Search for "VIPREG2024 how to use promo code in 1xbet Mexico"

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…t. Even though most people say they’re more worried about immigration from Mexico and Central America, whites are really dead-set against Muslims coming to the US. They’re also not big fans of immigration in general. There are similar breakdowns to what we’ve seen above when people are asked whether “immigrants are more of a burden on the country because they take jobs, housing, and health care,” or whether immigrants are changing American society…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…than keeping the remains at home or scattering them in various places because it acknowledges that the person is a member of the human family. Also, it stops us from being erased altogether from the human story because even when our people are gone we may still be remembered. “It prevents the faithful departed from being forgotten, or their remains from being shown a lack of respect, which eventuality is possible, most especially once the immedia…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…even those school systems (and teachers and students) who can gasp their way across the finish line will remain in an ethically challenged condition. Because, as Bill Coffin used to say, “Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”…

Knights of Columbus: Jousting to “Preserve Marriage”

By Kate Childs Graham

…1.7 million members throughout the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Guatemala, Guam and Spain. In a press release about the $1 million donation, spokesperson Patrick Korten stated: “From the day we were founded 126 years ago, strengthening and protecting the family has always been central to the mission of the Knights of Columbus. Preserving marria…

Russian Zombies Follow in Pussy Riot Footsteps

By Joseph Laycock

…y carry heavier sentences if they are deemed “religiously aggravated.” Because their disruptive performance was deemed to have been “motivated by religious hatred,” the band members were sentenced to two years in prison. Zombie walks have occurred all over the world. Why is it that in Russia they are regarded as threatening and socially subversive? One factor is that Yakovlev organized demonstrations against election results last December, causing…

“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…ackness, and become a scourge to the Nephites.” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.” A second changed chapter heading appears in Mormon, chapter 5: * Old version: “The Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people. . .” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites will be scattered, and the Spirit…

God’s Heart Has No Borders

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

…icated ways in which religious belief, ritual, resources and scripture are used—and sometimes cannot be used—in these movements for social change. Those discussions should interest academic audiences who specialize in studying social movements and religion. I’m not trying to piss people off, but invariably, some people will be angry. What alternate title would you give the book? Well, I had initially wanted to call it “Faith in Immigrant Rights” b…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…. (Note: Allen uses male pronouns and “transgendered” in his story; I have used feminine pronouns and would use “transgender.”) It’s safe to say that indicators from the Vatican are mixed: As the year drew to a close, Bishop Charles Scicluna of Malta invoked the Pope in opposition to a proposed law that would allow civil unions and adoption by same-sex couples; the bishop said the pope was “shocked” by the law and encouraged him to speak out again…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…ater, the dog in the backyard began to bark violently and fled under the house. Billy Ray and the son of the farmhouse’s owner, Lucky Sutton, went to the door and saw a strange glow slowly drifting toward them. The small figure approaching in the light had a round head, large wideset yellow eyes, and arms that reached almost to the ground. It was about three and a half feet tall, and it gave off a cold, silvery luminescent glow. Its taloned hands…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…n amazing diversity of cultures, religions, and ways of life precisely because our nation’s founders had a Christian vision of the human person, freedom, and truth.” He passionately argues that Americans must both “remember the missionary history of America” and “rededicate ourselves to the vision of America’s founding creed.” He warns: When we forget our country’s roots in the Hispanic-Catholic mission to the new world, we end up with distorted…