| Click here to View Full Text, With Photos, of all Today's Stories On One Page Today’s stories vary from exceptionally inspiring to disturbing. Masterminds behind chart-smashing nun’s Advent album is one of the better stories we have ever published on LifeSiteNews. Read it and watch the brief video to experience joy and encouragement. Another inspiring item is John-Henry Westen’s report on Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. The disturbing reports are on the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines (undoubtedly related to the re-election of Barack Obama in the US), GOP advisers urging acceptance of same-sex “marriage” and the Sweden home schooling story. Totalitarian tactics by Western governments to advance a worldwide de-population, anti-life and anti-faith agenda are accelerating. This is very alarming to those of us who understand the implications of these developments. However, Christmas is near. It is a great reminder of the infinite value of every single human life, the God-ordained significance of the family and the power of God who has already defeated evil for all time. There are still battles to be played out, but we know the final outcome. Our role it NOT to avoid the hard truths and the battles, but to engage with full confidence so that in the end our Maker will be able to say to each one of us, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into your reward.” Human beings are awesome - John Jalsevac | 
