A mother’s voice may do far more than soothe her child, new research suggests.
When moms spoke, several areas of their children’s brains were activated, the researchers reported. These included regions involved in emotion and reward processing, social functions, facial recognition and the detection of what is personally relevant. Continue reading…
Pope Francis says that London’s election of the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital is an example of how migrants can be integrated in Europe.
Voters in the English capital elected Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, on May 6 after a campaign in which the Conservative candidate, Zac Goldsmith, was criticized for focusing on Labour candidate Khan’s religion.
In an interview with French Catholic newspaper La Croix published on Tuesday, the leader of the Catholic Church said that Khan’s election provided an encouraging sign as other parts of Europe put up borders to migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa. Francis, 79, cited the orchestrators of the Brussels attacks—in which suicide bombings at an airport and metro station killed 36 people in March—as an example of the consequences of not integrating migrants. Many of the perpetrators of both the Brussels attacks and Paris attacks that killed 130 people in November 2015 grew up in the Molenbeek district of the Belgian capital, seen as a haven for extremists. Continue reading…
Facebook is a for-profit company that makes money packaging its users’ information to sell to advertisers and other entities. The company’s goal is not to produce a “balanced” information diet for its users. People who are shocked that Facebook might be skewing their newsfeed probably shouldn’t have trusted them with their news diet in the first place, given its history. Remember those confusing and ever-changing privacy settings, and that experiment to see whether users’ moods could be manipulated by changing the newsfeed? This is not the company I’d trust to tell me what’s important in the world. Continue reading…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The police warned 14-year-old Bobby Alia that there would be consequences after he was accused of stealing a cellphone in November 2003, the boy’s mother said. A few days later he was dead, stabbed in the back with a butcher knife.
He was the third of Clarita Alia’s sons to die in Davao, the southern Philippines’ largest city, in killings that remain unsolved. A fourth was killed in 2007. All had been accused of crimes, all were stabbed and all, Ms. Alia said, had received similar warnings from the police.
For years, rights groups have called for an investigation into whether Davao’s mayor, Rodrigo Duterte — the tough-talking politician who next month will become president of the Philippines — was complicit in the killings of hundreds of people in Davao since the 1980s by what they describe as government-sanctioned death squads. Continue reading…
NEW YORK — Three out of every 10 gay or bisexual men in several cities in the U.S. South have been diagnosed with the AIDS virus, three times the national rate, according to a study about how common HIV infections are in metro areas.
The study echoes other research that reported higher rates of HIV diagnoses in the South, in urban areas, and in gay and bisexual men, but it is the first to look at how common HIV diagnoses are in these men by city.
“For the first time, we can see not only the numbers, but the proportions,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report found 21 of the 25 metro areas with the highest levels of HIV diagnosis in gay and bisexual men were in the South. HIV was diagnosed in about 3 in 10 gay and bisexual men in El Paso, Texas; Augusta, Georgia; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In Jackson, Mississippi, the rate was 4 in 10, the highest in the nation. Continue reading…
May 17 marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. In the U.S., President Barack Obama said the country is committed to the principle that everyone must be treated fairly and with respect, but there is work to be done.
“In too many places, LGBT individuals grow up forced to conceal or deny who they truly are for fear of persecution, discrimination and violence,” Obama said in a statement.
The president added that his administration has made “great strides,” including marriage equality as a result of last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision. Continue reading…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday proposed legalizing gay marriage, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar same-sex couples from wedding.
Speaking at an event on the International Day Against Homophobia, Pena Nieto said he signed initiatives that would seek to add same-sex marriage provisions to Mexico’s constitution and the national civil code. Continue reading…
A new study shows that potentially thousands of Christians have been attacked and harassed in German migrant homes by Muslim guards and fellow migrants.Multiple human rights organizations are warning the German government of the conditions that Christians in asylum homes are being subjected to. One organization in particular has chronicled 231 specific cases of the harassment of Christians by Muslim migrants and Muslim security guards in asylum homes. Continue reading…
“The scientific poll was created by the filmmaking team behind ‘The Young Messiah,’ based on an Anne Rice novel. Jesus was apparently a socialist who would support Bernie Sanders for president. At least those are the implications of a poll taken by those who are marketing the June 9 DVD release of The Young Messiah, based on an Anne Rice novel about Jesus as a child.” –Source
First and foremost, anything from Hollywood is going to be demon inspired and so there is no need to dig into the man Cyrus Nowrasteh that actually directed the film “the young Messiah.” And yes, if you’re wondering, all that comes from Hollywood is of Satan. The name of their city alone confirms this hands down. Ask any witch what wood he or she prefers to use for the wand they wield in incantations and they will tell you the wood of the holly tree, or holly wood. So again, the director is no different than any other director in Hollywood.
But what of the author?
The woman “Anne Rice” that wrote the “Christian novel” titled “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” of which Cyrus Nowrasteh created the movie “The Young Messiah” that was released last March is not Christian by any means. In the movie it appears as per eyewitness accounts that the “Jesus” in the film was a Socialist. And so, I did my digging as I usually do and found that the woman that wrote the novel that became the movie had other works in her repertoire. And those works were very violent, horrific, perverted and sexual to boot. In fact, her list or “genre” states she writes “Gothic fiction, horror, Erotica, Christian fiction, Fantasy.” So, I dug a tad deeper and found she became an Atheist at the age of 18 but later in 1998, wherein she almost died and was in a coma for a while, she went back to her family faith of, you guessed it, Roman Catholicism. So of course her novel about Jesus in His youth was bound to be made into a movie wherein it would be released in an election year so as to further spread seeds of Socialism into every nook and cranny that the Pope of Rome can find. Also keep in mind that since the Bible doesn’t go into much detail in Jesus’ youth, this movie will have to be mostly fiction (lies) drummed up in the mind of a woman not walking with Jesus. Continue reading…
Vatican City, May 14, 2016 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Economic worldviews based only on material well-being cannot contribute to dignified labor and new models of economic progress are needed, Pope Francis told a gathering of business experts on Friday.
“An economic vision geared to profit and material well-being alone is – as experience is daily showing us – incapable of contributing in a positive way to a globalization that favours the integral development of the world’s peoples, a just distribution of the earth’s resources, the guarantee of dignified labour and the encouragement of private initiative and local enterprise,” Pope Francis said May 13 to the members of the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation. Source