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Please Help Pakistani Christians this Christmas

Please understand our situation is a very bad; it is a dangerous situation and the tension is relieved when people send us Christmas love, offering gifts.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - I want to inform you that The PSSWS is every year distributing Christmas at Christmas festivals. Gifts programs among with poor, street-wandering, homeless, cold children & neglected widows, poorest Christian families in Pakistan. Please try to send even a little help to our Christmas distributing programs. Christmas is coming soon.

At this present time we have no money to celebrate Christmas distributing programs. We have no food, new & Secondhand clothes, shoes, food, medicine, primary, Sunday school materials & other necessary items.

The Lesser Evil`s Reckless Promises

In October, 2013, he confessed he had been wrong and in November tried to backtrack provisions of Obamacare that people complained violated his pledge.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I suspect history will judge Obama harshly for his recklessness.

Aug. 11, 2009: During the original campaign for Obamacare, after he had taken Single Payer off the table, Obama declared to a “town hall” meeting in New Hampshire that, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."

Medical Marijuana Dispensary, Gifts and Art Gallery Open in Salem Oregon

First Choice Cannabis is Open for Business!

(SALEM, Ore.) - A new art and glass gallery and medical marijuana dispensary hosted their grand opening last weekend in South Salem. First Choice Cannabis is owned and operated by Amy Zimmerman. This store is open to the public, featuring the only “live” glassblower in the capitol city.

“The community needs to come together like this, we have common goals,” said Amy Zimmerman. She believes patients should have a high quality selection of medicinal cannabis, and that means cooperating with other people in the industry.

Because it Exists
Why Ain al Hilweh?

Most of the apartments in Ein al Helwih are currently sheltering four to six families.

(BEIRUT) - A modest tempest is brewing in Lebanon among some supporters of Palestine and the US State Department.

It centers around the decision by the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program (SSSP), the newly founded, and American donor-funded, higher education initiative, which intends to grant an additional 150-200 tuition scholarships to Palestinian students for spring semester enrolled in Lebanon’s dozen colleges and universities.

US Congressional Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka Praised by USTPAC

“USTPAC believes this bi-partisan Caucus will be an effective tool to highlight the systematic oppression faced by the Tamil and Muslim peoples,” - Dr. Elias Jeyarajah, President of USTPAC

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) welcomes the launch of the Congressional Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka at the US Congress this week.

UTSTPAC hopes this will be a turning point for the Tamils in the occupied North-East of Sri Lanka.

Kevin Annett: Interview with Alfred Webre

Frank discussion about serious issues in the Catholic Church involving child sex abuse and trafficking, and the establishment of a Pope who says he is trying to change policies, while he actually makes the process for children far more difficult.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The Vatican, China and Global Crimes: Kevin Annett outlines the most recent and upcoming work of The ITCCS and Common Law Court movement - in an Interview with Alfred Webre that was recorded November 14, 2013.

Kevin discusses the tremendous response they have seen with the establishment of a Common Law Court, in this case ITCCS, the International Tribunal against Crimes of Church and State.

Buddhist Protests Continue as OIC Prepares for Arakan Visit

The local Muslim community hoped to meet with the delegation to express concerns about their dire situation in Arakan State.

(RANGOON) - Protests against the visit of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) delegation continued on Thursday as about 200 Buddhists took to the streets in Meikthila, Mandalay Division, while Buddhists in Sittwe and Rangoon said they were planning further demonstrations.

On the second day of the visit, the OIC travelled to the capital Naypyidaw and on Friday the delegation will pay what is expected to be a tense visit to Sittwe, the capital of strife-torn Arakan State.

Banned from CHOGM: Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers

Gabriela Knaul discusses options that exist for bringing accountability and democracy, human rights and rule of law to rogue states like Sri Lanka

(GENEVA) - The Sri Lankan government blocked the conference titled "Commonwealth Values to Protect Democracy" scheduled to be held today in Colombo. Among the speakers was Mrs. Gabriela Knaul, Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.

She discusses options that exist for bringing accountability and democracy, human rights and rule of law to rogue states like Sri Lanka, a nation charged with egregious human rights violations and war crimes...

Sri Lanka Blocks Freedom Of Movement During CHOGM

Military personnel stopped the buses and turned the families back to their home districts at Madawachchiya and Madhu.

(COLOMBO) - Two days ahead of the Commonwealth Summit where Sri Lanka will assume the chair of an organisation that holds as its core values democracy, human rights and good governance.

Yet the military has stopped busloads of families of the disappeared from travelling to Colombo from the Northern Province.

Protesters Stop Journalists from Traveling in Sri Lanka

Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed his concern over UK journalists being blocked from going to north Sri Lanka by protesters.

(COLOMBO ITV) - A team from Channel 4 News were escorted away by police after a group of people blocked their train.

Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear tweeted: "It seems it is mob rule in Sri Lanka, albeit orchestrated by the authorities to prevent free press access to the north of Sri Lanka.