Judge dismisses James Comey and Letitia James cases, finding prosecutor's appointment invalid​

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The North Dakota Supreme Court has narrowly upheld a state law that bans abortions in nearly all circumstances, overturning a lower court ruling against it.

Last Friday, the state’s highest court released an opinion in the case of Access Independent Health Services, Inc., et al v. Drew H. Wrigley et al., which centered on whether a 2023 state law banning abortion is constitutional.

Although three of the five justices who heard the case found the ban unconstitutional, North Dakota requires a supermajority of the court to strike down a law on constitutional grounds.

State Supreme Court Justices Daniel Crothers and Lisa Fair McEvers found the ban unconstitutional, with Daniel Narum, a district court judge who sat in place of recused Justice Douglas Bahr, joining them.

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Peace in Christ.

Again, If we keep the “daily” sacrifice of our Lord in our mortal bodies, then the life also of Jesus shall be made manifest in our body…in our MORTAL FLESH. We are to lift up the Son of man by always bearing about in the body the dying of our Lord Jesus so that that His life is made manifest in our outer mortal flesh.

This is the manifestation of the Son of man to the world. We are to receive the promise of His manifest presence so that the world may “see” Him through us and be saved.

2Co 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

We must lift up the Son of man so that the people of the outside world may “see” Him and believe. We lift Him up by the keeping of His daily sacrifice in our mortal bodies so that His life is made manifest to them. We are instrumental in bringing salvation to the people of the outside world through the keeping of the dying of our Lord Jesus in our mortal bodies.

Joh 3:14-17 KJV
(14) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God loves the world in this way, that He GIVES NOW His only begotten Son (of whom we are to receive His presence). Through Him, the world might be saved. We are instrumental in manifesting the life of the Son to them so that they may "see" Him and be saved.

(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

This is the "death" we are to die: We are to die to the sin…keeping the daily sacrifice of our Lord Jesus in our mortal bodies. This is lifting up the Son of man in this earth so that all shall be drawn to Him (and us as we manifest His shining light to them.)

Joh 12:32-33 KJV
(32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
(33) This he said, signifying what death he should die.

We are to receive the promise….the promise of His presence …in our mortal bodies. We do not mortally die while we await His arrival. He does NOT DELAY as being universally preached in all of the man-based churches who are preaching in error of the Word of Truth.

Heb 10:36-37
(36) For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

He IS COMING now (present tense) and will arrive and NOT DELAY. The enemies of the cross of Christ are preaching that He DELAYS His coming.

The original Greek is erchomenos (coming, present participle) and ēxei (will come, future tense). He does NOT DELAY.

(37) For yet a little while, and he that IS COMING will come, and will NOT DELAY.

We are to manifest the presence of the Lord to the people of the outside world who are sitting in great spiritual darkness. This is why the disciples asked what shall be the sign of His PRESENCE (Parousia) so that we may know we have it.

Mat 24:3
(3) And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming (Greek: Parousia = PRESENCE), and of the end of the world (AGE)?

We shall know we are manifesting His presence to the people of the outside world by the effect of shining of His light rays from us (the “east” = the dawning light) to them (the “west” = where the sun had gone down.)

Mat 24:27 KJV
(27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming (PRESENCE) of the Son of man be.

The effect will be thus: one person of the outside world who is in the deep darkness (“in that night”) shall SEE His life being made manifest to them and will believe and be received unto Christ (“taken”) while one shall be left.

Luk 17:34-37
(34) I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
(35) Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(36) Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

The “eagles”…those who are “taken”…shall be gathered together wherever the living body of Christ is.

(37) And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body (Greek: Soma -sound body) is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Our light….Jesus Christ who is the light of the life of men…shall come (arrive) and the glory of the LORD is risen (shoot forth beams) upon us.

Isa 60:1-4 KJV
(1) Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

His light shall shoot forth to those of the “west” who are in deep darkness. They shall SEE His glory upon us…and come to that light. They will come to our light...to the brightness of our rising (the dawn.)

(2) For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
(3) And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Those who are saved among them shall then come to that light. They shall gather themselves to us…like the eagles do with the living body.

(4) Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Yet, right now there is a great misinformation campaign being fought against His people by Satan and his ministers who are not preaching that Jesus Christ IS COMING (present tense) in the flesh…our mortal flesh. They are enemies of the cross of Christ as they are actively removing the keeping of His daily sacrifice out of the lives of those they are deceiving.

