( SRN NEWS ) French authorities are trying to establish whether a group of young French citizens were removed from a plane bound for Paris from Spain because they are Jewish. The Spanish airline, Vueling (voo-EL-ing), has denied the claims. Several dozen French passengers were kicked off a flight leaving the Spanish city of Valencia […]
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( SRN NEWS ) French authorities are trying to establish whether a group of young French citizens were removed from a plane bound for Paris from Spain because they are Jewish. The Spanish airline, Vueling (voo-EL-ing), has denied the claims. Several dozen French passengers were kicked off a flight leaving the Spanish city of Valencia for Paris, for what Spanish police and the airline described as unruly behavior. The Federation for Jewish Communities of Spain is expressing concern about the incident. The Federation says that the airline needs to provide documentary evidence of what happened on the plane.
( ) The fight to defund Planned Parenthood may eventually wind up before the Supreme Court. A federal judge has ruled that Medicaid funding can not be withdrawn from the nation’s largest abortion business, as mandated in President Trump’s new budget bill. This latest order replaces another judge’s decision that initially granted a preliminary injunction. That injunction specifically blocked the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood members that didn’t provide abortions or didn’t meet a threshold of at least 800,000 dollars in Medicaid reimbursements in any given year.
( ) Germany’s top prosecutor has filed charges against a Syrian man in connection with a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial back in February that seriously wounded a Spanish tourist. Authorities say the suspect sought to use the crime as a way of being admitted to ISIS. The man allegedly sent a photo of himself to members of the terrorist group before the stabbing to give the militants the opportunity to claim responsibility for the crime. The violence occurred at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a field of nearly 3,000 gray concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin.
( ) Catholicism is on the wane in the Canadian province of Quebec — where it once dominated. Today, dozens of churches are being transformed into everything from gyms and restaurants to museums and luxury apartments. The rate of regular church attendance among Quebec’s Catholics has plunged from one of the highest in Canada to one of the lowest as religious faith in general declines across the country. For most of Quebec’s history, the Catholic Church was the most powerful force in the French-speaking province, with a firm grip over schools, health care and politics. But its influence faded during the 1960s.