Americans killed in destination as officials issue new travel warning over rising crime
The U.S. State Department has issued an increased travel advisory pertaining to Grenada, due to the “risk of crime.”
The Level 2 advisory was updated Jan. 5, with a warning about “violent crime.” Americans have been victims of armed robbery, assault, burglary and rape.
“In some cases, American citizens have been killed. Police response times are not as fast as one may expect in the United States,” the advisory says.
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Grenada lies in the eastern Caribbean Sea as part of the West Indies.
It’s about 125 miles north of Venezuela.
“Do not answer your door at your hotel or residence unless you know who it is,” the advisory states.
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Officials also warn travelers to physically avoid resisting any robbery attempt and to “keep a low profile.”
“Response time to law enforcement and security requests can at times be quite slow.”
Travelers are also advised to use caution when walking or driving at night and to stay aware of their surroundings.
About 16.8 million Americans visited the Caribbean in 2024, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
The U.S. Embassy is located in the country’s capital of St. George, which is the biggest city on the island.
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The State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Grenada report noted that regional police forces do usually cooperate with U.S. counterparts.
“However, response time to law enforcement and security requests can at times be quite slow due to inadequate funding, lack of equipment and training, and staffing shortages,” the report said.
Tourism is a major contributor to regional economies, and there is a level of police protection that regional governments provide to tourist areas, the same source noted.
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The State Department has four travel advisory levels to help travelers assess safety risks before visiting other countries.
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The advisory levels are: Level 1 – Exercise Normal Precautions; Level 2 – Exercise Increased Caution; Level 3 – Reconsider Travel; and Level 4 – Do Not Travel.
Mother killed protecting kids after husband erupts in rage during NFL game
A Florida mom is being remembered as a hero after she was shot protecting her children when her husband flew into a violent rage over an evening NFL game.
Jason Kenney, 47, shot and killed his wife, Crystal Roure, 38, before turning the gun on himself just three days before Christmas, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Kenney had been drinking while watching Monday Night Football inside his shed – located at the family’s Highland City home – when he came inside to watch the end of the game at around 11 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2025, authorities said.
Upon entering the home, a fight ensued between the couple after Roure said she did not want to watch football, according to police.
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As the altercation escalated, Roure yelled for her 12-year-old son to run to a nearby neighbor’s house and call 911, and he heard a single gunshot as he was fleeing the home.
Responding deputies subsequently found Roure dead in the family’s living room with a gunshot wound to her head, and her 13-year-old daughter suffering from two gunshot wounds while in her bed. The couple’s 1-year-old child was also found asleep in her crib, unharmed.
The teen survived the shooting after the bullet struck her nose and ricocheted through the top of her head, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news conference.
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“She said, ‘I begged him, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me. And he shot me anyway,’” Judd said, referring to Kenney’s teen stepdaughter.
Authorities also discovered an undated letter Roure wrote to Kenney, telling him: “You’re drinking, you’re using cocaine again. This is not the way a family should be. You need God.”
Immediately following the shooting of his wife and stepdaughter, police say Kenney fled the area in his truck and called his sister to tell her he “had done something really bad and he was not going to jail.” Kenney reportedly added that she would “see it on the news,” before driving to his deceased father’s home in Lake Wales and entering a shed on the property.
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When officers arrived and began yelling for Kenney to come outside, they heard a single gunshot and ultimately found him deceased from an apparent self-inflicted wound to the head.
“He absolutely destroyed a family,” Judd said. “When you go in there, there is a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of Christmas presents under the tree, just like the nuclear family should be, and it ends up this way.”
Judd revealed that relatives of the family told investigators that Kenney had been abusing his wife “for a while,” despite the sheriff’s office having no records of any domestic violence calls regarding the couple. Additionally, Kenney had no criminal history, Judd added.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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“After they were married, I know she said he was drinking a lot more but she said that he was going to stop and said he would get help with it. Obviously that didn’t happen,” Roure’s sister, Stephanie Roure, told USA Today.