2Jn 1:7
(7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ IS COMING in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

The deceivers are not preaching from the spirit of Christ but rather from the spirit of the antichrist….the spirit of error concerning the “doctrine of THE Christ.”

They are instead preaching many “strange doctrines” and are actively cutting off the life of Jesus from being made manifest in the mortal flesh of anyone that they are deceiving. And so the people of the outside world are not being saved as a result. They do not "see" the light but are in deep darkness because of the false prophets who are not preaching the truth of the gospel to His people.

2Jn 1:9-11
(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of THE Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of THE Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him “rejoice”:
(11) For he that biddeth him “rejoice” is partaker of his evil deeds.

The Son of man ( His manifest life in our mortal flesh) is being betrayed (given up) into the hands of sinners. We must rise and depart from the man-based churches where His life is being cut off from being made manifest in this earth.

Mat 26:45-46 KJV
(45) Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
(46) Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.

In Revelation 22, Jesus says that He is coming “quickly”…that is, WITHOUT DELAY.

He promises “I am coming without delay.” It is important to note that the word “come” is in the present tense. He is COMING now.

He does not say that He will come (that He is delaying His coming) but that He is coming now (without delay) in the present tense.

Rev 22:7
(7) Behold, I come (coming) quickly (without delay): blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

He is coming (present tense) without delay:

Rev 3:11
(11) Behold, I am coming (present tense) quickly (without delay): hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Rev 22:7
(7) Behold, I am coming (present tense) quickly (without delay): blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Rev 22:20
(20) He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I am coming (present tense) quickly (without delay). Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

This is a very important message of Revelation. He is coming presently without delay. The time is at hand. Do not be deceived by the deceivers who are preaching that He is delaying His coming when He is not. They are the people of the prince that SHALL COME someday and not of the Prince of Life who IS COMING NOW and will arrive.

Rev 22:10-13 KJV
(10) And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
(11) He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

How will we respond to that message? His reward is according to what our response shall be towards the hearing of that message.

(12) And, behold, I am coming (present tense) quickly (without delay); and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The evil servant will hear and yet not believe.

The evil servant will say in his heart that the Lord DELAYS His coming…and will begin to beat upon those who will preach otherwise.

Many will join together in their unbelief of the message and will respond with evil towards those who will preach the Word of Truth. They will take pleasure in their unrighteousness.

Mat 24:48-51 KJV
(48) But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
(49) And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

Yet, He will come and reward according to their deeds towards the hearing of the Word of Truth.

(50) The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
(51) And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Rom 2:6-10 KJV
(6) Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
(7) To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
(8) But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
(9) Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
(10) But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:


Rev 22:20 KJV
(20) He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

From Pilate that washed his hands to Simon's denial, and even through Simon of Cyrene that bore the cross intermitently, please, do you think they all kind of lost their souls, while Jesus was busy saving them (their souls) on the cross? If yes, and in a likewise and general manner, is it possible people loose something of their souls when attempting to secure their body's safety, as they deal with Truth in also washing hands, denying, etc.. ?
In short, is there any other way to keep souls safe but to uphold thruth, whatsoever happens ?

"Many informed Democrats are aware of this slick maneuvering and are not happy about it. You might recall the serpentine James Carville screeching about lifetime socialist Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic Party Primary: “But Bernie’s not a Democrat!” No, Bernie never was. The Senate “Independent” way back in 1980 had served as a formal presidential elector to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Bernie in 2016 merely adopted the Democrat label to try to get himself elected president. And many of the dupes that comprise the Democrat rank and file willingly pulled the lever for him, giving him an astonishing 13 million primary votes that year, not far behind Hillary Clinton. "

Not your father's Democratic Party for sure!

“To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela,” Slotkin responded.

Then why make that outrageous video?

A single mother is challenging a custody order that prohibits her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to a Calvary Chapel church in Maine after a lower court accepted the claim that the denomination is a "cult," granting the girl's father the power to determine which religious activities she's allowed to attend.

In combating the December 2024 custody order, the mother, Emily Bickford, is receiving legal assistance from the Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal group that has helped bring the mother's case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

“Calvary Chapel is not a cult. This custody order banning Emily Bickford from taking her child to a Christian church because of its biblical teachings violates the First Amendment," Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver said in a statement shared with The Christian Post.

