AED, know that your family are and always in my prayers, we are living in extraordinary times. May by the Glory of God and under the mantle of our Mother may we all be. Praying.
How has this been so well hidden? Is this why there is such opposition to greater scrutiny of those bringing children illegally through our border? Is that why the opposition fights so hard against the control of illegal immigration? Brace yourselves for this article. I had copied and pasted the entire article here but thought perhaps I should leave it up to the individual to choose to read it or not. The information IS horrendous to read about....to the degree being exposed. News now and then touches on it but it would appear that only those who care enough get involved and obviously that's not enough in this day and age. Is this what has evolved out of the immorality attached to the "pill", predicted, in general, by Pope Paul VI? And this article goes into the sexualizing of children, very young age, in dress, etc. that used to be confined to porn stars.....entering into the schools as well. Just not PC to try to interfere or accuse even parents for thinking "this is cute": The Essence Of Evil: Sex With Children Has Become Big Business In America Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Children, young girls - some as young as 9 years old - are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns. As investigative journalist Amy Fine Collins notes, “It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day—and a ‘righteous’ pimp confiscates 100 percent of her earnings.” Consider this: every two minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry. According to USA Today, adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States. Who buys a child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men from all walks of life. ........... Entire article continued here: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-26/essence-evil-sex-children-has-become-big-business-america
Orthodox christians celebrate Holy Fire in Jerusalem https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/27/orthodox-christians-celebrate-holy-fire-in-jerusalem
This is a good sign, alleluia! I'm praying that this little boy makes a full recovery. 'This Is Resurrection Power': 5-Year-Old Thrown from Mall of America Balcony Has No Brain Damage 04-23-2019 | Talia Wise | http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2019...m-mall-of-america-balcony-has-no-brain-damage Landen Hoffman A five-year-old boy who was attacked and viciously thrown from the third floor of the Mall of America is defying the odds and stunning doctors in what is being called a "miracle", according to the pastor at the family's church. Landen Hoffman was shopping with his mother and friends on April 12 when he was thrown over the rail of a balcony by 24-year-old Emmanuel Aranda. Aranda told police that he had gone to the mall intending to kill an adult "because they usually stand near the balcony" but it did not "work out." Aranda is now being charged with first degree attempted premeditated murder. "It is a miracle he wasn't killed," Pastor Mac Hammond told the congregation. Hammond leads Living Word Christian Church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and shared an update with the church Easter Sunday. Hammond and his wife visited the family last week to encourage them, pray, and bring communion after the incident. Landen fell to the first floor and suffered from broken arms and legs and until recently it was believed that he suffered significant head trauma. However, Hammond told the church that he received a call from Landen's grandfather with good news after a five hour MRI to determine the full extent of the boy's injuries. "There was zero evidence of brain damage - there wasn't even swelling in the brain," Hammond said Sunday. "No spinal cord injury, no nerve damage, no internal injuries that were life-threatening." Hammond added that one of his attending physicians marveled at Landen's health. "This is truly a miracle. It's like he fell off a bicycle instead of off the third floor of the mall," Hammond said recounting the physician's words. Hammond also shared during the message that the Holy Spirit had given Landen's mother a warning just before they met friends at the mall that day. "In her words, a dread came over, but she didn't feel like she could leave because she was supposed to meet this other mom and son there," Hammond explained. But he says she did the only thing she knew to do -- she prayed. "She called on the ministering angels to hedge him about," Hammond recalled. Although mall goers were heard screaming as Landen landed, witnesses say his mother was heard yelling "just pray!" [emphasis added] Hammond told the church it was an Easter miracle. "This is resurrection power...this is what the Word will do. It'll open up power to you to restore whatever the enemy is able to bring about or fend him off completely." According to a recent post on the GoFundMe page set up for the family, Landen is "showing real signs of recovery." The fundraising campaign has raised nearly $1 million to help cover the cost of medical treatments and rehabilitative programs.
This is truly amazing! I am so happy he is doing well. I live only an hour from the mall where this happened, and we go there a few times a year. A very similar incident happened last summer at a nearby water park, which we also go to. A little boy was thrown 30 feet from the top of a slide, but thankfully he also had no head injury. Makes me not want to take my children out anywhere!
