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February 2020

The Palestinian Hamas movement [the week of December 15, 2019] celebrated its 32nd anniversary by reminding everyone of its main goal: the destruction of Israel . This message is proof that Hamas has not – and will not – change its charter, originally published in 1988. It is also a...Read more
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The blending of voodoo into Roman Catholicism is not merely at the parish level. It goes to the top and involves more than mere tolerance. Newspapers around the world carried the following story of the Pope encouraging voodoo priests to make a Constantine-like “conversion”: “Pope John Paul II sought common...Read more
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In Haiti, as elsewhere where Rome was in control, baptism into the Roman Catholic Church was compulsory. The converted slaves continued to practice their pagan religions under the appearance of Catholicism by disguising their African gods with the names of Catholic saints. In 1790, Moreau de Saint-Mery observed that “African...Read more
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Evolutionists are desperate to find extraterrestrial life. Why? Because their worldview demands it. If life evolved here on earth, it must exist elsewhere—after all, in their view, the earth is only 4.5-billion-years-old, but the universe is 13.5-billion-years-old. So, if life evolved here, it must have evolved elsewhere, given how much...Read more
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An article in Our Sunday Visitor titled “In the Temple of the Voodoo” asks this question: “Why is New Orleans, one of the world’s most Catholic cities, caught in the bewitching spell of an ancient cult?” The author provides many examples of Catholicism ’s comfortable relationship with Voodoo: “Celeste Champagne...Read more
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The International Association of Exorcists (AIE) [in Rome] has issued a statement warning parents of the dangers of a 2019 children’s book that gives instructions on how to summon up demons. The statement refers to A Children’s Book of Demons , a book targeting children aged 5-10 by Aaron Leighton,...Read more
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As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only...Read more
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Images, holy water, and Catholic rituals cannot be found in the Bible, but have all been adapted from paganism. Their counterpart is found today in voodoo and related cults. Haiti, which is said to be “eighty-five percent Catholic and one hundred and ten percent Vodoun,” is one of many modern...Read more
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A decline in religion is a factor in the prevalence of depression and anxiety among children, believes psychoanalyst and parenting coach Erica Komisar. Writing in The Wall Street Journal , she expressed the surprising view that it is good for parents to encourage belief in God among their children even...Read more
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