内容摘要：U.S. Ambassador to Manila MaryKay Carlson said the Chinese coast guard’s “aggressive actions against a lawful civilian mission near Sandy Cay recklessly endangered lives and threaten regional stability.”

U.S. Ambassador to Manila MaryKay Carlson said the Chinese coast guard’s “aggressive actions against a lawful civilian mission near Sandy Cay recklessly endangered lives and threaten regional stability.”

On Thursday, many legislators came forward in support of the bill.“If you look around our nation, if you look around the world, we see so much of our Western civilization crumbling because we have forsaken the roots and foundations upon which we were built,” Republican Rep. Ernie Yarbrough said.

On the same day, representatives also swiftly passed two separate bills that would ban drag performances at public schools and libraries without parental consent, and ban teachers from displaying pride flags or facilitating formal discussion on LGBTQ+ issues.Rep. Neil Rafferty, Alabama’s only openly gay legislator, testified against the bill.“When we ban their identities from the classroom, we are telling them that the best they can hope for is silence,” Rafferty said.

He added, “I won’t help silence them, because I’ve been there, because I know what that silence feels like.”Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and North Carolina are among the states with versions of Alabama’s existing “Don’t Say Gay” law,

, which already prohibits formal class discussion about gender and sexuality that is not “age appropriate” for students below the fifth grade. The proposed law would extend that ban to all grade levels.

was rolled back in a legal settlement last year between civil rights groups and the state education department.foreign plunder in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The late pope “was very unambiguous in telling world powers to stop exploiting Africans,” said Father Michael Nsikak Umoh, spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.African ministers who clashed with Francis’ stances on same-sex couples remembered him this week as someone who shared a commitment to justice, rather than someone with whom they disagreed. A priest in Cameroon told Catholic media that Francis was a “post-colonial pope.” In Mozambique, another recalled his ministry in the aftermath of natural disasters.

“I’m not sure that he would want to be painted liberal or conservative. What he wanted to do was to walk a line between church teaching and the experience of people,” said Father Hugh Patrick O’Connor of the South African Council of Churches.That line, however, often frayed at the edges.