEO, who said earlier, “Any recovery stimulus should have green conditions attached.” This would mean allowing non-compliant businesses to die after having been badly wounded by lockdown.
Looney also admires China: “Chinese recovery could engine us out of the crisis,” he said.
Moving back to the World Economic Forum’s publications on the COVID-19 crisis and the proper way out of it, we must not forget that gender ideology is also part of the ecological-socialist package. In an op-ed by John Miller titled “Great Reset: Why LGBT+ inclusion is the secret to cities' post-pandemic success,” weforum.org claimed that “a strong positive correlation exists between LGBT+ inclusion and economic resilience.” “In particular, cities that embrace diversity may reap an ‘inclusion dividend’ as they begin to rebuild their economies,” it went on to say.
While the crisis is “threatening to roll back decades of progress in the fight against poverty,” it said that “LGBT inclusion” will allow to recover more rapidly according to “Open for Business,” a coalition of companies that promote “LGBT+ equality.”
“This is a significant finding: a one-point increase in social acceptance suggests a three-point increase in that economy’s economic resilience index, even when controlling for GDP per capita. Could LGBT+ inclusion be a secret ingredient for economic resilience?,” wrote John Miller. He suggested that “openness” and “innovation” are linked to the acceptance of homosexual and trans lifestyles.
“Now is the time to be embracing LGBT+ communities, not stigmatizing them. Creating inclusive societies isn’t just the right thing to do; as the evidence shows, it’s an important part of an economic strategy focused on resilience and recovery:” Miller’s conclusion is also a clear indicator of what the COVID-19 crisis is being used to promote.
Follow Jeanne Jeanne Smits has worked as a journalist in France since 1987 after obtaining a Master of Arts in Law. She formerly directed the French daily Présent and was editor-in-chief of an all-internet French-speaking news site called reinformation.tv. She writes regularly for a number of Catholic journals (Monde & vie, L’Homme nouveau, Reconquête…) and runs a personal pro-life blog. In addition, she is often invited to radio and TV shows on alternative media. She is vice-president of the Christian and French defense association “AGRIF.” She is the French translator of The Dictator Pope by Henry Sire and Christus Vincit by Bishop Schneider, and recently contributed to the Bref examen critique de la communion dans la main about Communion in the hand. She is married and has three children, and lives near Paris.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Black Christians tell white preacher how to combat racism while not bowing down to radical BLM movem

Black Christians tell white preacher how to combat racism while not bowing down to radical BLM movement

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No to riots & revolution !
Sign the petition here .
June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – One of the great benefits of hosting a daily talk radio show for the last 12 years is that you learn a lot from your callers , gaining new and different perspectives .
That ’ s why I regularly solicit input from my social media audiences as well .
This way , we can learn from each other instead of passing each other like ships in the night .
In that spirit , on June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AskDrBrown Facebook page : To my black brothers and sisters in Jesus , please share your thoughts with your white brothers and sisters here , as part of the same family and one together in Jesus .
If you 've been following my articles and broadcasts , you know I take strong exception to the BLM movement because of its radical social agenda , and I refuse to bow my knee to mobocracy.At the same time , I absolutely want to show my solidarity to my black friends in times of pain and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an ally to combat racism wherever we find it .
But I have friends of mine who are pastors and are finding this a very difficult line to walk , since their rejection of the BLM movement and the mob mentality is being perceived as a lack of solidarity in standing against injustice .
So , what would you say to your white friends who stand with you against racism and injustice but will not bow down to the BLM movement ?
Thanks for your input and your solidarity as we stand united @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we received almost 800 comments , so I could barely begin to share some of the excellent feedback .
And comments like this one ( which merited deletion ) were extremely rare : “ I would say you are a racist and good riddance .
You are no longer a valid participant in my life .
It ’ s quite apparent you are ignorant beyond belief and it is not my job to educate you .
FYI you saying you stand with me and not back BLM says you don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ # canceled ” So much for reaching out !
But overwhelmingly , the comments were very useful , leading to helpful , interracial discussion .
Many expressed appreciation that I took the time to hear the hearts of those who are hurting .
When white Christians deny the ongoing issues of racism in America , that only adds to the pain .
Others were glad that my colleagues and I had not bowed down to radical political ideologies .
At the same time , they urged , “ Let your statement that black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the BLM movement.
” Still others pointed to our unity in Jesus and our need to work together for the betterment of our country , urging us to Christian deeds of compassion .
Samuel said , “ Simply speak out against injustice .
Preachers who preach the Bible properly and understand social issues should already be doing this.
” Shaniqua noted that , “ We should always handle sin issues with Jesus as the cure , because he is the only cure.
” And Derrick offered this plea : “ Stop worrying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t support the liberal component … but right now … right now … the MAJOR issue is racial injustice & police brutality … stop looking around and focus on the main issue please .
Black folk are TIRED ... of trying to explain the frustration of seeing OVER 400 years of abuse … please brothers & sisters in Christ ... listen and don ’ t be easily offended as scripture says … and help people that are around you .
Speak up when off color remarks are made .
We will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … the time now … calls for listening , mourning & understanding of the black experience in America … not focusing on groups who don ’ t hold biblical views anyway.
” This just gives us a glimpse of some of the feedback , which I encourage you to read for yourself .
But I ’ ll end with a lengthy comment from Terrence , who captured a lot of the key ideas .
He wrote : “ # 1 .
When 99 % of the black people I know say BLM we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ formed a few years ago in response to one killing ; which seems to be the consensus thought of many white people .
“ Talk to 100 black people and realize that BLM is the IDEA that law enforcement can not unjustly murder a black person and get away with it .
It ’ s the STATEMENT that we feel needs to be told to every law enforcement officer that applies the law and their authority unfairly to black people .
THEY need to hear it even if you don ’ t. ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the words “ black lives matter ” we immediately think of the radical leftist organization .
According to Terrence , that is not the case with the vast majority of American blacks .
“ # 2 .
We ’ ve heard the analogies .
Cancer awareness supporters don ’ t need to hear ‘ all diseases matter ’ and save the whales groups don ’ t need to hear ‘ all sea life matters ’ .
.
.
.
” “ We know it was 100 % legal from 1619-1964 to legally discriminate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible .
That was accepted in society .
