via AP: Pope Francis embraced weeping mothers, fathers and children with Huntington’s Disease on Thursday as he sought to remove the stigma of an incurable genetic disorder that causes such devastating physical and psychiatric effects that its sufferers are often shunned and abandoned. One by one, Francis blessed and greeted each of the family members… Read More Pope Francis Meets with Huntington’s Disease Patients
via NY Times: President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting. “I hope you can let this go,” the president… Read More Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to Shut Down Flynn Investigation
Pope Francis: “Access to food and water is a basic human right, yet so many members of our human family, especially children, continue to suffer from hunger and thirst.”
via Washington Post: The Syrian government has constructed and is using a crematorium inside its notorious Sednaya military prison outside Damascus to clandestinely dispose of thousands of prisoners it continues to execute inside the facility. At least 50 prisoners a day are executed in the prison, some in mass hangings, said Stuart Jones, the acting… Read More Assad Regime Using Crematorium to Burn Victims’ Bodies
Pope Francis: “If you want to find God, seek him where he is hidden: in the neediest, the sick, the hungry, the imprisoned.”
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Don’t be fooled: Assad is no friend of Syria’s Christian minorities by Bahnan Yamin, Samira Moubayed, Mirna Barq, and George Stifo: “Syrians right now, both Christians and Muslim, are the victims of a tyrannical regime on the one side and radical Islamist terrorists such as ISIS… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Allison Walter has a new article at NCR: A recent study from LinkedIn says that millennials switch jobs on average of four times in their first decade out of college. Some might see that as a symptom of the “next-best-thing”-generation. But I don’t think it’s necessarily a negative phenomenon. To me, it’s a… Read More Searching for a Vocation: Facing a Quarter-Life Crisis
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