Jo M, My son-in-law is also in the film industry (his niche is editing). He works for a company whose head is a dedicated Catholic who holds high ethical standards. Johnny has to travel about 45 min. south of Lancaster, PA. to get to work each morning. Safe in the Refuge of the Immaculate Heart!
God bless him. The commute must be a challenge, but how wonderful for him to work for this company. Nice to hear something positive about the film industry. Thank you Mario, for sharing this.
I didn't realize that Jared Kushner has also been working on an immigration plan. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jared-kushner-interview-at-the-time100-summit/vi-BBWdylP
BREAKING UPDATE: Findings in the Upcoming IG Report Are Said to be “Devastating” — Obama Interfered in Election More Than Vlad Putin! Former US Attorney Joe diGenova joined former Governor Mike Huckabee and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani Wednesday night on The Ingraham Angle. DiGenova told the panel the Inspector General report and a solo report on James Comey are coming out in about two weeks. DiGenova says the report will contain criminal referrals. Joe DiGenova: The Horowitz report is coming out in May or early June. There’s another report that everyone has forgotten about involving James Comey alone. That will be out in two weeks. That report is going to be a bombshell. It is going to open up the investigation on a very high note and there are going to be criminal referrals in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=iWH8i5jQNPM On Thursday investigative reporter dropped another bomb on the upcoming Inspector General (IG) report. According to PaulSperry, “FBI agents Joe Pientka and Mike Gaeta, along with DOJ official Stu Evans, are figuring prominently as witnesses in IG Horowitz’s investigation of department FISA abuses. The findings in the forthcoming IG report are said to be “devastating.”“ Paul Sperry then added something we already knew, it appears Barack Obama and his administration had a heavier hand in interfering in the 2016 election than Putin! The next two weeks look to be quite exciting. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-interfered-in-election-more-than-vlad-putin/
Don, I'm actually not certain what you mean by this but I want to add that Muslims do not truly have custodianship or ownership of any Christian sites in the Holy Land. I think that the video that you provided of Muslims opening the doors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was ceremonial and meant to promote peace, that is all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre I also want to add that things have been changing for Christians living in Israel, it has been a slow process but it has been occurring for the past 6 years or so. This article highlights what has been occurring there in this regard. Christians in Israel – Rising Spring By Amit Barak January 24, 2019 , 3:50 pm | https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/120851/christians-israel-rising-spring/ You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:34 (The Israel Bible™)... This extreme trend, though prominent and vocal, does not represent the entire Christian community. In fact, a little more than six years ago, a completely opposite trend arose. A number of Christian activists decided in August 2012 to establish a forum that would encourage the Christian community to connect with the State of Israel and Israeli society in an entirely different manner. The first and most important move that they wanted to encourage was volunteering to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and in the National Civil Service. It is important to note that there is a compulsory recruitment law that applies to Jews, Druze and Circassians (a small non-Arab Muslim community). Christians, Bedouins, and Arab Muslims are exempt from service but may volunteer in the IDF and the security forces or the National Civil Service (volunteers in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, firefighting, emergency medicine, etc.). In October 2012, the Christian activists held the first public conference in Nazareth Iliit calling on young Christians to volunteer in the IDF. The conference was attended by 300 Christians, most of them youth and other social activists. Three priests attended the conference and expressed their support for this move. The day after the conference, radical political elements in the Arab sector, the Christian community, and radical Islamic elements began to threaten the priests. In the days following the conference, posters and ads denounced them, their vehicles were damaged, and a rag drenched in blood was hung on the door of one priest. Two of the priests were intimidated by the threats and distanced themselves from the initiative. A third priest, Father Gabriel Naddaf of the Greek Orthodox Church in Nazareth, did not waver and decided to continue. He established an organization that worked not only to encourage young Christians to volunteer for military or national service, but to lead the Christian community to full integration into society and the State of Israel in all fields. His vision was to change the Christian community in israel from a minority without influence to an influential community. Implicit in this was a desire to re-establish its historical Aramean identity. It is important to note that even before this initiative, Christians had risen to key positions in the Israeli public, such as judges in the courts, department and hospital directors, police and army officers, senior government officials, academics and diplomats, etc. But all of them did so in a personal and private manner as individuals. This was not a trend of community responsibility or representatives of the Christian community. The move towards communal service in the IDF was significant. In Israeli society, such service is a