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By Dr. John BergsmaThis Sunday we are only eleven days into Lent, still very early along on our Lenten pilgrimage. The readings share the theme of beginning the journey of faith, even while giving us a glimpse of our final destination. In all three years of the lectionary cycle (A, B, C), the readings for the Second Sunday of Lent always pair a key pericope from the Abraham narrative (Genesis 12—22) with an account of the Transfiguration from one of the Synoptic Gospels. This is because, in all the Gospels, the Transfiguration marks “the beginning of the end” of Jesus’...

***Operation: Roaring Lion / Epic Fury*** In the joint military operations launched on 28 February 2026 (codenamed "Operation Epic Fury" by the US and "Roaring Lion" by Israel), the two nations focused on distinct but overlapping target sets to dismantle Iran's security apparatus and nuclear capabilities. The United States Targets: The US military focused on strategic infrastructure and high-level military capabilities: Nuclear Facilities: Primary targets included major sites like the Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant, Natanz, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center. Ballistic Missile Infrastructure: Broad strikes were aimed at missile production, storage, and launch sites to prevent counterattacks against US...

A fire station in Rapid City, South Dakota, has opened the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box. Communities in South Dakota have discussed bringing baby boxes to the state for years — a push that increased after the body of baby Gabriel was found at a Sioux Falls recycling center in 2024, KELO reported. “That same week after baby Gabriel was found there was another phone call that came into Safe Haven looking for a box in South Dakota. So, there was a second baby where the mother was looking to surrender the baby and there was no box for...

Discovered in 2012 more than 300 metres below the sea, the Aléria 1 wreck has since been the subject of several studies which have generated a wealth of information about the cargo.A stamp to date the wreckThe cargo associated with the wreck comprised thousands of oil lamps and pieces of crockery, as well as mortars from the region around Rome and amphorae from all over the Mediterranean. The letters LMVNPHILE stamped on an oil lamp recovered in 2013 were a significant chronological reference. They indicated that the lamp was made in Rome by Lucius Munatius Phile between AD 90 and...

Video: Iranians tear down statue of the Ayatollah Khamenei in Galleh Dar, Iran

What if a robot could move, smile, and react just like a real human? 🤯 Meet Moya, China’s first biomimetic AI humanoid robot that copies 90% of real human movement and facial expressions. Built by Droidup, this ultra-realistic robot is going viral for looking almost alive. From natural walking posture to subtle eye contact and warm skin temperature, Moya doesn’t feel like a machine anymore — it feels human.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday encouraged actor Robert De Niro to leave the country a day after the two-time Oscar winner widely criticized his administration during a “State of the Swamp” event. Trump made the suggestion in a Truth Social post where he also urged Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashia Tlaib of Michigan -- both Muslim Democratic congresswomen -- to be “sent back from where they came.” “They should actually get on a boat with Trump Deranged Robert De Niro, another sick and demented person with, I believe, an extremely Low IQ, who has absolutely no idea what...

OBSTACLES "For a long time it had seemed to me that my life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in my way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles WERE my life." Fr. Alfred D Souza

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was blasted after wrongly claiming the US has previously attacked Islamic countries during Ramadan. Omar, 43, belligerently ranted on X on Thursday evening ahead of the attacks on Iran. She claimed the US bombed Iraq in 1990 during Ramadan. 'And it's sickening to know that the US is again going to attack Iran during Ramadan,' Omar, who is Muslim, wrote.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Forbes Breaking News. Feb 28, 2026. Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon speaks at a UN Security Council meeting following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnwleH5DzE >> Mr. President, for 47 years, the Islamic regime in Iran has led crowds in chanting Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. do you want to translate these chants? Your leaders have been chanting it for years in public events in your parliament. Marjbar Israel Marjbar America. They mean death to Israel, death to America. Israeli and American flags were painted on roads so they could be trampled. Our flags were burned in public squares. LThis is...