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• Greystar, which manages 333 apartment complexes in Southern California, [and 1 million units nationwide] will cease using RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software as part of a settlement with California.
• The company and others will pay $7 million across nine states and help prosecute RealPage and landlords accused of conspiring to artificially inflate rents.
• The settlement represents a major victory for renters and signals mounting legal trouble for RealPage as antitrust lawsuits spread nationwide.

The lawsuit alleges Greystar and other landlords were illegally using RealPage to share proprietary data so they could align their prices and drive up rents.

RealPage described its software as a tool for maximizing rent and outperforming the market. Authorities also alleged the company made it more difficult for landlords to reject its recommendations than accept them.

“There is greater good in everybody [i.e. the landlords] succeeding versus essentially trying to compete against one another in a way that actually keeps the entire industry [i.e. rents] down,” a RealPage executive said, according to the lawsuit.

More on the larger DOJ/states' antitrust complaint against RealPage.

Depending on the church, the options were: Sunday Next Before Advent, Last Sunday of the Year, 24th Sunday after Pentecost, or Feast of Christ the King. I was serving a PCUSA where the calendar prescribed 24th Sunday after Pentecost but the organist and I both went with Christ the King (she's Lutheran). The congregation made the decision at the last minute to have communion, which I cannot celebrate for them. I had to consult with the lay worship leader and the person who was going to preside at communion to hand write a couple of adjustments to the bulletin they give me so we were all on the same page.

The uber Anglo-Catholic types who use the Missal would have celebrated Christ the King on the Last Sunday of October. I celebrated Reformation Sunday for a Lutheran congregation that day.

It was Paul’s desire that the believers in Christ had full understanding of who Jesus Christ is, of what he did for us in his death on that cross, and what it means to be a Christian and a follower of Christ. So if you go back and read chapter 1 it helps with the context of chapter 2 in understanding where he was going with all of this. For there were Judaizers who were trying to convince the believers in Christ that they had to still hold on to some of the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws.

And some of that is still going on in our world today. We have modern day Judaizers who go around from “church to church” giving presentations to Christians to try to convince them that they should add on to their salvation, more as an enhancement, I believe, some of the Jewish customs, as though that is going to somehow improve their relationship with Jesus. But we are not called of God to be like the Jews of the Old Covenant. We are called of God to be like Jesus Christ of the New Covenant God has with his people.

And in chapter 1 we read that Paul’s prayer for the Christians was:


Paul taught them the truth of the gospel of our salvation so they would know that faith in Jesus Christ is not a religion with religious rituals, but it is death to our old lives of living in sin and for self, and it is a change of heart and mind away from living in sin to now desiring to live for the Lord in obedience to his commands and in holy living, by the grace of God, and in the power of God. For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ we are rescued from the control of sin over our lives so we now walk (in conduct) in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing spiritual fruit in every good work.

For Paul did not want that they should have anyone delude them with persuasive argument, but that he should be able to continue to rejoice in seeing their good discipline and the stability of their in faith in Christ (as described in chapter 1). And we must guard against those today who are deluding the masses with a cheapened and diluted “gospel” message which is of the flesh of humans, and not of God, which makes no requirements of believers for death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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An Original Work / November 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Catechism speaks about making confession available to those who are hearing-impaired, but this week, we heard from the other side of the screen.

Two priests who have been featured in the pages of the Register both opened up on social media, lamenting a reality they both face: loss of hearing.

Although hearing aids do exist and help to some degree, the loss of hearing comes at a great cost for Father Dwight Longenecker and Father Joseph Krupp: not being able to hear the confessions offered by the parishioners who come seeking absolution.

Father Longenecker was the first to admit how frustrating it is to lose the ability to hear, especially when working in the confessional.

“I am really fed up with my worsening hearing loss — especially as it makes hearing confessions a total chore,” he wrote on social media.

“Prayers to St. Francis de Sales: patron of the deaf and hard of hearing AND patron of confessors AND patron of writers who had a ministry to Protestants AND was bald and bearded! St. Francis de Sales pray for us!"

Father Joseph Krupp responded to Father Longenecker, saying he shares the same affliction, writing on X:

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What follows is a crazy story about an American family's escape from Sweden as the Swedish social services were closing in to seize their four kids. In talking with friends and acquaintances, they were warned to get out without delay. Get out that very night if possible. It turns out that that was good advice.

