Religion

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has issued a scathing attack at the Vatican, calling them purveyors of pedophilia on a global scale.  After the Vatican staged a photographic exhibition to commemorate victims of the drug war in the Philippines , President Duterte decided to publicly lash out. Themindunleashed.com reports: “You say Duterte killer. You priests, you blame me for the deaths of thousands of drug addicts, even those who died in hospitals, you still blame me.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Solutions abound, but they look forward, not backward.

Many observers decry the loss of national coherence and purpose, and the increasing fragmentation of the populace into "tribes" with their own loyalties, value systems and priorities.

Submitted by Joseph Jankowski of PlanetFreeWill.com

The Obama administration’s refugee resettlement program took off in 2016 with 15,479 Syrian refugees having been admitted to the U.S, a 606% increase from the resettlement numbers of last year.

In his last month of the presidency alone, Obama admitted 1,307 more Syrian refugees to the states.

Overall, 98.8% of the refugees the president has welcomed into the country are Muslim.

CNS News Breaks it down:

Vladimir Putin has used his annual Christmas press conference to accuse Western liberal elites of abandoning the traditional values that made their countries great. Instead of building a future based on solid Christian values, Western elites have created a culture of “excessive, exaggerated political correctness” that is so destructive it will lead to the downfall of Western civilization if it is not arrested.

Swiss lawmakers have expressed their growing concerns over the spread of Wahhabi and Salafist radical views among European Muslims and a lack of transparency of the country’s funding of mosques and Muslim organizations. Sputnik reports: Swiss parliamentarians have raised the alarm over possible foreign influence on the country’s mosques and called attention to lack of transparency over their funding.