Four planes make emergency landings in Chile and Peru after bomb threats: authorities Reuters • August 16, 2018 • https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-pla...ile-peru-bomb-threats-233605507--finance.html By Felipe Iturrieta and Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Four planes were forced to make emergency landings in Chile and Peru on Thursday due to bomb threats issued to the Chilean Civil Aviation Authority, it said in a statement. Two of the planes were operated by LATAM Airlines and two by Sky, a low-cost Chilean airline, the aviation authority said. The planes were undergoing checks of passengers, baggage, and their cabins and holds by police and airport security, it said. (Reporting by Aislinn Laing and Felipe Iturrieta, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien) *** The above was posted on Yahoo News with Reuters as the source but I could only find the following on Reuters. So, I'm really not certain about the information presented above but maybe more details will come forward in the near future. In addition, I did hear this story about multiple planes being involved reported on Fox News this evening, LATAM passenger plane lands prematurely due to bomb threat: Peru August 16, 2018 LIMA (Reuters) - A LATAM Airlines passenger plane that departed Lima for Santiago, Chile, on Thursday was forced to land at an airport in southern Peru due to a bomb threat received by Chilean authorities, Peru’s Transportation Ministry said. No one was injured on LATAM flight 2369 and a team for deactivating explosives has been notified, the ministry said. “Right now the situation is under control,” it added in a statement on Twitter. (This story corrects to say Chilean authorities received the threat, not Peru, in first paragraph.) Reporting by Maria Cervantes, editing by G Crosse DM, I think you are right that very few people are really affected by these things, maybe only those who have been directly affected . I agree that is very sad and it will take something very, very big to occur to wake a lot of people up. The following story about the California fire that is referred to as the Holy Fire is very disturbing because it appears that it could have been prevented, 'This place will burn,' says text allegedly sent by man arrested in connection with California fire By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, The Washington Post | Aug 10, 2018 | https://www.greensboro.com/news/us_...cle_db84ed69-4195-58cc-836c-4d73764d031e.html This booking video image released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows 51-year-old Forrest Gordon Clark, who was booked into Orange County jail in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. Clark was arrested in connection with the so-called Holy Fire, which has burned more than 6 square miles in the Santa Ana Mountains. Clark was booked on suspicion of two counts of felony arson, and one count each of felony threat to terrorize and misdemeanor resisting arrest. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP) 'This place will burn,' says text allegedly sent by man arrested in connection with California fire A 51-year-old man who is accused of repeatedly threatening that this place "is going to burn" has been arrested and charged with starting the Holy Fire, causing nearly 10,000 acres to be set ablaze and more than 20,000 people to be placed under evacuation orders at Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. The arrest was made as more than 18 fires across the state continue to endanger the lives of thousands, including hundreds of firefighters and first responders working around the clock. One, the Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California, is the largest wildfire in California history. Yosemite National Park has been closed "indefinitely" because of smoke from another fire. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air guideline through Thursday night, saying that children and the elderly should stay inside and minimize direct exposure because of smoke and particle matter from Northern California wildfires. The Holy Fire, which started in the Holy Jim Canyon area, has been burning in Southern California since Monday, with more than 600 firefighters assigned to fight it. Two firefighters have been treated for heat-related injuries. The fire remains only 5 percent contained. Mike Milligan, 71, who calls himself a volunteer fire firefighter and chief, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he has been flagging problems with suspect Forrest Gordon Clark for more than three years. He said he alerted the U.S. Forest Service that "you have to do something or he's going to kill someone or burn this place down." Milligan said he received several texts from Clark last week threatening to start a fire. "In a text, he said this place 'is going to burn just like we planned,' " Milligan said, adding that he reported it to the sheriff's office and again to the U.S. Forest Service. "Why the hell didn't they respond? I reported this over and over again." Milligan said he's known Clark for 10 years and has been concerned about his mental health and behavior in the tiny mountainous area, with only 17 recreational cabins at the bottom of a steep cannon. The area is very rustic and reclusive, and tends to draw "unique and quirky individuals who enjoy living by themselves in a remote area, with limited personal interaction," said Olivia Walker, public affairs officer for Cleveland National Forest, a local branch of part of U.S. Forest Service. But it has hiking trails, lush trees and a waterfall, one of the few in Orange County. There's no country store there and only hikers pass through occasionally, Walker said. Clark had been involved in volatile disputes with neighbors - on their rented recreation forest cabins - for years and appeared to believe in conspiracy theories, Milligan said. The land is owned by the federal government and the cabins are supposed to be part-time residences. Walker said she wasn't aware of Milligan's reports of concern. Local police did not respond to requests for comment. "Even if someone here had been aware of odd behavior, there was nothing we could have done unless the person was violent- that would fall under law enforcement," said Walker. "You can come here and act the fool all you want, but please don't start fires. It's a big loss to the area - scenically it's a big loss." "This has really impacted people's lives and the number of evacuees is only going to keep rising," Walker said. "Things like heat and wind - the fire has room to grow and burn. We are hoping this weekend we will get cooler weather so the firefighters can really get in there and actively engage it instead of taking a more defensive stance. It's just very sad." Charges against Clark include: suspicion of aggravated arson with the intent to cause injury to another or damage property; arson of an inhabited property; arson of forest; making criminal threats and resisting arrest. He faces an additional count of arson that caused multiple structures to burn. Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer told The Post that he hadn't been aware of the threatening texts allegedly sent by Clark. "The community is angry and sad. They live with fire threat nearly year-round so an intentional act is mind-numbing. Anyone who started this fire is a monster and should serve life in prison," Spitzer said in a phone interview, where he cited excessive heat warnings. "Who would go out with low humidity, and high wind and the highest heat temperatures this time of year, and intentionally set the forest on fire?" The air quality was so poor, Spitzer said, that "you can taste it - like tin metal - in the back of your throat." The Air Quality Management District put out a warning Thursday, he said. "The whole state needs more resources. This is becoming the rule, not the exception, and it's sad to watch." Shane Sherwood with the Orange County Fire Authority told reporters that he could not comment on the alleged text, saying the investigation was ongoing. But he said the evidence gathered led investigators to believe the fire was "intentional." He said they were still working through the evidence to determine how it was started. Sherwood said that no witnesses have come forward saying they saw Clark start the fire but that the area of origin is around his residence. Clark, who is being held on $1 million bond, refused to leave his cell to appear in court. Before he was arrested, Clark told a cameraman that he was asleep and had no clue how it started and that "gangbangers" are out to kill him. It was not clear who Clark's legal counsel is. Milligan told the Orange County Register that Clark had "run through the community screaming" and claimed he could read minds. On Tuesday, he stripped off his camouflage underwear in public, the paper reported. The paper also said a man with the same name and birth date was held involuntarily in 1996 at a treatment center for mental illness.
It seems that there are more planes involved, and not only in South America. Bomb threats ground passenger planes in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Greece PASSENGER planes have made emergency landings in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Greece after bomb threats. https://www.news.com.au/travel/trav...u/news-story/4f3ca4ff5e94e0cb92b72da2dea70311
The latest message given to Luz de Maria, yesterday, is not as yet translated. Here is just a portion of it using google translate....always a bit off in translation but you can get the idea: ...... My Beloved People, the explanations of the causes that you accept from science due to the disorders of Nature, should not be attributed solely to the so-called climate change. While it is true that man has devastated almost the entire Earth, you well know that the behavior of man does not remain only in man, but the good attracts good and evil attracts evil, (Cf Prov 17,13) . And what is it that reigns at this moment on Earth? The most abominable alteration of the human being against Our Divinity and My Mother that they denigrate, as My Church is denigrated by those who, without counting on the true vocation to the priesthood, have attached themselves to the priesthood for other reasons very different from the Love to Me and to the service of others. ........... Man does not want to change, he lives at the expense of what the institutions that lead Humanity mark, leading them to the establishment of a unique religion, a unique government, a unique economy and a unique deformation of values. ....... They will come to live as if there were no borders, man will confuse himself, as if he were kept in the Tower of Babel. Those who suffer horrors in their countries will arrive on foreign lands and foreigners will become owners and owners, foreigners. My Temples will be damaged as a symbol that Humanity wants to live without Me. They will attribute to me the responsibility of the bad acting of those who have not fulfilled their priesthood and that in the houses of formation lack prayer, commitment and the corresponding measures before these My affairs.
Fresh quake of magnitude 6.3 rocks Indonesia's Lombok island LOMBOK, INDONESIA (AFP, REUTERS, XINHUA) - A fresh strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok on Sunday (Aug 19), sending people fleeing into the streets just two weeks after a quake which killed more than 460 people. The quake was centred west-southwest of Belanting town in East Lombok, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, at a relatively shallow depth of 7.9km. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/magnitude-63-quake-rocks-indonesias-lombok-island
More "heavenly" alerts?? Magnitude 8.2 quake strikes in the Pacific, no damage expected -USGS Aug 19 (Reuters) - A massive quake of magnitude 8.2 struck in the Pacific Ocean close to Fiji and Tonga on Sunday but it was so deep that it was not expected to cause any damage, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The U.S. Tsunami Warning Center also said the quake was too deep to cause a tsunami. The quake was 347.7 miles (560 km) below the Earth which would have dampened the shaking at the surface. ....... The epicenter was located 167 miles (270 km) east of Levuka in Fiji and 275 miles (443 km) west of Neiafu in Tonga. The area is located on the earthquake-prone Ring of Fire. (Reporting by Sandra Maler in Washington Editing by Chris Reese) http://news.trust.org/item/20180819010104-ilciz
They have already been considerably reduced and so, we can confidently say they are being brought down,but there is still some way to go.