Though some laws have changed NOT ALL HEARTS HAVE .
The spirit of racism is still in every industry in this country and lawsuits and statistics and social media prove it .
So don ’ t rebut with ‘ all lives matter ’ when we ’ re focusing on the lives affected by the residuals of 350 yrs of legalized systemic racism.
” Again , when some of us hear the words “ black lives matter , ” we say , “ But don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about blacks killing blacks ?
Or what about black babies being aborted ?
What about those lives ?
The analogies Terrence offers are useful , with the bottom line being this : for centuries , black Americans felt that their lives did not matter to white Americans .
We must shout out , “ Yes , your lives do matter to us !
Black lives do matter.
” And rather than dispute some of the specifics of this comment , take in the overall point that is being made .
“ # 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t work out for 20 yrs then decide to get in shape it won ’ t happen overnight .
It ’ ll take time .
America has eaten bad for 350 yrs then decided to get some areas healthy .
Race is one area .
We see signs of things getting better but there ’ s still work to do .
STOP acting like racism magically went away with the civil rights movement .
Doesn ’ t help.
” So , even if many laws have changed and steps have been taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not change overnight – or , even over the course of decades .
Changing hearts is what matters the most .
Finally , Terrence wrote , “ As Christians , start programs for these kids in disadvantaged neighborhoods many of whom have parents who have been generationally victims of the biased systems in this country .
BE CHRISTIANS .
See the need , meet the need in minority areas .
REMEMBER white men who weren ’ t racist STILL got economic advantages for generations when black men couldn ’ t so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if they weren ’ t racist themselves .
Now use your heart , time , funds to help those who were victims ( instead of beneficiaries ) .
.
.
.
” Terrence ’ s point is not to lay a guilt trip on someone who has not been guilty of sin .
Instead , he is saying , “ Hey , if your life has been blessed and prosperous , and if you have good Christian foundations , reach out to others in need and be a blessing to them.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

The answer, they say, is unity through Christ to change hearts and be part of the solution.
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June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the great benefits of hosting a daily talk radio show for the last 12 years is that you learn a lot from your callers, gaining new and different perspectives. That’s why I regularly solicit input from my social media audiences as well. This way, we can learn from each other instead of passing each other like ships in the night.
In that spirit, on June 10, I posted this on the AskDrBrown Facebook page:
To my black brothers and sisters in Jesus, please share your thoughts with your white brothers and sisters here, as part of the same family and one together in Jesus. If you've been following my articles and broadcasts, you know I take strong exception to the BLM movement because of its radical social agenda, and I refuse to bow my knee to mobocracy.At the same time, I absolutely want to show my solidarity to my black friends in times of pain and frustration, and I want to be an ally to combat racism wherever we find it. But I have friends of mine who are pastors and are finding this a very difficult line to walk, since their rejection of the BLM movement and the mob mentality is being perceived as a lack of solidarity in standing against injustice. So, what would you say to your white friends who stand with you against racism and injustice but will not bow down to the BLM movement? Thanks for your input and your solidarity as we stand united in Jesus.
As of this writing, we received almost 800 comments, so I could barely begin to share some of the excellent feedback. And comments like this one (which merited deletion) were extremely rare: “I would say you are a racist and good riddance. You are no longer a valid participant in my life. It’s quite apparent you are ignorant beyond belief and it is not my job to educate you. FYI you saying you stand with me and not back BLM says you don’t really stand for me at all. #canceled”
So much for reaching out!
But overwhelmingly, the comments were very useful, leading to helpful, interracial discussion. Many expressed appreciation that I took the time to hear the hearts of those who are hurting. When white Christians deny the ongoing issues of racism in America, that only adds to the pain.
Others were glad that my colleagues and I had not bowed down to radical political ideologies. At the same time, they urged, “Let your statement that black lives matter be louder than your opposition to the BLM movement.”
Still others pointed to our unity in Jesus and our need to work together for the betterment of our country, urging us to Christian deeds of compassion.
Samuel said, “Simply speak out against injustice. Preachers who preach the Bible properly and understand social issues should already be doing this.”
Shaniqua noted that, “We should always handle sin issues with Jesus as the cure, because he is the only cure.”
And Derrick offered this plea: “Stop worrying about BLM group. Most of us don’t support the liberal component … but right now … right now … the MAJOR issue is racial injustice & police brutality … stop looking around and focus on the main issue please. Black folk are TIRED … of trying to explain the frustration of seeing OVER 400 years of abuse … please brothers & sisters in Christ … listen and don’t be easily offended as scripture says … and help people that are around you. Speak up when off color remarks are made. We will get through this with Jesus’ help … the time now … calls for listening, mourning & understanding of the black experience in America … not focusing on groups who don’t hold biblical views anyway.”
This just gives us a glimpse of some of the feedback, which I encourage you to read for yourself. But I’ll end with a lengthy comment from Terrence, who captured a lot of the key ideas. He wrote:
“#1. When 99% of the black people I know say BLM we’re NOT talking about some organization formed a few years ago in response to one killing; which seems to be the consensus thought of many white people.
“Talk to 100 black people and realize that BLM is the IDEA that law enforcement cannot unjustly murder a black person and get away with it. It’s the STATEMENT that we feel needs to be told to every law enforcement officer that applies the law and their authority unfairly to black people. THEY need to hear it even if you don’t.”
So, when some of us hear the words “black lives matter” we immediately think of the radical leftist organization. According to Terrence, that is not the case with the vast majority of American blacks.
“#2. We’ve heard the analogies. Cancer awareness supporters don’t need to hear ‘all diseases matter’ and save the whales groups don’t need to hear ‘all sea life matters’ . . . .”
“We know it was 100% legal from 1619-1964 to legally discriminate against people of color in every way possible. That was accepted in society. Though some laws have changed NOT ALL HEARTS HAVE. The spirit of racism is still in every industry in this country and lawsuits and statistics and social media prove it. So don’t rebut with ‘all lives matter’ when we’re focusing on the lives affected by the residuals of 350 yrs of legalized systemic racism.”
Again, when some of us hear the words “black lives matter,” we say, “But don’t all lives matter? And what about blacks killing blacks? Or what about black babies being aborted? What about those lives? The analogies Terrence offers are useful, with the bottom line being this: for centuries, black Americans felt that their lives did not matter to white Americans. We must shout out, “Yes, your lives do matter to us! Black lives do matter.”
