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Partnership Aims to Strengthen Financing for Nature Protection in the Western Balkans
ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 19 [Category: Environment] -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news:
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New Partnership Aims to Strengthen Financing for Nature Protection in the Western Balkans
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), represented by its Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECARO), and The Nature Conservancy in Europe (TNC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in developing sustainable, long-term financing mechanisms for protected areas across the Western Balkans.
Both organizations have been active
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 19 [Category: Environment] -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news:
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New Partnership Aims to Strengthen Financing for Nature Protection in the Western Balkans
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), represented by its Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECARO), and The Nature Conservancy in Europe (TNC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in developing sustainable, long-term financing mechanisms for protected areas across the Western Balkans.
Both organizations have been activein the region for many years, supporting biodiversity conservation and working closely with governments, civil society and local partners. While the Western Balkans is recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot, the region continues to face significant challenges in ensuring effective and adequately financed conservation. Protected areas in particular struggle with limited capacities and insufficient funding, underscoring the urgent need for more systematic and long-term support.
In reponse, the two organizations have joined forces to explore opportunities for developing long-term financing models that can provide effective long-term financial support for protected areas over a period of at least 15 years. These mechanisms would be designed not only to meet the specific needs of protected areas but also to even more importantly, help strengthen their capacities in a structured way, ultimately guiding them toward greater financial sustainability.
Igor Vejnovic, Southeast Europe Program Director at TNC, said:
"With our partners in the United for Rivers initiative, TNC has been actively involved in protecting rivers across the Western Balkans, from advocating for new protected areas, such as the Mreznica in Croatia and the Bistrica in Montenegro, to improving their management. Through this work, we've seen firsthand the challenges protected area managers face: limited capacities and limited access to funding, each reinforcing the other. We believe a new, flexible model is needed -, one that responds to the specific needs and capacities of protected areas while directing them towards sustainability and more effective conservation."
Oliver Avramoski, Regional Director of the IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) said:
"For more than two decades, IUCN has been actively engaged in the Western Balkans, supporting nature conservation, strengthening protected and conserved area management, and fostering regional cooperation. Through our partnership with The Nature Conservancy, we aim to help establish the foundations for stable and sustainable financing mechanisms for these areas, financing that enables them not only to operate effectively, but to grow stronger, more resilient, and more impactful over time. In doing so, we contribute to safeguarding biodiversity and cultural heritage, enhancing human health and well-being, strengthening climate resilience, and advancing sustainable local development."
This partnership reinforces the commitment of both organizations to support the region in strengthening biodiversity conservation and contributing to broader environmental processes, including the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans and the EU accession agenda.
Both partners emphasize that effective advancement of the initiative requires broad collaboration among diverse actors, and they invite other interested organizations to join the effort.
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Original text here: https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/iucn-mou-financing-nature-western-balkans/
Public Advocate of the U.S.: News Media Hates Resolution Demanding SCOTUS Overturn 2015 Gay Marriage Ruling
MERRIFIELD, Virginia, April 18 -- The Public Advocate of the U.S. issued the following statement on April 17, 2026, by President Eugene Delgaudio:
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News media hates resolution demanding SCOTUS overturn 2015 gay marriage ruling
Delgaudio said today to supporters:
National media hate an Idaho resolution demanding the United States Supreme Court overturn its 2015 "gay marriage" ruling.
This media noise convinces Public Advocate that it is a must priority to have a majority of states consider this resolution as soon as possible. Together with the recent 8 to 1 decision to restore the religious
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MERRIFIELD, Virginia, April 18 -- The Public Advocate of the U.S. issued the following statement on April 17, 2026, by President Eugene Delgaudio:
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News media hates resolution demanding SCOTUS overturn 2015 gay marriage ruling
Delgaudio said today to supporters:
National media hate an Idaho resolution demanding the United States Supreme Court overturn its 2015 "gay marriage" ruling.
This media noise convinces Public Advocate that it is a must priority to have a majority of states consider this resolution as soon as possible. Together with the recent 8 to 1 decision to restore the religiousliberty of a Christian counselor in Colorado (Chiles v. Salazar) in which Public Advocate sought to restore the right to moral counsel denied by state authorities, it would seem the Supreme Court could use some positive guidance about religous liberty. A majority of the current judges may have a different opinion today as they did not serve on the court at the time of the Obergefell decision. It could take a few years or at the very least we need to work to restore one man one woman marriage to the United States for the long haul," Delgaudio said.
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MASS RESISTANCE (A GRASS ROOTS GROUP WE RECOMMEND) REPORTS:
Our MassResistance resolution urging the US Supreme Court to overturn its infamous 2015 Obergefell "gay marriage" ruling has taken on a new life this year in state legislatures across the country.