The People's Therapist Expert on X:

This is the story of how I nearly lost everything to activist Swedish Social Services. In 2017, my family and I were living in Sweden. I had lived there before as a single man. We thought it was the safe, stable, open society everyone in the West keeps praising.

What happened instead nearly destroyed us. I am a former Marine with a couple combat deployments to Afghanistan (this detail matters) and was part of Marine Corps Forces European Command in Germany. I worked for Amazon Web Services with a Nordic focus, staged in Stockholm.

I managed teams across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

We lived in the countryside, paid taxes, followed every rule. We even insisted on speaking the local language.

We tried to be the ideal expat family.

Then the Swedish social services system turned its eyes on my family.

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Edit: This is a new post/article but the event took place in 2017.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY? or HAPPY TURKEY DAY?


As we approach one of our favorite times to celebrate with family, friends, and in-laws, we think about this special time called "Thanksgiving." Yet we hear of some calling it "Turkey Day". So which is it? "Thanksgiving" or "Turkey Day?" Which is correct? Well, let's think about it for a bit.

We celebrate Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of November, yet this was not the original date. It was set as the 4th Thursday of November by the US Congress in 1941. So, when was the first Thanksgiving celebrated in the Massachusetts Colony in 1621? No one knows for sure. We believe it was between the end of September and mid-November, when the crops were gathered in. It wasn't a one-day festival of celebration, but rather a three-day celebration.

It was similar to the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot, which is celebrated between the end of September and mid-October. During this time Israel praised God for the crops and blessings bestowed upon them by God. The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot is celebrated every year for 7 days, and one extra day.

So, let's talk about the food at the first Thanksgiving late in the year of 1621. We know that the native Americans of the Wampanoag tribe were a God sent, Squanto being the mediator. After a disastrous 1620, the Wampanoags helped them farm and grow vegetables, so, besides wild turkeys, they also had venison, or "deer meat" hunted by the Indians, so, why not call it "Deer Day?" or "Pumpkin Day?" after all, they probably had those too. The menu probably consisted of: "wild turkey, deer meat, corn, squash, bay oysters, clams, and fish. But everyone seems to be focused on the Turkeys. What's with that, you turkey?

It's great to feast on oven-roasted turkeys, stuffing, and all the trimmings, and have the friends and family over, and eat pumpkin pie, pecan pie, apple pie, or whatever pie you like. (Here in El Salvador, those are nonexistent) You have to make them from scratch. Everyone sits down after dinner, watches football on the tube, and grandpa goes to sleep in the easy chair, and the football game watches grandpa instead.

It's great to have this good time, but let's give thanks to whom thanks is owed, not to the creation (the turkey) but to the creator (God).
Yes, he created the turkeys and the rest of the birds on day 5 of creation, yet HE is the creator and to HIM must we give thanks.

When Thanksgiving comes around this Thursday, a good idea might be a table discussion of why we are thankful; the football game can wait. I would probably be like grandpa, asleep in the chair while the football game is going on. Sports are boring to me, unless I can actually play in the game personally.

Well, let's see. What do we have to be thankful for? Well, we have food on the table and we have our health to eat the food. We have money to buy the food, and we must have jobs to make the money to buy the food. We thank God that we have families, which makes working and providing for them all worthwhile. We have clothing because I doubt we sit around the dinner table in our birthday suits. We have homes where we live, and even AC in some places (not here, only at the Malls, in the banks, and in the supermarkets). We have fresh air to breathe (I guess that depends on where you live), we have parks, and places for R & R (here, the ocean for swimming and surfing). We have our congregations where we go to receive God's WORD.

Yet we also have something precious we can not buy, and that is the gift of Salvation through Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach) and the promise of eternal life with HIM in Heaven, and a place set aside for us to live by his side for all eternity. We have the abilities through the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) to serve the LORD while we are Earth-bound, and we can look forward to eternal Shalom and fellowship with God forever.

So yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all.


(best result, bake the turkey in an oven bag, that way, it won't dry out) Here. The best we can hope for is slices of turkey ham from the deli, or a small smoked, boneless turkey (that usually costs more than we care to spend).

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I honestly didn't imagine this could or would happen.

Brandon Lake may just be the most popular concert artist in Christian music history.

Yet, he made it clear — right from the start of his sold-out concert at the SAP Center in San Jose — that he was far from being the true star of the show on Sunday night.