And rather than dispute some of the specifics of this comment, take in the overall point that is being made.
“#3. If you eat bad & don’t work out for 20 yrs then decide to get in shape it won’t happen overnight. It’ll take time. America has eaten bad for 350 yrs then decided to get some areas healthy. Race is one area. We see signs of things getting better but there’s still work to do. STOP acting like racism magically went away with the civil rights movement. Doesn’t help.”
So, even if many laws have changed and steps have been taken to bring about positive change, hearts do not change overnight – or, even over the course of decades. Changing hearts is what matters the most.
Finally, Terrence wrote, “As Christians, start programs for these kids in disadvantaged neighborhoods many of whom have parents who have been generationally victims of the biased systems in this country. BE CHRISTIANS. See the need, meet the need in minority areas. REMEMBER white men who weren’t racist STILL got economic advantages for generations when black men couldn’t so that privilege existed and their families generationally benefited even if they weren’t racist themselves. Now use your heart, time, funds to help those who were victims (instead of beneficiaries) . . . .”
Terrence’s point is not to lay a guilt trip on someone who has not been guilty of sin. Instead, he is saying, “Hey, if your life has been blessed and prosperous, and if you have good Christian foundations, reach out to others in need and be a blessing to them.”
That sounds like the gospel to me.
Follow Michael Dr. Brown is the author of more than 35 books, including Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, a commentary on Jeremiah (part of the revised edition of the Expositor’s Bible Commentary), and several books on revival and the Jesus revolution. His most recent book is Evangelicals at the Crossroads: Will We Pass the Trump Test?
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Rioters have declared war on Western Civilisation, cutting off the branch they stand on

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June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A lot of academic subjects have been infected with political correctness .
Today , we are seeing on the streets and in the newsrooms some of the consequences .
Not only are activists defacing and toppling statues of the kinds of people their university lecturers dismissed as “ dead white males , ” but they are being defended by journalists and politicians .
The defacement of the statue of the man who , more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Winston Churchill , and the memorial of the men and women who died in their tens of thousands for this cause , the Cenotaph in London , is not about opposing “ racism ” and “ fascism.
” It is about denigrating and removing from public view manifestations of the “ Western Civilisation ” that has been denigrated and reviled , especially in second-rate academic institutions , for the last 30 years .
Some academic disciplines have fared better than others .
One of the least affected , Classics , is now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whole idea of the study of ancient Greece and Rome as intrinsically problematic .
I don ’ t think this is primarily about the colour of ancient Romans ’ skins , and efforts by trendy Classicists like Dr. Mary Beard to point out ( correctly ) that ancient Rome was ethnically diverse , and that a black officer in Roman Britain was perfectly possible , will not be enough to get the activists off their backs .
Classics ’ problem goes deeper than that .
It is bad because the reason Classics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Civilisation .
And for the “ woke ” brigade , Western Civilisation is not just bad , it is irredeemable .
We can look forward to a lot of self-flagellation by Classicists in an unavailing attempt to establish their woke credentials .
Here ’ s a strange passage from an otherwise rather sober and interesting blog post by the New Zealand Classicist Peter Gainsford : Oh dear , the Classics is tainted by association with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson !
It ’ s OK , though , because when Johnson caused a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Homer on live TV ( the clip from 2013 suddenly went viral earlier this year ) , the queue of Classicists distancing themselves from him was a mile long .
The irony is that the Classical civilisations , their history , literature , art , and philosophy , are an example of how a culture can be admired from the outside .
Not many of the peoples who took part in “ Classical civilisation ” have identifiable descendants today .
The people who , from the very beginning , were fascinated imitators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the grandeur that was Rome , ” were the barbarian invaders and their descendants , people living in places named after the Germanic tribes who destroyed the Roman world : Germany , France , England , Lombardy … This isn ’ t good enough for Gainsford : he ridicules a Greek textbook : Never mind that what the book actually said ( in the very image of the text Gainsford himself provides ) that “ Aristophanes ’ comedies depict them as lively and cheeky characters.
” Is it so very inappropriate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ textbook to take their tone from classical literature itself ?
No doubt it is .
Aristophanes can only today be seen as an apologist for injustice .
No one is allowed to smile at his jokes anymore .
The new Puritans don ’ t do humour .
Christian scholars of the Classics have always had to be able to appreciate what was impressive and noble in the ancient world without closing their eyes to what was barbaric .
The Romans persecuted the Church .
The Carthaginians sacrificed infants to Moloch .
St Augustine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exploitation of female slaves .
The enemies of the Church have taken inspiration from some of the least pleasant aspects of those civilisations , such as Voltaire ’ s interest in the anti-Semitic outbursts of Cicero .
None of this means that we can ’ t try to understand and appreciate what was good about them , and its continuing influence on our own societies .
People ignorant of their past are ignorant of their own identity .
There is a lot about the past that is bad .
The answer is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but to make the best of what has been bequeathed to us .

PETITION: Yes to reform. No to riots & revolution! Sign the petition here.
June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A lot of academic subjects have been infected with political correctness. Today, we are seeing on the streets and in the newsrooms some of the consequences.
Not only are activists defacing and toppling statues of the kinds of people their university lecturers dismissed as “dead white males,” but they are being defended by journalists and politicians.
The defacement of the statue of the man who, more than anyone else in Europe, opposed Fascism, Winston Churchill, and the memorial of the men and women who died in their tens of thousands for this cause, the Cenotaph in London, is not about opposing “racism” and “fascism.” It is about denigrating and removing from public view manifestations of the “Western Civilisation” that has been denigrated and reviled, especially in second-rate academic institutions, for the last 30 years.
Some academic disciplines have fared better than others. One of the least affected, Classics, is now under sustained attack by people who regard the whole idea of the study of ancient Greece and Rome as intrinsically problematic. I don’t think this is primarily about the colour of ancient Romans’ skins, and efforts by trendy Classicists like Dr. Mary Beard to point out (correctly) that ancient Rome was ethnically diverse, and that a black officer in Roman Britain was perfectly possible, will not be enough to get the activists off their backs.
Classics’ problem goes deeper than that. It is bad because the reason Classics is important is its influence on Western Civilisation. And for the “woke” brigade, Western Civilisation is not just bad, it is irredeemable.