The Idaho House of Representatives recently passed it for the second year in a row. It has generated excitement among conservative lawmakers and grassroots activists alike.
And like last year, it's generating anger and bizarre hysterics among leftists and LGBT activists. We suspect that most of them realize that - like the Roe v Wade abortion ruling - the court's "gay marriage" ruling had no actual constitutional justification.
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Original text here: https://www.publicadvocateusa.org/news/article.php?article=13540
[Category: Sociological]
First-in-Human Trial Primes Immune System to Accept Donor Livers
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 18 -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release:
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First-in-Human Trial Primes Immune System to Accept Donor Livers
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh clinician-scientists have weaned and kept multiple liver transplantation patients off of all immunosuppressant drugs for more than three years through a first-in-human clinical trial of a unique "immune priming" therapy.
Results of the small, early-stage trial are reported today in Nature Communications. They confirm that it is feasible, safe and preliminarily effective to
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 18 -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release:
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First-in-Human Trial Primes Immune System to Accept Donor Livers
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh clinician-scientists have weaned and kept multiple liver transplantation patients off of all immunosuppressant drugs for more than three years through a first-in-human clinical trial of a unique "immune priming" therapy.
Results of the small, early-stage trial are reported today in Nature Communications. They confirm that it is feasible, safe and preliminarily effective togive living donor liver transplant recipients an infusion of immune cells derived from their donor a week before transplantation and then, one year later in eligible patients, start to remove the immunosuppression drugs that prevent organ rejection.
"Long-term use of immunosuppressive drugs can harm the kidneys, causes metabolic complications, and makes patients more susceptible to infections and certain types of cancer, as well as diabetes," said senior author Angus Thomson, Ph.D., D.Sc., Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Immunology in Pitt's School of Medicine. "Sparing patients from these serious side effects has been a goal that Pittsburgh transplant scientists, under the direction of the late Dr. Thomas Starzl, began pursuing three decades ago. It is an honor to achieve this important milestone toward finally realizing that dream."
The liver has the special ability to regenerate, which means that a healthy person can donate a portion of their liver to someone whose liver is failing, and both parts will regrow into full organs. UPMC leads the nation in living donor liver transplants (LDLT), performing 89 in 2025.
However, as with almost any organ transplant recipient, LDLT recipients still need to take lifelong medications that suppress their immune response. This is because their immune system will otherwise attack the new organ, thinking that it is a foreign invader. Since a patient with end-stage liver disease will die without the new organ, the potentially serious side effects of immunosuppressant drugs are considered acceptable.
But what if the recipient's immune system could be trained to accept the new organ?
In 2017, with funding from UPMC Enterprises, Thomson and colleagues, in particular first author Abhinav Humar, M.D., clinical director of the Starzl Transplantation Institute and chief of the Division of Transplantation at UPMC, launched the phase I/IIa trial to do exactly that, ultimately recruiting and following 13 LDLT patients.
A few weeks before the transplantation surgery, the team filtered white blood cells, called monocytes, from the donor's blood. Those monocytes were then induced to make regulatory dendritic cells (DCregs), which teach the graft recipient's immune system to distinguish between foreign invaders and friendly cells.
The donor's DCregs were then given to the recipient a week before the transplantation surgery, with the expectation that they would "instruct" the immune system to recognize the donor liver as friendly and not attack.
A year after the transplantation surgery, the recipients were tested to see if they had immunological signals conducive to removing immunosuppression without risking organ rejection. Eight of the 13 participants were eligible and four achieved complete withdrawal of immunosuppression, with three remaining off the immunosuppressants for more than three years.
This translates to a 37.5% rate of tolerating the transplanted organ in trial recipients eligible for immunosuppression withdrawal early post-transplant, which compares to about 13% in historical non-trial adult liver transplant recipients deemed eligible for early withdrawal. However, the researchers stress that the results, while promising, are exploratory and are not definitive because the trial was not large enough, nor designed to establish efficacy.
"For as long as organ transplantation has been a field of medicine, tolerance has been its holy grail," Humar said. "And, while we haven't hit a home run yet, we've definitely gotten on base by reliably and safely removing immunosuppression early after transplantation from a significant percentage of patients, which is a huge breakthrough."
The researchers explained that the findings justify future studies, most notably a larger randomized control trial that would assign half the transplant patients to receive DCregs and the other half to standard-of-care, allowing for a true head-to-head comparison of results. The team is also proposing to test a different immunosuppressant medication than what is usually used because it may be more conducive to allowing the DCregs to take effect. They could also give the DCregs post-surgery to see if that would improve outcomes and even consider obtaining DCregs from deceased donors.