symbol, it indicates belonging, and it is the most prominent feature that connects all parts of Israeli society. Military service or national service is an entry ticket to Israeli society and symbolizes a step towards genuine partnership. But that was not the only reason Father Naddaf emphasized service in the IDF. The Christians in Israel were motivated by the deteriorating condition of the Christian communities throughout the region. In the State of Israel, Christians are living under a democratic regime, in a free society, with freedom of religion, worship, expression and security and the community is in constant growth. Conversely, Christians in other countries in the Middle East are horribly persecuted. This is clearly the case in Egypt, Gaza, the Palestinian Authority, and Iran. In Lebanon, Christians have lost their birthright to a country that was once called the Paris of the Mediterranean. In Iraq and Syria, there is currently a genocide being waged against the Christians (and the Yezidis). Father Naddaf and his fellow activists called on Christians in Israel to stand up and contribute to the defense of the state, to the protection of the Holy Land, which is also their home. If Israel provides us with protection and security, we must be part of it, they claimed. And the Christians in Israel responded to the call. Before 2012, the average number of Christians who volunteered for IDF service was approximately 35 per year of from 1,800 high-school graduates. Today, there are approximately 100 volunteers for the IDF annually and another 600 recruits who do National civil service. This means that approximately 40 percent of the high school graduates declare in a practical manner that they are Israeli Christians, an integral part of Israeli society and the State of Israel. Father Gabriel Naddaf paid a heavy personal cost for his activities. In June 2017, he announced his retirement from public activity. He closed the organization he established and returned to the church to serve as head of the Greek Orthodox community in Yafia, near Nazareth. In the years he led the historic movement, he opened the door, broke the walls of fear and showed the way. Christians today are continuing to following in his path. Today, a number of small organizations continue to lead the way. The most prominent of these is the “Jerusalemite Initiative”, which focuses on Arab-speaking Christians in Jerusalem and is led by Elias Zarina, a social activist who grew up in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter and was educated in Bethlehem. The “Herev” (Sword) Battalion, comprised of Druze, Jewish and Christian soldiers, are an elite unit specially trained in the Northern Command. (Credit: IDF) It must be understood that this is a real revolution. It is a social and national process of historic proportions that also provokes many reactions. These are manifested in campaigns and conferences against recruitment (some funded by the European Union), boycotts and threats against Christian families, and activity within the churches to exert pressure on clerics and church activists who support the historical move. Physical violence has been directed against activists, families of Christian soldiers, and against the son of Fr. Gabriel and other volunteers who encourage the historic move. Despite these efforts to prevent the Christians from integrating into Israeli society, there are many who remain even more determined. In the past, Christian soldiers were afraid to return to their homes wearing IDF uniforms lest they bring harm their families. Today, most of them wear their uniforms proudly. There are many in the Christian communities who are waiting to see how this entire historic process will develop. The hope of these people is that the Christians in Israel will be recognized as an independent community and not as part of the Muslim Arab sector. An example of this happening is in the Druze community, which is considered an independent community with separate divisions and budgets within the government system. Opponents of this move, among the Christians and the Arab sector, fear precisely this; that the Christians will receive independent and separate status. They counter this with claims that the Israeli government is interested in dividing and ruling within the Arab sector in order to weaken it. The Christians who advocate for integration counter this by emphasizing their desire to find the unique place of the Christian community within Israeli society. They emphasize their pride in both their Christian and Israeli identity. These Christians emphasize that for so long, they were told that we are Arabs, part of the Arab nation. They now reject this, acknowledging that their roots are in the Holy Land and Levant, planted many years before the appearance of Islam and the Arab tribes. They also point to Arab and Islamic persecution of Christians in the region as proof that they are not part of either. “Is this what brothers do?” they ask themselves. This historic move by the Christians in the State of Israel is undoubtedly the result of the Arab Spring. In the Arab countries, the Arab Spring turned into a stormy winter for Christians in Syria, Iraq and Libya. In Israel, it led to a true spring among the Christians. Amit Barak was one of the initiators of the historical movement to integrate Christians into the IDF and the Israeli Society. Amit is an expert about Christian-Jewish relations in Israel and abroad.
Sunnyveil, I don't agree that you have been red pilled, you are simply restating what Muslim anti-Masons argue in regard to Freemasonry. In regard to the article that you posted, there are articles which demonstrate how the Palestinians are active in creating unrest in Israel also and those stories are not readily found in the MSM either. It is all very sad and it has gone on for a long time now, hence the need for a ME peace agreement.