We can look forward to a lot of self-flagellation by Classicists in an unavailing attempt to establish their woke credentials. Here’s a strange passage from an otherwise rather sober and interesting blog post by the New Zealand Classicist Peter Gainsford:
The modern history of Greco-Roman texts is brutally colonialist, to an almost comical extreme. ‘Classics’ as a field is practically the archetype of a field that is white, male, and parochial. ‘The glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome’ (Edgar Allan Poe) is still a cornerstone of how these cultures are perceived: it’s no coincidence that people like Steve Bannon and Boris Johnson are enthused about Greek antiquity, and that white nationalists are obsessed with ancient Sparta.
Oh dear, the Classics is tainted by association with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson! It’s OK, though, because when Johnson caused a minor sensation by an impassioned impromptu recitation of Homer on live TV (the clip from 2013 suddenly went viral earlier this year), the queue of Classicists distancing themselves from him was a mile long.
The irony is that the Classical civilisations, their history, literature, art, and philosophy, are an example of how a culture can be admired from the outside. Not many of the peoples who took part in “Classical civilisation” have identifiable descendants today. The people who, from the very beginning, were fascinated imitators of the “glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome,” were the barbarian invaders and their descendants, people living in places named after the Germanic tribes who destroyed the Roman world: Germany, France, England, Lombardy …
This isn’t good enough for Gainsford: he ridicules a Greek textbook:
According to this widely used textbook for learning ancient Greek, published by Oxford University Press, slavery was benign, and enslaved people were ‘lively and cheeky characters’. (Balme and Lawall, Athenaze, 3rd edition 2016, ch. 2)
Never mind that what the book actually said (in the very image of the text Gainsford himself provides) that “Aristophanes’ comedies depict them as lively and cheeky characters.” Is it so very inappropriate for the stories in children’s textbook to take their tone from classical literature itself? No doubt it is. Aristophanes can only today be seen as an apologist for injustice. No one is allowed to smile at his jokes anymore. The new Puritans don’t do humour.
Christian scholars of the Classics have always had to be able to appreciate what was impressive and noble in the ancient world without closing their eyes to what was barbaric. The Romans persecuted the Church. The Carthaginians sacrificed infants to Moloch. St Augustine lambasted his society for tolerating the sexual exploitation of female slaves. The enemies of the Church have taken inspiration from some of the least pleasant aspects of those civilisations, such as Voltaire’s interest in the anti-Semitic outbursts of Cicero. None of this means that we can’t try to understand and appreciate what was good about them, and its continuing influence on our own societies.
People ignorant of their past are ignorant of their own identity. There is a lot about the past that is bad. The answer is not to pretend it didn’t happen, but to make the best of what has been bequeathed to us.
Follow Joseph Dr Joseph Shaw has a Doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he also gained a first degree in Politics and Philosophy and a graduate Diploma in Theology. He has published on Ethics and Philosophy of Religion and is the editor of The Case for Liturgical Restoration: Una Voce Position Papers on the Extraordinary Form (Angelico Press). He is the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales and Secretary of Una Voce International. He teaches Philosophy in Oxford University and lives nearby with his wife and nine children.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Islamic terrorists slaughter dozens over one-week span in Africa

June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — In recent days , Islamist terrorists have killed dozens of people in two African countries .
On Tuesday , suspected members of Boko Haram , also known as the Islamic State ’ s West Africa Province ( ISWAP ) , murdered at least 81 people in a village in northeast Nigeria .
“ Residents reported that the men gathered the villagers on Tuesday morning and started shooting in the incident which lasted several hours , ” according to CNN .
One survivor of the attack recounted that the Islamist terrorists “ gathered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ a ] religious sermon to us .
They asked us to submit whatever arm we had .
Some villagers gave up their ... guns , bow , and arrows.
” “ Suddenly , they started shooting at will .
Even children and women were not spared .
Many were shot at close range , ” he continued .
“ We have buried 49 corpses here while another 32 corpses were taken away by families from the villages around us.
” In addition to murdering more than six dozen villagers , the members @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ including our village head .
They went away with 400 cattle.
” Malam Bunu , the leader of the local defense group , suggested that Tuesday ’ s massacre took place in retaliation for the death of two members of Boko Haram “ whom the villagers managed to kill when the insurgents attempted to attack them about two months ago.
” On Wednesday , the Nigerian army announced that “ a large contingent of military personnel have been drafted in the general area to track and apprehend or neutralize the perpetrators.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the Nigerian Army is committed to investigate the circumstances of these callous attacks by desperate Boko Haram criminals and the bandits on innocent civilians , ” the press release continued .
“ We would ensure that appropriate action is taken to mitigate against any future incidents .
While thanking Nigerians for their understanding , we implore all to continue to support and cooperate with the troops as they carry out their duties.
” A further update has not yet been released .
According to the Society for Threatened Peoples , an additional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last Tuesday and Wednesday .
“ In the village of Kadisau alone , 32 people died when heavily armed men on motorcycles entered the village , burned down houses , shot people at random , and raped women .
In Sabuwa district , gunmen attacked seven villages , and terrorized and murdered civilians.
” The recently released 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom , which was prepared by the State Department , summarized the brutal work of Boko Haram in Nigeria .
“ Terrorist groups including Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa ( ISIS-WA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and maintained a growing ability to stage forces in rural areas and launch attacks against civilian and military targets across the North East , according to observers , ” the report pointed out .
“ The groups continued to carry out person-borne improvised explosive device ( IED ) bombings — many by young women and girls drugged and forced into doing so — targeting the local civilian population , including churches and mosques.
” Priests and other Christian religious leaders , as well as their families , were “ attacked , killed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year , “ often by attackers identified as of allegedly Fulani ethnicity.
” “ These cases included , among others , the killing of Father Paul Offu and Father Clement Ugwu and the beating of an evangelical Christian pastor from Kaduna State and kidnapping for ransom of his wife , who died in her captors ’ custody.
” Local authorities did not blame Islamist terrorism for the attacks , but called them “ criminal acts ” that were “ not religiously motivated.
” At the same time , “ many Christian civil society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of religiously motivated persecution.