“My sister died a hero for protecting her children and getting my nephew out of the house to make the 911 call,” Stephanie Roure reportedly said. “She did that. She saved their lives and by doing so my nephew saved his sister’s life, and thank God the baby was untouched.”
Matt Damon reveals Eastwood’s brutal on-set question that left him speechless
Matt Damon remembered being put in his place by one of Hollywood’s finest as he reminisced on his decades-long career.
During an appearance on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, the Oscar-winner revealed that Clint Eastwood had a few choice words for the actor while they worked together on the 2009 docudrama “Invictus.”
While running down the list of directors Damon worked with, O’Brien admitted he couldn’t get a sense of Eastwood’s style.
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“I worked with him twice, and the first time was ‘Invictus,’” Damon recalled. “So I was playing a South African rugby player, and that’s a really tough accent to do.”
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Damon spent six months working with a dialect coach to master the accent, with little interest from his director.
“It was a long … it was a lot of work,” Damon said. “And I showed up and, and I’m, I’m ready. It’s like my chance to work with, you know, one of my heroes.”
Damon continued, “The very first take, I did it. And meanwhile, I’ve done this so many thousands of times. I have a number of different ways that I’m thinking of maybe doing the scene. So he goes, ‘Cut, print, move on.’
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“I go, I go, ‘Hang on, hang on, hang on, boss. I want to, you know, I want to do another one. I mean, I wasn’t even in costume.’ You know, that was like, that was the first one.
Damon remembered that Eastwood quickly responded, “He goes, ‘Why you wanna waste everybody’s time?'”
“I went, ‘No, I guess we’re moving on.”
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While Eastwood’s words may have seemed off-putting, the “Bourne Identity” actor insisted there was a “kindness” to his message.
“He is a lovely guy. What was really interesting is the second movie I did with him, there was this … it builds to a head with this, a scene with me and this 9-year-old kid,” Damon said. “The 9-year-old kid was a non-actor, and we had done one take for everybody, all through ‘Invictus.’
“We must have done 40 takes with this little boy … we were trying to get this; it was this kind of huge moment in the film, and we were trying to get this stuff out of him. Clint was right next to me … like, we were right next to the camera together just working with this boy.”
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He added, “His whole mentality was … your crew will go to the ends of the earth for you if as long as you’re not taxing them on every shot. When we need to get in there, we get in there. But for the most part we can … professional actors are gonna show up with something good. We keep the momentum.”
AG responds after trans athlete opponent in SCOTUS case is accused of sexual harassment
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey spoke out in response to allegations of sexual harassment against a transgender athlete who has sued his state to block its law that keeps biological males out of girls’ sports.
McCuskey, who is leading his state’s legal defense against the trans athlete the U.S. Supreme Court set to review the case Tuesday, addressed the allegations at a press conference Monday.
“Any time you think of a child being harassed, it gives you pause as a parent. And it isn’t really part of our case, but harassment of any child of any kind in this country is inappropriate. And it’s wrong, and we all need to stand up to ensure that children aren’t being harassed in any of their venues, particularly athletics,” McCuskey said.
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West Virginia AG responds to harassment allegations against trans athlete
The allegations were leveled against the trans athlete by Bridgeport High School student Adaleia Cross, who is a former track and field teammate of the trans athlete when the two were at Bridgeport Middle School.
Cross’ mother, Abby, told Fox News Digital what the trans athlete allegedly said to her daughter when they shared the girls’ locker room during the 2022-23 school year. Adaleia was in eighth grade, and the trans athlete was in seventh. Abby Cross alleges the trans athlete made extremely graphic and vulgar sexual threats to her daughter and other girls on the team.
The trans athlete’s legal representatives at the American Civil Liberties Union has denied the allegations.
“Our client and her mother deny these allegations and the school district investigated the allegations reported to the school by A.C. and found them to be unsubstantiated. We remain committed to defending the rights of all students under Title IX, including the right to a safe and inclusive learning environment free from harassment and discrimination,” read an ACLU statement provided to Fox News Digital.
