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The Israeli Police forces and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest-ranking Catholic official in the Holy Land, announced jointly on Monday that they had agreed to an arrangement to allow for Catholic ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Holy Week. Israeli authorities banned Cardinal Pizzaballa from conducting Mass at the church on Sunday – Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week marking the arrival of Jesus to Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion. The Israeli government had banned mass religious ceremonies at the holy sites of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in the Old City of Jerusalem in response…

Russia has agreed to extend a contract on gas supplies to Serbia, according to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to extend the gas supply contract with Serbia amid the worsening global energy crisis due to the war in the Middle East, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced after his phone call to Putin on Monday.The US-Israeli attack on Iran has sent global gas and oil prices skyrocketing as shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint, have dwindled to a trickle in recent weeks.Serbia, which has historically maintained close ties with Russia, has…

A group of gunmen in Mexico fired into a bar in the popular beach resort city of Cancun, injuring five people. The shooting comes just days after a similar shooting in Playa Del Carmen, another popular tourist destination. The shooting took place on Monday, early morning, at a bar called Fusion in the northwest part of Cancun. According to the local news outlet Noticaribe, the gunmen approached the bar and began firing inside. There were only 10 people inside at the time of the shooting. The gunmen managed to escape before authorities arrived. Local police and paramedics tended to five…

You would think that during March Madness, the CBS pre-game show would have enough basketball to talk about that they wouldn’t need to swerve into immigration policy, but you would be wrong. On Sunday, after airing a feature on UCONN star Alex Karaban, a first-generation American of Belarusian immigrants, former NBA great Charles Barkley took that opportunity to launch into a diatribe about his perception of how illegal immigrants are treated in America. “I want to be very careful with my words right now, because this is a really touchy subject for me,” Barkley started by saying. “I love that…

Many aspects of the US-Israeli aggression look like attempts to fulfil biblical prophecies The current conflict between Iran and Israel isn’t a classic war driven by strict geopolitical interests. Certainly, the rivalry between the two countries is very well known and everybody focuses on the Strait of Hormuz and the dramatic economic consequences of its disruption.  Of course, a lot of people rightly observed the timing: this sudden turn of events has been perfect to bury the Epstein scandal under Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian (and even Israeli) rubble. But aren’t these considerations purely temporary?The conflict initiated by Israel (and into…

Unknown gunmen opened fire “indiscriminately” in a residential area of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria on Sunday night, killing an estimated 30 people during a time in which jihadists in the country tend to orchestrate massacres against Christians. Christians around the world marked Palm Sunday this week, the first day of Holy Week and a holiday that observes the arrival of Jesus to Jerusalem shortly before his crucifixion. Religious freedom advocates, witnesses to jihadist violence, and researchers have compiled years of evidence indicating that groups such as Boko Haram, the Islamic State, and the Fulani jihadists more common in the Middle…

The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump is urging lawmakers to come back from their paid recess and work on funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing that the president is calling on members to return to the nation’s capital, which they are not scheduled to do until their recess ends in two weeks. The call comes days after the president signed a memorandum directing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to work with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought to pay Transportation Security Administration…

Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC) is leading 54 of his colleagues in the filing of an amicus brief in defense of the National Shooting Sports Foundation in its case against Letitia James, the attorney general of New York (NSSF v. James). Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is leading a number of his colleagues in an amicus brief on the Senate side, including Republican Sens. Jim Banks, John Barrasso, Ted Budd, Shelley Capito, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, Kevin Cramer, Mike Crapo, Steve Daines, Lindsey O. Graham, Chuck Grassley, John Hoeven, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Jim Justice, James Lankford, Mike Lee, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Pete Ricketts,…

Intruders broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa, taking works by Renoir, Cezanne, and Matisse Four masked thieves stole several valuable paintings from a museum in Italy earlier this month, local authorities have reported.The haul includes ‘Fish’ by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ‘Odalisque on the Terrace’ by Henri Matisse, and Paul Cezanne’s ‘Still Life with Cherries’, with the works estimated to be worth around $10 million, according to Italian media.On Monday, Italian police said the intruders forced entry into the villa housing the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma on the night of March 22. Museum representatives told local outlets the heist lasted…

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a record $45.8 billion defense budget Monday as the war in Iran entered its second month. The Israeli military has certainly earned its keep, performing with distinction during a string of crises: the savage October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas; the ensuing Gaza War; responding to attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon; the instability created by the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad; and now the war in Iran. Since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion a month ago, Israeli airstrikes have eliminated Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and numerous other top officials…