” The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ( USCIRF ) , in its annual report , said Boko Haram and ISWAP “ continued their insurgencies in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.
” For Christmas , the organization “ released a video showing the horrific killing of 11 captives and stated it was executing Christians in retaliation for the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
” “ Since 2009 , Boko Haram has displaced more than two million people and killed tens of thousands , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in Mali , Islamist terrorists attacked several Dogon farming villages last Tuesday and Wednesday , murdering 27 people .
Some of them were burned alive .
As reported by The Christian Post , the villages were “ predominantly inhabited by Christians.
” While the USCIRF report did not mention Mali , the State Department ’ s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom explained that “ affiliates of Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin ( JNIM ) , a U.S.-designated terrorist alliance , attacked multiple towns in Mopti Region , threatening Christian , Muslim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for heresy .
”

The largest attack took place in Nigeria. At least 81 people were murdered.
June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — In recent days, Islamist terrorists have killed dozens of people in two African countries. On Tuesday, suspected members of Boko Haram, also known as the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), murdered at least 81 people in a village in northeast Nigeria.
“Residents reported that the men gathered the villagers on Tuesday morning and started shooting in the incident which lasted several hours,” according to CNN.
One survivor of the attack recounted that the Islamist terrorists “gathered us and said they wanted to deliver [a] religious sermon to us. They asked us to submit whatever arm we had. Some villagers gave up their … guns, bow, and arrows.”
“Suddenly, they started shooting at will. Even children and women were not spared. Many were shot at close range,” he continued. “We have buried 49 corpses here while another 32 corpses were taken away by families from the villages around us.”
In addition to murdering more than six dozen villagers, the members of Boko Haram also abducted seven people, “including our village head. They went away with 400 cattle.”
Malam Bunu, the leader of the local defense group, suggested that Tuesday’s massacre took place in retaliation for the death of two members of Boko Haram “whom the villagers managed to kill when the insurgents attempted to attack them about two months ago.”
On Wednesday, the Nigerian army announced that “a large contingent of military personnel have been drafted in the general area to track and apprehend or neutralize the perpetrators.”
“We further wish to reiterate that the Nigerian Army is committed to investigate the circumstances of these callous attacks by desperate Boko Haram criminals and the bandits on innocent civilians,” the press release continued.
“We would ensure that appropriate action is taken to mitigate against any future incidents. While thanking Nigerians for their understanding, we implore all to continue to support and cooperate with the troops as they carry out their duties.”
A further update has not yet been released.
According to the Society for Threatened Peoples, an additional 60 Nigerians were murdered in separate attacks last Tuesday and Wednesday.
“In the village of Kadisau alone, 32 people died when heavily armed men on motorcycles entered the village, burned down houses, shot people at random, and raped women. In Sabuwa district, gunmen attacked seven villages, and terrorized and murdered civilians.”
The recently released 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom, which was prepared by the State Department, summarized the brutal work of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
“Terrorist groups including Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa (ISIS-WA) attacked population centers and religious targets and maintained a growing ability to stage forces in rural areas and launch attacks against civilian and military targets across the North East, according to observers,” the report pointed out.
“The groups continued to carry out person-borne improvised explosive device (IED) bombings — many by young women and girls drugged and forced into doing so — targeting the local civilian population, including churches and mosques.”
Priests and other Christian religious leaders, as well as their families, were “attacked, killed, or kidnapped for ransom” throughout the year, “often by attackers identified as of allegedly Fulani ethnicity.”
“These cases included, among others, the killing of Father Paul Offu and Father Clement Ugwu and the beating of an evangelical Christian pastor from Kaduna State and kidnapping for ransom of his wife, who died in her captors’ custody.”
Local authorities did not blame Islamist terrorism for the attacks, but called them “criminal acts” that were “not religiously motivated.” At the same time, “many Christian civil society groups pointed to such incidents as examples of religiously motivated persecution.”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its annual report, said Boko Haram and ISWAP “continued their insurgencies in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region.”
For Christmas, the organization “released a video showing the horrific killing of 11 captives and stated it was executing Christians in retaliation for the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.”
“Since 2009, Boko Haram has displaced more than two million people and killed tens of thousands,” according to the report.
Meanwhile, in Mali, Islamist terrorists attacked several Dogon farming villages last Tuesday and Wednesday, murdering 27 people. Some of them were burned alive.
As reported by The Christian Post, the villages were “predominantly inhabited by Christians.”
While the USCIRF report did not mention Mali, the State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom explained that “affiliates of Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), a U.S.-designated terrorist alliance, attacked multiple towns in Mopti Region, threatening Christian, Muslim, and traditional religious communities, reportedly for heresy.”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Over 700 police injured in Black Lives Matter riots across America: report

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June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – With anti-police sentiment at a fever pitch across the United States , the violence that has broken out in Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) protests has led to the injury of more than 700 law enforcement officers so far , according to Justice Department figures .
For weeks , American cities have been the scenes of both mass protests and large-scale riots in response to the killing of black Minnesota man George Floyd at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( MPD ) Officer Derek Chauvin , who has been fired from the force and charged with murder .
The event reignited the BLM movement and its thesis that Floyd ’ s killing and similar incidents over the past several years are signs of a “ systemic racism ” that permeates American institutions .
Since the riots and protests began at the end of last month , an estimated 700 federal , state , and local law enforcement officers have been injured by “ demonstrators , ” the New York Post reported .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , another 60 Secret Service agents and 40 members of the U.S. Park Police were also injured , 22 of whom required hospitalization .
Further , at least one law enforcement officer , retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn , was shot and killed by the rioters .
Dorn , who is also black , had responded to an alarm at a St. Louis pawnshop that was being looted .
The news comes as rhetoric against police brutality has quickly morphed into general sentiment against law enforcement as a whole .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ disband ” the MPD , offering in its place vague proposals to have social services agencies handle several of law enforcement ’ s traditional responsibilities .
The long-running television series “ Cops ” and “ Live PD , ” which had camera crews follow real police officers on ridealongs , have been canceled , and even LEGO temporarily paused advertising on its police-themed construction toys ( along with a buildable model of the White House ) .
Former Vice President and current Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden declared Tuesday that there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law enforcement .
During his remarks , he offered the qualifier that “ not all law enforcement officers are racist , ” and that “ there are some really good , good cops out there , ” implying the non-racist cops are the exception to the rule .