“Tonight is not about me,” said the singer-songwriter, who is a worship pastor at Seacoast Church in South Carolina. “But it is about one man — and His name is Jesus.”

Lake proceeded to turn the Shark Tank into a massive revival tent, leading a crowd that he announced on stage as 15,000 attendees through a 2½-hour-plus set of some of the most powerful contemporary Christian music (CCM) songs of recent years.

That all of this was happening in the heart of Silicon Valley/Bay Area — widely known as one of the least religious and most “unchurched” areas in the country — only made this accomplishment more impressive, greatly underscoring the historic nature of Lake’s trajectory as an artist.

Simply put, this 35-year-old talent is drawing attendance numbers at the box office that are simply astounding — arguably beyond anything ever seen in the CCM genre before.

Seems like the Mamdani "be nice and charm" approach worked.

Perhaps some other Democratic leaders could ask him for tips and tricks.

The girl pleaded not to go.

She fought with her father on the drive over, screaming and crying in his truck until they arrived at the office building for Bruckelmyer Brothers, a home construction company on the outskirts of Duluth, Minnesota. She was just entering her first years of grade school.

In the office, two men were waiting. One of them was Clint Massie, who the girl had recently told her parents had touched her genitals and groped her under her shirt. The other was Daryl Bruckelmyer, a preacher and leader of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church down the road, where the girl’s family worshipped. Massie was a respected member of the congregation. Bruckelmyer had asked them all to the meeting, according to the girl’s account to police years later.

In front of the girl, her father and Bruckelmyer, Massie asked her for forgiveness. Looming over her, the three men wept. Then the girl’s dad and preacher allowed the man who had been sexually abusing her since kindergarten to hug her.

“It was one of the worst things ever,” she told police some 15 years later.

Over the course of about 20 years in two states, Massie had, according to court documents and by his own admission, sexually abused children within the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, or OALC, community. He touched girls under blankets when their parents were present, in the backseat of a car with other passengers — even in the pews at church. His abuse was such an open secret among the tight-knit congregation that mothers warned their daughters to stay away from him.

[Church leaders knew] But they never reported Massie’s crimes to police, as required by the law. Instead, Bruckelmyer and other leaders in the church encouraged the victims to take part in forgiveness sessions — which allowed Massie, now 50, to continue abusing children, according to an investigation by the Minnesota Star Tribune and ProPublica.

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The investigator now had two victims. They gave him the names of others they suspected had also been abused by Massie. Kleffman tried to contact them, but some were reluctant to cooperate. One woman told Kleffman that Massie had asked for forgiveness. The sin, she said in the recorded call, was “washed away in the blood of reconciliation.”

“It is gone forever,” she told Kleffman.

“So you’re following what the church says to do,” Kleffman replied.

“I am following what God says to do,” the woman told him, before hanging up.

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Two Christian families in India’s Chhattisgarh state were denied the right to bury deceased relatives in their native villages. In both incidents, locals blocked access to burial plots and insisted on Hindu rites as a condition for entry, forcing the families to travel elsewhere to perform final rites.

In the first case, a man from the Kodekurse area in Kanker district died on Nov. 5 after a long illness. The man’s family attempted to bury him in their ancestral land within the village but were blocked by other residents who objected to the family’s Christian faith, the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.

Attempts to resolve the issue through police intervention failed. The officers reportedly declined to confront the villagers, leaving the family unable to proceed with the burial. With threats escalating, the Christian community placed the body in front of the local police station in protest.

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In a firm call to avoid “false mercy” in marriage annulment proceedings, Pope Leo XIV reminded that compassion cannot disregard the truth.

During a Friday audience with participants in the legal-pastoral training course of the Roman Rota, the Holy See’s court of appeals, the Holy Father read a lengthy speech in which he recalled the importance of the reform of marriage annulment processes initiated by Pope Francis 10 years ago.

The pontiff emphasized that theology, law, and pastoral care must be understood in a harmonious way, not as separate or opposing areas, and pointed out that annulment proceedings are not merely technical procedures to obtain the “free status of persons” but rather an ecclesial service based on the search for truth and on family pastoral care.

Judicial processes at the service of truth​

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Pray that Canadian & Indian trade negotiations r guided by The Holy Spirit so that there r talks that will allow for more Christian missionaries visas:

Pray societies around world are guided by The Holy Spirit to sincerely debate what aspects of gene-editing human babies are Biblical or Unbiblical: