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Russian church: Homosexuality is personal choice
Homosexuality protector but Jesus defiant
Moscow, Russia – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said Wednesday that although the church views homosexuality as a sin, gays should not face discrimination.
Patriarch Kirill said “those who sin” must not be punished and therefore the church opposes any discrimination. Same-sex unions, however, should not be considered equal to heterosexual...
Controversy erupts over Holocaust revisionism in E. Europe
Stalin, the man who committed the largest genocide on Earth is promoted as a Hero in Eastern Europe
Was the Soviet Union a force for good or ill during the Nazi years?
That question is at the core of a controversy between and among some Jewish groups and former Soviet republics over the issue of Holocaust revisionism, and it erupted last week at a conference in Berlin organized by the World Congress...
Austria to pay $28.5 million for restoration of Jewish cemeteries
A Jewish Cemetery
Austria’s government said Tuesday it would pay $28.5 million for the restoration of the country’s Jewish cemeteries, many of them in a sad state more than six decades after the end of the brutal Nazi era.
The announcement – following a high-level meeting in the chancellery – brings to a close years of acrimony over who should fund the much-needed endeavor.
It...
British war memorial defaced with "Islam will dominate the world"
Islam will dominate the world if you don’t stand up today!
The graffiti was removed with lightning speed and the news report of the incident doesn’t say what it said, but rather blames the “far right.” Apparently there are forces in the U.K. who don’t want people to know that some Muslims crow about how Islam will dominate.
“Vandals deface the town war memorial,”...
Israel to seek another 1 billion euros in Holocaust reparations from Germany
More Billions of Euros for Israel
The Israeli government is calling on Berlin to make additional payments, even though Jerusalem signed a written promise, after the end of the compensation negotiations, that the Jewish state would “file no further claims against the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1 billion euros in reparations...
Soviet Union to be restored in the form of new customs union by 2017
The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of the emergent customs union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan
The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of...
Majour Nationalist Union: FPO + BZO became Austria's Largest Political Party
FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache (Right) and Carinthian BZOe chairman Uwe Scheuch (Left)
Strache and Scheuch announced a merger of their parties.
Austrian Federal Party (FPO) leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Carinthian BZO chairman Uwe Scheuch shake hands at a press conference to announce the joining together of the Carinthian BZO and Austrian FPO, in Vienna, Austria on December 16, 2009. The...
Germany and Spain seek to cut swine flu vaccine orders as millions refuse to take shot
Vaccines
Germany and Spain want to reduce deliveries of swine flu vaccine and potentially return excess supplies to manufacturers, due to low uptake of the shots, in a move that could hit drugmakers’ profits.
Germany’s health ministry said on Thursday some German states had been in talks with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline about reducing deliveries of H1N1 vaccine, but the talks had as...
Snowy Europe cold snap brings transport chaos
Snow slams Europe and defies the so-called Global Warming
Europe shivered under a snowy pre-Christmas cold snap on Friday that closed airports, caused chaos on the roads and gave some school kids an early start to their holidays.
The Swiss canton of Grisons recorded a record low temperature of minus 32 degrees Celsius (minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, and early snow was seen across the continent...
Germany to send 2,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Germany plans to send up to 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to requests from the United States and other NATO partners, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Citing NATO and German Defence Ministry sources, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the United States and NATO members had already received signals to this effect.
A ministry spokesman declined to confirm the...
Muslims Slaughtered Animals in the Center of Moscow and Saint Petersburg
Muslims in Russia
Every big city is international and it is impossible to avoid that. Once a city has peopled and population limit exceeded at least several millions, a sea of immigrants in the search of work and easy money start flooding the city out and it becomes hectic and busy. As soon as such a thing has already happened, it would be hardly possible to prevent the collision of different religions...
New EU foreign policy chief lambastes 'Israeli occupation'
Catherine Ashton
Government officials in Jerusalem harshly criticized the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, for her scathing remarks about the “Israeli occupation” in her maiden speech.
Ashton on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at Israeli policy in her first speech as the European Union’s first high representative...
Severe winter weather slams Ukraine
Despite these word-wide Heavy Snow Storms, the Global Warming hoax is still advancing.
Severe winter in Ukraine has left thousands of drivers stranded and dozens of villages without power, local media reported Friday. Heavy snow that knocked down power lines left 158 villages and towns in the former Soviet republic without power, said officials from the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES).
The worst-hit...
Bulgaria PM Backs Nationalist Call for Turkish News Referendum
The leader of Ataka, Volen Siderov, and fellow party members want to eliminate broadcasts in languages other than Bulgarian on State TV and Radio.
The Bulgarian governing center-right party GERB has supported the nationalist Ataka party’s call for a national referendum on whether to continue allowing the broadcast of Turkish language news on BNT1.
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov, speaking in Parliament,...
Italy: Jail Time and Fine for those who try to remove the Holy Cross from Public Disply
A Crucifix in an Italian school
Liberal senators led by Silvio Berlusconi have placed on the agenda of the last meeting of the Italian Senate passed a bill to protect the Holy Cross sign ‘as a universal sign of culture and Christian civilization’ reported ‘Radio Liberty’ – Moldova.
According to the definitions set out in the document, the Holy Cross sign is a sacred symbol...