Nor are such sentiments confined to the traditional political Left and its allies .
On Thursday , National Review , founded by late conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. , published an essay declaring that the “ answer could only be yes ” to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people differently , ” and even arguing that the national attention devoted to the protests ’ violence comes from an “ obsession with modes of racial protests rather than with the meaning of them belies an unwillingness to face the flaws they expose in the nation 's ability to live up to its ideals and fulfill its obligations to the citizenry.
” In fact , while the Floyd killing and similar events across the country indicate problems at MPD and other departments that need to be addressed , evidence does not support the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a whole , disproportionately uses lethal force against blacks .
Last August , researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Maryland examined 917 officer-involved fatal shootings and “ did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings ” ; in fact , they found that “ officers are less likely to fatally shoot black civilians for fear of public and legal reprisals.
” Further , Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald noted , even the U.S. Justice Department under the Obama administration found in 2015 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ black officers were 67 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect ; Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect .
Whether lowered hiring standards are responsible for those disparities wasn ’ t addressed.
” Despite its current mainstream popularity , Black Lives Matter is anything but mainstream .
Aside from its views on racism and law enforcement , BLM ’ s “ What We Believe ” Page declares that it seeks to “ disrupt the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ dismantle cisgender privilege.
” In other official statements , it has “ demand ( ed ) reproductive justice that gives us autonomy over our bodies.
” An estimated 40 percent of all U.S. abortions are sought by black women , meaning that Black Lives Matter supports the annual elimination of more than 344,800 black lives every year .

At least one death has been reported nationwide and 22 officers in Washington, D.C., alone have been hospitalized.
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June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – With anti-police sentiment at a fever pitch across the United States, the violence that has broken out in Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests has led to the injury of more than 700 law enforcement officers so far, according to Justice Department figures.
For weeks, American cities have been the scenes of both mass protests and large-scale riots in response to the killing of black Minnesota man George Floyd at the hands of white Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Officer Derek Chauvin, who has been fired from the force and charged with murder. The event reignited the BLM movement and its thesis that Floyd’s killing and similar incidents over the past several years are signs of a “systemic racism” that permeates American institutions.
Since the riots and protests began at the end of last month, an estimated 700 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers have been injured by “demonstrators,” the New York Post reported. Just in the nation’s capital, another 60 Secret Service agents and 40 members of the U.S. Park Police were also injured, 22 of whom required hospitalization.
Further, at least one law enforcement officer, retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, was shot and killed by the rioters. Dorn, who is also black, had responded to an alarm at a St. Louis pawnshop that was being looted.
The news comes as rhetoric against police brutality has quickly morphed into general sentiment against law enforcement as a whole. The Minneapolis City Council has announced its intentions to “disband” the MPD, offering in its place vague proposals to have social services agencies handle several of law enforcement’s traditional responsibilities. The long-running television series “Cops” and “Live PD,” which had camera crews follow real police officers on ridealongs, have been canceled, and even LEGO temporarily paused advertising on its police-themed construction toys (along with a buildable model of the White House).
Former Vice President and current Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden declared Tuesday that there is “absolutely” systemic racism in law enforcement. During his remarks, he offered the qualifier that “not all law enforcement officers are racist,” and that “there are some really good, good cops out there,” implying the non-racist cops are the exception to the rule.
Nor are such sentiments confined to the traditional political Left and its allies. On Thursday, National Review, founded by late conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., published an essay declaring that the “answer could only be yes” to the “question of whether police treat black people differently,” and even arguing that the national attention devoted to the protests’ violence comes from an “obsession with modes of racial protests rather than with the meaning of them belies an unwillingness to face the flaws they expose in the nation's ability to live up to its ideals and fulfill its obligations to the citizenry.”
In fact, while the Floyd killing and similar events across the country indicate problems at MPD and other departments that need to be addressed, evidence does not support the thesis that American law enforcement, as a whole, disproportionately uses lethal force against blacks.
Last August, researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Maryland examined 917 officer-involved fatal shootings and “did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings”; in fact, they found that “officers are less likely to fatally shoot black civilians for fear of public and legal reprisals.”
Further, Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald noted, even the U.S. Justice Department under the Obama administration found in 2015 that, in the Philadelphia Police Department, “black officers were 67 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect; Hispanic officers were 145 percent more likely than white officers to mistakenly shoot an unarmed black suspect. Whether lowered hiring standards are responsible for those disparities wasn’t addressed.”
Despite its current mainstream popularity, Black Lives Matter is anything but mainstream. Aside from its views on racism and law enforcement, BLM’s “What We Believe” Page declares that it seeks to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” and “dismantle cisgender privilege.”
In other official statements, it has “demand(ed) reproductive justice that gives us autonomy over our bodies.” An estimated 40 percent of all U.S. abortions are sought by black women, meaning that Black Lives Matter supports the annual elimination of more than 344,800 black lives every year.
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Civil rights leader: Marxist philosophy of Black Lives Matter org will harm our communities

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WASHINGTON , DC , June 20 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) ― A black civil rights leader has stated that the black community will be harmed by the goals of the Black Lives Matter organization .
Niger Innis , the National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality , told EWTN host Raymond Arroyo last night that he distinguishes the Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) organizational leadership from most of the protesters .
The majority of the protesters , he said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right place.
” However , there is a difference between them and the leaders who run the Black Lives Matter organization .
“ Alicia Garza says she is a Marxist , ” Innis reported , referring to one of the founders of the organization Black Lives Matter .
Innis noted that defunding the police is “ just at the beginning ” of what the BLM organization wants .
He brought Arroyo ’ s attention to two planks of the BLM ’ s manifesto .
The first brags of attacking the traditional family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘ villages ’ that collectively care for one another , especially our children , to the degree that mothers , parents , and children are comfortable , ” it reads .
The second plank Innis pointed to underscored the LGBT ideology of the movement : “ We foster a queer‐affirming network .
When we gather , we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking , or rather , the belief that all in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they disclose otherwise ) .
” Innis said that these ideas do “ nothing ” to help black people in America .
“ These agenda items [ show ] a Marxist mentality that…does nothing for the black community , ” he stated .
“ It does nothing to advance racial equality .
[ Causing ] the disruption of the nuclear family is a clear and present danger to the black community.