The Cross family’s attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) responded to the ACLU’s statement.
“Our client has sworn under oath and under penalty of perjury in numerous cases about the events that took place between her and the male athlete. As a result of the situation, [Cross] had to step away from the sport she loved entirely and sacrifice a key element of her school experience to protect herself,” read an ADF statement provided to Fox News Digital.
The trans athlete personally denied the allegations to The New York Times in a story that was published Monday.
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“I was not raised like that,” the athlete said.
The outlet obtained a letter from the Harrison County School District, stating an investigation determined Cross’s allegations “could not be substantiated.”
The Cross family said when they reported the alleged harassment to the school, nothing was done to reprimand the trans athlete, to their knowledge.
“They told me they would do a full investigation into what I told them,” Adaleia said. “And then, all of a sudden, it was like nothing else was happening, it was done, and it seemed like they thought nothing of it because they didn’t talk to us about it at all, they just left it there and didn’t tell us anything else, so it just made it seemed like, yup it’s done.”
Her father, Holden Cross said, “We received no response from the school after filing the report.”
Fox News Digital made repeated requests to the ACLU and the Harrison County School District, which oversees Bridgeport Middle School and Bridgeport High School, seeking documentation related to the school’s investigation and clarification on whether an investigation occurred and, if so, why only the Cross family was not notified of the results. Those requests have not been met.
OutKick podcast host and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines also addressed the allegations at the Monday press conference, recounting Adaleia’s testimony, saying that the experience “traumatized” Cross.
“We have to worry about middle school-aged girls who have to worry about being told these things in an area of undressing,” Gaines said. “The alleged things that were said to her, as a parent myself now, and I would imagine my husband would have choice words if someone said things like that to our daughter. Relaying some of the things [Cross] said to me, it traumatized her.”
Gaines and McCuskey were joined Monday by the attorneys general from Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Virginia, Ohio, legal counsel for the AG of Alabama, and four other women’s athlete activists; Olympic silver medal gymnast MyKayla Skinner, former U.S. gymnast and XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey, former NCAA volleyball player Macy Petty and former California collegiate women’s soccer player Sophia Lorey.
The group gave remarks in support of the “Save Women’s Sports” legal defense one day before the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases over the issue of trans athletes in girls’ sports, including McCuskey’s case in West Virginia and a separate case in Idaho.
Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador has been battling a lawsuit by a trans athlete who sued to block the state’s women’s sports law since 2020, called out that trans athlete for attempting to drop the case after the Supreme Court agreed to review it.
“This athlete never decided to dismiss the case until the petition for cir was granted by the U.S. Supreme Court. So when they knew that they were in the Ninth Circuit that they would win, they were fine with having this case heard. when they knew that they were going to go before the Supreme Court, they decided to try to dismiss this case. I think that’s fundamentally unfair. I think that’s gamesmanship and I hope that the court, the U.S. Supreme Court sees it that way.”
Skinner reflected on her women’s gymnastics career and becoming a mother for her passion in joining the battle to “save women’s sports.”
“Staying silent on issues that matter doesn’t serve the next generation of girls. I’ve spent my entire life in women’s sports. I know how rare and hard one these opportunities are. That’s why what’s happening right now at the Supreme Court and in the states like Utah matter so much more,” Skinner said.
“Women’s sports exist because men and women are biologically different. In gymnastics, women don’t compete on the rings. Why? Because men are stronger. And events are designed around physiological reality. That’s not controversial. It’s common sense.”
Petty shared her experience of having to play a transgender athlete during her college career, recounting the hard work and sacrifices, including missing prom, that went into earning a chance to play collegiate volleyball.
“But instead of showing off those skills that I had been training my entire life to build, they watched a boy slam the ball in our faces. Now, there were plenty of opportunities for this boy to play at the boys courts on the other side of the convention center where, mind you, the nets are over 7 in higher than our nets. But instead, it was humiliating. It was degrading to me as a female. And of course, it jeopardized my opportunity to even put that jersey on in the first place.”
