Belgium Issues Iodine Pills to All Citizens in Nuclear Emergency Plan

Belgium is to issue iodine tablets to its entire population as part of a revised nuclear emergency plan, a measure unveiled just months after it emerged that ISIS-linked bombers spied on a top scientist and hoped to build a "dirty bomb." A dose of iodine, which helps to limit the effects of radiation on the body, will be made available to all 11 million people in the small country, Health Minister Maggie De Block told reporters Thursday.

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Catholics and Protestants Unite Politically

Pope Francis needs to lead the world in confronting radical Islam, said the leader of approximately 600 million Protestants. Thomas Schirrmacher, chief theologian for the World Evangelical Alliance, declared this in an interview published Nov. 5, 2015. A significant push toward this movement started at the three-week-long family Synod of the Catholic Church in October 2015. Dr. Schirrmacher was among the 270 cardinals, bishops and experts attending the assembly. Die Welt reported that Pope Francis and Schirrmacher had in-depth discussions throughout the three-week synod.

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Televangelist asks for $1,144 seed money in exchange for God's deliverance

Longtime televangelist and senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" she says was set by God.
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Longtime televangelist and senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" she says was set by God.
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Longtime televangelist and senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" she says was set by God. 

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Man Shot Dead during Church Service over seat

The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office says a man displayed a badge he purchased online to a fellow church member prior to shooting him to death during Sunday morning service. District Attorney Kevin Steele announced the charges of voluntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment against 46-year-old Mark Storms of Lansdale.

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Leading Rabbi: Marijuana Kosher for Passover

Consuming marijuana for medical reasons is kosher for Passover, a leading rabbi has ruled, after being presented with cannabis leaves and told that they have a ‘healing’ smell.

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Jesuit University Fires Professor Over Biblical Marriage views

Marquette University has moved to suspend and then fire Professor John McAdams for backing a student who tried to defend man-woman marriage when a leftist teaching assistant shut the student down.

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Obama: We Are Living in the Most Peaceful Era in Human History

Editorial

During his trip to Germany, President Barack Obama stated that the world which we are now living in is the "most peaceful era" in human history. Yet the prophecies found in the Holy Scriptures tell us that the exact opposite is happening. Bible prophecy provides to us the framework by which the end-times will unfold.

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Is constant digital stimulation making us bored?

Iamazes me when people proclaim that they are bored. Actually, it amazes me that I am ever bored, or that any of us are. With so much to occupy us these days, boredom should be a relic of a bygone age – an age devoid of the internet, social media, multi-channel TV, 24-hour shopping, multiplex cinemas, game consoles, texting and whatever other myriad possibilities are available these days to entertain us.

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Sunday Rest for TV Industry

The television industry is known for toiling relentlessly to give us our daily dose of entertainment. Due to the frenetic pace, actors and technicians are hardly left with any time to unwind. However, there is some respite in sight for them as the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has decided to make every second Sunday a mandatory holiday for the TV industry from April 1. While artistes have welcomed the move, producers are worried about its adverse effects on the telecast of their shows.

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Mexican Protestants left without water after refusing to fund Roman Catholic festivity

The local authorities of the San Jose neighbourhood in the city of Teopisca, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, have cut off water to a group of evangelicals, for refusing to fund the Roman Catholic patron saint festivity. 

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26,000 Sign Petition to end Catholic University Drag Show

Over 26,000 people have signed a petition calling upon a Roman Catholic university in California to cancel a “hyper-sexualized drag show,” the fifth of its kind at the Catholic-based educational institution.

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Prince raised Seventh-day Adventist turned Jehovah's Witness

Like fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson, who once went door-to-door with religious tracts in Alabama, Prince was a Jehovah's Witness. Prince, 57, who died on Thursday, became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001. "I don't see it really as a conversion," Prince said in an interview with The New Yorker. "More, you know, it's a realization. It's like Morpheus and Neo in 'The Matrix.'"

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Eight dead in historic Houston Floods

The deaths of eight drivers whose bodies were pulled from vehicles inundated by this week's torrential rains in the Houston area have prompted local leaders to push for improvements in how they warn people about the dangers of flooded roads.

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Indonesian community celebrates feast with the dead

An Indonesian community has begun celebrations of an annual festival honouring the dead which sees hundreds of centuries-old corpses exhumed, dressed in clothes and put on display.

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Quake toll reaches more than 600 as aftershocks spook Ecuador

The death toll from Ecuador's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake rose to 602 people on Friday, as dozens of aftershocks shook cities and towns around the country, spooking residents but causing no further damage.

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500 Migrants May Have Died in Sinking of Boat

The United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday that 500 people may have died in the choppy waters of the Mediterranean last week, when a large boat packed with migrants from Africa and the Middle East capsized in an unknown location between Libya and Italy.

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Japan Hit with 600 earthquakes in 5 Days

On April 14, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck to the east of Kumamoto city (the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan’s Kyushu Island, killing local residents and damaging infrastructure. It was followed by multiple aftershocks. The following day, the same area was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

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Obama Jokes about "White Guy" Supreme Court Pick

A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe

About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler just completed a week of largely autonomous driving across Europe, the first such major exercise on the continent.

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Norway’s Leading Church Votes In Favor Of Same-Sex Marriage

Norway’s Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favor of allowing same-sex marriage, becoming the latest of a small but growing number of churches worldwide to do so. Last year the French Protestant Church allowed gay marriage blessings, while the U.S. Presbyterian Church approved a change in the wording of its constitution to include same-sex marriage.

