RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on December 23, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the 10 Commandments has been sold at auction for more than five million dollars. Sotheby’s says the 155-pound marble slab was acquired by an anonymous buyer who plans to donate it to an Israeli institution. The New York-based auction house reports that the final price exceeded the presale estimate of one-to-two million and followed more than 10 minutes of intense bidding between buyers from around the world. The tablet may go back as far as 300 AD and was unearthed in southern Israel in 1913.
Israelis are increasingly moving out of the country since the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack. Government statistics estimate that just over 40,000 people departed long-term during the first seven months of this year, a 59 percent increase over the same period in 2023. Meanwhile, some 33,000 people have moved into the country since the attack, about on-par with other years. On October 7th, thousands of Hamas terrorists breached the country’s border defenses, killed 1,200 people and dragged 250 more into Gaza. The army was caught off guard.
There hasn’t been any word yet on the fate of President Biden’s Gender Policy Council under the in-coming Trump administration. Mr. Trump hasn’t said whether the body will remain, but pro-life advocates are pushing for it to be axed because its primary job is to promote abortion. The GPC has also taken the lead in advancing the LGBT agenda. President Biden formed it through an executive order in September of 2021, and members of his Cabinet have representatives on the council. Jennifer Klein is the current head of the GPC.
Kentucky’s attorney general says the state is under no legal requirement to use taxpayer money to cover the costs of sex-change operations for people incarcerated in state prisons. The Kentucky corrections department requested the opinion as it amends regulations regarding medical care for people behind bars. Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman was asked whether the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment means the department is required to pay sex-change operations on all inmates who request them.
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