"There are so many tantalizing paths we could take to help our findings benefit many more patients," Thomson said. "We are very interested in collaborating with other transplantation centers to accelerate and scale our clinical research."
Additional authors on this research are Yannis Hadjiyannis, M.D., Camila Macedo, M.D., Lillian M. Tran, M.D., Beth Elinoff, M.P.H., Christopher B. Hughes, M.D., Swaytha R. Ganesh, M.D., Alan F. Zahorchak, M.S., Mindi A. Styn, Ph.D., Adriana Zeevi, Ph.D., Fadi G. Lakkis, M.D., Diana M. Metes, M.D., all of Pitt, UPMC or both; Erin M. Ables, M.A., of Indiana University-Bloomington; and Douglas Landsittlel, Ph.D., University at Buffalo.
In addition to UPMC Enterprises award #88906, this research was supported by Starzl Transplantation Institute Research Funds and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The National Institutes of Health also provides funding support for related research at Pitt (R01 AI11877, U19 AI131453, U01 AI136779, T32 AI74490, T32 AI089443, P30 DK120531).
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Original text here: https://www.upmc.com/media/news/041726-donor-livers
[Category: Health Care]
Crown Bioscience Urged to Probe Studies Using Monkeys From Filthy Lab After PETA Expose
NORFOLK, Virginia, April 18 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on April 17, 2026:
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Crown Bioscience Urged to Probe Studies Using Monkeys From Filthy Lab After PETA Expose
In a letter sent yesterday, PETA urges Crown Bioscience to review all experiments on monkeys it commissioned at the University of Louisiana's New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), the nation's largest primate laboratory with 12,000 monkeys.
Last month, PETA released a whistleblower video showing monkeys at NIRC confined in accumulated waste with visible signs of stress and injury.
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NORFOLK, Virginia, April 18 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on April 17, 2026:
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Crown Bioscience Urged to Probe Studies Using Monkeys From Filthy Lab After PETA Expose
In a letter sent yesterday, PETA urges Crown Bioscience to review all experiments on monkeys it commissioned at the University of Louisiana's New Iberia Research Center (NIRC), the nation's largest primate laboratory with 12,000 monkeys.
Last month, PETA released a whistleblower video showing monkeys at NIRC confined in accumulated waste with visible signs of stress and injury.Now, PETA has obtained public records involving NIRC and its pharmaceutical industry clients that raise serious concerns about the health of the monkeys it supplies, including evidence that at least one major drug company, Pfizer, accepted monkeys with known health problems, underscoring a willingness to use sick animals in experiments, which can taint data.
These records show that monkeys were selected for experiments based on age, weight, sex, and availability, not health. Even animals with infections, injuries, and active lesions were not excluded. Some were still sent to a contract laboratory for use in experiments. PETA is concerned this may reflect broader industry practices.
The whistleblower video shows the conditions behind those records, including monkeys stacked in barren cages in small, windowless rooms. Many have extensive hair loss, a well-documented indicator of chronic stress. The footage and records tell the same story: compromised animals are used in experiments.
"Sick monkeys don't just suffer, they distort results and mislead decisions about what is safe and effective for patients," says PETA Chief Science Advisor on Primate Experimentation Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. "PETA strongly urges Crown Bioscience to examine its relationship with NIRC, where monkeys are confined in conditions that drive disease and distress and where even compromised animals can still end up in experiments.
In addition to its relationships with Crown Bioscience and Pfizer, NIRC sells monkeys to or receives funding to conduct monkey experiments from Charles River Laboratories; Cyanvac LLC; Elicio Therapeutics; Gates Foundation; Lovelace Biomedical; Merck; Novavax; Ragon Institute--affiliated with Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University--Sanofi; SeromYx Systems, Inc.; University of Nebraska Medical Center, among others.
Federal inspectors have cited NIRC for violating the Animal Welfare Act following the deaths of infant monkeys from dehydration, a monkey who was electrocuted, and for broken or dilapidated cages that contribute to repeated escapes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently cited the university when 19 monkeys died after being confined outside, unprotected, in sub-freezing weather. Authorities have imposed substantial fines of more than $158,000. PETA--whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to experiment on"--points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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Original text here: https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/crown-bioscience-urged-to-probe-studies-using-monkeys-from-filthy-lab-after-peta-expose/
[Category: Animals]
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences: Findings Support Sea Ice Forecasting in the Arctic
BOULDER, Colorado, April 18 (TNSjou) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news:
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New findings support sea ice forecasting in the Arctic
The research establishes a new standard for air-sea ice observations in the Arctic
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Sea ice forecasts are a lifeline for the Alaskan fishing industry, America's growing icebreaker fleet, and Alaskan coastal communities that rely on sea ice for subsistence activities and travel.