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Muslim Students Think Brussels Terrorists Are ‘Heroes’ Say Teachers

Teachers working in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels have reported that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old” called the Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris and Brussels “heroes”.
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Obama just gave cops the OK to simply take your stuff

When Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided late last year that the Justice Department would end the federal civil asset forfeiture program, criminal justice reform advocates proclaimed it a “significant deal.”

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Mother says sex with her son is incredible

A mother reunited with the son she gave up for adoption 30 years ago says now they’re in love - and trying for a baby together. Kim West, 51, has been in a relationship with her biological son Ben Ford, 32, for two years and believe they are ‘meant to be’ after she was forced to give him up for adoption just a week after he was born.

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20,000 lesbians, welcome to a world without men

Every year at the end of March, 20,000 lesbians from around the world fly into the Californian desert for five days of debauchery, and I’m one of them. It’s my second time at the Dinah, also known as the largest girl festival in the world. I’m staying at the Hilton in Palm Springs, which is hosting the famous Dinah pool parties, and the hotel feels like a homosexual harem.

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Pope to church: Be more accepting of gays and lesbians

Pope Francis put his shoulder to the doors of the Catholic Church and shoved them open a little wider Friday, calling for the church to be more tolerant in practice while not changing any official doctrines.

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Joel Osteen Says He’s Not Cheating People by Neglecting to Preach on Repentance, Hell

Megachurch self-help author and motivational speaker Joel Osteen says that he doesn’t believe that he’s “cheating people” by neglecting to preach on repentance or eternal punishment as he opines that people “feel guilty enough.”

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Man turns himself into a dragon by removing ears and nose

A transgender former banker claims to be the first and only person to have both ears cosmetically removed as part of her ongoing quest to become a 'dragon'.

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U.S. Army captain allowed to wear beard and turban in uniform

For close to a decade, Simratpal Singh felt torn between the ideals of his faith and those of the U.S. Army. No more. The Army has granted Capt. Singh, a Sikh, permission to serve while wearing a turban over his long hair and a beard with his uniform.

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Dad allegedly left baby in car to get strip club lap dance

A Van Nuys father has been charged with leaving his 9-month-old girl in his car for an hour during a daytime visit to a strip club, prosecutors said. Auwin Dargin, 24, pleaded not guilty Monday to one count of child abuse, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. If convicted of the charges, Dargin faces up to six years in prison, prosecutor said.

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After 800 Years, Oxford Theology Students To Swap Christianity For Feminism, Buddhism, Islam Studies

Oxford University is deviating from its 800-year-old tradition to remain relevant to "the dramatic change" in the U.K., by allowing its undergraduate theology students to skip studying Christianity after the first year of their degree, and choose instead subjects like "Feminist Approaches to Theology and Religion" and "Buddhism in Space and Time."

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Israel Investing Nearly $3 Million in Homosexual Tourism

Israel’s Ministry of Tourism will invest NIS 11 million ($2.9 million) to promote homosexual tourism to the Jewish state.

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ISIS has 400 trained fighters in Europe

The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum chaos, officials have told The Associated Press.

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President Obama: Capitalism and Communism is the same

Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says "We are brothers"

Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks.

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44% of American workers can't sleep at night

What’s keeping you up at night? If you’re like many of us, it’s work worries. 44% of American workers say they have lost sleep because they were worrying about work, with roughly one in four saying this happens to them at least once a week, according to a survey of 3,200 workers conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder. Another survey from 2013 of more than 1,400 employees yielded even higher numbers: three in four had lost sleep over work issues.

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Exorcism is on the Rise

You might think it’s a ancient rite that belongs in the dark ages, but exorcism is making a big comeback. A wave of recent incidents has seen a presidential candidate publicly ‘exorcised’, a murderer begging to be cleansed of the devil and a woman who was “possessed by a snake” going through a ritual at a church.

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Pope Francis is more popular than any political world leader

The poll by WIN/Gallup International indicates that Roman Catholics and Jews have the most favorable opinion of the Pope. More than half of the world's protestants and even the majority of atheists and agnostics view him favorably.

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Sunday Trading vote a ‘victory for faith and the family’

The Christian Institute has welcomed MPs’ “wonderful” refusal to open the door to extended Sunday shopping hours in England and Wales. Yesterday the House of Commons voted 317 to 286 to drop the Government’s controversial Sunday Trading plans.

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Baptist Woman Wearing Muslim Hijab to Show Solidarity

To protest the anti-Muslim rhetoric of this presidential campaign, high school counselor Martha DeVries decided to wear a hijab in public every Monday. DeVries, 47, attends a Baptist church and identifies as "a follower of Jesus," but said she felt a responsibility to outwardly display her acceptance of Muslims and refugees.

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Michigan Schools To Let Students Choose Gender, Name And Bathroom

Michigan’s State Board of Education has drafted a guidance that would push the state’s schools to allow all students, regardless of parental or doctoral input, to choose their gender, name, pronouns, and bathrooms.

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Gay-Sponsored Hunky Jesus Contest

Christians have criticized an event in San Francisco, Ca. that invited contestants to enter a "Hunky Jesus" competition, calling it distasteful and offensive.

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Obama pledge to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees far behind scheduale

Six months in, President Barack Obama's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States by the end of the fiscal year is in serious jeopardy.

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"She's in heaven" – Pope Francis on Mother Angelica

Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a special blessing for Mother Angelica following her death on Easter Sunday, expressing his confidence that she is already in heaven.

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1st-Graders Suspended for Plotting to Poison, Kill Classmate

A group of first grade students at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage, Alaska, hatched a plan to poison and kill one of their classmates, according to the principal. The three students, who have since been suspended, planned to use silica gel, thinking it was toxic, according to KTUU.

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