” Fatherlessness , Innis and Arroyo agreed , represents a crisis for all races .
The civil rights leader said that disrupting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black people back.
” Regarding Black Lives Matter 's most famous goal , defunding police services , Innis said that the black community does not actually want less police .
“ They want less bad police , ” he emphasized and said that there are “ bad apples ” in every profession .
Innis told Arroyo that the black community wants more police , more police engagement , more police intervention , and more partnership with the police .
Arroyo also interviewed Monsignor Charles Pope and Pastor Marc Little .
Monsignor Pope is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington , D.C. , and he says that his black parishioners have a “ shared grief ” over their experiences of racial injustice .
“ Their experiences are real , ” he said .
Msgr .
Pope recently led a rosary procession of vowed religious and laypeople to pray for healing from racism in the wider community .
He believes that the protests in the wake of the George Floyd killing are “ too politicized.
” “ Too much of this is about the president , ” the monsignor said .
“ This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the people he represents in terms of experience with the police.
” Msgr .
Pope , too , blamed the breakdown of the family for breakdowns in community life .
“ The breakup of the family is the nuclear fission of civilization , ” he said .
“ The individual is not the basic unit of society : the family is.
” “ You split the family , like you split the atom , and tremendous destructive potential goes out in all directions .
And if it 's not reined in , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decentralization of Christianity in society has also played a role , the priest said .
He observed that civil leaders were permitting protests but not prayer in churches .
“ Protest has its place , but prayer has its place , ” he insisted .
Pastor Marc Little , an attorney and pastor of No Longer Bound Abortion & Miscarriage Recovery Ministry , told Arroyo that in the wake of the protests pastors must be “ truth-tellers.
” “ What we ’ re experiencing right now is not about race , ” he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter .
We have an organization that is leading us into anarchy.
” Little noted that the Black Lives Matter organization had not honored a retired black police chief killed in the recent protests , David Dorn , 77 , or “ 20 million babies aborted.
” “ So it ’ s not about race , ” Little said .
“ It ’ s about power .
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There is a difference between protestors and the leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization.
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WASHINGTON, DC, June 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― A black civil rights leader has stated that the black community will be harmed by the goals of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Niger Innis, the National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, told EWTN host Raymond Arroyo last night that he distinguishes the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizational leadership from most of the protesters. The majority of the protesters, he said, have their heart and soul “in the right place.” However, there is a difference between them and the leaders who run the Black Lives Matter organization.
“Alicia Garza says she is a Marxist,” Innis reported, referring to one of the founders of the organization Black Lives Matter. Innis noted that defunding the police is “just at the beginning” of what the BLM organization wants.
He brought Arroyo’s attention to two planks of the BLM’s manifesto. The first brags of attacking the traditional family.
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” it reads.
The second plank Innis pointed to underscored the LGBT ideology of the movement: “We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).”
Innis said that these ideas do “nothing” to help black people in America.
“These agenda items [show] a Marxist mentality that…does nothing for the black community,” he stated.
“It does nothing to advance racial equality. [Causing] the disruption of the nuclear family is a clear and present danger to the black community.”
Fatherlessness, Innis and Arroyo agreed, represents a crisis for all races. The civil rights leader said that disrupting the family is “going to hold black people back.”
Regarding Black Lives Matter's most famous goal, defunding police services, Innis said that the black community does not actually want less police.
“They want less bad police,” he emphasized and said that there are “bad apples” in every profession. Innis told Arroyo that the black community wants more police, more police engagement, more police intervention, and more partnership with the police.
‘Their experiences are real’
Arroyo also interviewed Monsignor Charles Pope and Pastor Marc Little. Monsignor Pope is the pastor of an African-American church in Washington, D.C., and he says that his black parishioners have a “shared grief” over their experiences of racial injustice.
“Their experiences are real,” he said.
Msgr. Pope recently led a rosary procession of vowed religious and laypeople to pray for healing from racism in the wider community. He believes that the protests in the wake of the George Floyd killing are “too politicized.”
“Too much of this is about the president,” the monsignor said. “This [should be] about George Floyd, the people he represents in terms of experience with the police.”
Msgr. Pope, too, blamed the breakdown of the family for breakdowns in community life.
“The breakup of the family is the nuclear fission of civilization,” he said.
“The individual is not the basic unit of society: the family is.”
“You split the family, like you split the atom, and tremendous destructive potential goes out in all directions. And if it's not reined in, it will lay everything waste.”
The decentralization of Christianity in society has also played a role, the priest said. He observed that civil leaders were permitting protests but not prayer in churches.
“Protest has its place, but prayer has its place,” he insisted.
Pastor Marc Little, an attorney and pastor of No Longer Bound Abortion & Miscarriage Recovery Ministry, told Arroyo that in the wake of the protests pastors must be “truth-tellers.”
“What we’re experiencing right now is not about race,” he said.
“It is a spiritual matter. We have an organization that is leading us into anarchy.”
Little noted that the Black Lives Matter organization had not honored a retired black police chief killed in the recent protests, David Dorn, 77, or “20 million babies aborted.”
“So it’s not about race,” Little said. “It’s about power.”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Facebook surprisingly rebuffs Biden’s call for censorship of Trump’s re-election campaign

June 12 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Facebook has rejected Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ’ s call for the social media giant to essentially censor Donald Trump ’ s reelection campaign .
“ There is an election coming in November and we will protect political speech , even when we strongly disagree with it , ” Facebook said in a statement .
In an open letter released yesterday , the Biden campaign accused Facebook of having taken “ no meaningful action ” in terms of using “ its platform to improve American democracy rather than as a tool @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Biden claimed that Facebook “ continues to allow Donald Trump to say anything — and to pay to ensure that his wild claims reach millions of voters.
” According to the former Vice President under President Barack Obama , “ Trump and his allies have used Facebook to spread fear and misleading information about voting , attempting to compromise the means of holding power to account : our voices and our ballot boxes.
” Less than 150 days from the election , the Biden campaign provided several recommendations “ to fix the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We call for Facebook to proactively stem the tide of false information by no longer amplifying untrustworthy content and promptly fact-checking election-related material that goes viral , ” the open letter stated .
Biden also wants Facebook “ to stop allowing politicians to hide behind paid misinformation in the hope that the truth will catch up only after Election Day .