A new study led by CIRES and NOAA establishes a new standard for air-sea ice observations in the Arctic, representing a significant
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BOULDER, Colorado, April 18 (TNSjou) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news:
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New findings support sea ice forecasting in the Arctic
The research establishes a new standard for air-sea ice observations in the Arctic
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Sea ice forecasts are a lifeline for the Alaskan fishing industry, America's growing icebreaker fleet, and Alaskan coastal communities that rely on sea ice for subsistence activities and travel.
A new study led by CIRES and NOAA establishes a new standard for air-sea ice observations in the Arctic, representing a significantstep towards improving sea ice prediction models. The research is based on observations from the recent Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition in which NOAA and CIRES scientists were significantly involved.
In the new study (https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/14/1/00100/217872/The-two-radiative-states-of-the-Arctic-atmosphere), researchers tracked the growth and melt of Arctic sea ice over time by measuring the amount of energy it absorbed and released, calculating the sea ice's "energy budget." This approach was chosen because it mirrors the way advanced forecast models, like NOAA's Unified Forecast System (UFS), predict ice behavior.
Achieving "closure," where the measured energy budget matches the physical change in ice mass, is notoriously difficult and extraordinarily rare. But the new study shows observations from MOSAiC achieved remarkable closure over 10 months of seasonal changes by comparing energy budget measurements to direct observations of ice thickness made by numerous, independent collaborators.
The findings point to specific ways to improve sea ice forecasting models. The study introduces a new diagnostic tool, the "atmospheric state effect," that will help evaluate and address long-standing model biases associated with Arctic clouds. Arctic clouds have a significant impact on the sea ice energy budget (and therefore sea ice growth), so reducing these cloud model biases will improve the models' skill in predicting how the sea ice will evolve through a forecast.
The study also highlights specific areas for future focused model improvement. For instance, model components responsible for calculating how the ice is influenced by atmospheric turbulence are found to be more sensitive to certain weather conditions and physical relationships than previously thought.
Ultimately, this work represents a significant step towards closing the precision measurement gap in the far north, improving the performance of models. With improved models comes more accurate sea ice prediction, strengthening the nation's industries and communities in the Arctic.
Matt Shupe, lead author of the study, has been awarded Stockholm University's King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science for 2026 to 2027. The appointment is a prestigious visiting fellowship, and Shupe's work will complement research on Arctic climate currently conducted at the university.
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Original text here: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/new-findings-support-sea-ice-forecasting-arctic
[Category: Environment]
Catholic League Issues Commentary: Brian Kilmeade Dead Wrong On Pius XII
NEW YORK, April 18 -- The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an organization that defends the right of Catholics to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination, issued the following commentary on April 17, 2026, by President Bill Donohue:
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BRIAN KILMEADE DEAD WRONG ON PIUS XII
On April 16, on "Fox & Friends," Brian Kilmeade was critical of Pope Leo XIV, and in the course of his remarks he said the following: "Historically, Pope Pius XII did nothing knowing, documents show that 6 million Jews were being slaughtered. The Vatican knew about it, did
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NEW YORK, April 18 -- The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an organization that defends the right of Catholics to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination, issued the following commentary on April 17, 2026, by President Bill Donohue:
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BRIAN KILMEADE DEAD WRONG ON PIUS XII
On April 16, on "Fox & Friends," Brian Kilmeade was critical of Pope Leo XIV, and in the course of his remarks he said the following: "Historically, Pope Pius XII did nothing knowing, documents show that 6 million Jews were being slaughtered. The Vatican knew about it, didnothing, signed a deal with the Nazis not to invade."
Shaking his head in agreement was Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review.
Besides the incredibly dumb remark about the Vatican deciding not to invade--invade with what?--Kilmeade knows nothing about this subject. He is dead wrong. Apparently, Lowry is just as clueless.
The Vatican archives show concretely that the debate is over. Pope Pius XII did more to save Jews than any other world figure. Here is a quick summary of his heroics taken from my book, Why Catholicism Matters.
1940
* In the December 23, 1940 issue of Time magazine, Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, "Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came to Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks....Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth."
1941
* In its Christmas Day editorial, the New York Times said, "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas."
1942
* In its Christmas Day editorial, the New York Times wrote, "No Christmas sermon reaches a larger congregation than the message Pope Pius XII addresses to a war-torn world this season."
