News Updates
- As per an 11/26/19 email from NJ Right to Life, A5802 has tragically passed and we must continue to oppose "this shameful scheme to use $9.5 Million of our tax dollars to subsidize Planned Parenthood's abortion business. The companion bill (S4103) will probably be heard next in the Senate Budget Committee on Thursday, December 5, 2019, with a vote following shortly thereafter in the full Senate, possibly on Monday, December 16th....Tell your State Senators to Please Vote No on S4103/A5802"
- "'In the Sahel the fundamental human rights are violated every day: the right to life, to religious freedom, to education, to property, to security,' denounced the Bishops of Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Mali and Ivory Coast, in a statement released at the end of a meeting held in Ouagadougou, on the crisis that is devastating the region due to the violence of armed jihadist groups that hit vast areas of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso" (Zenit, 11/25/19).
- "a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that had overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives was recently blocked from moving forward in the Senate by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)....
"The House passed the resolution...just over two weeks before an official visit of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House. The resolution [was] sponsored by Rep. Adan Schiff (D-Calif.)....
"Many scholars have recognized the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923 by name; in that span, the Armenian minority—mostly Christians—in eastern Anatolia was systematically displaced and annihilated by the Ottoman Empire. The death toll of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs is estimated to be around 1.5 million.
"Turkey has long denied that genocide took place, claiming the number of deaths is far less than estimated and that they were largely due to conflicts related to World War I....
"the White House reportedly did not want to let the resolution torpedo its efforts to get Turkey to reject an S-400 missile system from Russia" (CNA, 11/25/19).
- New US asylum rule is gambling with lives of migrants, Catholic leaders warn (CNA, 11/25/19)
- Vatican officials: Swiss bank suspected of money laundering led to Pell conflict – Catholic World Report (Catholic World Report, 11/21/19)
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