They have already been considerably reduced and so, we can confidently say they are being brought down,but there is still some way to go.
China Communist Party Reasserts Absolute Control over Religion The Communist Party will retain absolute control over religious activities in China, wrote Beijing’s religion czar in a Communist Party journal this week, in the midst of talks with the Vatican to reestablish diplomatic relations. “There is no affiliate relationship between our country’s religions and foreign religions,” wrote Wang Zuoan, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), in the latest issue of the bi-monthly journal Qiushi. “Our country’s religious groups and religious matters do not accept domination by foreign forces,” he said. Mr. Wang, a hardcore atheist, has insisted on the need to keep the party completely free of religious influence given the incompatibility of Chinese Marxism with religious belief. “Party members should not have religious beliefs, which is a red line for all members,” Wang wrote in the same journal last year. “Party members should be firm Marxist atheists, obey Party rules and stick to the Party’s faith,” he said, adding, “they are not allowed to seek value and belief in religion.” Wang said that Party officials who are religious believers should be persuaded to give it up, and anyone who resists will be punished by the Party organization. This year, the Chinese government has closed down more than 20 official and underground churches in Xining, located in China’s northwestern Qinghai, according to Wang Ruiqin, the associate secretary-general for the national Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and China Christian Council (CCC). “They include both Three-Self and house churches,” Ms. Wang said, adding that many fellowships have been closed and that the Christians’ religious life has been “interfered with.” Ms. Wang wrote a letter to Wang Zuoan, drawing his attention to the closed churches and calling on the government to protect the Christians’ rights to religious belief and swiftly approve churches waiting to join the TSPM. Last year, Wang Zuoan said that new regulations tightening Party control over religion were “urgently needed because the foreign use of religion to infiltrate [China] intensifies by the day and religious-extremist thought is spreading in some areas.” The stricter regulations will help the government maintain “the Sinicisation of religion in our country,” Wang said, “and keep to the correct path of adapting religion to a socialist society.” Last Monday, government officials demolished a centuries-old officially registered Catholic church in Qianwang, in the Licheng district. “Around midday a hundred ‘thugs’ arrived suddenly in the church and began demolition work on the building, smashing the altar, the statues and the benches,” AsiaNews reported. Another church in Jinan was demolished last month, razing it to the ground with bulldozers, despite a government permit to operate legally. Around 40 law enforcement officials and government workers stormed Liangwang Catholic Church on the morning of July 17, according to a report published Saturday. Another 30 men arrived later in the day with bulldozers, demolishing the building as well as the altar and church furnishings. Officials reportedly set fire to what remained of the church after its destruction. The ongoing destruction of Christian churches demonstrates the Communist’s fear of Christianity, according to one report. The International Christian Concern (ICC), a watchdog group, noted the irony of sending as many as 70 men to destroy a simple Christian church. “The disproportionate manpower used to demolish this church goes to show that China is fearful of Christians,” said ICC Regional Manager Gina Goh. “The government knew that the demolition in the name of urban zoning would be met with resistance, so it ensured success by taking extreme measures.” “Despite their best efforts to intimidate the Church with actions like this, the government cannot destroy the faith and resilience of Chinese Christians,” Goh said. https://www.breitbart.com/national-...rty-reasserts-absolute-control-over-religion/ May Trump bring them down a bit....at least in their economy which could eventually cause more dissatisfaction within....as in Iran or Venezuela and others.
Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes off coast of Indonesia’s Lombok: USGS https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/magnitude-63-quake-rocks-indonesias-lombok-island
Hard not to wonder if the ring of Fire is heating up again. Where will the next earthquake be? It seems to move along a track—first one and then another—is California next?
This has always been used in Asia as a way to persecute Christians; accusations that Christianity is foreign, incompatible with native values or culture, etc. Ironically, they tolerate the technically foreign Buddhism (India) pretty well.