Three Georgia senators are proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow a statewide grand jury to investigate election violations. Senate Resolution 875 says the grand juries could investigate election violations from anywhere in the state. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia would appoint a Superior Court judge to oversee the grand jury. The attorney general would appoint a legal adviser, according to the bill. Georgia voters would decide in November if the resolution becomes part of the state constitution. "We have had this, I guess just a series of issues involving voting, different accusations, different prosecutions of...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom received intense blowback for calling the joint US-Israeli airstrikes in Iran an “illegal, dangerous war” while ripping President Trump’s decision to attack Tehran.. “The corrupt and repressive Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The leadership of Iran must go,” Newsom wrote on X Saturday, after the US and Israel launched the coordinated strikes early that morning. “But that does not justify the President of the United States engaging in an illegal, dangerous war that will risk the lives of our American service members and our friends without justification to the American people. "President Trump is...

Photo via Wikimedia Commons. In December 2025, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, seeking access to the 2020 election records, citing the federal law that grants the Justice Department jurisdiction to investigate federal elections. Fulton County refused, leading the Justice Department to infer that these public officials were hiding evidence of a crime. Thereafter, the Justice Department served a criminal search warrant on the Fulton County Election Records Office. Fulton County immediately filed an emergency motion to return the records. This led to the unsealing of the Justice Department’s search warrant affidavit, giving the public a...

The infamous picture of Bill Clinton in a hot tub with a mystery woman is from a 2002 trip to Asia the ex-president took with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and madam Ghislaine Maxwell, The Post can reveal. Clinton was grilled on the racy photo during his deposition before the House Oversight Committee Friday, insisting he did “nothing wrong” and did not have sex with the woman whose face was redacted in the picture released as part of the Department of Justice’s files on the sex predator. The snap that landed Bubba in hot water was taken at the Emperor suite of...

“Hundreds of demonstrators from Los Angeles’s Iranian-American community took the streets Saturday to celebrate the US-Israeli airstrikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader. “I want to cry. I want to scream. I want to dance. I want to laugh — but above all, I just want to celebrate,” said LA resident Shervin Khorramian, 55, waving an Iranian flag as he joined the elated crowd outside of the Wilshire Federal building in Westwood. I feel absolutely elated, and I feel hopeful,” Khorramian added. “For the first time in a long time, I feel hopeful that this really could be the turning point...

The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran on Saturday and called for an immediate return to negotiations “to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.” Secretary-General António Guterres told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that everything must be done to prevent further escalation. “The alternative,” he warned, “is a potential wider conflict with grave consequences for civilians and regional stability.” Guterres said the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes violated international law, including the U.N. Charter. He also condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan,...

Chilling photos show the tense moments President Trump and Vice President Vance orchestrated the monumental strikes on Iran while hundreds of miles apart. Trump, wearing a “USA” cap, led discussions from Mar-a-Lago with his national security team, pictures shared by the White House show. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, joined the president in monitoring the mission. Vance oversaw a second cohort of officials from the Situation Room in DC, which was dialed in to the Mar-a-Lago operations. Seated at the head of...

Israel’s Operation Lion’s Roar, was “the largest ever military flyover in the history of the Israeli Air Force,” with 500 Iranian targets struck, the IDF said Saturday. The campaign, which ran in tandem with the US’s Operation Epic Fury, dropped hundreds of munitions on roughly 500 Iranian targets and involved more than 200 Israeli Air Force aircraft. The military reportedly focused on Tehran’s aerial defense systems and missile launchers. The strikes “severely degraded the offensive capabilities of the Iranian regime — the launch sites in western Iran,” the IDF said. “The IDF will continue operating to significantly degrade every aspect...

The year was 1490. The location, Qingyang, China. It was a spring evening in this central Chinese city when something strange began to occur in the sky above. For one, there was a recently discovered comet that was coming into view: Comet C-1490 Y1. But this comet pales in comparison to the really strange event that was about to occur. The Meteor Shower That Killed 10,000 People | 19:18 Swegle Studios | 459K subscribers | 709,238 views | July 8, 2025