Egypt’s President Promotes Religious Choice During Human Rights Rollout

Some Copts cheer Sisi’s stance and new five-year reform strategy, while others focus on absence of attention to problematic ID cards and reconciliation committees. Committing Egypt to a five-year program of human rights reform, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not mince words about religion. “If someone tells me they are neither Muslim nor Christian nor a Jew, or that he or she does not believe in religion, I will tell them, ‘You are free to choose,’” he said.... Read More

Miami leaders, cowed by one sector of the Cuban community, prove Chief Acevedo right | Opinion 

The only-in-Miami trial to fire Police Chief Art Acevedo is one for the books. The outcome, his ouster, was preordained. After a 4 1/2-hour, quasi-judicial proceeding Friday at City Hall … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Florida led U.S. in COVID nursing home deaths over 4 weeks this summer, report finds

The state’s rate of staff vaccinations trailed the national average of 67%, and Florida ranked second-to-last in the nation, with only Louisiana lower at 52.8%. The AARP also reported that 12%, or roughly 85, of Florida’s nearly 700 nursing homes, had “met the industry standard and vaccinated at least 75 percent of their staff.” ... Read More

Lawyers: Parkland school shooter to plead guilty to massacre. He still faces death penalty

Defense lawyers for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz indicated Friday that he will plead guilty to massacring 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High, paving the way for a jury … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Christians Shouldn’t Need a Mandate to Provide Paid Family Leave

There are clear, pro-life reasons why mothers and fathers need time with new babies. When our twins were born in 2019, I took six weeks off work. My husband did too—thanks to his then-employer’s family leave plan, offered equally to new mothers and fathers alike—and it’s impossible to overstate how indispensable his leave became. It wasn’t that I had a difficult physical recovery. Mercifully, I didn’t, especially by the standard of multiples pregnancies.... Read More

Vaccine Campaign at Zimbabwe Churches Praises What’s Done in Secret

Christian health workers and pastors navigate stigma at Apostolic, evangelical, and Methodist congregations. Yvonne Binda stands in front of the congregation, all dressed in pristine white robes, and tells them not to believe what they’ve heard about COVID-19 vaccines. “The vaccine is not linked to Satanism,” she says. The worshipers, members of a Christian Apostolic church in Zimbabwe, are unmoved. But when Binda, a vaccine campaigner and member of an Apostolic church... Read More

Florida Supreme Court puts up a stop sign to company that helps drivers fight traffic tickets

“Here, the record contains no evidence that the public received any incompetent, unethical, or irresponsible representation due to TIKD’s business,” wrote Couriel, who was joined in the dissent by Justices Ricky Polston and Carlos Muniz. “The lawyers to whom TIKD introduced its users were all members of the Florida Bar, subject to its rules and to its (and our) discipline. We have been directed to no alleged malpractice, or even dissatisfaction, involving lawyers matched with their... Read More