Of course this was in recent news as well...."they're everywhere; they're everywhere"!! The pic kinda reminds one of Thomas Merton!! BTW, what about that Christian idol too? Abbot Of Beijing Longquan Temple Denies Sexual Abuse Allegations Venerable Master Xuecheng, a Buddhist monk and president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, has been accused of seducing multiple female nuns by convincing them of “purification” through physical contact. ........In a 95-page expose titled “Report on important matters,” which was shared on WeChat on July 31 and instantly went viral, two former masters at Longquan Temple, Xianjia 贤佳 and Xianqi 贤启, said Xuecheng has been preying on bhikkhunis (ordained female monastics) for years, specifically that he has had sex with multiple nuns by persuading them they could be “purified” through physical contact. (Celibacy is one of the tenets of Buddhist monasticism.) ........Xuecheng issued a formal denial (in Chinese) on Weibo on Wednesday. Signed by the temple, the article accuses the two former masters, Xianjia and Xianqi, of “collecting and fabricating material, distorting facts, spreading false reports, defaming the great virtue of Buddhism, and misleading the public.” The statement says the temple is seeking legal action against the accusers and asks relevant departments to open an investigation into the case, and to consider the complicity of a group of “ill-intended individuals who attempted to damage the reputation of Xuecheng and Longquan.” (Well, it IS China after all) https://supchina.com/2018/08/01/head-of-beijing-longquan-temple-denies-sexual-abuse-allegations/
Statue Artist August 13, 2018 by sd You may remember the recent stories — for instance, from the Washington Post: “Inside a Catholic church in New Mexico, a 7-foot bronze statue of the Virgin Mary appears to be “weeping,” church leaders say. “The sculpture, known locally as Our Lady of Guadalupe, is not crying human tears. An investigator with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces said her ‘tears’ have the same chemical makeup as olive oil treated with perfume — a substance that, when blessed, would be chrism, a sacred oil used in the Catholic Church to anoint the parishioners. The rare occurrence has prompted people from all over to come for conversions, confessions and to watch the statue of the mother of God cry. “It started on Pentecost Sunday on May 20, when parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Hobbs noticed tears streaming from the Virgin Mary’s eyes, said Judy Ronquillo, the church business manager. She said the statue continued ‘weeping’ the next day and has done so several times since.” Why is it crying? Is there anything about its manufacture that indicated an unusual nature? Not according to Ricardo Flores-Kaspanis, an artist who helped make it. But the company that fashioned it is owned by a religious family, he told Spirit Daily, and he himself is a strong Marian advocate. “I’ve always been very devout,” he said. “I have never seen a statue cry before in my life. From the technical point of view, I don’t know what’s happening. Bronze can’t hold liquid like that. It’s an alloy. “My father was extremely devout — especially to Guadalupe; and the owner of the foundry is very devoted to Guadalupe, as were his mother and father,” who started it fifty years ago, making church bells “and now make bronzes for all over the world.” But despite countless hundreds of statues, none, says Kaspanis — who also creates replica textile tilmas of Guadalupe — have been known to weep (at least that they know). He noted that Las Cruces is a poor area (Mary most often chooses the humble) and that many Mexicans there are unable to journey back across the border to visit the actual image in Mexico City due to health issues, poverty, or because they are “illegals.” The statue found its way to New Mexico through a circuitous route. The statue was originally shipped to a small parish in Maryland (2014) but developed a small crack and was sent back to the forge in Mexico City for repair. It was housed at the church in New Mexico en route back, starting August 8, 2017, but before continuing its journey, those at the Las Cruces area church, who admired it deeply, asked if they could purchase it. “It was a coincidence, a total coincidence, that it arrived in Hobbs,” said Kaspanis. When asked if there is anything in the statue that could collect and release oil, the artist noted that it’s a hollow statue made from a wax mold, leaving no liquid inside. “The molecules of the metal, there’s no chemical reaction,” he said. The statue was not painted but colored by using chemicals that interact with the bronze — a process that obviously involves no olive oil and if it did could not supply the volume noted since the lachrymation began. The parish priest, Father Jose Segura , explained that while celebrating Mass he noticed drops emblazoned on the face of the statue. “I approached the image of the Virgin and I first thought that someone had wet it,” he told a reporter. “I asked” who put the water on her eyes? “And everyone told me no, she’s crying, so I looked closer, they cleaned her eyes and she kept crying.” When the diocese opened it, they found only some spider webs. So, from August 8th, 2017 the statue adorns the church of Hobbs, a town that stands ‘in the middle of nowhere,'” noted the Associazione don Giacomo Tantardini, “And, in the middle of nowhere, the unexpected happened.”