We really have to speak up, maybe even rage at the atrocities being committed within our Holy Mass. Performance art? Anything for a laugh? FrDave Nix Retweeted Paul VI Even "conservative" N.O. priests in the USA (while not going this extreme) often like to do a little cutsie-business with Easter spraying. After attending the pre-1955 Holy Week exorcisms at a baptismal font this year, I'll never return to watch the things of God getting mocked. https://twitter.com/montiniski/status/1122428224548605952 0:32
Archbishop appeals for urgent help to prevent Christian genocide in northwest Nigeria Diane Montagna christian persecution, nigeria KADUNA, NIGERIA, April 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Hundreds of Christians have been killed in recent months and entire Christian villages wiped out, as the international community stands by in silence, an archbishop at the heart of the persecution in northwest Nigeria has said in an urgent appeal for help. Speaking with LifeSite by phone from his archdiocese in Kaduna on Friday, April 26, Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso said that “Christians are being killed like chickens,” and time is running out. “Right now, as I am talking to you, the rainy season has come and villagers who provide food for us are afraid to go to their farms because they will be kidnapped, because they will be killed,” he said. “So I do actually fear that if nothing happens between now and the next two months when people are supposed to be planting and they don’t go to their farm, only God knows what will happen to us next year in terms of food security.” Archbishop Ndagoso said he believes the targeted attacks on Christian villages by Fulani extremists are not only religiously motivated but stem also from “injustice and impunity.” He explained that the Nigerian constitution safeguards freedom and equality of religion. But he said in the northwest states of Nigeria where Muslims number close to 98 percent of the population, Sharia law permeates the legal system, and illiteracy rates are high, Christians are “a very tiny minority who unfortunately in the eyes of some do not count.” Archbishop Ndagoso is therefore appealing to the Trump administration and the entire international community to help the Nigerian government to ensure security for its people. “I have always said: the first duty of every government anywhere in the world is to protect and safeguard the lives and property of their citizenry. But I can tell you right now in our country that is not the case, especially in the northwest. Citizens are being killed like chickens,” the archbishop repeated. The mainstream media has been largely silent about the intense persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria. Earlier this month, following a string of attacks, Nigerian born pro-life activist Obianuju Ekeocha tweeted out: Archbishop Ndagoso appealed for urgent help for his people, saying: “Any person, any organization, any institution that has influence: let this influence be used for the common good. And right now, let that influence be used for the common good of Nigeria so that peace may reign in our country. This is my call.” Here below is our interview with His Excellency Matthew Ndagoso of the Archdiocese of Kaduna. [Please click on the following link to continue reading, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christian-persecution-in-nigeria .] *** djm, This does look awful and done right in the church. They need a sign in this church. This is the right way. This is the wrong way. And throwing buckets of water on the parishioners is the wrong way too.
This has the potential for global devastation of a large portion of the food supply... http://themostimportantnews.com/arc...it-by-a-global-plague-of-biblical-proportions It is certainly easy and relatively inexpensive for folks to invest in some commercial meat rabbits should our food supply become compromised. Until they are needed to reproduce, rabbits make sweet, quiet pets.
It's been reported in Financial Times, too. Fatal swine fever ravages China’s pig farms and shakes global food markets Pork prices forecast to soar as deaths from disease expected to reach 130m https://www.ft.com/content/041fd63a-6143-11e9-a27a-fdd51850994c
Prayers..... Mass evacuations as monster cyclone heads for India Nearly 800,000 people in eastern India have been evacuated from the path of an incoming major cyclone packing winds gusting up to 200 kilometres (125 miles) per hour and torrential rains, officials said Thursday. The Indian weather service said Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani was expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon in Odisha state and barrel northeastwards towards Bangladesh on a pathway that is home to more than 100 million people. Along with "extremely heavy" rainfall in places, a storm surge of about 1.5 metres (five feet) is "very likely" to inundate some low-lying areas of Odisha, according to the Indian Meterological Department. A state relief department official told AFP that 780,000 people were moved to safer places overnight from at least 13 districts of Odisha, home to 46 million people, which will bear the brunt of the storm. "We are expecting more than a million people to move out of the danger zone in next 12 hours," Bishnupada Sethi, Odisha Special Relief Commissioner, told AFP. Some 3,000 shelters in schools and government buildings have been set up to accommodate more than a million people. More than 100,000 dry food packets are ready to be dropped if needed, reports said. On Thursday the storm, which reports said was the biggest to hit eastern India in nearly two decades, was brewing in the Bay of Bengal and moving steadily