Lorey ripped California leadership, including Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom for continuing to allow the state to be a hotbed for controversial incidents involving biological males compete in girls’ sports.
“Our own attorney general, Rob Bonta won’t lift a finger to protect girls,” Lorey said. “When I testified at the California State Capital in defense of girls, an assembly member compared what we were saying to times of Nazi Germany.”
Sey, like Skinner, also recounted her experience as a pro gymnast en route to becoming a U.S. champion, said she never would have accomplished this if she had to compete against males.
“Why will little girls even bother to compete at a certain point when they know that it doesn’t matter to our institutions that it isn’t fair for them? I’m telling you, this is where this goes. They stop trying. They stop competing all together. Why would they bother if they have no chance of making the team, the podium, of winning? Eventually, they won’t. They will stop trying,” Sey warned.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita was the lone figure in attendance on Monday calling for empathy for the trans athletes, becoming visibly emotional while recounting an incident in 2022 when his state was sued by the ACLU and a 10-year-old transgender plaintiff for enacting a law to only allow biological females in girls’ sports.
Rokita argued that the 10-year-old had been “co-opted by the left.”
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“That plaintiff in Indiana was 10 years old and I say my opinion is was co-opted by the left. That 10-year-old needs love and so do all the rest like her. That 10-year-old needs therapy. What that 10-year-old and all the ones like that person doesn’t need is to be affirmed in the wrongness that was that case in Indiana,” Rokita said.
“So to my colleagues, good luck tomorrow. May justice prevail.”
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Grocery chain launches massive expansion with 180 new US stores
Budget-friendly grocery chain Aldi is expanding its footprint in the U.S.
The company announced on Monday that it plans to open more than 180 stores by the end of 2026, pushing its total footprint to nearly 2,800 this year. Its goal is to operate about 3,200 stores by the end of 2028.
As part of the company’s growth plans over the next five years, it will enter the Colorado market for the first time while opening additional stores in the Southeast and West markets. It also has plans to open three new distribution centers in Florida, Colorado and Arizona.
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Aldi, which is entering its 50th year in the U.S., said the expansion meets the “sustained demand” for its simple and affordable operating model.
“In 2026 we’re focused on making it even easier for customers to shop our aisles first,” Aldi U.S. CEO Atty McGrath said in a statement. “That means bringing ALDI to even more neighborhoods, upgrading our website and planning additional distribution centers to keep our shelves stocked.”
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Aldi operates using a no-frills model, keeping costs down by selling a limited selection of mostly private-label products in smaller stores. Locations are also staffed with relatively few employees.
For instance, customers insert a refundable quarter to use shopping carts, which the company says reduces the need to hire additional staff to collect carts, and saves customers more money.
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Demand for the low-cost grocer has risen as consumers grapple with higher everyday expenses.
Aldi said in its announcement that the “next wave of ALDI growth is powered by its customers” with 17 million new customers visiting stores in 2025 alone.
Key markets where Aldi is moving:
- Maine: In 2026, Aldi will enter Maine. It will open a store in the city of Portland.
- Colorado: More than 50 stores are planned for the Denver and Colorado Springs markets, supported by an accompanying distribution center.
- Arizona: The grocer will open 10 new stores in the Phoenix market in 2026, with plans to add a total of 40 new stores to the market by the end of 2030.
- Las Vegas: The grocer plans to double its current store count by 2030.
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- The Southeast: Aldi plans to continue its Southeast expansion in 2026 by converting close to 80 Southeastern Grocers locations to the Aldi format. Since acquiring Southeastern Grocers in 2024, Aldi has converted and opened nearly 90 stores, with plans to convert more than 200 in total by the end of 2027.
Cuban president rejects negotiations with US as oil supplies from Venezuela cut off
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared Monday that his administration is not negotiating with Washington, despite President Donald Trump’s threats to push Cuba into a deal now that Venezuelan oil will no longer be supplied.
“There are no conversations with the U.S. government, except for technical contacts in the migration field,” Díaz-Canel said in a post on X.