There should be a two-week pre-election period during which all political advertisements must be fact-checked before they are permitted to run on Facebook.
” Finally , the open letter called “ for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including Donald Trump — that prohibit threatening behavior and lies about how to participate in the election.
” Facebook promptly responded , pointing out that “ [ w ] e live in a democracy , where the elected officials decide the rules around campaigns.
” “ Two weeks ago the President of the United States issued an executive order directing Federal agencies to prevent social media sites from engaging in activities like fact-checking political statements , ” Facebook emphasized .
“ This week , the Democratic candidate for President started a petition calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” According to Facebook , government could regulate political advertisements online similar to the regulations already in place for traditional broadcast networks , “ where the US government prohibits rejecting politicians ’ campaign ads.
” The tech company promised to follow any rules implemented in this way .
It rejected following Biden ’ s ideas of censorship .
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during an interview in mid-April that he considers protests against stay-at-home orders , which are often planned via Facebook , to be “ harmful misinformation ” that must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s important that people can debate policies , ” Zuckerberg indicated that there is a limit to how much freedom he will allow Facebook ’ s users to do this .
“ But , you know , more than normal political discourse , I think a lot of the stuff that people are saying that is false around a health emergency like this can be classified as harmful misinformation that has a risk of leading to imminent physical danger and we ’ ll just take that kind of content down , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hand , Zuckerberg claimed on May 28 that Facebook “ shouldn ’ t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.
” He said , “ Private companies probably shouldn ’ t be , especially these platform companies , shouldn ’ t be in the position of doing that.
” Facebook had also introduced an international Oversight Board packed with leftists and people with ties to globalist George Soros , wielding massive power to judge what is acceptable speech .
“ Facebook ’ s Oversight Board will have the final @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or left up , ” wrote Newsbusters .
“ With only two conservative voices on the board , conservatives are already poorly represented and that only scratches the surface of the board ’ s problems .
Some of the new members of the board are so radical that they undermine the board ’ s neutrality.
” The Oversight Board was created to “ help Facebook answer some of the most difficult questions around freedom of expression online : what to take down , what to leave up , and why.
” Twitter has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay out of political debates .
Within 24 hours of President Donald Trump signing an executive order on May 28 to combat social media censorship , the social media giant slapped a tweet published by Trump with a warning label .
“ This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence , ” the company posted .
“ However , Twitter has determined that it may be in the public ’ s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.
” Trump had commented on the riots in Minneapolis , saying , “ These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd , and I won ’ t let that happen .
Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way .
Any difficulty and we will assume control but , when the looting starts , the shooting starts .
Thank you !
”

Facebook told Biden: 'There is an election coming in November and we will protect political speech, even when we strongly disagree with it'
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June 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Facebook has rejected Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s call for the social media giant to essentially censor Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.
“There is an election coming in November and we will protect political speech, even when we strongly disagree with it,” Facebook said in a statement.
In an open letter released yesterday, the Biden campaign accused Facebook of having taken “no meaningful action” in terms of using “its platform to improve American democracy rather than as a tool to spread disinformation that undermines our elections.”
Biden claimed that Facebook “continues to allow Donald Trump to say anything — and to pay to ensure that his wild claims reach millions of voters.” According to the former Vice President under President Barack Obama, “Trump and his allies have used Facebook to spread fear and misleading information about voting, attempting to compromise the means of holding power to account: our voices and our ballot boxes.”
Less than 150 days from the election, the Biden campaign provided several recommendations “to fix the problems” Facebook allegedly has.
“We call for Facebook to proactively stem the tide of false information by no longer amplifying untrustworthy content and promptly fact-checking election-related material that goes viral,” the open letter stated.
Biden also wants Facebook “to stop allowing politicians to hide behind paid misinformation in the hope that the truth will catch up only after Election Day. There should be a two-week pre-election period during which all political advertisements must be fact-checked before they are permitted to run on Facebook.”
Finally, the open letter called “for clear rules — applied to everyone, including Donald Trump — that prohibit threatening behavior and lies about how to participate in the election.”
Facebook promptly responded, pointing out that “[w]e live in a democracy, where the elected officials decide the rules around campaigns.”
“Two weeks ago the President of the United States issued an executive order directing Federal agencies to prevent social media sites from engaging in activities like fact-checking political statements,” Facebook emphasized. “This week, the Democratic candidate for President started a petition calling on us to do the exact opposite.”
According to Facebook, government could regulate political advertisements online similar to the regulations already in place for traditional broadcast networks, “where the US government prohibits rejecting politicians’ campaign ads.” The tech company promised to follow any rules implemented in this way. It rejected following Biden’s ideas of censorship.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during an interview in mid-April that he considers protests against stay-at-home orders, which are often planned via Facebook, to be “harmful misinformation” that must be deleted.
While claiming that “it’s important that people can debate policies,” Zuckerberg indicated that there is a limit to how much freedom he will allow Facebook’s users to do this.
“But, you know, more than normal political discourse, I think a lot of the stuff that people are saying that is false around a health emergency like this can be classified as harmful misinformation that has a risk of leading to imminent physical danger and we’ll just take that kind of content down,” he said.
On the other hand, Zuckerberg claimed on May 28 that Facebook “shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.” He said, “Private companies probably shouldn’t be, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
Facebook had also introduced an international Oversight Board packed with leftists and people with ties to globalist George Soros, wielding massive power to judge what is acceptable speech.
“Facebook’s Oversight Board will have the final say on content that gets taken down or left up,” wrote Newsbusters. “With only two conservative voices on the board, conservatives are already poorly represented and that only scratches the surface of the board’s problems. Some of the new members of the board are so radical that they undermine the board’s neutrality.”
The Oversight Board was created to “help Facebook answer some of the most difficult questions around freedom of expression online: what to take down, what to leave up, and why.”
Twitter has not been as careful as Facebook to stay out of political debates.
Within 24 hours of President Donald Trump signing an executive order on May 28 to combat social media censorship, the social media giant slapped a tweet published by Trump with a warning label.
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence,” the company posted. “However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
Trump had commented on the riots in Minneapolis, saying, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
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lifesitenews--2020-06-12--Advice from the apostle Paul on how to handle these difficult times

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