and ominously towards the shore. It was predicted to pack sustained wind speeds of 180-190 kph and gusts up to 200 kph, equivalent in strength to a Category 3 to 4 hurricane. It was expected to make landfall near the Hindu holy town of Puri, a major tourist hotspot. More than 100 trains have been cancelled in past 48 hours, according to Indian Railways. Three special trains were running from Puri to evacuate pilgrims and tourists. Authorities have asked tourists to leave coastal areas and avoid unnecessary travel. Special buses have been deployed in Puri and other towns. Dozens of officials were making announcements on hand-held megaphones across the coastal belt asking residents to leave their homes. After Odisha, Fani was predicted to head north towards the state of West Bengal and then towards Bangladesh, where authorities were already preparing on Thursday. Other coastal states south of Odisha like Andhra Pradesh, home to 50 million people, and Tamil Nadu, population some 70 million, were also on standby. Fishermen have been advised not to venture out. The Indian Navy has also been put on alert. India's biggest oil and gas producer ONGC has evacuated close to 500 employees from offshore installations and moved drilling rigs to safer locations, the Press Trust of India reported. The Airports Authority of India also issued an advisory to all the coastal airports to take adequate precautions. "Heavy rains are expected in all the coastal districts amid fears of flash floods. We are all geared up for the challenge," said Sethi. - 'Total destruction' - Forecasters have warned of the "total destruction" of thatched houses, the bending and uprooting of power and communication poles, the "flooding of escape routes" and damage to crops in some areas. Bangladesh disaster management chief Mohammad Hashim said that 3,600 cyclone shelters had been opened in 13 coastal districts. The country's weather bureau has told deep-sea fishing vessels to stay near the coast, while inland water transport activities were suspended. Coastal-area farmers in Bangladesh were instructed to harvest their paddy fields as a surging tide may inundate and ruin crops. Fani is the fourth major storm to slam into India's east coast in three decades, the last in 2017 when Cyclone Ockhi left nearly 250 people dead and more than 600 missing in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The worst cyclone on record in Odisha in 1999, killed almost 10,000 people and caused an estimated $4.5 billion worth of devastation. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mass-evacuations-monster-cyclone-targets-india-071647709.html
May. 2, 2019 Cardinal Ranjith’s Anguish: ‘Justice Should Be Done’ In the wake of the Easter Sunday massacres, Sri Lanka’s shepherd discusses with the Register how he is consoling his traumatized flock and fostering reconciliation, but he also stresses the need to punish the perpetrators. Edward Pentin | http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-ranjiths-anguish-justice-should-be-done Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo is dealing with a pastor’s worst nightmare. Ten days after devastating Islamist terrorist attacks targeted two local Catholic churches alongside several other targets, killing more than 250 people and seriously injuring hundreds of others, the Sri Lankan cardinal continues to grapple with the carnage. In a May 2 telephone interview with Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, Cardinal Ranjith outlined three main areas of challenges facing the local Church: helping the surviving victims and others who have been traumatized by the loss of their loved ones; seeking peace and reconciliation between the local Christian and Muslim religious communities; and rebuilding the two churches that have been almost completely destroyed. Among other issues, he also discusses how the failures by the Sri Lankan government to take adequate precautions contributed to the massacres and the imperative to punish the terrorists who carried out “all the senseless violence.” Your Eminence, what challenges are you now facing? Well, one of the challenges is how to help these people to get over the trauma that they have faced of losing their loved ones or ending up with severe injuries in their bodies after having gone to church. They went to church, not for any pleasure, personal pleasure or anything like that. They went to church because they believed in God. And to have this kind of serious suffering that they had to undergo, we have to get over that phase of the problem. That’s one. The second challenge we have is to rebuild everything up from practically zero, as far as the churches are concerned. And the third challenge, I would say, is how to achieve peace and reconciliation between the communities that have been estranged because of this. Since the attack was carried out by a group of people who claimed that they are Islamic (even though I doubt very much that there’s anything Islamic in that matter), our people have become suspicious of the other community. It is important for us to mend the fences and bring the two communities together. So that’s another challenge that we will have for the future. And we will also have the problem of facing inaction on the part of the government and a very lackadaisical attitude, a very childish way of looking at these issues, motivated more by self-interest than by any sense of patriotism for our country and our people. And how are you helping people pastorally in their faith through this highly traumatic situation? Of course, now we had to cancel these Masses on two consecutive Sundays because of continuous threats on us by different sources. We canceled last Sunday’s Mass, and now we