Thu Apr 25, 2019 - 1:49 pm EST High school history textbook under fire for smearing Trump as racist Dorothy Cummings McLean | https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/h...tbook-under-fire-for-smearing-trump-as-racist donald trump, pearson education NEW YORK, April 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― A high school history textbook states that people believe President Trump is mentally ill and that his supporters are racists. By the People: A History of the United States, used by advanced placement students, was written by New York University professor James Fraser and published by Pearson Education in 2018. Its firmly anti-Trump bias was brought to general attention by Fox News’ Todd Starnes this week when he reproduced in his blog sentences from a section entitled “The Angry Election of 2016.” According to the history textbook, “[Hillary] Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country” and these supporters “… also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought the nation.” Ignoring the 29% of Hispanic voters who supported the Republicans, the book identifies Trump voters as white, poor and working-class. “... [L]ike [Bernie] Sanders among the Democrats, Trump tapped into the sense of alienation and ‘being left behind’ that many voters ― most of all white, poor, and working-class voters ― felt,” Fraser wrote. It also employs the words “extreme” and “extremely” to described Trump’s opinions and personality. “But quite unlike Sanders, Trump was also extremely anti-immigrant, especially attacking Muslim immigrants,” the book states. It then underscores the idea that Trump and his supporters are racists. “Most thought that Trump was too extreme a candidate to win the [Republican] nomination,” it says, “but his extremism, his anti establishment rhetoric, and, some said, his not-very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters ― more voters than any other single Republican candidate.” By the People described the momentum leading to Trump’s election in unflattering terms, characterizing America as a nation whose “social fabric continued to tear.” It mentioned “revelations” that Trump had made “hugely demeaning comments and actions” toward “many women” while being careful to mention that the reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of her email account showed “no new evidence of wrong doing.” The history textbook states that the majority of Trump voters were “overwhelmingly white” without reflecting that 70% of all the voters are white or that over 76% of American citizens are white. “Trump’s supporters saw the vote as a victory for people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America – a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group,” it says. The book adds that Democrats thought this “overwhelming white group” was a pack of cowardly racists and sexists. “Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history,” Fraser wrote. Apparently Clinton’s supporters also thought Trump was insane and those who voted from him brought “anger” to the USA. “They also worried about the mental stability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.” “In other words,” Starnes remarked, students “are going to be taught that President Trump is mentally insane and his supporters are a bunch of irredeemable deplorables. Such descriptions would be laughable, but this garbage is being shoved into the minds of impressionable American teenagers.” Starnes wrote in his blogpost that a spokesman for Pearson Education had told Fox News that the book had undergone “rigorous peer review to ‘ensure academic integrity’.” The pundit found this “laughable.” “Who was on that peer review board?” Starnes asked. ”Hillary Clinton and the staff of CNN?” “This is what public school indoctrination looks like, folks,” he added. “There’s no telling how many history teachers will be using this textbook to poison the minds of their students.” [emphasis added] “They may as well be using Saul Alinsky’s ’Rules For Radicals’.”
They do open the door each day Carol. They have held the key to this door since 1187. http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/and-how-muslims-hold-the-key-to-christ/
Video at the link. https://www.rt.com/news/457452-pompeo-cia-moment-honest-interviews/ In a rare moment of honesty, Mike Pompeo admitted to an audience that the CIA trains employees to “lie, cheat and steal.” While he seemed to find the whole thing funny, not everyone is amused, as RT found out. The CIA often asks American citizens and international leaders to believe some extraordinarily high-stakes claims. From warning countries around the world not to invest in Huawei technology ‘compromised’ by Chinese state security funding to asserting that Moscow meddled in the elections and pushing Trump to expel Russian diplomats, it would seem that maintaining integrity and confidence would be a high priority for the intelligence agency. According to former CIA director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, however, that notion is laughable. “I was a CIA director, we lied, we cheated we stole… like, we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” Pompeo told an audience in College Station, Texas earlier this month amid self-amused chuckles. While his audience seemed to get a rise out of the secretary’s comment, RT interviewed a few Americans who found it less funny and more disturbing. Predictably, that sentiment was shared by people from other parts of the world as well, who saw Pompeo’s claims about the “glorious American experiment” as little more than “bulls**t.
LOL. Well, not too hard to believe. Intelligence agencies, globally, are cut from the same cloth. Having worked with CIA employees, I can tell you, I have never met one that was "normal". And I only worked with low level ones but they were all a little "off".
I am not saying that they don't open the doors, I am saying that your original post is very, very misleading. They open the doors because of the history of this church not because they own (which is the word that you used originally) and not because they have custodianship of the church itself. They have been enabled to open the doors to promote peace, that is all. You can do a search online in regard to your first question. I think that the Church has many enemies, some Freemasons are enemies of the Church also.
Ok, below is Wikipedia's definition of the muslim anti-mason. Do you equate anti-Freemasonry with anti-Zionism? I'm just trying to understand what you're saying. Muslim anti-Masonry[edit] Further information: Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, Iraqi Baathist Anti-Masonry and The Covenant of Hamas Many Islamic anti-Masonic arguments are closely tied to both Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism, though other criticisms are made such as linking Freemasonry to Dajjal.[36] Some Muslim anti-Masons argue that Freemasonry promotes the interests of the Jews around the world and that one of its aims is to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem after destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque.[37] In article 28 of its Covenant, Hamas states that Freemasonry, Rotary, and other similar groups "work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions...."[38] Many countries with a significant Muslim population do not allow Masonic establishments within their jurisdictions. However, a few countries such as Turkey and Morocco have allowed establishment of Grand Lodges[39] while in countries such as Malaysia[40] and Lebanon,[41] there are District Grand Lodges operating under a warrant from an established Grand Lodge.
Sunnyveil, All I stated is that you hold the same views as "Muslim anti-Masons", I was simply making an observation. That is all.
