Israeli offensive gets deadlier in Gaza; Trump cracks down on those who burn the American flag; Jeanine Pirro celebrates 12 days of no homicides in DC; Catholics prayerfully protest TLC suppression in Detroit; Trump commemorates 4th anniversary of Abbey Gate terrorist attack; Archaeological find confirms 7th century Christian presence in UAE; People around the world celebrate feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa; and more —
JUST IN: Greek & Latin Patriarchs of Jerusalem today issue joint statement saying: “It seems that the Israeli government’s announcement that ‘the gates of hell will open’ is indeed taking on tragic forms,” as “reports of heavy bombardment” in Gaza City “continue to be received.”
Read more at Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
Israeli Offensive Gets Deadlier as Trump Says the War in Gaza Will End Soon
President Donald Trump said that the war in Gaza will finally come to an end in the next two or three weeks, after a somber diplomatic effort to conclude the two-year conflagration.
“I think within the next two to three weeks, you’re going to have a pretty good, conclusive — a conclusive ending,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. …
[Meanwhile] Israeli forces hit a main hospital in the Gaza Strip on Monday, striking the place twice, killing at least 20 people and wounding many more.
Read more at Catholics for Catholics
Trump Signs Order to Impose Federal Penalty for Burning or Desecrating U.S. Flag
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday instructing the Department of Justice to prosecute instances of American flag burning and desecration that could incite a riot. Trump emphasized that the Supreme Court, which protected flag burning under the First Amendment in the 1989 Texas v. Johnson case, has not ruled that burning the flag in a manner that can incite a riot or violence is constitutionally protected.
Read more at Breitbart
The British Government frowns upon Britons putting up the Union Jack or St. George’s flag while across the pond, Trump bans burning of American flag.
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Trump commemorates 4th anniversary of Abbey Gate terrorist attack
Aug. 26 is the fourth anniversary of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack, which took the lives of 13 US military members at a civilian gate of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump formally declared a day of commemoration, marking the anniversary with a proclamation he signed in a ceremony Aug. 25 in front of the families of the military members killed at Abbey Gate.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Bolton Sent Highly Sensitive Classified Docs With Private Email Server: Report
An FBI raid on the residence of former National Security Advisor John Bolton was apparently tied to claims that he used a private email server to convey sensitive documents to his family.
Bolton, who has now turned against Donald Trump after being booted from the White House during his first term, was at home when the 7:00 a.m. raid on his D.C.-area residence occurred, a source familiar with the matter reportedly told the Daily Mail.
Read more at the Conservative Brief
Jeanine Pirro celebrates 12 days of no homicides after Trump DC crime crackdown
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, celebrated on Monday what she called a milestone in Washington: 12 consecutive days without a homicide under President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown.
“Last night in DC: 86 arrests. 10 illegal guns seized. That brings the total to 1007 arrests and 111 illegal guns off the streets. We are on our 12th day with no homicides,” Pirro wrote on X. “Under President [Donald] Trump’s leadership, increased law enforcement is helping restore safety in DC. The goal is clear: a safer city for all.”
Read more the Washington Examiner
Obama Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin From Deporting MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, Sets Hearing For Friday
US District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee on Monday set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday after MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a lawsuit to block his deportation to Uganda.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week.
Abrego Garcia was an illegal alien residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year and placed in the notorious CECOT prison, however, radical left-wing judges ordered him to be returned to the US.
Read more the Gateway Pundit
Spanish-Speaking Abrego Garcia Doesn’t Actually Want To Be An American
On Friday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member, human smuggler, and domestic abuser — was released from a Tennessee jail and sent back to Maryland after a judge ordered his release. On Monday, Abrego Garcia turned himself in to immigration authorities in Baltimore. But before turning himself in to officials, Abrego Garcia delivered a speech thanking his supporters — in Spanish.
At first glance it may seem minuscule — a Salvadoran man giving a speech in his native tongue. But it’s actually emblematic of something much deeper: After 14 years living in the United States, Abrego Garcia apparently still cannot communicate in the language of the country he broke into — and is fighting to stay in. That alone underscores America’s broken system of assimilation.
Read more at The Federalist
Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot speak a word of English after more than a decade in the United States, relying on a translator in a press conference this morning in Baltimore
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Texas attorney general orders schools unaffected by lawsuit to display Ten Commandments
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has directed public schools across the state not enjoined by ongoing litigation to comply with Senate Bill 10 (SB 10), a new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. …
“Schools not enjoined by ongoing litigation must abide by [SB 10] and display the Ten Commandments,” Paxton said in his directive, issued on Aug. 24.