Díaz-Canel continued to denounce the U.S., accusing it of applying hostile pressure on the island, and insisted that negotiations would only take place if they are conducted in accordance with international law.
“As history demonstrates, relations between the U.S. and Cuba, in order to advance, must be based on International Law rather than on hostility, threats, and economic coercion,” he said.
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“We have always been willing to engage in a serious and responsible dialogue with the various governments of the United States, including the current one, on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect, principles of International Law, reciprocal benefit without interference in internal affairs and with full respect for our independence,” Canel added.
On Sunday, Trump declared that Cuba would no longer receive oil or money from Venezuela, a move that would sever Havana’s longtime energy and financial lifeline.
The announcement came after a stunning Jan. 3 operation in Venezuela, in which American forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and reportedly killed at least 32 Cuban personnel.
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“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” he warned.
Cuba has long depended on imported oil to keep its aging power grid running. Before the U.S. attack on Venezuela, Havana was receiving 35,000 barrels a day from Venezuela, roughly 7,500 from Russia and some 5,500 barrels daily from Mexico, The Associated Press reported, citing Jorge Piñón of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, who tracks the shipments.
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Even with Venezuelan oil imports, Cuba has suffered widespread blackouts in recent years due to persistent fuel shortages, an aging and crumbling electric grid and damage from hurricanes that have battered the island’s infrastructure.
Now, with U.S. sanctions tightening on both Russian and Venezuelan oil, blackouts could worsen as Havana’s leaders reject Trump’s call to strike a deal.
Nonprofit revenue totals surge amid growing scrutiny after major fraud cases
Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed through U.S. nonprofit organizations in 2024, tax filing data show, as major fraud cases — including in Minnesota — put new focus on how taxpayer-backed funds are overseen.
The figures come from ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and were independently reviewed by Fox News, which confirmed the state-by-state revenue totals.
According to the data, California’s 213,720 nonprofits reported a collective $593.4 billion in revenue, the highest total of any state.
For nonprofit organizations, revenue refers to total income reported on tax filings – not profit or money pocketed by individuals – and can include government grants and reimbursements, donations, service fees, investment income and contracts for public services.
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Following California was New York, where 132,097 nonprofits reported a collective $445.8 billion in revenue. Pennsylvania’s 85,346 nonprofits reported $247.3 billion, while Texas’ 157,840 nonprofits reported $219.6 billion.
Other notable states include Washington, where 44,332 nonprofits reported $139.5 billion in revenue; New Jersey, where 56,332 nonprofits reported $113 billion; and Minnesota, where 41,267 nonprofits reported $124.2 billion — placing the state among the top revenue totals nationwide despite its smaller population.
The figures circulated widely on social media on Monday after an X user highlighted the totals using the term “NGOs.” The “NGO” label is oftentimes applied to international organizations but is sometimes used online to describe domestic nonprofit groups, which are the focus of the ProPublica database.
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Although nonprofit revenue does not indicate wrongdoing, the heavy reliance on taxpayer-backed federal and state programs has drawn scrutiny as investigators uncover fraud in multiple publicly funded initiatives.
That scrutiny comes as the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced it is sending additional federal prosecutors to Minnesota to help crack down on large-scale fraud involving taxpayer-funded programs, following a series of high-profile cases tied to nonprofit organizations and social services spending.
“The Department of Justice is dispatching a team of prosecutors to Minnesota to reinforce our U.S. Attorney’s Office and put the perpetrators of this widespread fraud behind bars,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday, vowing “severe consequences” in Minnesota.
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She also said her department stands “ready to deploy to any other state where similar fraud schemes are robbing American taxpayers.”
Bondi’s remarks come as the DOJ continues a sweeping welfare fraud investigation that began under former Attorney General Merrick Garland.
In 2022, Garland announced the first wave of indictments in what he said was a $250 million scheme involving the Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which authorities accused of exploiting taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs and described at the time as the largest pandemic-related fraud uncovered to date.
