On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Each May 15, Palestinians solemnly commemorate Nakba Day. Nakba means catastrophe, and that’s precisely what Israel’s independence has been for the more than 700,000 Arabs and their five million refugee descendants forced from their homes and into exile, often by horrific violence, to make way for the Jewish state.
“Church leaders in Jerusalem have accused Israel of undermining Christianity in the Holy Land and weakening the faith at a time of severe tensions in the Middle East.
The heads of Jerusalem’s major churches—including its Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Lutheran denominations, among others—criticized Israel’s lawmakers and its courts following a ruling that mandate” the sale of church buildings to a Jewish settler organization.”
“According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting $3,994,797,060.10. That’s nearly $4 billion to keep things hush hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, as we cannot know for sure the agreed upon “under the table” amount.
The figure is based on a three-month investigation of data, which includes a review of over 7,800 articles from LexisNexis Academic and NCR databases and information from BishopAccountability.org. Reports from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were also used.”
The 2018 Washington State Uniform Parentage Act passed the state legislature completely on party lines, and was signed by the governor into law on March 6, 2018, rescinding a long-standing state statute prohibiting this practice. This law was probably marketed to many of the liberal Democrat majority legislators/state executive branch officials as benignly as enhancing opportunities for many legally married gay couples/infertile heterosexual couples to have families, without sharing with these lawmakers that this practice had been banned in other US states/many foreign countries, and why. These liberal legislators apparently did not do their due diligence, and therefore did not discern that voluntary/altruistic parental surrogacy is one thing — but, when commercialized, can become something else altogether — and not something any good at all.