1943
* Hitler's biographer, John Toland, said, "The Church, under the Pope's guidance, had already saved the lives of more Jews than all other churches, religious institutions, and rescue organizations combined, and was presently hiding thousands of Jews in monasteries, convents, and Vatican City itself."
* Speaking about events in 1943, Sir Martin Gilbert, perhaps the foremost historian of the Holocaust, noted that "the test for Pacelli was when the Gestapo came to Rome in 1943 to round up Jews. And the Catholic Church, on his direct authority, immediately dispersed as many Jews as they could."
* In 1943, the World Jewish Congress thanked the pope for persuading Italian authorities to remove 20,000 Jewish refugees from internment camps in Northern Italy.
* On July 25, 1943, Hitler began his plan to kidnap the "Jew-loving" pope.
1944
* Jewish scholar Jeno Levai describes what happened in the spring of 1944 in Hungary. "Over 20,000 passports had been issued by the papal Nuncio--on the average of 500 a day."
1945
* Anton Zolli, the Chief Rabbi in Rome, converted to Catholicism. He explained why in his book, Why I Became a Catholic. "No hero in history has commanded such an army; none is more militant, more fought against, none more heroic than that conducted by Pius XII in the name of Christian Charity." He chose the name Eugenio (after Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII) as his baptismal name.
1958
* When the pope died, Golda Meir, Israel's foreign minister (she would later become prime minister), telegraphed the Vatican saying, "When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror, the voice of the Pope was raised for the victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out on the great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."
* Among the Jewish organizations that praised the pope were the following: Anti-Defamation League, the Synagogue Council of America, the Rabbinical Council of America, the New York Board of Rabbis, the American Jewish Committee, the World Jewish Congress, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the National Council of Jewish Women.
Former Israeli diplomat and author Pinchas Lapide estimated that approximately 860,000 Jewish lives were saved by Pope Pius XII. One thing is certain: no leader, religious or secular, did more to save Jews than Pope Pius XII. He is more than a "Righteous Gentile"--he deserves to be made a saint.
If Kilmeade knew anything about the critics of Pius XII, he would know that many have had to walk back their accusations.
In 2017, the BBC announced the results of an internal probe of the war record of Pope Pius XII. It said it was wrong to characterize him as being "silent" during the Holocaust. In 1999, the author of Hitler's Pope, John Cornwell, admitted that he was wrong in making this assessment, and retracted his charge that the pope supported Hitler.
Catholic League board of advisors, University of Mississippi law professor Ronald Rychlak, has also written voluminously about the yeoman efforts of Pius XII during the Holocaust. Gary Krupp, a Jewish student of this subject, who was once critical of the pope, has a drove of documents on his website, Pave the Way Foundation, that detail the great work of this wartime pope.
Kilmeade is a talking head--he is not an historian. He is way out of his league on this subject.
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Original text here: https://www.catholicleague.org/brian-kilmeade-dead-wrong-on-pius-xii/
[Category: Sociological]
Americans for Tax Reform: Big News for Oklahoma - Private Education Tax Credit Has Been Expanded
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary on April 17, 2026, by JT Taylor:
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Big News for Oklahoma: Private Education Tax Credit has been Expanded
Cheerful news out of Oklahoma today as Speaker Kyle Hilbert's House Bill 3705 has been successfully passed through the States House.
Originally passed in 2023, the Parental Choice Tax Credit was designed to provide $5,000 to $7,500 in tax credit to parents whose children attend qualifying private schools and a credit of up to $1,000 for parents of homeschooled children. Now the passing of HB 3705 would
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WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary on April 17, 2026, by JT Taylor:
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Big News for Oklahoma: Private Education Tax Credit has been Expanded
Cheerful news out of Oklahoma today as Speaker Kyle Hilbert's House Bill 3705 has been successfully passed through the States House.
Originally passed in 2023, the Parental Choice Tax Credit was designed to provide $5,000 to $7,500 in tax credit to parents whose children attend qualifying private schools and a credit of up to $1,000 for parents of homeschooled children. Now the passing of HB 3705 wouldraise the overall program from $250 million to $275 million.
Currently, about 4.79% of Oklahoma students are enrolled at private schools (ballotpedia) and with a 61% tuition increase since the 2023-2024 school year (oklahoman.com), these tax credits would entice more parents to enroll their students in a private education which allows parents to have a great say in what their children are learning in school.
House Bill 3705 presents a huge step for the nation from Oklahoma and with success, will hopefully encourage more states to follow suit, allowing for a Universal School Choice program to take effect and letting parents choose how their students learn.
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Original text here: https://atr.org/big-news-for-oklahoma-private-education-tax-credit-has-been-expanded/
[Category: Political]