have had to cancel this Sunday’s Mass, also due to further threats that have been coming. We are trying to help our people to get out of this atmosphere of threats and traumas and all that. Now we have started a program of psycho-social counseling programs, by visiting the families. Priests have visited almost all the families affected by now, and they are going to do a second and a third round. They will also try to help them to give a little bit more strength for themselves, spiritual strength. It’s no doubt a great challenge for you as priests, and you as cardinal-archbishop there, to help them and give them comfort and solace in their faith. Yes, I have tried. I have gone several times to see them. I have gone myself to the community so many times, and I intend to meet them again and again as long as it takes in order to help them. The injuries must be very bad — what sort of injuries are we looking at here that the faithful are suffering? The injuries of some of them are very serious: They have had brain surgery due to shrapnel entering the brain. Some others have suffered body damage due to cases of shrapnel entering the liver, the kidneys, all kinds of situations. This is because these bombs contained a lot of shrapnel that went around and damaged a lot of people. Even people who were not badly injured have been injured by these missiles that were flying all over the place. And lost limbs, of course. Yes, quite a number have lost limbs. So we have got to replace them or help them to get back to normal, into wheelchairs, and things like that. Do you know why these Islamists struck Sri Lanka? Many think it is strange, as Sri Lanka has been no threat to anybody, and the faithful in Sri Lanka are no threat. That is why it is a very big surprise for us, perhaps because these youngsters who committed these suicide [attacks] have been in Syria, some of them. They’ve been trained there, probably, because, at one time, ISIS had invited young Muslims to join them. So some of these people who went there were quite a wealthy lot, you know? They are educated and wealthy. They have gone there and joined their ranks, also due to continuous Islamic extremist propaganda that’s taken place, unknown to us, through a network of some mosques and other places. Do you think that they thought Sri Lanka is an easy target? Yes, because Sri Lanka has gone into a kind of spirit of complacency because, after the 30-year war [the 1983-2009 civil war], everybody felt that they were quite okay and that there was no need for any extraordinary security measures. So we had got into a spirit, a mood, of not being concerned about security issues. And so they found it rather easy to indoctrinate these youngsters and send them to carry out these attacks. You’ve also criticized the government for not taking enough precautions. That’s true. That’s true. Why do you think they didn’t? Why were they so negligent in this? Well, I don’t know — because there’s also controversy between the government and the opposition. They were not serious enough in their security programs and so on, and that’s why all these people had educated, trained them, sent some missionaries from outside to, sort of, indoctrinate these youngsters. They then sent some of the youngsters to their camps in other countries, trained them and sent them back. When we last spoke in November 2017, you put Islamist extremism down to two reasons: Firstly, you said it was a “reaction to Western secularism and its turning away from God”; and, secondly, you said it was due to a “lack of resolution of the Palestinian problem.” I have not changed my opinion. So, in a sense, would you say what’s happened in Sri Lanka is also a result of secularism in the West? Yes, because secularism seeks to marginalize anybody with religious feelings, and all these religious practices [secular societies] disdain them. Therefore, religion is sidelined, and that is not acceptable, especially to the Muslims. Therefore, the Muslims get radicalized more and more, the more that secularism tends to marginalize religion. It’s filling a vacuum, in a sense? Yes. After the bombings, you spoke of dealing with the perpetrators “mercilessly” and that they were like “animals.” How should they be treated if they’re caught, do you think? What should be done? That was an initial reaction of mine. I didn’t intend to hurt the animals or animal lovers by saying that. But it was an initial reaction when I saw how bad the situation looked, with all those murders and all that, one on top of the other. It looked horrible. That is why I said that. I also mentioned that they should be dealt with seriously, so I hope that such people will be punished. That has to be done. Justice has to be done. Justice should be done for all these deaths and all the senseless violence that was perpetrated. The people who sent these people to do that should be punished. Lastly, Your Eminence, what can the faithful in the United States and elsewhere do to help you over there? What’s the best way to help? First of all, accompany us with their prayers, to give those suffering the strength to bear their sufferings and to get over their traumas. And, secondly, whatever help financially or otherwise, that they have and can offer, they’re most welcome to do that. What’s the best way to send that financial help? Our website, the Archdiocese of Colombo, contains information on accounts where money could be credited. Any help is most welcome. By the way, the Holy Father has sent a direct letter to me expressing his condolences and spiritual closeness to our community. It was written on the 24th, and so I received it today. [ http://www.archdioceseofcolombo.com...-attacks-relief-effort-of-the-catholic-church ]