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Under Bondi, the DOJ has continued pursuing cases tied to Feeding Our Future, along with related investigations involving alleged juror bribery and health care fraud. Bondi has said the scope of the misconduct is larger than previously understood and warned that additional criminal charges are expected, bolstered by the deployment of more federal prosecutors to Minnesota.
To date, the department has charged 98 people in fraud-related cases in Minnesota and secured 64 convictions. The vast majority of defendants have been of Somali descent.
Health and Human Services said this month that it froze billions of dollars in federal funding for childcare programs and other social services in five Democrat-led states, including Minnesota, while it investigates their use of taxpayer dollars.
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A viral video posted by YouTube creator Nick Shirley in December amplified the attention on fraud in Minnesota. In the video, Shirley is seen visiting Somali-run daycare centers and finding they were closed. The videos have attracted millions of views on social media.
Some of the daycare centers have since disputed the suggestions in Shirley’s video and said they have never committed fraud.
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ProPublica’s data reflect reported tax filings and does not allege wrongdoing.
Pope Leo criticizes Western woke ideology as Christians suffer worldwide
During an address to members of the diplomatic corps on Friday, Pope Leo XIV warned that “Orwellian-style” ideology is taking root in the West and undermining free speech.
“It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking,” Pope Leo said. “At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.”
The pope said freedom of conscience is also increasingly under attack.
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”At this moment in history, freedom of conscience seems increasingly to be questioned by States, even those that claim to be based on democracy and human rights,” Pope Leo said. “This freedom, however, establishes a balance between the collective interest and individual dignity. It also emphasizes that a truly free society does not impose uniformity but protects the diversity of consciences, preventing authoritarian tendencies and promoting an ethical dialogue that enriches the social fabric.”
The Pope also condemned “jihadist violence,” and addressed the persecution of Christians, calling it “one of the most widespread human rights crises today, affecting over 380 million believers worldwide.”
“Here, I would especially call to mind the many victims of violence, including religiously motivated violence in Bangladesh, in the Sahel region and in Nigeria, as well as those of the serious terrorist attack last June on the parish of Saint Elias in Damascus,” he said. “Nor do I forget the victims of jihadist violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.”
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In August, Fox News reported that international observers witnessed ISIS-aligned soldiers were beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and Southern Africa, with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.
It is estimated that more than 16 million Christians have been displaced from their homes in sub-Saharan Africa, facing threats of persecution, kidnapping, sexual violence and, in some cases, death from Islamist radicals.
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Steelers’ playoff nightmare continues as Texans defense crushes Rodgers in rout
Crunch.
That was the sound of Houston Texans players colliding with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers early in the fourth quarter of their Wild Card Round matchup, causing him to lose the ball. Texans defensive lineman Sheldon Rankins picked the ball up and ran it to the end zone for what felt like the knockout blow even though there was still a lot of time left to play.
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It was that type of game for both teams – a defensive struggle – as Houston put together a 30-6 victory. It was the franchise’s first road playoff victory.
There were big hits and little room for error. Houston had a 7-6 lead at halftime thanks to a touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud to Christian Kirk.
Even as the Texans turned the ball over three times between the first half and the third quarter, the Steelers could only muster up three points. Houston’s defensive prowess was on display on each snap as Rodgers was left with little to no time to make a decision.
When he did have time to throw, wide receivers like DK Metcalf, Jonnu Smith and Calvin Austin III either dropped the ball or were just a hair off. Rodgers also had a few of his passes deflected.
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Steelers fans let the team hear it with plenty of boos. Pittsburgh extended its playoff losing streak to seven games.
Texans running back Woody Marks ran for 100 yards for the first time in his career and scored a touchdown to really seal the win. Texans defensive back Calen Bullock returned an interception for a touchdown late in the game.
Stroud finished 21-of-32 with 250 passing yards and the touchdown pass. The Texans’ defense sacked Rodgers four times. Rankins was good for 1.5 sacks.
The Steelers almost had no offense throughout the game. The team was held to 175 yards and outscored 23-0 in the fourth quarter.
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Houston will take on the New England Patriots in the AFC Divisional Round.