On Aug. 20, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued a preliminary injunction after 16 families sued 11 Texas school districts, arguing the law violates the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
Police: Man identified as victim now charged in violent Cincinnati fight
Cincinnati police on Tuesday charged a man also identified as a victim in a violent fight downtown last month.
Police said a 45-year-old white man has been charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, in connection with the fight near the intersection of 4th and Elm streets in the early morning of July 26. Police did not name the man, citing Marsy’s Law, as he has also been identified as a victim.
We spoke with the man, Alex Tchervinski, and he told us he has been charged with disorderly conduct.
Read more at WCPO Cincinnati
New study claims 2.8 million Americans over 13 now identify as ‘transgender’
According to a new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, approximately 2.8 million Americans who are 13 or older now identify as “transgender,” or about one percent of the population. The Williams Institute has been reporting on America’s “transgender” population since 2011.
The new study lends credence to Lisa Littman’s findings that gender dysphoria is a social contagion that spreads among peer groups; according to the study, more than 75 percent of those who identify as transgender report being under the age of 35, “compared with 34 percent of the entire U.S. population in the same age group.”
Read more at LifeSiteNews
Pastoral guidance to Catholics, particularly those struggling with gender confusion
The Most Reverend Daniel E. Thomas, Bishop of Toledo, has issued a pastoral letter, ‘The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology’, in which he provides pastoral guidance to Catholics, particularly those struggling with gender confusion, as well as clergy, educators, and families.
Read Bp. Thomas’ guidance here
Polish church calls on parents not to send children to “corrupting” new health education classes
The Catholic church in Poland has appealed to parents not to permit their children to attend an optional new subject, health education, that is being introduced by the government at the start of the new school year next week.
The bishops claim that the lessons, which include elements of sex education, are “anti-family”, “gender destabilising” and will “morally corrupt children”. A deputy education minister, however, says that the church is spreading “fake news”.
Read more at Notes from Poland
Borderless Britain: Foreign National Sex Convictions Surge by More Than 60 Per Cent over Past Four Years
Sexual offences committed by migrants in Britain has been rising at a faster pace than the number committed by British citizens, with migrant sex crimes increasing by over 60 per cent over the past four years.
According to figures from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) based on data from the Police National Computer (PNC), migrants accounted for 14.1 per cent of sexual offence and rape convictions in 2024, or around one in seven of all convictions, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Read more at Breitbart
Girl, 17, is stabbed to death while calling cops to report being followed on her bike ride home in Holland as cops arrest asylum seeker ‘who raped woman days earlier’
A wave of national fury has swept Holland following the arrest of an asylum seeker for the killing of a 17-year-old who was stabbed to death while she was calling the police to report being followed on her bike ride home.
The lifeless body of Lisa was discovered by police in a roadside ditch in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
She was returning from a night out with friends before she was attacked by a man who also had a bicycle with him, while she was phoning the emergency police number.
Read at the Daily Mail
Faithful Catholics prayerfully protest Latin Mass suppression in Detroit
As the bells of Detroit’s Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament rang out calling the faithful to the 11:00 a.m. Mass on Sunday, August 17, Catholics gathered in prayerful petition to support the recently suppressed Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).
“We want our archbishop to know that there are many faithful Catholics that still want the ‘Mass of the Ages,’” organizer Joseph VanAssche told LifeSite.
Read more at LifeSiteNews
Former Papal Chef Opens New York City Restaurant
Known as “the papal chef,” Salvo Lo Castro spent 10 years at the Vatican cooking meals for Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Now, he’s opened his first restaurant in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood called Casasalvo.
The new Italian restaurant opened in July and has quickly gained popularity, particularly for Lo Castro’s mother’s meatball recipe — which was also a big hit among the two popes he served.
The 52-year-old Sicilian chef said that for those who eat at his new restaurant, it’s like eating a meal in his home.
Read more at the National Catholic Register
Archaeological find confirms 7th century Christian presence on UAE island
Archaeologists working on a small island in the Persian Gulf have discovered an artifact attesting a Christian monastic presence on the island some 1400 years ago.
The site is located on Sir Bani Yas, an island some 110 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and has been known to archaeologists since 1992.
Read more at Crux
Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
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